Participant materials at Experience-Assisted onsite for Cohorts 14 & 15 in August 2020
Create Courageously
We have all spent a lot more time in virtual environments this year, and we have learned a lot about how to co-create those environments as welcoming spaces for individuals, groups and teams to be coached effectively. Use this Virtual Workshop Instructions Template to communicate with virtual group coaching participants how to prepare themselves and their space before your workshop or group sessions begin.
Choose Aliveness
In this skill refresh, Megan describes how to make sure your documentation aligns with ICF’s Gold Standard in Coaching. ICF has been releasing 2020 updates to their Core Competencies, Competency Level Markers, and Ethics in 2020. They have even added Team Coaching Competencies this month! This is great new for LSCCs.
Outside with our equine coaching partners at the Experience-Assisted Coaching onsite for Cohort 16 in November 2020.
Discover Purpose
Usually we’re waiting for people to catch up to scientific discovery. In pioneering fields like coaching, though, we often find ourselves waiting for the research to catch up. The advances that are being made in scientific research to support and sharpen our practice in this era are incredible! (Google “Interpersonal neurobiology” and “positive neuroplasticity” to geek out about it). Check out this collection of articles curated by Dr. Rick Hanson.
Nature-Based coaching completion at Experience-Assisted onsite for Cohorts 14 & 15 in August 2020.
Develop Potential
Last year, CoActive Coaching published a new (5th) edition of its book. In it, the authors make the shift from professional coaching relationships to taking the CoActive Coaching principles into any “coaching conversation.” They also underwent an entire rebranding process and edited many of their worksheets and resources. Login to the updated CoActive Coaching Toolkit for updated forms, checklists, and worksheets.
Len (LSCC E9) and Katie (LSCC E11) demonstrate coaching perspectives tool at Coaching & Self onsite July 2020. So happy to have added them to our training co-leaders this year!
Lead to Serve
This year our LSCC Co-Lab newsletters started by introducing the PERMA+ME well-being model to you and devoted one month to each of the seven facets of well-being. We then focused last month on coaching groups and teams!
At our first staff meeting every month, we start by asking, “What new in the news?” And everyone shares the things that they want everyone to know about. This month, I wanted to share with you my “New in the News” as it pertains to coaching - some of the things that I am most excited about that are emerging in the field of coaching as well as what we are looking forward to for 2021.
First off, we’re going to make it! What a thing. Secondly, in this season of gratitude and preparing for winter, what a perfect time to partner with nature and the season to reflect, renew ourselves, and dream.
Here are some of the things we’re dreaming of implementing in 2021:
- A 16 week Well-Being Certification
- An Enneagram Qualification course
- Audio meditations and guided well-being practices on Spotify
- Virtual coaching groups
- Writing, publishing and presenting
- A new Lark’s Song Coaching Collective
- ICF Accreditation and Continuing Education options
- LSCC Community coaching retreats
- Made Wild: Wilderness Coaching Excursion
We hope to continue blazing trails and becoming better and better at what we do while attending to access gaps and inequities in coaching and well-being across the profession. Mostly, I hope to fall in love again and again with this work.
After an onsite a few years ago, I came home and Evan (my husband) asked me how it was. I replied something like, “Oh. It was fine.” He just stared at me and said something like, “Are you kidding me? Tell me what happened. I’ve been through the program. I know it was more than fine.” Evan completed the LSCC training program with Cohort 2. I realized that day that the content, the process, the energy, the transformation was all becoming familiar to me. And I started praying then a prayer that I pray now regularly, “Please, let me never become familiar with the transformation of a human life.”
As we enter into a new season together, be attentive to what has become familiar to you. Notice the process of transformation within, without and all around you. Be curious about what dreams you have yet to dream for yourself, the spaces you inhabit and this global community we find ourselves in. Assess what is needed for your renewal and nourishment and be audacious about creating space for those things.
Reflection Questions:
What is care is needed for my body, mind, heart, and spirit as I come to the end of this year?
What New in my News that I’d like to share with someone?
If I could only work 2 hours a week on my dream, what would I do?
What if finishing well were easy?
Affirmation: I am healing, whole and ready.