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    • 4 Sep 2024
    • 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
    • Online via Zoom
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    Uncover the beauty and power of metaphors in your coaching conversations through this engaging webinar. Metaphors are deeply woven into the fabric of our daily conversations, often ignored if not clearly obvious. Explore how visual language impacts your clients.

    Renowned scholar John Geary famously said, "We instinctively resort to metaphors when describing anything abstract: ideas, feelings, thoughts, emotions, concepts." Dive into the neuroscience of metaphors and comprehend how they illuminate our minds. Metaphors not only enhance our self-expression but also serve as potent tools for instigating outcomes, elucidating complexities, and fostering profound transformations. 

    Humans don't use metaphors accidentally. Metaphors introduced by your clients can serve as powerful keys, unlocking their self-awareness and inner potential. By mastering the art of using our clients' metaphors rather than interjecting your own, you can facilitate more meaningful and impactful conversations.

    Metaphors provide vivid insights into your clients' identities, deeply ingrained beliefs, self-perceptions, and aspirations. Understanding and utilizing these metaphorical expressions can offer a robust tool for fostering curiosity and facilitating deeper understanding. The course also includes a pre-recorded coaching demo to assess and augment your understanding of metaphors. 

    Join us on a journey into the power of metaphors today! 

    Key Takeaways 

    • Neuroscience + Metaphors. How metaphors impact our neural wiring and how to pay attention to the embodied metaphor as a tool. 
    • The need for Embodied Learning for Sustainable changes. 
    • The power of using metaphors in coaching conversation to create greater awareness, anchor insights, as well as using them to create agreements and move from topic to success measures. 
    • How metaphors weave through the ICF Core Competencies. 

    About the Speaker

    Lyssa deHart, LICSW, MCC, BCC, EMCC, is the author of StoryJacking: Change Your Dialogue, Transform Your Life, The Reflective Coach, and Light Up: the Science of Coaching with Metaphors. She is the host of the Coaching Studio Podcast, a Confidence Coach, a Certified Mentor Coach, a Coaching SUPERVision Partner, an ICF PCC Assessor, and a coaching educator. 

    Lyssa leverages her knowledge in ICF Core Competencies and neuroscience to help professional coaches enhance their client outcomes by deeply listening, being client-led, and, ultimately, empowering their clients through partnership.  

    In 2018, Lyssa began developing the Power of Metaphor Certification Program. This program trains coaches to tune their ears and leverage their clients' metaphors. In 2022, Lyssa developed the Updated Credentialing Exam PREP, a resource that has helped over 5000 coaches prepare for the updated ICF Exam. 


    • 18 Sep 2024
    • 5:30 PM - 7:00 PM
    • TBA
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    Save the date! September's book club event will be on September 18th. This will be an in person event - location coming soon!

    September's book is Breakthrough Coaching: Creating Lightbulb Moments in Your coaching Conversations by Marcia Reynolds.

    Get the book here!

    Breakthrough Coaching: Creating Lightbulb Moments in Your coaching Conversations

    Introducing a new, practical guide for overcoming obstacles and helping clients to make their desired changes, Breakthrough Coaching offers techniques, tools, and exercises to facilitate immediate and lasting shifts in perspective and behaviour.  

    Leave behind uncertainty and unease. Learn how to establish trust and rapport so your clients are open to challenging their beliefs. Discover how to effectively communicate ideas that spark transformative insights, changing their lives forever. Dive into Breakthrough Coaching to gain access to: 5 modules of learning and discovery, 19 resource tools, 5 practice exercises, coaching case studies, and much more. 

    “A blueprint for building a powerful and purposeful coach-client relationship.  You’ll work less hard and have more impact.”  - Michael Bungay Stanier 

    Read the Reviews. 

    Read more about Marcia Reynolds and Breakthrough COACHING here:  

    Transformational Coaching (covisioning.com) 

    About Linda

    Linda Maul is the founder of several companies, her most recent, Accountability by Design, in 2018. Linda has been a student of systems thinking and team coaching for many years and integrates her learning in her work with clients to support their sustained growth. As a PCC level coach, Linda is known for her gentle voice and big stick approach, and her clients appreciate her accountability lens and the emphasis on building relationship through having effective conversations.

    • 8 Oct 2024
    • 12:00 PM - 12:45 PM
    • Online
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    Join ICF Edmonton's Director of Programming, Sarah Thomas and get to know the ICF Website - Learning Portal & More Information on 2024 ICF Credentialing Webinar Series.

    Are you new to coaching or new to ICF and want to learn more? Join me for this webinar series where we will explore all things ICF and answer any burning questions you may have about the ICF.

    Hot topics will include:

    • The credentialing process from ACC to MCC.
    • Tips for navigating the website.
    • The ICF Learning Portal – how to access ICF provided Continuing Coach Education (CCE credits) , a requirement of maintaining your ICF credential. 

    See you there! 

    • 23 Oct 2024
    • 5:30 PM - 7:30 PM
    • Online
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    This event will focus on expanding understanding in equity, diversity and inclusion (EDI) domain. The ICF Global Strategic Plan focuses in on championing inclusivity and equity across the coaching profession worldwide. Equity is also identified as an ICF Core Value  

    Event Overview

    Embracing a culturally responsive practice as foundational in coaching provides a space for both the coach and coachee to show up as their authentic selves. Powerful coaching happens in relationship between the coach and the coachee, and coaches bring their own cultural lens and worldview to the session. As coaches grow in our understanding of our own cultural background and the understanding of others’ cultures, our relationships are strengthened. We become more aware of how oursimilarities and differences impact our interactions.  

    During this learning experience we willdiscuss how to expand a culturally responsive practice in a way that strengthens how weco-create the coaching relationship with our clients.  

    This skill is particularly relevant to Cultivating Trust and Safety in the coaching relationshipand the coaching sessions. 

    Learning Objectives

    This learning experience is designed to help you: 

    • Define culturally responsive practice. 

    • Explore your cultural identity and worldview. 

    • Discuss how your cultural identity impacts interactions with others. 

    • Discuss culturally responsive practice as the foundation in Co Creating the Relationship with those we work with.  

    • Create practical tips to include culturally responsive practice in your coaching practice.   

    About the Speaker

    Dr. Golly was born and raised in Kenya and immigrated to San Diego in 1993. She received her BA in Psychology and Sociology from University Guelph, Canada, and her MA and PhD in Psychology from United States International University, San Diego Campus, in 1998. She has completed her 3000 clinical hours towards licensure.  

    Dr. Golly worked as a Human Resources Professional at Pepsi Bottling Group for 3 years. In 2002, she decided to pursue her passion in working with children and families and made a career change to the nonprofit sector where she worked with a refugee resettlement agency, the Alliance for African Assistance as the Program Director for the Family Strengthening and Community Building Department. Dr. Golly then worked with Community Housing Works as a Community Building Coordinator providing training and support to refugee and immigrant families. She also consulted on various projects to give a voice to the communities.  

    She worked as a Protective Service Worker for the County of San Diego for 8 years. Dr. Golly began training as an Independent Contractor for The Academy for Professional Excellence, in 2005. She was also a Best Practice Coach for supervisors and social workers. She joined the Academy full-time in February 2016 as the Program Manager for the Cultural Responsiveness Academy. In her current role, Dr. Golly is responsible for developing and managing the Cultural Responsiveness Academy which includes a series of learning experiences for public child welfare staff and behavioral health staff, to address disproportionality and disparate outcomes of services for underserved communities. 

    Culturally responsive practice is a skill that is developed or enhanced so that one can self-reflect on how their cultural lens impacts their understanding of themselves and others. The foundation of Dr. Golly’s work is culturally responsive practice, and she brings this approach to her coaching practice. 

    It is important for Dr. Golly to practice cultural humility in guiding coachees towards their vision and be responsive to their needs so that they can achieve their goals. Her approach to coaching creates space to embrace a culturally responsive practice which allows those she works with to more authentically build a clear vision, explore possibilities, and ultimately reach their goals. 

    • 20 Nov 2024
    • 5:30 PM - 7:00 PM
    • TBA
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    November's book club event will be on November 20th. This will be an online event.

    November's book is Invite Change: Lessons from 2020, the year of no return by Janet M. Harvey

    Get the book here!

    Invite Change: Lessons From 2020, The Year of No Return

    When was the last time you openly challenged the status quo in conversation with others? Uncertainty often holds us back from taking action and keeps us stuck. "Invite Change" by Janet M. Harvey is a book intended to challenge the status quo and inspire conversation about how we can contribute to our workplaces and communities. It encourages us to embrace fear as an opportunity and invites us to lead authentically. If you want to break free from the "same old" and overcome fear and the outdated status quo, consider picking up a copy of "Invite Change" today! 

    “This book is essential for anyone who must step up and respond to the challenges and dilemmas that touched us all in 2020, the year of no return.  Change brings us a bright pathway forward, fearlessly embracing change.”  - Laurence Hillman, PhD, Archetypal Consultant & Coach. 

    Read the Reviews: 

    Read more about Marcia Reynolds and Breakthrough COACHING here:  

    Transformational Coaching (covisioning.com) 

    About Linda

    Linda Maul is the founder of several companies, her most recent, Accountability by Design, in 2018. Linda has been a student of systems thinking and team coaching for many years and integrates her learning in her work with clients to support their sustained growth. As a PCC level coach, Linda is known for her gentle voice and big stick approach, and her clients appreciate her accountability lens and the emphasis on building relationship through having effective conversations.

Past events

19 Jun 2024 Coaching Cafe
16 May 2024 Choose Coaching
15 May 2024 Incorporating Neuro-Inclusion in Your Coaching Practice
9 May 2024 Pre-Coaching-Week Event - How to Work with (Almost) Anyone, with Michael Bungay Stanier
23 Apr 2024 New to ICF: Lunch and Learn - ICF Website, Learning Portal & Credentialing Series
17 Apr 2024 BOOK CLUB - Coaching A-Z by Haesun Moon
27 Mar 2024 A New Way to Be: Cultivating resilience in yourself and your clients
24 Jan 2024 Tension is Enduring ~ Learn How It’s Also a Source of Aspiration
24 Jan 2024 2024 Annual General Meeting
4 Dec 2023 Coaches Holiday Gathering - for ICF Edmonton Members
16 Nov 2023 Neurodiversity in Your Coaching Practice
10 Oct 2023 Using Strategic Silence to Help Your Clients Transform Faster!
4 Oct 2023 VIRTUAL Speed Networking for Coaches
20 Sep 2023 Speed Networking for Coaches
6 Sep 2023 A New Field in Coaching: Organizational Culture Coaching (OCC)
11 Jul 2023 Ethics in Coaching: Should we talk about suicide?
21 Jun 2023 Funcomfortable: The Uncomfortably Fun Truth About Growth with James Garrett
11 May 2023 Mind the Gap | Explore Your Untapped Potential
10 May 2023 Systemic Team Coaching | The Complexity and the Fun of it
27 Apr 2023 3 Ways to Make it EASY for Clients to Invest with YOU
5 Apr 2023 Get an Empowered Yes or No: 6-step Coaching to the Sale
9 Feb 2023 WHOLE PERSON INTELLIGENCE™ with Lisa Strogal
31 Jan 2023 Building your Coaching Practice and Business through Podcasting
31 Jan 2023 Annual General Meeting
8 Dec 2022 Celebrating Conversations About DE&I with Jennifer Brown
5 Dec 2022 Coaches Holiday Mixer - for ICF Edmonton Members
14 Nov 2022 In the Know - Making the Most of Your ICF Membership
3 Nov 2022 A "Fireside" chat with David Clutterbuck, One of the Fathers of Team Coaching
21 Oct 2022 Coaching Cafe - October 21 at 12:00 p.m.
27 Sep 2022 Whole Person Intelligence™ (WPi) in you and your coaching practice
14 Sep 2022 POSTPONED: Effects of Clients Living Two Lives | Using Negotiation to Increase Results
27 Jun 2022 Coaching Cafe - June 27
22 Jun 2022 Community of Practice: Eliciting Core Values
19 May 2022 Reimagine: Designing Your Future - a free public event in celebration of International Coaching Week 2022
19 May 2022 Member Sign-Up - Give the Gift of Coaching to a member of the public in celebration of ICW 2022
16 May 2022 Reimagining the Future - for You and Your Coaching Clients
28 Apr 2022 Coaching Cafe - April 28
13 Apr 2022 Coaching Cafe - April 13
3 Mar 2022 2 Secret Listening Strategies to Enhance Coaches’ Active Listening
16 Feb 2022 Navigating the ICF Credentialing Paths
27 Jan 2022 Dr. Marcia Reynolds, Going Deeper: How to Shift the Focus to Coach the Person, not the Problem when the Client Feels Stuck
27 Jan 2022 ICF Edmonton Charter Chapter AGM
16 Dec 2021 Holiday Mixer: Ha, Ha, Holidays
16 Nov 2021 Community of Practice: Connecting with Potential Clients
28 Oct 2021 What's At Our Core: Embracing The Updated ICF Competencies
5 Oct 2021 Community of Practice: Powerful Questions
28 Sep 2021 Let's Talk About Being on The ICF Edmonton Board
23 Sep 2021 Relational Presence for Coaches
8 Jun 2021 Community of Practice: Coaching Session Prep
20 May 2021 How Coaching Can Improve Your Life, Work & Relationships
17 May 2021 Myths and Legends in Popular Neuroscience: Why it Matters to EQ and Coaching
11 May 2021 Community of Practice: Tools and Assessments
28 Apr 2021 Coaching Teams and Groups Virtually
13 Apr 2021 Community of Practice: Sharpen The Saw
16 Mar 2021 Community of Practice: Emotion in Coaching
3 Mar 2021 Understanding Vulnerability
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