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The Presence-Based Coaching Course
Winter PBC II: February 27-29, 2012
Spring PBC I: April 2-4, 2012
Spring PBC II: June 11-14, 2012 (note new 4 day format)
Fall PBC I: August 27-29, 2012
Fall PBC II: October 29- November 1, 2012
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 approximately two hours of pre-work, a three or four 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:
- Experienced coaches, facilitators, and OD practitioners seeking to integrate somatic and presence-based coaching 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 observable new competency in coaching, greatly enhance your coaching presence, contextualize your coaching in a robust model of human development, and be more self-generative in your own life.
Created by Kriss Wittman
Presence-Based Coaching I: Being a Development Partner
Specific areas of content focus:
- Distinguishing somatic, emotional, and cognitive levels of experience
- Working with your own habits, attachments, and aversions as a coach
- Cultivating and holding mindful presence in a coaching partnership
- Distinguishing and coaching through seven distinct 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 required)
Specific areas of content focus:
- Experiencing a model for building self-generation and aliveness in parallel with specific professional competencies
- Evoking the experience of presence
- Supporting clients in recognizing and shifting habits through somatic and interpretive moves
- Integrating somatic and question-based coaching processes to develop client presence
- Increasing your own capacity for holding a field of presence with your clients
- Designing fieldwork and practices to support self-generation
Details
Graduates of Presence-Based Coaching I may take Part II.
- $1300 (PBC I) registration fee includes tuition, materials, room, board, and post-retreat coaching calls. Of this, $250/retreat is non-refundable. (Starting in June 2012, PBC II retreats will be 4 days in length; full price will be $1550).
- Earlybird discount ($200 per retreat) applies when you pay in full at time of registration, and is available up to 6 weeks prior to the retreat. See registration page for exact dates.
- Additional discount for full course (PBC I & II) if paid in full at time of registration.
- $250 fee for ICF-required review and feedback on one recorded audio session; fee includes audio review, administration, and documentation of 25 CCE's towards ICF coach certification or renewal.
Click here to register online, here to download a full description and registration form for 2012 retreats, and here for Winter 2011/12. Click to visit Bend of Ivy Lodge, the retreat venue.
