ICA Community Bulletin

As we are about to celebrate our first Graduation for 2010, ICA would like to take this opportunity to congratulate the students who have successfully completed their program and are about to graduate and join our wonderful alumni community. This is a very exciting time for all and celebrations are about to begin.

On March 1, 50 students from 17 countries will graduate from the CPC program and will begin a new journey as certified coaches and ICA alumni. Each student has worked hard to acheive their success and we congratulate them all.

To provide the opportunity for all of our students, along with their family and friends, to celebrate this achievement we will be holding two graduation ceremonies. Students have been officially invited to attend one ceremony, but are more than welcome to join in the other celebrations with their peers.

Details of the ceremonies are as follows:

Ceremony 1 - March 1, 2pm NY ET

Ceremony 2 -  March 1, 8pm NY ET

Bridgeline : +1 512 597 6253

Access code: 893765#

Our graduating students for March 2010 are: Read more »

We are excited to announce that the remaining few new modules and updates to our curriculum are now complete. 

Many of our modules have been rewritten along with many completely new modules being added to our programs.   Most of these were updated to our Learnsite prior to our return from the 2 week break over December and January, with the exception of a few.

The list below outlines the recently added modules and updates.  These updates will be loaded to our Learnsite within the next 24 hours. If you have already completed the module prior to the update you do not need to repeat the class, although you are most welcome to do this.  If you have any questions please don’t hesitate to contact support@icoachacademy.com 

Updates - 26 February, 2010

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Learning Level 1

Coaching Theory - New module and curriculum replacing Trial Session
Power Listening - Same name, new curriculum
Being a Coach - New module and curriculum

Learning Level 2

Developing Tools - New module and curriculum replacing Creating Structures
Creating Action - Same name, new curriculum
No Single Model - New module and curriculum replacing Coaching Model
Underlying Beliefs - New module and curriculum replacing Underlying Automatic Commitments

Learning Level 3

Commitment Vs Trying - Same name, new curriculum
Respect Vs Invalidation - Same name, new curriculum
Lightness Vs Insignificance - New module and curriculum replacing Game Vs Significance

Learning Level 4

Diversity - Same name, new curriculum
Your Model - New module and curriculum replacing Using Your Coaching Model

Learning Level 5

Visualisation - New module and curriculum
Tools and Assessment - New module and curriculum
Self Management - New module and curriculum replaces Moving Forward

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Registrations for March Supervised Coach classes commencing March 1, have now closed.

Registrations for April Supervised Coach will open soon, once class times have been finalised.

Please stay tuned for more information.

Hello ICA Community, 

For the last week of February we are holding an OPEN HOUSE for potential students to ICA’s programs.  We will be holding 5 calls with a focusing in North America, Europe, India, and Australia and New Zealand.  

Help to spread the spirit of coaching and ICA across the globe!   Invite your friends, family, coworkers, and contacts to join one of our OPEN HOUSE events. 

All Calls will take place on the following brigeline:
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Bridgeline: +1 512 597 6253

Access Code:  893765#
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CALL 1

Region: India

What: Coach Certification & Coaching Profession in India

Hosts: Nick Bosk & Prabha Chandrasekhar, PCC

When: Wednesday, February 24^th

Time: 8pm Chennai Time

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CALL 2

Region: North America

What: Coaching Profession and ICF Credentials

Hosts: Nick Bosk & Sheri Boone, MCC

When: Wednesday, February 24^th

Time: 8pm NY ES

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CALL 3

Region: Australia & New Zealand

What: Become A Coach Teleseminar

Host: Robyn Logan

When: Thursday, February 25^th

Time: 8pm Melbourne Time

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CALL 4

Region: Europe

What: Become A Coach Teleseminar

Host: Nick Bosk

When: Thursday, February 25^th

Time: 7pm London Time

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CALL 5

Region: North America

What: Become A Coach Teleseminar

Host: Nick Bosk

When: Saturday, February 27^th

Time: 2pm NY EST

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To convert times please visit: http://timeanddate.com/

If you have any questions, feel free to contact Nick Bosk at training@icoachacademy.com

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This is a great opportunity to become part of our Affiliate Program at ICA. 

For more info: 

http://tiny.cc/ICA_Affiliate

We are always looking for creative ways to improve our CoP teleclasses - bringing new niches, leaders, and approaches while using our resources and talents efficiently. Toward that end, we are offering one Career CoP per week led by Joanne Waldman. We’d like to thank Anouschka van den Bosch for her wonderful leadership in our Career CoP teleclasses and we look forward to engaging both her enthusiasm and expertise in the near future. Anouschka’s last class will be on Thursday Feb 25.

We also are changing the Sales CoP to better reflect the intention of this series which is to support those students with an interest in the Sales Coach niche. We recognize Mike Francis for his amazing and generous support of our students and look forward to partnering with him as we launch the Lobii site. Mike’s last class will be March 8.

Finally, we will be bringing back the Small Business CoP so stay tuned for more information!

Know a self-motivated, multi-faceted, and creative student majoring in PR, Social Media, Communications, Marketing or Business?

Can they walk and chew gum while juggling a keyboard, a telephone and a life? Invite them to apply for our new internships program.

For  more information or to apply click here .

If you like to use Facebook for all the fun things it offers, then be sure to become a fan of ICA.  You can find our Facebook Community at: icoachacademy

Currently we have close to 400 fans worldwide, comprised of our students, graduates, staff and friends.  We’d like to keep growing out community and offer this medium as a place to meet, socialize, share information on coaching, and extend the learning and good vibes coming out of our teleclasses!

It’s a great place to catch up  with ICA doings, meet fellow students and to put yourself out there.  Community Manager, Kurt Stewart and Learning Leader Isabelle King are the driving force behind bringing our ICA community together in Facebook, and they would love to hear from you.

Kurt has recently started a movement to help students connect up with each other in their various cities and regions around the world.  The aim is to keep the energy flowing outside the “virtual” classrooms and meet in the “real” world.  And we’d like you to take a group photo too so we can post it to the Facebook Fanpage. 

If you would like to get together with fellow students, have a look through our Facebook wall posts for people in your own area.  And if you don’t see anyone near you, then feel free to start up a group to meet in your town.  If you organize it, we’d be hapy to support you by creating and event in our Fanpage.

So come on and join the party - let’s keep connecting and building our amazing global community!

If so, Coach in a Box wants you.  If you are a trained coach who speaks Japanese or Korean,  preferably as your mother tongue with English as a second language, then these positions may be of interest to you.  The coaching would be mainly phone based. 

Should any members of our student or alumni community be interested please contact Danielle Marchant, directly via email danielle.marchant@coachinabox

One of our Chinese program students, James Huang in Beijing posted his couplet to the Chinese discussion board sending his New Year’s wishes to all students.

看今朝学友勤奋挥汗如雨分享交流迎金虎
盼明日教练潇洒身体力行守德奉智为客户

真诚真相
 
“Today peers study coaching together, sweating and working diligently to welcome the Year of the Tiger; tomorrow, professional coaches, practising what we preach, nobly walking our talk, ethically, with integrity for our clients”  

Sincerity, Authenticity, and Truth

We invite all of our students to create your own and post them to the English discussion board as well.

Spring Festival couplets,  (春联, chūnlián) refer to antithetical couplets written on scrolls which convey people’s wishes for peace, fortune and good luck with concise and matching words.

Before the Spring Festival arrives, Chinese people will paste all their door panels with the couplets, highlighting Chinese calligraphy with black characters on red paper. Chinese have always preferred the color red, as it stands for passion and good fortune. Personally, I think the colors for Spring Festival couplets - red and black - classically beautiful.

The content of the couplets varies from house owners’ wishes for a bright future to good luck for the year. Also, pictures of the god of doors and wealth will be posted on front doors to ward off evil spirits and welcome peace and abundance.

The custom of writing couplets on peach panels started in the Tang dynasty (618-907), and became popular in the Song dynasty (960-1279). The couplets earned their official name from Zhu Yuanzhang, the emperor who began the Ming dynasty (1368-1644) and had become a form of art by the Qing dynasty (1644-1911).

People used to paste couplets on doorposts, door panels and lintel, as well as on furniture and screen wall. In the courtyard they had “Spring sunshine bright.” In the living room they had “Graceful friends around,” “Treasures fill the home” and “Wishes for good fortune.” Even over the bed they pasted “Bliss of health.” Writing the couplets was in fact a kind of competition in folk wisdom and calligraphy attended by every family. Nowadays, however, few people write their own couplets, with plenty of choices offered in shops.

Our Chinese Manager, Pin Hsuan Chen invites us to create our own couplets. Pin says you will have an enjoyable soul connection when you are being immersed in the poetry couplet creation!

We would love you to take some time to reflect on your own spirit and what you might want to express in a couplet.
 
Please post your couplet on the discussion board under the Cafe and Social Area, the ‘thought or saying of the week’ section.
Enjoy everyone! and Xin nian kuai le — Happy New Year!

There have been a number of changes made to the Academic Calendar.  Most of these updates are trainer changes to classes and the details can be found below.  In addition, a new calendar has been added for our Getting Connected calls.  These calls are for our new students to connect with ICA Trainer, Nick Bosk and ask any questions they may have.  Also, registration for March Supervised Coach is now open and the 5 new time options, with classes commencing the first week of March,  have also been added to the Academic Calendar.  Registration for Supervised Coach can be made via the Community Bulletin (see earlier post), or via the Learn site.

All Academic Calendar changes are effective immediately. Read more »

Registrations for March Supervised Coach are now being taken and classes will commence the week beginning Monday March 1, 2010.

Supervised Coach classes run for 6 weeks with students required to attend 2 sessions per week, a total of 12 classes. Each Supervised Coach class is limited to 6 students and a minimum of 4 students is required for the class to go ahead. You will receive confirmation of your registration once your preferred time option has received the necessary 4 registrations. Please visit the Supervised Coach page via the learnsite for more details.

To register for March Supervised Coach you need to:

1. Refer to the Academic Calendar, March 2010, for available times.
2. Nominate 2 time options that are suitable for you.
3. Register now by clicking here.

ICA Trainers, Isabelle King and Merci Miglino will be hosting a get together in Toronto, Canada on Sunday, 21st February @ 1pm, and would love to meet you.

So come along and join Isabelle and Merci at Toronto Distillery District .  Meet at 1pm sharp (Toronto time) by the Boiler House, entrance is via Mill Street. (See Map).  Afterwhich, you will decide as a group where to go (there are so many cafe’s, restaurants and art galleries).

If there is a chance you may be late, contact Isabelle directly at isabelle.king@icoachacademy.com so she can give you her cell number and then direct you to the cafe of choice.

Feel free to invite friends and potential friends of ICA/Lobii as well as new ICA students in the area who may not have connected with us before.

Isabelle and Merci  look forward to meeting you all there.

Due to low numbers, we are removing the Health & Wellness CoP, Tuesday 10 am from the calendar.

The Health & Wellness CoP, Wednesday 7 pm remains.

As we say goodbye to two trainers this month, please join us in wishing them the very best! Thank you Sherry Read and Alexia Michiels for all you have brought to ICA. We will miss you!

Sherry will be moving forward focusing on her own business and her family, whilst Alexia is moving to Switzerland and will be focusing on her much loved Yoga.

We wish both Sherry and Alexia all the best!!

Student buddies are highly valued members of the ICA student community, who generously donate their time in assisting newbies with finding their way within and around the ICA community. As students that have already been with ICA for some time would know, this can sometimes be a little daunting to begin with. Being a buddy could involve sharing first hand experiences, or assisting new students to connect with their online community.

Whilst being a buddy does involve a time commitment, it is very flexible and should only involve a few hours a month. Students wishing to become a part of our wonderful buddy team, should be familiar with the ICA environment, and be willing to support our new students.

If you would like to find out more about becoming a buddy, or if you would like to become a valued member of our ‘Buddy Team’, please contact Jamee Tenzer at jamee.tenzer@icoachacademy.com