The Art of Mindful Coaching

You are invited to an in depth exploration of mindful coaching. Based on The Mindful Coach, this retreat experience is designed for any professional who intends to become more authentic and effective in helping others learn. ICF certification credits are available through ILCT for an extra charge.

Coaches, business managers, facilitators, and educators will experience an integration of mindfulness practices and a practical methodology for holding learning conversations that really work. This experiential workshop is built around extensive practice and feedback.

The retreat also provides the opportunity to experience coaching from the client perspective. Participants will receive extensive coaching on a topic of their choice, and will leave with a development plan for moving forward.

In this rich, multi-layered experience, you will:

• Learn a robust coaching model for application in your setting;
• Cultivate your own mindfulness and presence;
• Use multiple layers of questions to shift perspective and identify possibilities;
• Deepen your understanding of coaching from the client end; 
• Internalize practices for your on-going growth;
• Experience an integrated (body, mind, emotions, spirit) approach to human development;
• Structure on-going development plans; and
• Increase your self-confidence in your capabilities as a coach.

Price is $1150, including all materials, lodging, gourmet meals, a copy of Doug’s book, and a one-on-one coaching call after the retreat. 22 ICF credit hours are available through the Institute of Life Coach Training at an extra cost of $200. 

Click here to register, 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.

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Advanced Retreat: Presence-Based Coaching

Graduates of any three day Art of Mindful Coaching retreat (either public or in-house) are invited. This retreat is based on Doug's forthcoming book from Jossey-Bass.

Presence is a state of expanded awareness and connectedness to what is around us. From presence spring forth the creative interpretations and new actions most generative in the particular world we each inhabit.

The retreat will focus on the development of coach presence through practices of mind, body, and heart. Simultaneously, we will explore how the coach, through his or her awareness, extends that presence to the client, evoking new possibilities. The result is self-generative coaches, self-generative clients, and a better world.

Participants will:

•    experience presence through mind, body, and heart;
•    develop practices that support each stage of self-generation;
•    extend presence towards clients through specific means;
•    develop a toolkit of presence-based coaching moves;
•    receive coaching on a current topic of interest;
•    structure powerful, integral development plans; and
•    deepen your capabilities as an authentic coach.

Earlybird price is $975, including all materials, lodging, gourmet meals, and a one-on-one coaching call after the retreat. 22 ICF credit hours are available through the Institute of Life Coach Training at an extra cost of $200. 

Click here to register, 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.

Advanced Retreat: Embodying Purpose

Graduates of any three day Art of Mindful Coaching retreat (either public or in-house) are invited.

My intention in this retreat is for you to internalize a whole person coaching approach in a way that you come to see your own development as integral with the coaching you do with others, and become able to more fully embody your purpose in life. Emphasis will be on reviewing the fundamentals of mindfulness in coaching, using artful questions, and using the Reflector, Teacher, and Guide Voices. Attending to our own development around purpose will be thoroughly embedded in the retreat.

You will:

•    Refresh and internalize the basic Septet coaching framework
•    Apply assessment models to identify development opportunities for yourself and clients
•    Apply the Reflector, Teacher, and Guide Voices
•    Clarify your purpose as a coach
•    Commit to specific development steps and an integral practice to more fully embody your purpose

This retreat sold out when offered. Not available in 2008.  Please contact me if you would like to be informed of future offerings.
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