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Coach Training Retreats
The Presence-Based Coaching Course
2010 Retreat Dates
Spring PBC I: April 12-14, 2010
Spring PBC II: June 14-16, 2010
Fall PBC I: August 30-September 1, 2010
Fall PBC II: October 25-27, 2010
Supporting the development of others in challenging times requires a robust understanding of how humans grow and change, a methodology to accelerate sustainable learning, and the authenticity and depth that comes from a rigorous commitment to our own development.
This course is a two-part program designed to provide coaching and change professionals with a pragmatic toolkit for accelerating your own life-long development and that of your clients. We hold a dual emphasis on building and extending our own presence, and on the specific coaching moves that build long term competence and self-generation in our clients. You will build a foundation of presence-based coaching skills, with a particular orientation toward developing the whole person. The entire curriculum is grounded in a developmental model of human change, leading toward the self-generative capacity to be present and a learner in all of life.
Each part consists of a approximately two hours of pre-work, a three day retreat in the North Carolina mountains, and two one-hour follow-up class calls with Doug. Part I: Being a Development Partner can be taken as a stand-alone program appropriate for any level of coaching experience. Taken with Part II: Evoking Self-Generation, the entire course offers an entry into a coaching approach with considerable depth, appropriate even for experienced practitioners.
The Presence-Based Coaching Course is designed for:
- Practicing coaches, facilitators, and OD practitioners seeking to deepen self-development and bring presence explicitly into their work
- Business and non-profit leaders using coaching to develop people and build relationships
- New and aspiring coaches wanting a coherent and integrated coaching approach
- Educators and helping professionals who recognize that their way of being, and ability to ask artful questions, is essential for the learning and empowerment of others.
Our overall promises for the Presence-Based Coaching Course are that you will:
- Build your capacity to extend mindfulness and presence into your coaching conversations
- Build competency in using specific coaching roles, artful questions, and presence-based coaching moves to open new possibilities of seeing and acting
- Increase your self-generative capacity by receiving and acting on feedback
- Build competency in creating learning partnerships through experience as coach and client
- Design development plans that integrate mutually reinforcing learning strategies including somatic (body) practices, self-observations, and competency-building action steps
- Develop your resilience, authenticity, resourcefulness, and ability to stay present no matter what is going on.
Created by Kriss Wittman
Presence-Based Coaching I: Being a Development Partner
Specific areas of content focus:
- Observing somatic, emotional, and cognitive levels of experience
- Identifying and working with behavioral and cognitive habits
- Cultivating and holding presence in a coaching partnership
- Distinguishing and selecting seven distinct coaching roles
- Framing artful questions for catalyzing awareness, defining outcomes, and mapping a plan of action
- Working with metaphors and distinctions
- Designing body practices and self-observations
- Building an integrated development plan.
Presence-Based Coaching II: Evoking Self-Generation
(PBC I or Art of Mindful Coaching required)
Specific areas of content focus:
- Understanding a model for building self-generation through practice
- Distinguishing self-generative and habit-driven loops
- Evoking the quality of presence in a coaching conversation
- Designing coaching processes to develop self-generative capacities in parallel with specific professional competencies
- Increasing your capacity for holding a field of presence for your clients
- Designing fieldwork and practices to support self-generation
Details
Graduates of either Part I or Art of Mindful Coaching retreats may take Part II.
- $1150 registration fee, includes tuition, materials, room, board, and post-retreat coaching calls. Of this, $250/retreat is non-refundable. A $250/retreat deposit will hold your space.
- $975 earlybird rate, if paid in full at time of
registration. Earlybird rate is available up to 6 weeks prior to the retreat, see registration page for exact dates.
- 10% discount for full course (PBC I & II) if paid in full at time of registration.
- 10% discount for PBC II only, if paid in full by close of PBC I.
- If you are interested in ICF accreditation, we will provide
documentation for 20 Core Competency CCE's and 2 Personal Development CCE's.
Click here to register online, click here to download a full description and registration form, here to tell a colleague about this retreat, or here to email Doug with further questions. Click to visit Bend of Ivy Lodge, the retreat venue.
