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 »

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

Join our host Nick Bosk and members of ICA’s management team 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, 7 December, 2009

Listen Graduation Call 2 - 8pm, 7 December, 2009

Our recent special teleseminar, held earlier this week, focusing on the question of, ‘What is Lobii?’, was a huge success with many students attending. 

Our CEO, Bronwyn Bowery-Ireland opened proceedings with the Lobii vision, and talked about the exciting opportunities that the Lobii platform will offer members of the Lobii community.

Also on hand to answer questions were Robyn Logan, our Strategy Director and Bill Turpin, our Business Development Manager. Robyn and Bill answered many questions and in an effort to keep our audio a little bit shorter, we have selected a few questions which are included following Bron’s outline of Lobii.

We hope you enjoy listening!

Listen –> What is Lobii?

You are invited to join your fellow ICA Los Angeles colleagues for a guest Speaker event at the December 9th ICF Los Angeles Meeting. Read the below details and reserve your seat today!

“Reinvent” yourself (and your clients) before the New Year

Do you or your clients have an emotional stumbling block that is preventing you from achieving your dream? Why wait for the New Year, let’s ring in 2010 with a Reinvention! For more that 15 years speaker, trainer, mentor, coach and musician Wesley Goo, has counselled individual and Fortune 500 clients nationally and internationally. He’s also worked personally with one of the pioneers of the personal growth field, Tony Robbins.

Through his training and experiences, Wesley has identified what he believes to be the seven most common limiting behavioural patterns. He’s also identified effective approaches to eliminating those patterns - he calls his approach, Reinvention.

Wesley will share his insights on our internal ability to reinvent ourselves - to identify what’s keeping us from moving forward and change it - and lead us through exercises to break our limiting patterns. Let’s head into the New Year with a Reinvention. We look forward to seeing you! Read more »

With our last graduation for 2009 just a week away, we would like to take this opportunity to congratulate those students who have successfully completed their program and are about to graduate and join our wonderful alumni community. It is a very exciting time for everyone and celebrations are just around the corner.

On December 7, 77 students from 17 countries, will graduate from the CPC program and begin a new journey as certified coaches and ICA alumni. Each student has worked hard to achieve 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 celebration with their peers.

Details of the ceremonies are as follows: 

Ceremony 1 - December 7, 2pm NY ET

Ceremony 2 - December 7, 8pm NY ET

Bridgeline  +1 512 597 6253

Access code  893765#

Our graduating students for December 2009 are: Read more »

Last week our special event, Balance Week, took place with many students, alumni and staff participating and in turn making valuable contributions. Each teleseminar explored ‘Balance’ in our lives, from different perspectives and in addition, participants came away with tools and the framework to  achieve this balance.

Each teleseminar was recorded and we invite all members of the ICA community who were not able to attend these events to listen to the recordings.  We are sure you will enjoy listening!

Listen | Balance - Self Care (Nick Bosk & Michael Moniz)

Listen | Balance - Unveiling the Pillars to Creating Balance (Sandi Neilson - ICA Alumni)

Listen | Balance - Who needs it? (Jamee Tenzer)

Listen | Balance - Juggling Roles (Alexia Michiels)

Listen | Balance - Ethics (Angela Bird)

Listen | Balance - Perspective (Claire Molinard)

Listen | Balance - Workshop  (Prabha Chandrasekhar)

Happy Listening!

For the last 2 months now, we have had a get together for ICA students and alumni at the Beachcomber Cafe on St Kilda beach in Melbourne.

Everyone has thoroughly enjoyed the time to connect with each other and wishes to continue. Last time we had Robyn Logan, Anne Allardice, Alyson Woolfrey, Helen Omand, Dominique Wirz, Trudi Afford, Bec Fraser, Kate James and Mel Leow and we enjoyed a busy and enjoyable catch-up over a glass of wine.

So if you would like to join us please come to:

Beachcomber Cafe
10/12 Jacka Blv 
St Kilda

Wednesday, September 23
6.00 - 7.30pm

If you need directions please click on the link below. There is ample metered parking in the carpark alongside the cafe which is on the beach side of Jacka Blvd.

http://tinyurl.com/nta8qn

You and a guest are invited to attend the first Michigan Meet & Greet during Balance Week to meet ICA/Lobii Michigan based class-coaches. This will be a great opportunity to meet and network with your Michigan and surrounding area class colleagues and alumni.

Date: September 26, 2009 at 2pm

Place: Northville Art House

Address: 215W. Cady, Northville, MI 48167

Please contact Kathy Munoz with the number attending on or before September 21, 2009 via phone 248-921-2133 or email kathy.munoz@icoachacademy.com

Refreshments will be served.

We would like to extend an open invitation for all ICA students and graduates to join us for drinks on Wednesday of this week, in Melbourne, Australia.   Several members of the ICA team including Bronwyn Bowery-Ireland, CEO, Robyn Logan, Strategy Director, Sally Bridger, COO, Laurene Vaughan, Trainer, along with staff from our IT, Marketing, Finance and Administration teams, will also be there. 

This will be a friendly and informal gathering, so just drop past and say hi.  No need to RSVP!

Date: Wednesday, 22 July, 2009
Time: 5- 6.30pm AEST
Where: Beachcomber Cafe, St Kilda Sea Baths
10/12 Jacka Blvd, St Kilda, Melbourne, Australia

We look forward to meeting you all!

ICA is very excited to announce a new Health and Wellness Cop, beginning the week of May 10, 2009.

Whether you are a coach, a practitioner, a patient, a client or a care giver, this CoP is for you.  You may be a coach looking to incorporate Health and Wellness into your coaching practice, or looking to learn more about self-care within this area.

Learning Leaders, Nick Bosk and Alexia Michiels will be facilitating these new CoP classes, that are scheduled twice a week, and to coincide with the commencement of this new CoP, Alexia and Nick will be under the spotlight when they are interviewed by Robyn Logan,  who will host our ‘Spotlight on Coaching’ teleseminar next week.  Health and Wellness is a potentially “huge” area covering niches as diverse as Sports, Fitness, Yoga, Food & Nutrition, to name but a few.  During this ‘Spotlight on Coaching’, teleseminar we will find out why they chose this niche, where their special interest lies and how they attract clients. 

‘Spotlight on Coaching’ - Health & Wellness Teleseminar

Date: May 13, 2009
New York: 8pm NY EST
Sydney: 11am EST
Cost: Free

Register: Spotlight on Coaching  

New Cop Health & Wellness Teleclasses

Monday 10pm NY ET - Learning Leader | Alexia Michiels | Commences Monday 11 May
Tuesday 10am NY ET - Learning Leader | Nick Bosk | Commences Tuesday 12 May

For further dates and bridge line details please refer the the Academic Calendar.

Alexia and Nick look forward to welcoming you to this new and exciting part of the ICA program.

We are very excited to announce that Joe Nunziata will be joining us for our scheduled get together in New York, this Wednesday, 15 April 2009.

Joe Nunziata, internationally known speaker and author of the best selling book, ‘Spiritual Selling’ was a guest speaker at our recent ‘Spotlight’ call and from the number of staff, students, alumni and other guests that joined the call, many of you were as excited as we were, to have the opportunity to hear Joe Nunziata speak and answer questions.   Here is an opportunity for those of you who will be in the area, to be able to meet Joe Nunziata face to face at this relaxed and informal event.

So come along and join, Bronwyn Bowery-Ireland our CEO, and Bill Turpin our Business Development Manager and the entire ICA enrollment team, together with Joe Nuziata for drinks in New York

The details are as follows:                                                                               

Date: Wedesday, 15 April, 2009
Time: 5-7pm NY EDT
Place: W New York Hotel
‘Living Room Oasis Lounge’
541Lexinton Avenue
New York

We hope you can come along and join us for a drink!

Join us for a LIVE teleseminar as Bronwyn Bowery-Ireland chats with internationally known speaker, and best selling author, Joe Nunziata.  He has been delivering his life changing message, specifically in the areas of personal development and human potential since 1992.  He brings together a unique blend of spirituality, psychology, philosophy and the power of energy in revolutionary new programs and seminars.

Joe’s best selling book ‘Spiritual Selling’, combining powerful spiritual concepts with proven sales strategies was released in August 2007.  His sales philosophy is embraced by many entrepreneurs and corporations in today’s business community.

Find out answers to questions such as:

• What is spiritual selling
• How can you use spiritual selling to increase and retain clients?
• How can you attract the perfect clients?
• How can you use energy to invigorate your and your coaching business?

Teleseminar Details:

Topic: Combine Powerful Spiritual Energy Principles with Proven Sales Strategies

When: Tuesday, 7 April 2009 @ 8pm NY EST
Cost:  Free

Register: Joe Nunziata Teleseminar

If you are unable to make this time, register anyway and we will email you the MP3 recording of this LIVE event.

Bronwyn Bowery-Ireland (ICA Chief Executive Officer) and Robyn Logan (ICA Strategy Director) will be in Hong Kong this week for a few days ans would love for you to join them for drinks.  I would like to extend this invitation to not only our students and graduates, but to anyone interested in meeting or networking with our ICA community.  This will be a friendly, informal gathering. so just drop past and say hi (no need to RSVP).

Date: Tuesday, 17 February, 2009
Time: 5-7pm local HK time
Where: W Hong Kong Hotel
(1 Austin Road West, Kowloon Station, Kowloon, Hong Kong)

Want to know more about the ICF Code of Ethics? 

ICA trainer Kathy Munoz, has arranged for Sam Nassif, Ph.D, to make a presentation on the ICF Code of Ethics.  Sam Nassif was a panel member of the  ICF (International Coach Federation) commitee, that recently redrafted the ICF Code of Ethics.

This is a wonderful opportunity for students to come along and listen to Sam as he presents aspects of the Code of Ethics including:

• Why the need for a Code of Ethics?
• Professional conduct
• Conflicts of interest
• Confidentiality
• Cultural issues

Following the presentation, students will be given the opportunity to ask any questions that they may have.  So please join us and be sure to bring along your questions.

Cost: Free
When: 6 February, 2009
Time: 6am NY EST
Bridgeline: +1 512 597 6263
Access code: 893765

‘See’ you there!

2008 has been a bumper year for coaching.  Our enrollments are growing every month, and with that comes and increase in the number of fully fledged coach graduates exiting our school.

Last month more than 60 new students joined our Certified Professional Coach Program (CPCP), with a record breaking 126 students graduating as Certified Practicing Coaches.  It’s definately a time to celebrate.  We would like to invite you to join our coaches as they talk about their success and their experiences with coaching and coach training.

Join our Final Teleseminar for 2008…

Register now -> http://tinyurl.com/68olzz

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Explore and Celebrate Coaching
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Hosted by: Robyn Logan
Spotlight Guests: ICA graduate coaches
When: Monday, 22nd December 2008
Time: 7pm NY EST
Cost: Free

We have invited our newly graduated coaches to come together for a lively and totally unrehearsed conversation about coaching.  Our host, Robyn Logan, will be asking and prompting them on a range of issues including:

• Why did they decide to go down the accreditation pathway, instead of just setting themselves up as practicing coaches?
• When did they start coaching? Before they began training? During? After?
• How did they juggle the everyday demands of work, life, parenting, study?
• How did they build their confidence as a coach?
• Where will they use their coaching now they have graduated?  In private practice?  In a company setting?  In a school or health setting?
• What is the No: 1 piece of advice they have for aspiring coaches?

Register now -> http://tinyurl.com/68olzz Read more »

SOME CHANGES TO DECEMBER GRADUATION AND GRADUATION FOR 2009.

December Graduation

It is truly amazing and wonderful that ICA will see over 150 students graduate this December, and due to this and also in response to feedback received from students and ICA staff alike, we have decided to offer a 4th Graduation for December only.

This additional graduation ceremony will take place on Monday, 8 December at 11am NY ET.  Students will be given the opportunity to register and nominate which ceremony they will be attending, when they receive their invitation.  Invitations will be sent out closer to the date.

Dates and times for December Graduation are:

Graduation Ceremony 1 - Friday, 5 December, 2pm NY ET
Graduation Ceremony 2 - Friday, 5 December, 7pm NY ET
Graduation Ceremony 3 - Friday, 5 December, 9pm NY ET
Graduation Ceremony 4 - Monday, 8 December, 11am NY ET

2009 Graduations

Again with our wonderful global community in mind, we have decided to change the day of graduation for 2009, to a Monday as opposed to a Friday. Graduation ceremonies will now take place on the first Monday of March, June, September and December at 2pm & 8pm NY ET.

We are hopeful that the day and times scheduled, offers flexibility for all students from around the world and to all members of our ICA community.

Please refer to the Academic Calendar for further details.

The audio from our Supervised Coach Orientation Call, hosted by Karen Cappello and Sheri Boone last week, is now available for listening.  

To download and listen to the audio:

—> Click here

I am very excited to announce our ICA China team.  Heading up the project is ICA graduate Augustine Chow.  Augustine will be Director of Coach Training Services, China.  In his role he will assist in bringing ICA to China.  We have set a target date of 1 September, 2008 for our first teleclass.  We are now working towards building a team, marketing ICA and enrolling new students.  Please see his profile below.

Heading up the training team in China is ICA graduate Felicia Lauw.  Felicia will be Global Training Manager, (Chinese).  Felicia has been working closely with me for the past 18 months.  She has been managing a team of people, to translate our curriculum into Mandarin.  We have nearly completed this task and Felicia is now preparing to build our training team in China to teach teleclasses.  Please see her profile below.

My assistant in China is Echo Yu.  Echo was part of the team to translate our materials from English to Mandarin.  It is great working with her.  Please read her profile below. Read more »

Throughout 2008, ICA will be holding a series of teleconferences designed to spread the word about coaching as a career and, in particular, coach training with ICA.  These calls will be held monthly and will be open to anyone, from anywhere in the world.

As a student of ICA, it is important to us that you have access to this information and these calls so we will email you prior to each event.  Although much of the the content of the calls will often be specific to the coach training research, you are always most welcome to attend or contribute.  Plus, we would love you to pass the information on to your lists, family, friends, and colleagues - bascially, anyone basically anyone you feel would be interested in discovering more about coach
training.

The theme for this months call will be ‘Become a Qualified Coach’, and it will be focused on those who have not yet pursued coach training.  The call will be hosted by Robyn Logan (Strategy Director) and Dennis Griffin (Business Manager).

More information - –> http://tinyurl.com/27rhac
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