Highlights: ICF Midwest Coaches Conference 2022
Karen Failes-Coad, President-Elect, ICF MN
In September, several ICF Minnesota coaches spent several days in Milwaukee at the ICF Midwest Coaches Conference. It was a great conference, attended by approximately 250 coaches, mostly representing ICF chapters in Wisconsin, Minnesota, Nebraska, Illinois, Iowa, Michigan, Kansas, Ohio, Missouri, Indiana, and Pennsylvania.
The conference featured three keynote speakers: Dr. Melissa Peet, LaTonya Wilkins and Dr. Damian Goldvarg.
Melissa Peet: Generative Coaching and Embodied Knowledge: Surfacing Hidden Resources for Change
As the founder of Generative Knowledge Institute, Dr. Peet discovered Generative Knowledge methods through her research, teaching, and assessment work at the University of Michigan. She uses these methods to facilitate change within people and organizations around the world. She emphasized the importance of embodied conversations and how to use these conversations in your coaching practice and explained the concepts of the psychologically traumatized body compared to the generative body.
LaTonya Wilkins: Coaching Below the Surface: Building Real (and Psychologically Safe) Relationships with Clients Who Are Different from You
Inspired by organizational culture research, social psychology, neuroscience, and the real-life experiences of culture LaTonya presented the way we think about traditional leadership to achieve truly diverse, equitable, and inclusive cultures of belonging in the workplace. She highlighted the common mishaps of overcompensation, not allowing people to bring their entire self to the relationship and avoiding uncomfortable conversations. She introduced us to the REAL Leadership Model: Relatable, Equitable, Aware and Loyal.
Future Fit: How to Navigate Challenging Conversations
Dr.Goldvarg is the Past President of the International Coaching Federation and has decades of coaching and leadership development experience around the globe. His presentation focused on the future of coaching, considering the VUCA world we live in today and how coaching can evolve and grow to bring broader coaching skills to society.
There were also more than 20 options for breakout sessions. Offerings included:
Adaptive Coaching: Using Personality Type to Flex Your Coaching Style
One Coach's Journey: From Corporate to $1MM in One Year
Coaching in Analogies: A Powerful Way to Evoke Awareness
Group Coaching Supervision
Group Coaching at Work: Creating Custom Designs and Big Impact for Your Clients
It was wonderful connecting with other coaches in real time, in person! It was a great opportunity to enhance our coaching skills and continue our coaching education.
The next Midwest Coaches Conference is scheduled to occur in 2024.
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