UKICF Professional Development This Autumn we have a varied programme of old and new themes for you to choose from. All our classes carry the ‘CCEU’ certification so every class you take adds to your total hours for gaining or renewing your credentials. The CCEU is also a badge of quality and ensures that all these classes will truly add to your knowledge and competence as a coach. The season kicks off on September 30th with Aboodi Shabi leading a provocative conversation about the relevance of coaching to today’s concerns. http://www.coachfederation.org.uk/shop/is_coaching_still_relevant__aboodi_shabi_30th_sept_10.phtml?productID=5 . In an interactive session Aboodi will test and enable you to question your own presuppositions about coaching, helping you to move your own views of coaching onto a larger platform. Aboodi’s second session in December also promises to be a challenging exploration of our passions as coaches and how we can bring these actively into our coaching relationships. Sara Boas is bringing her experience of working across cultures to a teleclass on 6th October http://www.coachfederation.org.uk/shop/coaching_across_cultures__6th_oct_10_sara_boas.phtml . She will share her transcultural competence™ tool for transformation with us, helping us work with clients who are profoundly different from ourselves. For myself this is part of the joy of coaching – understanding the world from a completely new perspective – and yet its also often one of the hardest parts of the coaching journey to find those points of connection to start from. Sara will also be back again later in the year (or in the New Year) offering her experience of working with the body in a session on the ‘Somatic Dialogue’. In November James Flaherty of ‘New Ventures West’ is leading a ‘Conversation’. James’ approach to coaching and personal development is grounded in an approach that draws on the past, present and future, on wisdom from East and West, and knowledge from scientific discovery. He calls this an ‘Integra methodology’ so join the call and find out more about how this approach can deepen your own coaching. More on this in the next newlstter. The ‘Supervision clinic’ in October is led by Claire Palmer – call in to get a ‘taste’ of Claire’s approach to supervision and experience how a regular supervision session can enhance your own coaching. Helen Caton-Hughes, co-founder of the Forton group will be holding a series of 3 classes on building your coaching business. Helen and her partner Bob have built a thriving world-wide coaching organisation – find out how they achieved this and what you can learn from their experience to add to your own business success. Our series on the core coaching competencies continues with Lyn Chamberlain-Clarke leading a session in November on the competence of ‘Progress and accountability’. This is an aspect that really makes the difference between a helpful conversation and a breakthrough coaching session – enabling our clients to take action, and put into effect the changes in their own thinking and behaviour that will enable them to shift their experience of the world. If you haven’t yet joined in one of these classes on competencies now is a great time to start – you’ll find they really give you a head start in upping the game of your coaching! You may have missed the first session from David Whyte and Richard Olivier in June – but worry not! as they are offering a further session on 15th October. Those lucky members who attended the first event were treated to an inspiring demonstration of David’s philosophy integrated with Richard’s understanding of the dynamics of relationships drawn from his experiences of the stage. We are very fortunate to have been offered special rates for this event from the ‘Beyond partnership’ so I hope many of you will take up this superb opportunity! http://www.coachfederation.org.uk/pd_programme/the_reimagination_of_success.phtml Su Kingsley Director of Professional Development UKICF |