Puget Sound Coaches Association

Tuesday, April 10, 2007
Spring Forward Your Learning · Coaching Books - Conversation Cafes

Mercer Island Community Center

Spring’s arrival is recognized by the daffodils blooming and the singing birds and of course, more sunshine! In the spirit of Spring, what is blooming for you as coach and for your coaching business? We are excited to announce an evening of learning coordinated by our member, Moreah Vestan. Moreah has generated a very creative way to learn about not just one, rather three important coaching books. In the process of learning, we will also benefit from our community discussion that will shape the book ideas and make them relevant to our own coaching styles and niches. Come spring your business forward and have some fun with fellow coaches!

Register now for our April 10th PSCA monthly program meeting!

Date:

 Tuesday, April 10, 2007 

Time:
5:30-6:30pm Coaching 101 - Informal gathering
(no facilitator currently scheduled)
6:30-6:50pm Registration, Burning Question Networking and Library Access
2006 Conference MP3's are here!
6:50-7:20pm Coach the Coach
Developing Core Competencies - Distinguishing ACC-PCC-MCC Skills
7:10-8:40pm Program - Coaching Books: Conversation Cafes
with Moreah Vestan
8:30 - 9:00pm Announcements, Networking, Closure, and Cleanup
 
Please Note: No formal Coaching 101 this month due to lack of facilitator
 

Location:

 Mercer Island Community Center
8236 SE 24th Street, Mercer Island, WA

Conveniently located just off I-90 at the Island Crest Way exit on Mercer Island. Directions available at
http://www.ci.mercer-island.wa.us/Page.asp?NavID=2014

Admission:

 Members - $15 pre-registration; $25 at the door
At-the-door registrations cash or check only
 

  Nonmembers - $25 pre-registration; $35 at the door
At-the-door registrations cash or check only
  

  Pre-register no later than Monday, April 9th, 9:00pm.

Food:

 Light snacks are available

Note:

 If you register and pay for yourself and others, please make note of this in the comment section of the registration.
 

Pre-registration has closed
Member Registration - $25 at the door - cash or check only

  		   

Pre-registration has closed
Non-Member Registration - $35 at the door - cash or check only

 

Spring Forward Your Learning· Coaching Books - Conversation Cafes

Curious about what is new on the Coaching Books scene, what is newly written and helpful, what is provocative and intriguing for your business? Join us for a lively evening of discussion that will incorporate the best of three important coaching books. In a “Conversation Café” style ~ all three cafes will be available for the evening, each offering a different delight to enjoy!

The event will be organized in 3 small groups. Each group will have a specific book to focus upon and a volunteer facilitator. The essential themes will be shared along with powerful quotations and passages that reinforce the benefit and value to coaching of the book’s ideas. The small group will then have the opportunity to comment and make the information relevant to their own businesses. Each group will have 20 minutes and everyone will have the opportunity to rotate through each of the groups, participating in a discussion about all the books.

Our presenter/coordinator, Moreah Vestan has selected three powerful books for our first Cafe:

  • Coach Yourself to Success,by Talane Miedaner
  • The Heart of Coaching: Using Transformational Coaching to Create a High Performance Culture, by Thomas Hart
  • The Biology of Belief, by Bruce Lipton

Getting the Most from the Evening

If you have read any of the books and know particular quotations or passages that you find powerful, please bring a 1-page handout for each to the meeting or email your information to Moreah@comcast.net. 

And, if you have read a different book and are excited to share it ~ please bring a 1-page handout and we will share in a large group.

Register now  for this exciting opportunity to get more in-depth understanding of powerful coaching-related books!

 

About the Presenter/Coordinator

Moreah Vestan is a Communication Trainer, Life Coach and Columnist; please read her story at http://communicationcoaching.net. She is also the author of Pleasures and Ponderings: From Nun to Nudist to Now and has a new book out right NOW, Diving Right In, Reflecting on Life’s Adventures; for more information check out http://www.pleasuresandponderings.com or call 206-938-8385. A very active PSCA member, we appreciate Moreah’s leadership, envisioning and creating this evening for our chapter!

Special Note

This is one of the early program meetings to be organized under PSCA’s new Project Funding Application process. Not sure what that’s all about? Find more information on the PSCA Transition page and then contact us at volunteers@pugetsoundcoaches.org to sign up to facilitate or help out with an event or get more information.

Come ready to spring forward your learning!

Coaching 101

Jumpstart your coaching business!
In response to demand from attendees, Coaching 101 is now a full hour long! If you're struggling with marketing your new business, working to discover your perfect niche, wondering how to get your business started, or even questioning why you chose this field in the first place, this group is for you! For more information please visit http://www.pugetsoundcoaches.org/Coaching101.htm 

Burning Question Networking

This month's Burning Question: What new learning is capturing my attention?

 

Coach the Coach

Developing ICF Core Competencies ~ Distinguishing ACC – PCC – MCC Skills
This month’s focus is on the revised competency standards and building understanding for distinguishing the progressively more advanced skills that the ICF examiners seek from credential candidates. We encourage you to come prepared with observations and questions to share on this new language. For a copy of the skill requirements language, please follow this link: http://www.coachfederation.com/ICF/For+Current+Members/Credentialing/ 

PSCA Library

If you'd care to check out one of the items from the PSCA lending library, please bring a check we can hold as a deposit (to be destroyed on return of materials in good condition). We currently have both 2005 and 2006 ICF Conference proceedings on MP3 in addition to popular coaching-related books.

Announcements Table

Bring your brochures and event information! We'll provide tables for setting out any materials you wish to bring to share with your peers.

Volunteers Celebrated and Encouraged!

Be a part of our growing coaching community at PSCA - we want to hear from you! Please visit http://www.pugetsoundcoaches.org/volunteer.htm or email programs@pugetsoundcoaches.org if you are:
  • Interested in meeting more people by greeting them at the door
  • Willing to register attendees at the beginning of the meeting.
  • Interested in displaying or practicing your facilitation skills by hosting a program meeting on a particular initiative topic.

Please register now to reserve your spot.  

 

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