ICA Community Bulletin

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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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!

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.

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?

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 »

Bronwyn Bowery Ireland, ICA’s CEO, would like to invite all of you to a teleconference to learn about what’s planned for ICA in 2010.

When: 23 November, 2009
Time: 7pm NY ET
Bridge line: +1 512 597 6253
Access code: 893765#

We hope to ’see’ you all there!

You are invited to join your fellow ICA colleagues for a Guest Speaker Event at the November 18th ICF Los Angeles Meeting.   At this meeting you will have the opportunity to meet ICA trainer, Jamee Tenzer, along with ICA Alumni, Christine Lewicki and Lena Sieu, both of whom are members of the board of the ICF - LA.  They will be on hand at the meeting to greet and welcome all ICA students and Alumni.  Read the details below and reserve your seat today!

BUILDING AND MAINTAINING A SUCCESSFUL COACHING PRACTICE
AN EVENING WITH DAISY SWAN, MA, CPCC

Whether you’re trying to figure out how to take your coaching practice to the next level or just starting out in the business, our November ICF LA event has something for everyone.

Daisy Swan is a career strategist, coach and counselor.  She has worked with hundreds of clients ove the past 17 years and along the way, built and extremely successful coaching practice.

Coaches at all levels will gain insights from Daisy as she shares how she built a substantial, professional coaching business.  While this is not a ‘how to’, quick fix presentation, you will hear directly from Daisy the tactics she’s employed to help grow her business by 20%+ every year for the past 5 years.  In this session you will learn:

Read more »

Come along and take this great opportunity to meet ICA trainer, Kathy Munoz.  If you live in or around the Michigan area, Kathy would love to meet you in person.  This invitation is open to all ICA students, Alumni and staff and is a wonderful opportunity to not only meet Kathy, but to connect with fellow students and Alumni from the ICA and coaching community.

When: Sunday, November 15, 2009
Time: 1 - 4pm
Where: Northville Art House
215 W, Cady Street
Northville, Michigan
48167, US

For further information contact Kathy directly at kathy.munoz@icoachacademy.com

We hope you can come!

As many of you know, ICA is preparing to launch a whole new era in its mission to bring coaching to the world and Advance Human Awareness - AHA!

For those of you who may have joined us after our presentation back in June, we are undergoing a brand change, and our new name will be Lobii.  At the end of 2009, we’ll be saying goodbye to ICA, this wonderful place where so many people have changed their lives and the lives of others.

Change is what coaches are all about - supporting it, helping to adapt to it, embracing it.

And so, as we begin this new journey with Lobii, we’d like to support all of you through the changes ahead.  From  now until we officially launch the new Lobii learnsite on New Year’s Day 2010, we’ll be keeping you up-to-date with the latest news on Lobii.

To get us started, we’ve created a special Forum in the Discussion Board, dedicated to all things Lobii, accessed via the ICA learnsite.  There you can ask questions, consult our ongoing FAQ’s and learn more about how this all will affect you and your coach training at Lobii.  This is a safe space for everyone to have an open dialogue and learn more about what Lobii holds in store for you.

So bring your curiosity and ideas, your openness and questions - join us on the discussion board in the new Lobii forum now and share your thoughts with our community!

Kurt Stewart
Community Development Manager
Lobii/ICA

ICA would like to extend a warm welcome to the newest member of the ICA training team, Anouschka Van den Bosch.  Anouschka is a graduate of ICA and brings a wealth of experience and knowledge with her.  Anouschka will initially be taking over the CoP Career classes on Thursdays, previously facilitated by Joanne Waldman. 

These classes will also be moving to a new time slot. Previously scheduled at 5pm NY ET, effective immediately, these classes will now be scheduled at 8pm NY ET. We believe this time will prove to be suitable for many students from differing time zones.  For full details of bridge line and dates please refer to the Academic Calendar. 

To learn more about Anouschka, read her profile below: 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!

Due to unavoidable circumstances, the Balance Workshop did not take place on Tuesday as scheduled.  But thankfully we have been able to reschedule this event.  Prabha will now facilitate the Balance Workshop on Friday, September 25, 2009 @ 9pm NY ET.

As a participant you will learn to identify the indicators of being in Balance in life and will learn to create a framework to bring out the balance you need.

Balance Workshop | With Prabha Chandrasekhar
When: Friday, September 25, 2009 @ 9pm NY ET
Saturday, September 26, 2009 @ 11am Melbourne, Australia
Saturday, September 26, 2009 @ 9am Shanghai, China
Saturday, September 26, 2009 @ 3am London
Saturday, September 26, 2009 @ 6.30am India

Bridge line: +1 512 597 6253
Participant code: 879716#

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

The next call for the Francophone group is scheduled on September 15 at 9 am EST. See full details below.

If you are interested in joining our increasing group of Francophone coaches, and to learn about our upcoming projects, please send an email to Isabelle King and/or Claire Molinard at:

claire.molinard@lobii.com

isabelle.king@icoachacademy.com

Thanks for letting us know what you think!

Event: Francophone Group Call
Date: Tuesday, 15 September 2009
Time: 9 am NY ET
Bridge line: + 1 512 597 6253
Access code: 145368#

Please come along and join us!

Isabelle & Claire

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!

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