ICA Community Bulletin

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.

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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!

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.

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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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!

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.

ICA would like to extend a warm welcome to the newest member of our global team, Giuseppe Totino.

Giuseppe joins Kathy Munoz to lead the Executive CoPs and brings with him a wealth of experience. Additionally, Giuseppe is a graduate of ICA and currently resides in Instanbul, Turkey.

Please join together with us in welcoming Giuseppe to the ICA Community.

Giuseppe co-leads the Wednesday 6am Executive CoP. He can be reached at: giuseppe.totino@icoachacademy.com

Over this holiday season we have been celebrating the “12 Days of Christmas”. Each day for the past 12 days, we have distributed coaching concepts to our students and subscribers as a gift. They consist of  audios taken from our guest speakers during the year, like Joe Nunziato, author of “Spiritual Selling”, award-winning author Suzanne Eder speaking on ” Redefining Wealth”, and many more.

We would love you to also share these concepts with your friends, family, colleagues or anyone you know who may be interested in the coaching process. And for anyone you know who is looking to really jump into the coaching game and get qualified we are offering a 10% discount on the price of our CPCP, through the end of January 2010.

Here is the link for your friends:

http://www.icoachacademy.com/campaigns/xmas09/friends.html

Offer Expires: 31st January 2010

Have Fun!

It was announced that we would be launching the Lobii learnsite on the 11th of January. We have decided to, instead, coincide the launch of the Lobii learnsite with Coaching Week and the anniversary of ICA, which is on the 1st of February. This is a most exciting time and a great moment to celebrate.

In the meantime we will be sending you out the details of the calendar, so that you can start the scheduling of when you want to do your classes when you return on the 11th January.

Wishing you a Happy Holiday. We look forward to new opportunities and great, exciting developements with ICA as we go forward next year.

All the best!

Bron

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?

We will be taking a three week break from classes at ICA, beginning Sunday December 20, with classes resuming Sunday January 10, 2010.

We would like to take this opportunity to wish everyone within our ICA community a happy holiday season and the very best for the coming year. We look forward to welcoming you back to the corridors of ICA in 2010.

Your ICA Team!

Browyn Bowery-Ireland, Lobii & ICA’s CEO, would like to invite all of you to a special teleconference to learn about Lobii. 

What is Lobii?  How can you partner with Lobii, and work with Lobii to get clients and generate business?  What will Lobii look like moving forward?

You are invited to come along and listen to Bronwyn share the Lobii vision.

The call is scheduled for Monday, December 7, 2009 @ 7pm NY ET

Bridge line: +1 512 597 6253
Access code: 834628#

See you there!

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 »

Earlier this week, our CEO, Browyn Bowery Ireland, invited our community to come along and listen the the exciting plans ahead in 2010 for ICA.

There were many students, alumni and staff who attended and heard Bron share the future journey planned for ICA,  For those of you who were unable to attend, the audio is now available and you can listen by clicking on the link below.

Listen –> Whats Planned for ICA in 2010?

Thank you and happy listening!

********  Venue Now Confirmed | See below for full details!  ********

With the ICF Conference fast approaching, we would like to let our students and alumni know that ICA will be well represented, with many members of both our management and training team planning on attending this year.

As many of you would know, the ICF conference is taking place in Orlando, Florida this year, with all events being held within the Rosen Shingle Creek Resort, and ICA is planning a get together for all of our students and alumni attending the conference.  This is a great opportunity for you to come together with our staff, fellow students and alumni. 

The event will be held at the Rosen Shingle Creek Resort  and the venue is now confirmed and will take place in the Cat-Tails Pool Bar .

Where: Cat-Tails Pool Bar | Rosen Shingle Creek Resort
When: Thursday, 3rd December, 2009
Time: 6-7pm ET

Trainers/Staff who will be in attendance are: Read more »

Due to low attendance of some of our CoP classes we have decided to discontinue some current classes.  We are however, planning to add new CoP classes soon so stay tuned. 

In addition there have been several changes to the times of a few classes and there will also be some change to the trainers of a few classes.  Full details of these changes are listed below.

All changes are effective the week beginning, 23 November, 2009. Read more »

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