ICA Community Bulletin

We are so excited to annouce our next graduations scheduled for September.  Not only will we celebrate graduation from our English program, but will also celebrate with our first group of graduates from our Chinese program.  This is a truly exciting time for all of our graduating students, and we would like to take this opportunity to congratulate each and every student who has successfully competed their program and are about to graduate and join our wonderful Alumni community.  We are always amazed by how truly global our community is.  Each year our community continues to grow, with students joined together from all parts of the world.  Every ICA student from around the world has worked hard to acheive their success, and we congratulate them all.

To provide the opportunity for all of our students, along with family and friends, to celebrate this achievement we will be holding 3 graduation ceremonies.  Students have been officially invited to attend one ceremony, but are more that welcome to join in the other celebrations with their peers.  We also invite all members of our community to join the celebrations.

On 6 September we will celebrate along with 5 students from Taiwan and China, as they become our first graduates from within our Chinese CPCP Accredited Program.  This is the only ICF accredited program offered in the Chinese language and we are so proud of our graduating students.  Well done to you all.

On 13 September we will celebrate along with over 60 students from 20 countries, as they complete their English CPCP and ACCP programs with ICA. Well done to you all.

Details of the ceremonies are as follows: Read more »

There have been some recent changes made to teleclasses which are reflected in the Academic Calendar.  These changes become effective the week beginning, 27 June, 2010.

Trainer Changes:

• Business Building Friday 6am - Kate Wan (was Merci Miglino)
• Learning Level 1 Sunday 6pm - Kathy Munoz (was Michael Moniz)
• Learning Level 2 Sunday 7pm - Kathy Munoz (was Michael Moniz)
• Learning Level 4 Monday 6am - Michael Moniz (was Kathy Munoz)
• Learning Level 4 Monday 7am - Michael Moniz (was Kathy Munoz)

Trainer and Day Change:

• Executive CoP Tuesday 8pm is moving to Wednesday 8pm - Leon VanderPol (was Karen Cappello)

New Executive CoP Class

• Executive CoP Tuesday 6am - Leon VanderPol

Spiritual CoP Class Discontinued

• Spiritual CoP Friday 9am - discontinued (was Claire Molinard)

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This week ICA Trainers, Claire Molinard and Isabelle King completed their work here with ICA.  Both Claire and Isabelle have been valued members of out team and we thank them for the great service to students and staff.  We wish them all the best for the future!

Trainers taking over the faciliation of Claire and Isabelle’s classes will be finalised next week.  Please check back here next week for all the details.

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 host, Sheri Boone 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, 7 June, 2010

Listen Graduation Call 2 - 7pm, 7 June, 2010

Happy Listening from your ICA Team!

Everyone is welcome to join the newly formed Grief Coaching Student Group.

Weekly Meetings - Fridays at 10am NY time

The first meeting will be this Friday, April 23rd.

Bridge line: +1 512 597 6253

Moderator: 194762#

Participant: 711602#

In this student run group we will explore the growing field of grief coaching including, personal stories, tools and resources, and marketing yourself as a coach within this niche of coaching.

If you have any questions, email support@icoachacademy.com or the grief coaching community organizers gloria.lyles@att.net & info@ligiahouben.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)

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!

We area excited to welcome everyone back from break and hope that you all had wonderful holidays.

If you were unable to listen in to the special call on Monday, Jan 11 with Karen Cappello and Nick Bosk, please listen to the audio as Karen and Nick go over the new calendar and curriculum and answer students’ questions.

Info Call Audio - > http://www.audioacrobat.com/play/WtrqvPhS

(click here for MP3 download) - > http://tinyurl.com/infomp3

New Calendar -> http://tinyurl.com/y8m5xjv

FAQ Document - > http://tinyurl.com/ylak7xv

CPCP Overview -> http://tinyurl.com/yzbqcf7

ACCP Overview-> http://tinyurl.com/ylohpcm

We are always here to support you. Let us know if you have any questions by writing to: support@icoachacademy.com.

We have one new change to assessments that will be announced next week.

I will be posting here each week as well to keep you up to date and share thoughts.

Thank you all for returning to class with full enthusiasm and energy for 2010!!

Here’s to you and thanks for being a magnificent coach!

Sheri Boone, Global Training Manager

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!

Balance - we all want it in our lives!

In some areas of the world, it is Autumn, a time for harvesting all the seeds we have planted.

Are you in balance?  Is it time to plant the seeds in your life or to harvest?  How do you know?  And as coaches, we talk a lot about balance with our clients.  Why is it so important?

Join us, during the week of September 21 - 26, 2009, for our upcoming Special Events Week, as we explore this question of balance - how it relates to self care, our perspectives, the different roles we play in life, ethics and much more.  Also, something new we hope to do more of in the future ar the “off-line” in person meetings scheduled for Saturday, September 26, 2009, in Toronto, Canada and Northville, Michigan in the US.

These are open to all of our students, graduates and staff, so have a look at our schedule of events below and join in.  Read more »

Our bridge line provider, Voicetext, has confirmed that the problem that caused disruption to our bridge line service has now been rectified.

Students who were unable to complete a full class due to this interruption may count this as a whole class.  However, you are also welcome to retake any missed classes as a result of this technical glitch.

If you have any questions, or experience any further bridge line problems, please contact Nick Bosk via support@icoachacademy.com

Student buddies are highly valued members of the ICA student community, who generously donate their time in assisting new students with finding their way within and around the ICA community.  As students that have 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 new students.

We are interested in buddies from all parts of our global community but are particularly looking for students from Asia, US, Canada and South America.  If you would like to become a buddy or if you would like to learn more about becoming a buddy,  please contact Jamee Tenzer, at jamee.tenzer@icoachacademy.com

A reminder to all our students who are planning to graduate September 2009.

Graduation is set to take place Monday, September 14 and we would like to take this opportunity to remind those students who have registered for Graduation, that all assessment requirements need to be submitted to assessment@icoachacademy.com by August 3. 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 September, please register by clicking the link below or by visiting our Supervised Coach/Graduation page on the learnsite.

Register September 2009 Graduation

Registrations are now open for the next ‘Learning Leader’ course, starting Wednesday, 22 July 2009.

The term ‘Learning Leader’ applies to anyone who runs, or intends to run, group learning.  It is a deliberate choice of name, because we believe that is essentially what you are doing - you are leading people in their own learning.

This course is particularly relevant for students and graduates with an interest in group facilitation, including

• group coaching
• leading workshop
• running teleseminars
• chairing meetings
• mentoring colleagues

Tell me more -> http://tinyurl.com/mzjvfd

Read more »

Our Academic Calendar has been updated to reflect some changes to the Trainers of some of our teleclasses.  Below is a complete list of these changes.  Please note that there has been no change to the times of any of these classes and these changes are effective following our mid year break, commencing the week beginning 12 July, 2009.

AC100
Mon 1-2pm | Option 13 | Sherry Read | previously Merci Miglino
Mon 4-5pm | Option 8   | Prabha Chandrasekhar | previously Merci Miglino

AC200
Tue 7-8pm | Option 5    | Kathy Munoz | previously Prabha Chandrasekhar

Your ICA Team

During the first two weeks of July, we take a break from classes at ICA.  Our break will begin on Sunday 28 June, 2009 and classes will resume on Sunday 12th July, 2009.

Enjoy your holiday!

Your ICA Team

We would like to take this opportunity to announce that Sheri Boone has accepted a new position at ICA as our Training Coordinator.  Sheri is an amazing coach, and as a coach brings great depth to our community here at ICA.  Sheri is already a very valued member of our staff and steps into this role bringing with her a wealth of experience.  Sheri has now been with ICA for four years, and in that time has taught many of the different modules in CPCP, is a member of the Supervised Coach and Assessment teams, as well as managing our internal peer coaching program.  There is simply nothing that Sheri has not been a part of at ICA, and we congratulate her on this new position.

Well done Sheri!

In keeping with our commitment to keep our curriculum and assessment process fresh and relevant, we have made some changes to the assesments and the assessment process. 

The following is a list of assessments and the status of each.  In addition, Jamee Tenzer and Sheri Boone will be leading two information calls for anyone who would like to ask questions and clarify the process for themselves.  The calls will be recorded in case you cannot attend.  Details for these calls can be found below. Read more »

Recently, ICA Learning Leader, Sherry Read was lucky enough to visit Bermuda.  Whilst there Sherry, took the opportunity to connect with two of our graduates, Naomi Schroter and Judy Motyer, who reside in this beautiful part of the world.  By all accounts it was a wonderful get together, albeit far too short!

Left to right: ICA Graduates, Naomi Schroter & Judy Motyer alongside ICA Learning Leader, Sherry Read.

Don’t forget!  Really Exciting! 

The Learning Labs are a great opportunity for all students and graduates to come along to experiment and trial new ideas.  You can run a 20-minute session and have an audience to give you feedback on a new concept that you have.  Trainers will also be in the Learning Labs and presenting, so it’s a great time to come along.  You can come any time, whenever it’s on and as many times as you want to.  There’s no limit!  For all details including, times, days and bridge line visit the Academic Calendar.

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