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Feedback April - June 2008
Advanced Coaching Series – Moving Towards Mastery April, May, June 2008
with Elizabeth Ferguson, MCC
Happy Endings – Moving On
In 3 hrs we covered an amazing amount of ground with some serious and practical challenge to move us towards Mastery in Coaching. A great investment.
Rachel Spooncer
This short but deep course provides me with a thought-provoking reminder of how the ICF core competencies provide a framework for masterful coaching. Elizabeth is a truly great leader with a lot to teach us and great generosity in her approach. She encouraged us to grow in awareness, boldness and depth. Extremely worthwhile. My coaching has benefited I believe already.
Kate Edmonds
The most helpful thing about participating in this series has been the extent to which the calls have raised my awareness about my practice. A result of the calls is that I have refined my contracting process to be more explicit about the level of challenge. I have used the input and ideas as a bench mark for reflection and a motivation to stretch to mastery.
Janet Wilson
When I first saw the Advanced Coaching Series - Moving towards Mastery I was excited at the prospect of taking part. I enjoyed being part of the small group who gathered for the 3 teleclasses organised by Halina Jaroszewska and presented by Elizabeth Ferguson.
The overall design of the series focused on grouping the core competencies into 3 themes of beginning, middle and end and each class therefore considered different competencies and their application and meaning at Mastery level. We also did some practical work within the sessions. The frequency of 1 call per month was just right for me and I would welcome follow on series in the Autumn.
The personal benefit was the level and quality of conversation that ensued and the 'food for thought' which comes from hearing other's views on key terms like presence, intuition, stretch and learning. It's always valuable to review your own way of working especially if you are in a small business and coaching/mentoring 1:1 most of the time.
Being in the company of colleagues with whom to discuss any issues or concerns arising from a conversation is immensely valuable to me. Taking part has also encouraged me to reflect on whether to apply for MCC in the Autumn as I know I should!! I am hoping that the group will meet again in the Autumn as I would certainly be up for more. My thanks go to all those who made the series possible.
Anji Marychurch
Core Competencies Series of 10 3rd June 2008
Powerful Questions - Discover the source of flow and growing in the coaching process
with Monika Müller, MCC
This was the first call I had enrolled for since joining the ICF recently. I found Monika's style and approach very easy to listen to. The way she linked powerful questions to our unconscious state of mind was a new of thinking about this subject for me, and it has given me a real focus that I can take away and work on immediately. Very useful, very practical and I will be enrolling in more calls very soon.
Louis Collins
The session on Powerful Questioning with Monika Muller was itself very powerful. We discussed what powerful questioning is and how to recognise when a question has been powerful enough to ‘hit home’. A new aspect, for me, was to consider the effect on the coach as well as the client – that powerful questions can come from deep within the coach as well as reaching a place deep within the client. In Monika’s lovely phrase, a powerful question can ‘connect the wisdom’ of both people, and can affect the whole relationship. As a new coach, beginning the journey towards a credential, I also found it helpful to consider the differences expected between ACC and PCC level. A powerful question can get the brain to make new connections – this whole session did that for me!
Jane Parslow
Business and Practice Development Discussion Forum Series of 5 21st May 2008
What makes you special as a coach? With Damien Churton, PCC
A very enlightening and interactive session. It was interesting to come at this issue from a different perspective.
Anne Miller
Coaching on your Virtual Doorstep on 19th May 2008
Demonstrating mastery in coaching with Jenny Bird, MCC
The coach said:
The client said:
I felt comfortable with Jenny – and able to say whatever came into my mind, confident that she would help me make some sense of my jumbled thoughts and feelings. She helped me see that I wanted to feel lighter – and by the end of the call, I did. This feeling of lightness has continued – and, what’s more, I also put together the outline of my dementia book first thing next morning before going off on a work assignment to London – which gave me a great feeling of moving forward. As the week has worn on I have become convinced that expressing feelings honestly, and publicly, with an audience is a very powerful experience – it has certainly helped me feel in quite a different, lighter place.
Chris Carling
The Observers said:
Excellent demonstration by the coach of exquisite listening skills - picking up on those small but oh so often significant words the client drops in to the conversation that in themselves hold so much. In reflecting back ‘tell me more about the truth..’ just wonderfully giving the client time and space to go down that avenue a bit more and explore. As a result, the client started from one place and left the session from a completely different one - and one which was not the obvious solution to the presenting issue. Also working in the metaphor. Again this was amply demonstrated by good listening skills on behalf of the coach. Of course, we all use metaphorical expressions all the time - far more than we perhaps realise and these offer great opportunities for the skilled coach. The coach demonstrated this by picking up on some of these graphic words and descriptions which in turn, made space for the client to expand in her own conversation with herself – edged forward, wear lightly, what would you put down now? for example.
Alison Dale
As a trainee coach, it was very interesting and useful for me to be able to listen to an expert conduct a coaching session. Jenny drew upon a range of coaching core competencies, overlaid with her own coaching style, to deliver a high quality session.
Claire Wakelin
Core Competencies Series of 10 28th April 2008
Coaching Presence – strong starts and strong closes with Linda Miller, MCC
The teleseminar was packed with very practical, ready to use advice, tried and tested by Linda. She was very generous about giving us so much information. The participants were very actively involved and the time just flew by.
Shigeru Tabata
Coaching on your Virtual Doorstep on 21st April 2008
Demonstrating mastery in coaching with Michael Stratford, MCC
The coach said:
The coaching session presented as a 'moving' challenge around strategies and frustration regarding selling a house.This was the ‘let me solve it’ bait.In clarifying what the client truly wanted, it was a much deeper coaching that was available. The opportunity to coach the client on not only solving the situation, but the much bigger picture of what to stay true to as she moved forward in life during her self-admitted transition of becoming. This is what true coaching is about. The 'solve the scenario' level is the more surface and therefore pedestrian coaching opportunity. When one really looks at it, it doesn't even begin to scratch the surface of what can occur for the client. Yes, the particular situation may get solved and there's success to be had there. However if the client is supported in either a deeper connection of self from which to operate, or an evolutionary possibility in which to grow into, then the session becomes truly transformational vs. informational.
In this session, the client was supported in staying true to herself while she moved forward by asking questions around the essence of who she was, what was meaningful and what she really wanted to experience once the 'move' had been completed. The client identified a gap and we simply coached through it. She demonstrated her intuitive brilliance by taking all the time she needed to connect with her most authentic responses to whatever questions were presented. This honoured her self and her process and spoke volumes about her desire and her ability to remain linked with her own internal compass. It also demonstrated how important this whole transition was for her.
The client said:
My experience was a delicious ‘dive for pearls’ into and through my sense being. Michael swam with me, deep below the surface, until I was ready to resurface with a fresh sense of what was important to me. An incredible experience. Thank you.
Georgina Woudstra
The Observers said:
It was a very special experience. The way Michael handled his questionning was an art. It was not an obviously exciting and animated goal setting procedures at all. It was rather a profound journey of self-discovery for the client facilitied by Michael. When I look back now, with my notes, I am amazed by how masterfully the session was conducted. And it almost feels like he knew what was going to happen right from the start.
Shigeru Tabata
A fascinating call exploring the power of enabling the client to connect with themselves in order to get to the real issue and find the right answer for themselves.
Neil Scotton
It was a privilege to be present at what felt like an intimate conversation about how the client wanted to live. Michael was patient and allowed silences to be as long as they needed to be. The client seemed to gain real clarity and lightness.
Chris Carling
Excellent demo of how the coach can effortlessly get to the deeper issues and work in the level of ‘being’. Of course we all know this but if you get to the solutions here at this level, then the other practical, problem solving is done for you - those problems will be solved without any need to work on them either by the client or the coach... as the client will move him/herself into a transformational change. I liked Michael’s use of the metaphor - the presenting agenda problems are like a ‘game board’ that the client may present as the ‘experiment’ for the day but in fact, you need to get below these to find out what is really important to the client. I wish I could be as deft in my coaching!
Alison Dale
MCC Discussion Forum 1 of 3 15th April 2008
What is a master? With Terrie Lupberger, MCC
I found the session with Terrie Lupberger, MCC riveting!! I am transitioning from the PCC to MCC level and her input was most helpful. The concept of partnering our client completely was key: the listening for the pace, mood and energy of our clients as well as the importance of lightness, the caring for our clients and the art of ‘perturbing’ the client’s story.
Lupita Volio
Coaching on your Virtual Doorstep on 7th April 2008
Demonstrating mastery in coaching with Peter Reding, MCC
The coach said:
My experience with this coaching session was to support my client to both gain clarity of his vision and conviction that this vision was his to do. The key to all my coaching is to anchor my client’s exploration, awareness, planning, decisions and actions to my client’s known core values, life purpose and natural gifts. This client’s values, purpose and gifts were shared with me during a 20-minute Foundation session 1 week prior to this coaching session. My typical Foundation session runs 4 hours when I begin a coaching relationship.
The client said :
What an interesting coaching experience! Peter and I had spent time on a previous call so that I had an opportunity to describe my vision, values and gifts before the coaching call. This was key as to why the coaching conversation went so well I felt.
However, I felt much more vulnerable on the call. Peter’s approach is dealing with deeper issues than most coaching conversations. I was impressed with how quickly Peter enabled me to connect with the key issues and develop a way to move forward. I felt that I had space and time to explore my vision. The key insight for me was that my vision was me - it is a greater expression of who I am.
Francis Christie
The Observers said:
What am I taking away:-
The challenge to go with my gut and challenge my client - particularly if I know how he/she ticks and I recognise that he/she is making self limiting statements e.g. statement from the master coach that he did not think the client ‘bought into’ his own story - that this was ‘too difficult’. When challenged by the coach, the client realised that he was the only one holding himself back.
Also taking away - direct and simple challenges such as when the client was talking about how other people might take on this challenge, the master coach offered ‘and yes, but how would Francis do this - not other people?’ This focused the client immediately and directly on himself - very good.
The session focused on how values and principles the client brings to the coaching session impact on everything he/she does - both in the session and elsewhere in life and work. I found this a powerful reminder - I have heard this said from other coaches that it is important to ‘front load’ time at the beginning of any coaching contract to find out where the client sees himself in life and his purpose etc and this was brought out so clearly today
Alison Dale
Core Competencies Series of 10 2nd April 2008
Coaching Presence - The Number 1 Requirement for Coaching Senior Executives
With Val Williams, MCC
Val provided a simple, insightful model that is immediately useable.
Kevin Olver
The call was excellent. Being able to get Val's experience and her synopsis of the the C's make Pressence less ambiguous.
Cathy
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