2022 Learning Groups
Learning Groups offer great opportunities to receive support for your development as a professional coach, deepen your mastery of coaching, connect with your colleagues, and explore new territory. And many of them offer CCEs! (Note that you must be present at the group sessions [in-person or virtual] to be eligible for receiving your CCEs.) For 2022, there are twelve Learning Groups to choose from, including seven new options. All of the groups are included with your ICF-CO membership fee - no matter how many you join!
As you prepare to register for 2022 Learning Groups, please keep in mind that unlike one-off ala carte events (such as our webinars and monthly chapter meetings), these groups are designed to be ongoing. Given that participants build on their development and their connection to the group over the course of the year, attendance at all sessions is essential in order to get the most out of the experience. Your ongoing presence in the learning groups to which you commit truly matters, so if you sign up, we ask that you plan to show up on a regular basis. Most of the groups meet virtually (on Zoom), some groups may do a hybrid combo of virtual and in-person (depending on current health precautions and other factors).
*Group Size is limited and most groups are designed as a continuing cohort for the year, so we suggest that you grab your spot quickly and plan to attend on a regular basis! Once you have registered, you will receive confirmation of group details and logistics.
All Learning Groups are included with your ICF-CO membership fee.
ITEM TO NOTE: MEMBERS - YOU MUST BE LOGGED IN TO ACCESS THE REGISTER NOW OPTION FOR THE EDUCATION GROUPS
Here is a list of the 2022 Learning Groups and Leaders:
1) Biz Development Mastermind - Lauren Fisher and Elizabeth Barrekette
2) Connect to Your True Nature: Deepening Your Coaching Through Nature-Based Self-Discovery
– Jenya Kuvshinova & Joelle Dunaetz
3) Core Competencies and Credentialing – Walt Hastings
4) Health & Wellness Coaching - Suzanne Levy
5) Masterful Coaching - Walt Hastings
6) NoCo (Northern Colorado) Continuing Coaching Development - Donna Sullivan & Carl Dierschow
7) Exploring the Culture - Beatrice Dupasquier
8) Group Coaching Mastermind - Rebecca Woodard & Holly Sahud
9) Leading YOUR Coaching Business to Success! - Nigel Clayton
10) It Is Time - Hilda Gehrke & Barbara Alfors
11) Heartwise Relationship Coaching - Ruth & Jim Sharon
12) Continuous Coaching and Leadership Development - Geo Roberts & Chad Manifold
13) PCC Coaching Demos
If you have any questions regarding Learning Groups, please contact Suzanne Mariner at LeadWithGratitude@gmail.com
Call For Learning Group Proposals
Are you an ICF Colorado member with an area of expertise to share, a coaching skillset you’d like to teach, a Mastermind Group you would love to lead, or an area of professional development that you think would be a source of enrichment for coaches? If so, please consider becoming one of our Learning Group Leaders! You can submit your proposal here. (If you aren't a member, think about joining!) If you know another ICF-CO member who would bring great value for our chapter as a Learning Group Leader, please encourage them to submit a proposal.
Biz Development Mastermind
Facilitator: Lauren Fisher and Elizabeth Barrekette
Dates: 3rd Thursday of the month (January -June) *for now
Time: 9:00 - 10:15am MT
Location: Zoom Meeting Room
CCEs: 1.25 in Resource Development
This group will help you develop your practice by sharing and learning from the skills, practices, and experiences of your fellow coaches to solve your most pressing coaching needs. This group will help you articulate your goals, design your own unique approach, solve your challenges, and recommend tools and formulas from proven personal knowledge and experience.
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Credentialing & Core Competencies
Facilitator: Walt Hastings
Dates: 4th Friday of each month (January - December)
Time: 1:00 to 2:00pm MT
Location: Zoom Meeting Room
Minimum: 8; Maximum: 20
CCEs: 1 in Core Competencies (per group meeting you attend)
In this group, we spend 45 minutes of each group session focusing on one of the ICF Core Competencies. The other 15 minutes is relational and sharing progress made toward the next ICF credential. We include participation, discussion and occasionally breakout practice groups.
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Continuous Coaching and Leadership Development
Facilitator: Geo Roberts and Chad Manifold
Dates: January 20; February 17; March 17; April 21; May 19; June 21; Sept 15; Oct 20; Nov 17; Dec 15
Time: 6:00 - 9:00pm MT
Location: Colorado Springs, CO
Minimum: 6; Maximum: 18
CCEs: 2.5 in Core Competencies and 0.5 in Resource Development each 3 hour workshop
Key Learning Points:
- Commit to memory the 8 Core Competencies of ICF
- Hone your skills in coaching, regardless of what level you are now
- Learn by doing, observing, and reflecting on what good practice is
- Commitment to apply one idea after each session
- Reinforce learning by review after application
- Make new friends, and/or deepen relationships with other leaders and coaches
- Between sessions, We shall host a Basecamp group, and with everyone's agreement, put each person's commitment for the month in there. Then, when it comes time to share, we can celebrate everyone's application from each session.
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Northern Colorado Continuing Coaching Development (NoCo CCD)
Facilitator: Donna Sullivan, MD, FAAFP and Carl Dierschow
Dates: 4th Thursday of each month (January - October; and November 17)
Time: 7:00 - 8:30pm MT
Location: Zoom Meeting Room (in-person possible in the future, as health conditions allow)
Minimum: 3; Maximum: 15
CCEs: Resource Development
Key Learning Points/Benefits:
- Competency mentoring and practice
- Increase your knowledge base as you learn special coaching techniques or tips from the various speakers
- Dyad or Triad coaching with direct feedback from coach observers (in a coaching model)
- Reflective coaching for the coach (case reviews)
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It Is Time
Facilitators: Barbara Alfors and Hilda Gerke
Dates: 3rd Tuesdays (January - March) / 4th Tuesdays (April - June)
6 sessions total
Time: 3:00 - 4:30pm MT
Location: Zoom Meeting Room
Minimum: 5; No Maximum
CCEs: TBD
How can we respect our coaching clients if we are not aware of our beliefs?
We will create a safe space where participants will co-create the learning about how our beliefs influence our interactions and our introspection.
The group will explore how beliefs and ideas can be challenged, focusing on issues of race and oppression.
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Connect to Your True Nature: Deepening Your Coaching Through Nature-Based Self-Discovery
Facilitator: Jenya Kuvshinova and Joelle Dunaetz
Dates:
February 4 at Noon MT (organizational Zoom meeting for 1 hour)
February 19 at 10am MT (Winter in-person meeting)
May 21 at 10am MT (Spring in-person meeting)
July 23 at 10am MT (Summer in-person meeting)
September 17 at 10am MT (Fall in-person meeting)
Time: see above
Location: Mountain property outside of Boulder
Maximum: 8
CCEs: TBD
To provide space which facilitates reflection, self-discovery, and re-alignment with core values. Pause. Reflect. Connect. Re-align. This group experience will be a space for participants to check-in with their "inner GPS" for guidance and directions.
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Masterful Coaching
Facilitator: Walt Hastings, MCC
Dates: 1st Friday of each month (January - December)
Time: 1:00 - 2:30pm MT
Location: Zoom Meeting Room
Minimum: 8; No Maximum
CCEs: 1 in Core Competencies (per group meeting you attend)
This learning group is open to all Chapter members. An (approximately) 35-minute coaching demonstration is given by an MCC or PCC coach, followed by a debrief. One core competency or coaching skill is highlighted, followed by a practice time on that skill by participants.
The Masterful Coaching learning group is for those persons who desire to strengthen their own coaching skills through observation and practice. This group welcomes all, from those just beginning their coaching journey to those with upper level PCC and MCC skills. Join us for demonstrations of masterful coaching!
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Exploring the Culture
Facilitator: Beatrice Dupasquier
Dates: 2nd Wednesday of the month (January - )
Time: 2:00 - 3:00pm MT
Location: Zoom Meeting Room
Minimum: 4; Maximum: 12
CCEs: TBD
Culture is part of a human being wherever they are from. It is especially important when we start moving around, such as moving to a different country or simply moving from a hometown to live and work someplace else. It might define how we think, behave, and adjust to a different environment. It is important to be aware of this. We need to know how to open to a different culture and accept it, release judgement and not constantly compare with what we are accustomed to.
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Group Coaching Mastermind
Facilitator: Rebecca Woodard and Holly Sahud
Dates: 2nd Tuesday of the month (January - November)
Time: Noon - 1pm MT
Location: Zoom Meeting Room
Minimum: 8; Maximum: 16
CCEs: TBD
This Mastermind-type group will give coaches an opportunity to get together and discuss how group coaching works, exchange experiences, ideas, best practices, and the differences between group and individual coaching. This is a group to help us design our own unique approach to group coaching. Tools, resources, experience, specialized topics, and special guests will all be part of this group. So, come and bring your expertise or come and gain some insight from those who have some group coaching experience.
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Health and Wellness Coaching
Facilitator: Suzanne Levy
Dates: 1st Thursday (January 6; March 3; May 5; September 1; November 3)
Time: Noon - 1:15pm MT
Location: Zoom Meeting Room
Minimum: 6; Maximum: 15
CCEs: CCE approval TBA
This series is designed to support credentialed Health & Wellness Coaches, coaches who are interested in gaining certification and credentialing in the rapidly growing field of Health & Wellness, along with coaches who are simply looking to learn and to support clients, and themselves, with wellness principles and strategies. It is intended to be an interactive learning forum, which may include wellness topics such as mindfulness, stress management or sleep hygiene, as well as ethical issues such as scope of practice, and practical tools for use in our work with clients.
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Leading YOUR Coaching Business to Success!
Facilitator: Nigel Clayton
Dates: 2nd and 4th Wednesdays of each month (January - October)
Time: 10:00am - 11:30am MT
Location: Zoom Meeting Room
Minimum: 5; Maximum: 12
CCEs: 1.5 in Resource Development
Key Learning Points
- Understand how to deal with any business challenge through a unique group process and a personalized framework I developed over the last 30+ years and have been helping others become successful using it regardless of what success means to them.
- How to Go Beyond What is Usual and Ordinary.
- Being able to have a clear vision of your ideal coaching business.
- Identifying what’s holding you back from business success.
- Seeing how to align your actions with your values.
- Managing your business in a way that comes naturally to you.
- Feeling passionate about your business with the confidence you can create whatever you imagine your ideal business to be.
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Heartwise Relationship Coaching
Facilitator: Jim and Ruth Sharon
Dates: 1st Wednesday on March 2, April 6, May 4, June 1, (summer break), September 7, October 5
Time: 1:00 - 2:00pm MT
Location: Zoom Meeting Room
Minimum: 5; Maximum: 50
Total CCEs for all meetings: 4.5 in Core Competencies and 1.5 in Resource Development
(Per meeting: 0.75 in Core Competencies and 0.25 in Resource Development)
Gather with other coaches to explore ways to enhance relationships. We will focus on love partnerships, and these skills are adaptable to all meaningful relationships. We’ll explore the process of moving from old paradigms of entangled codependency into more evolving heartwise patterns of autonomy and interdependence.
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PCC Coaching Demos
Facilitator: Kim Miles
Dates: 2nd Friday of the month, October - December 2022
Time: 11:30am - 12:30pm MT
Location: Zoom Meeting Room
CCEs: 1 in Core Competencies for each meeting
The Coaching Demonstration Learning Group is for those who desire to strengthen their own coaching skills through observation and reflection.
PCC credentialed coaches will be exhibiting their coaching skills via live coaching demo with a participant from the meeting.
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