ICA Community Bulletin

Recently, we have received questions from some of our students, regarding ICF credentialing and the changes that are planned. 

Below is two excerpts from the ICF March Newsletter that may be of interest to our community, and may help to clarify the situation as it currently stands.  We have also included a link that you can click on to read more about credentialing.

Excerpts:

Life of the Existing Credentialing System
The decision of the Board is to keep the existing 3-tier credentialing system in place until January 2012. This does not mean that the 3-tier system will disappear in January 2012. It only means that anyone planning to apply for one of the existing credentials can rely on the stability of the existing 3-tier system through that time.

Charging the Credentialing and Program Accreditation Committee with the Task of Developing a Proposal
The decision of the Board is to keep the existing 3-tier credentialing system in place until January 2012 and to charge the Credentialing and Program Accreditation Committee to develop standards that will enhance our credentialing program to best protect and serve consumers of coaching services, measure and certify competence of individuals and inspire pursuit of continuous development.

 To read more click here

The Los Angeles ICA community is Getting together on Wednesday April 21st at 6pm in Culver City

Let’s meet, greet, learn and grow with alumni and current students and make sure ICA is well represented during the upcoming Coaching school event organized by the International Coaching Federation Chapter of Los Angeles.

Jamee Tenzer will be here to welcome you and lead a discussion around creating your own coaching model from 6 to 7pm.

At 7pm we will all join the ICF-LA community and attend their monthly meeting with Lion Goodman as their guest speaker presenting “the Belief Closet: Changing Your Beliefs Is Now As Easy As Changing Your Clothes^TM”

To find out more and to register please go to http://www.icfla.org

We are truly hoping to see you there.

March 31st will be a busy day . We have two important things for you, and wanted to give you a quick update, and invite you to share these with your family, friends, colleagues, peers or anyone who is interested in Coaching.

1. How To Optimise Your Inner Game with Molly Luffy (March 31st,Teleseminar)

2. Why NOW Is The Time To Become A Coach (Special Offer - If you know someone who would like to become a Coach, pass along this information so they can take advantage of this Special Offer)

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1. How to Optimise Your Inner Game (March 31st, Teleseminar)
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Join our March teleseminar to find out how you can create a life of abundance.

Molly Luffy (Energy Healer, Professional Coach and Self-Love Advocate) will share the power of optimizing your “inner game” for greater success in your work, business or life.

Hosted by Merci Miglino, this teleseminar will explore the Inner-Game element of business-ownership and its critical impact on the bottom line.

In particular, how to

• transform limiting beliefs and fears to create more of what you want
• Experience a deeper knowledge of energy and vibration and understand how they impact Law of Attraction strategies

This promises to be a truly insightful teleseminar, and one not to be missed.

Tell Me More - > http://tinyurl.com/mollyluffy

** Teleseminar Details **

Topic: Optimising Your ‘Inner Game’ for greater success in your work, business of life

When: Wednesday, 31 March, 2010 @ 9am New York EST

Host: Merci Miglino

Guest: Molly Luffy

Cost: No cost

Register Now - > http://tinyurl.com/mollyluffy

Note: The registration page (above) will also provide you with time conversions for your nearest capital city.

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2. Why NOW Is The Time To Become a Coach (Special Offer)
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People all over the world are making changes in their lives because of the economic downturn. To make these changes they are increasingly looking to work with a coach to support them.
By becoming a coach you have the opportunity to be part of this growth area and help others change their lives.

Be part of creating a change - for yourself and for your clients

** Enrol NOW And Save Over $500 **

Tell Me More –> http://tinyurl.com/Professional-Coach

So, talk to us now about how you can become a coach and make a difference. Reply to this email, or visit our site (http://tinyurl.com/Professional-Coach) and one of our coaching specialists will contact you with the information you require.

Bronwyn Bowery-Ireland
CEO

Registrations for April Supervised Coach classes commencing April 5, have now closed.

Registration for May Supervised Coach will open soon, once class times have been finalised.

Please stay tuned for more information.

A reminder to all our students who are planning to graduate June 2010.

Our next graduation is set to take place Monday, June 7 and we would like to take this opportunity to remind those students who are planning to graduate at this time, that all assessment requirements need to be submitted to assessment@icoachacademy.com by April 26. This will allow the assessment team the necessary time to assess your submissions.

If you have not registered as yet and are planning to graduate this June, please register by clicking the link below, or by visiting our Supervised Coach/Graduation page on the learnsite.

Register for June Graduation

Registrations are now being taken for June, 2010 Graduation and we invite students who are planning to graduate in June to register anytime from now.

Registration will allow students to nominate which ceremony they will be attending, along with completing details for certification. A formal invitation containing further information pertaining to graduation will be sent out to each student who registers, 2 weeks prior to graduation.

Graduation will be held on Monday, June 7, 2010 with 2 ceremonies for students to choose from.

Ceremony (1) 2pm NY ET

Ceremony (2) 8pm NY ET

You can register for graduation by clicking on the link below, or by visiting our Supervised Coach/Graduation page of the learnsite.

Register: June 2010 Graduation

You are invited to an upcoming event at the March 17th ICF Los Angeles Meeting. This month they are offering Core Competencies and Marketing with Social Media. Read the below details and reserve your seat today!

Presence: Pathway to the Essence of Coaching
Understanding and Demonstrating the ICF Core Competency:

Coaching Presence

Facilitated by  Harriett Simon Salinger, MCC, LCSW
Executive Coach, Personal Consultant and ICF Credentialing Assessor

             Culver Events Center
            11948 W Washington Blvd
            Los Angeles, CA 90066

            Wednesday, March 17th
           7.00pm Networking
           7.30 - 9.00 pm Program  

             Registration: ICF LA Members: $20.00
       Guests: $30.00
       Light refreshments

To register, please go to http://www.icfla.org

Coaching Presence is defined by the ICF as the “ability to be fully conscious and  create spontaneous relationship with the client, employing a style that is open, flexible and confident.” Easily said, but not so easily done, right? And if we are achieving coaching presence, how do we know? Not to mention that as coaches, we are expected to exhibit this competency in our coaching if we are committed to adhering to ICF Core Competencies.

Read more »

The Coaching profession is always growing and expanding. ICA wants to stay ahead of the curve as well as continue to serve the needs of our current community and the world beyond.

We are inviting you to join the weekly Interest Groups that we will run for 4 weeks to help us create more resources for YOU. If you personally relate to the topic, have an interest in the topic or just want to join the fun, please feel free to attend one or more of our newly focused Interest Groups.

The first areas we will be focusing on are:

Gay and Lesbian Community - Facilitated by Michael Moniz (Tuesdays 9pm, 4 weeks beginning March 23)

Small Business Building - Facilitated by Bill Turpin  (Tuesdays 8pm, 4 weeks beginning March 23)

Social Responsibility Facilitated by Angela Bird  (Thursdays 7pm, 4 weeks beginning March 25)

******All of these calls will take place on the same bridge line, details as follows******

Bridge line: +1 512 597 6253
Access code: 697432#

Each group will meet on a weekly basis and we look forward to your creative ideas, insights and sharing. By your participation, you will be telling us what the community is looking for and giving us feedback on possible additions to our CoPs.  Students are invited to leave feedback on these classes via the Discussion Board, under ‘CoP: Weekly Interest Groups’.

Thank you for helping us develop the future of ICA!

A team from ICA is currently working on a new product.  It is a collection of research papers authored by our graduates.  The first step in this project is setting up the editorial team.  We are looking for a couple of our graduates, members of our Alumni community, to join this team and travel in this new journey of publication. 

The editorial team will be involoved in:

• setting up the system and process of bringing out the publication
• setting up the criteria for selection of papers and peer review
• interacting with the graduates whose papers are selected and support them to get published
• editing the papers, finalizing, formatting and get it ready to publish
• we would also like someone to volunteer to help format and get it ready to be e-published

If you would like to be a part of this team, do get in touch with jamee.tenzer@lobii.com or prabha.chandrasekhar@lobii.com to know more.

Now that all of our new modules are complete, we are busy translating them into several languages.  Our next aim is to translate all modules into Spanish, and we are seeking volunteers from within our amazing community to assist Ana Noriega, who is heading up this project. 

We need volunteers from Latin America and Spain who are fluent in both English and Spanish.  Volunteers would be required to translate our new modules into Spanish under the guidance of Ana.  If you are interested, please contact Ana directly at: all_all@hotmail.com

We would like to invite our ICA community to share in the celebration of our recent graduates, their friends and family, along with ICA staff, by listening to our graduation ceremonies.

Join our hosts, Nick Bosk and Merci Miglino along with CEO Bronwyn Bowery-Ireland as they lead the celebrations.  Our graduating students were invited to participate and share this wonderful occasion with family and peers alike.

Congratulations to you all once again!

Listen Graduation Call 1 - 2pm, 1 March, 2010 (Hosted by Nick Bosk)

Listen Graduation Call 2 - 8pm, 1 March, 2010 (Hosted by Merci Miglino)

ICA/Lobii are excited to announce the appointment of several new members to our training team.  We hope you will join with us in welcoming them into this wonderful community. These new trainers and classes have been reflected in the Academic Calendar.

Welcome:

Kate Wan, Sales CoP leader.  Kate’s first class will commence, March 18, Thursdays @ 7am NY ET

Leon VanderPol, LL3,  Leon’s first class will commence March 17, Wednesdays @ 10pm NY ET

Maria Gu, joins us as a new trainer in the Chinese Program.

Registrations for April Supervised Coach are now being taken and classes will commence the week beginning Monday April 5, 2010.

Supervised Coach classes run for 6 weeks with students required to attend the same 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 April Supervised Coach you need to:

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

USA DAYLIGHT SAVING TIME BEGINS - 14 MARCH 2010

Daylight Saving Time will begin in the US, on March 14, and as the ICA Academic Calendar is based on NY ET, this change will affect the time students from many regions around the world attend classses.

** If you live in the US **

The times that you attend teleclasses will not change. But, make sure you turn your clock forward one hour on the 14th March for the start of daylight saving.

** If you live outside the US **

The times you attend teleclasses will change. You will need to update your teleclass conversions as follows:

ALL STUDENTS: Reconvert the time of your classes as of the 14th March (until the 7th November when Daylight Saving finishes in the US).

SOME STUDENTS: Reconvert the time of your classes again if your country starts or finishes Daylight Saving on a date other than the 14th March.

For a list of when countries start/finish daylight saving click HERE

To reconvert times, click HERE

And of course, don’t forget:

If you are starting daylight saving you need to turn your clock forward one hour
If you are finishing daylight saving you need to turn your clock back one hour

If you have any queries, please email support@icoachacademy.com