ICA Community Bulletin

You are invited to meet up with ICA staff, trainers, students and alumni attending the ICF conference to be held in Montreal Canada, during the month of November.

Join our CEO, Bronwyn Bowery-Ireland, Strategic Director, Robyn Logan, and Kurt Stewart from ICA Global Development, together with trainers Karen Cappello, Sheri Boone, Merci Miglino, Joanne Waldman, Isabelle King, Jamee Tenzer and Bill Turpin for a fantastic opportunity to meet and network with fellow students and alumni of ICA.

Refreshments and appetizers will be provided.  We hope to see you all there! 

When: Friday 14th November
Time: 5.30 - 7pm
Where: Hyatt Regency Montreal
Room: Ete des Indiens (Level 6)

Hello Wonderful ICA Students!

Because there has been some confusion about the timeline for graduation, we wanted to reiterate our policy. All ICA students have 2 years from the date of enrollment, to complete the ICA Program. If during this time any student feels that they are unable to complete the program within this time frame, please don’t hesitate to contact us at support@icoachacademy.com 

For further information please refer to our terms and conditions by clicking –>  here

It was celebration time recently at ICA, with our graduation students coming together for two wonderful graduation ceremonies. 

Our graduates enjoyed a party atmosphere as they joined thier peers, family, friends and ICA staff, and celebrated their wonderful achievement.  

If you would like to share in the celebration, you can listen to the audio’s of each ceremony here.  Please note that due to the size of the files, they may take a few minutes to download.

To listen to June 6, 2008, Graduation Ceremony, click here  

To listen to June 8, 2008, Graduation Ceremony, click here

Beginning in September 2008, ICA will launch a Chinese CPCP (Certified Professional Coach Program), to Chinese speaking coaches, from mainland China as well as Chinese speaking coaches living overseas. 

“The program will be identical to our English program in every single aspect, except it will be conducted in Chinese putonghua language.  For the existing ICA Chinese speaking coaches, this means that you can now choose to post your learning to the Chinese learning site, and conduct your peer coaching and supervised coaching in Chinese.  To the mainland Chinese or the overseas Chinese, this will be one of the first internationally accredited coach training programs for Chinese speaking coaches,” said Bronwyn Bowery-Ireland.

“China is experiencing unprecedented business, social and economic growth, where the ability to maximize human potential will be crucial to China’s sustainable development.  We are proud to be offering this coach training program, to prepare coaches, to help their clients master their personal and business success and the opportunities that lay ahead for them,” added Bronwyn Bowery-Ireland.

To encourage early enrolment between June and September, we are offering an Early Bird fee reduction and a no-interest payment benefit.  In addition to that, we are offering a Tuition Waiver Scheme, which could save applicants an amount of USD$800.00, or 40% of the total tuition.  We wish to attract the best prepared and qualified persons from mainland Chinese residents, living in a non-coastal city of China, or other overseas Chinese speaking applicants, that are currently living in a less developed country.

“We offer 4 flexible no-interest payment plans for admission during the pre-launch period,” said Dr Augustine Chow, Coach Training Services of ICA China.  Please pass this information, along with the details of our Special Tuition Waiver offer, to your friends and clients, who may benefit from the new ICA CPCP offers.  For details, please direct referrals or questions to augustine.chow@icoachacademy.com

During the first two weeks of July, we take a break from classes at ICA.  Our break will begin on Sunday 29 June, 2008 and classes will resume on Sunday 13th July, 2008.

Enjoy your holiday!

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Just a reminder to our students planning to graduate in June 2008.  As Supervised Coach has only a few weeks remaining, we take this opportunity to remind everyone concerned that all ‘Graduation Submissions’ are due on or by Friday, 25 June, 2008, with graduation set to take place on Friday, June 6, 2008.

We encourage our graduating students to make their submissions gradually over the following weeks as this not only alleviates the stress of ‘getting’ all submissions in on time, but also allows time for our assessement team to assess these submissions as soon as possible.

If you have any questions regarding assessment please email assessment@icoachacademy.com

As of the 1st March Karen Cappello’s role at ICA will be changing. She will be stepping down as CLO as she has decided to pursue her passion for training by focusing on teaching in CPCP and supervised coaching.  Karen will also continue to support students in answering their many questions and in working with Jamee and the buddies.

During the months of February, March and April, the Getting Connected call will be held at 7pm NY on the first Monday of the month, instead of the usual 5pm time. In May, we will go back to the 5pm NY time.  Dennis Griffin and Karen Cappello look forward to meeting with you and welcoming you to the community, so please join us!

You may have noticed a few changes to the curriculum.  We have updated some of our modules.  Kudos to our curriuculum team for their excellent work! You can find the new modules by looking for those with the word ‘new!’ in italics after the name.

We hope you like the new modules.  And, if you have done your coursework with the older form of the module, that work will still count toward your self-assessment.

Kjell A Nordstrom spoke at the ICF conference in Long Beach, California in November 2007 and is the author of the book ‘Funky Business Forever’.

Bronwyn Bowery-Ireland has registered ICA on his website and you can go and vote on the funkiest business - of course make sure you choose ICA.  We are currently 6 out of 10 –  your vote will get us to #1 status.

Vote here

ICA is committed to providing curriculum of the highest quality and in keeping with that ,we are currently updating and rewriting our curriculum.

The first release of these modules, will be on Monday December 3, 2007, when 10 updated modules will replace existing modules.

So that students are aware of which modules will be updated, they will be marked ‘New’.

More updates will be made available over a period of time, and any changes will be announced here, in the ‘Community Bulletin’

Your ICA Team

Dear Graduates

As you all know the ICF election is on and for the first time they have three candidates. One of the candidates Karen Tweedie was the ICFA (Autralasia) president and is from Australia. She has asked me to forward her profile to ICF credentialed members.
I am not endorsing her but rather passing on information to you as I agreed to.
Happy voting.
Bronwyn

Profile: Karen Tweedie PCC
ICF President elect Nominee for 2008

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=srmHyXnLOoo

What is your ICF experience?

I have been a member of ICF since 2001. I joined primarily to ensure that I had a professional network to tap into and learn with. As a result of that decision I met some fantastic people - a number of whom I still collaborate and work with today, I have participated in some great Professional Development and had the opportunity to learn and grow as a leader. Each aspect of my experience with ICF contributes to the growth and professionalism of coaching.

As an ICF leader I have local, Regional and Global Leadership experience and have been part of a number of Global Taskforces and committees. I have been Board liaison with the Regulatory Committee, which gave me insight into the challenges and need for maintaining networks of intelligence to explore regulatory issues members may face globally.

As current ICF Treasurer I chair the Finance Committee. The ICF is on a firm financial footing and this year I have had the opportunity to lead a global team in bringing innovation and creativity to the task of designing a number of non-dues revenue streams for the ICF. We are designing ways to reach out to customers and consumers of coaching services, forge Strategic Alliances and find broad opportunities to achieve our strategic objectives whilst growing our financial well-being. This will allow us to increase value for all stakeholders whilst increasing ICF revenue for future initiatives - al without imposing any financial burden on our members.

I am delighted to be able to continue my gift of service as part of the ICF Global leadership team for 2008. The individuals on this Board bring a mix of skills and wide demographic representation for our membership - from Europe, Canada, the United States and Australasia.
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Whilst attending the recent WABC conference held in Canada, ICA Trainers, Karen Cappello and Ton De Graaf had the opportunity to celebrate Karen’s birthday, together with ICA Student Michael Fahre. Also present and the photographer in this instance, is our CEO Bronwyn Bowery-Ireland.

Happy belated birthday Karen!!

From left to right: Michael Fahre, Karen Cappello and Ton De Graaf

ICA Alumni Coffee Break Calls starting 10 July

Our Graduates asked, and ICA are happy to offer it!   Coffee Break Calls are now coming for Alumni as part of the ICA Community network of support.  With the growing number of graduates from the ICA programmes, it was identified at the last alumni monthly meeting that this may help to bridge the gap from being in the full ICA community and now flying solo.  This is not a replacement to the Alumni monthly telemeetings with ICA facilitators but to be additional and complimentary to that telecall.  Read more »

A new Coffee Break Call has been added to the calender, to cater for the growing number of students from Australia and other countries with a similar time zone.

The first two of these Coffee Breaks will take place on:

• Wednesday 4th July at 2pm Australian EST / 12am NY EST - hosted by Sylvie Carter
• Wednesday 18th July at 2pm Australian EST / 12am NY EST - hosted by Les White

This will be a regular time every fortnight with different hosts. Check the calender for further dates.

During the first two weeks in July, we will take a break from classes at ICA.  Our break will begin on Monday, July 2nd, and classes will resume on Monday, July 16th.

Enjoy your holiday!

Some students have indicated to us that the flow of people needing a peer coach and people needing a peer client has become a little unbalanced lately. For this reason, the training team have decided to alter this graduation requirement. For the future, instead of having to find 3 ICA peer clients and 2 external clients, students will be able to have 2 ICA clients and 3 external clients. Read more »

Don’t forget to dial into a 30 minute Coffee Break Call to talk informally with other students!

Bridge number: + 218 486 1300

Access Code: 715248

Upcoming Times & Dates:

Wednesday May 30th at 1.30pm EST - hosted by Lucy McBride

Saturday June 2nd at 12pm EST - hosted by Bob Vance

Monday June 4th at 2.30pm EST - hosted by Nick Bosk

Wednesday June 6th at 1.30pm EST - hosted by Karen Strong

Tuesday June 12th at 10.30am - hosted by Ellie Jacques Capon

Saturday June 16th at 12pm EST - hosted by Bob Vance

Monday June 18th at 2.30pm EST - hosted by Rita Carroll

Wednesday June 20th at 1.30pm EST - hosted by Lucy McBride

More details here!