Coach Express

by Robyn Logan

Are you interested in a career in coaching? Do you want to know more about niche coaching opportunities?

During our recent ‘Discovering Your Niche’ teleseminar, I interviewed a parent coach (Rob Stringer), sex coach (Jacqueline Hellier), career success coac (John M McKee) and inter-cultural coach (Gudrun Kittel-Thong). All shared valuable, first hand experiences, surrounding how they chose their niche, who they coach and how they coach.

If you are interested in becoming a coach this teleseminar will give you a heads up on the whole process of “niching”

‘Discover Your Niche’ Audio

If you would like information regarding ICA’s coach training, or our niche specific communities of practice please contact us directly via training@icoachacademy.com

by Bronwyn Bowery-Ireland

Last week, 81 students graduated from ICA’s Certified Professional Coach Program. The graduation ceremony was an opportunity to not only celebrate our graduates success, but acknowledge their enthusiasm for lifelong learning, and contribution to the coaching profession.

Kurt Stewart, ICA’s Global Strategy Manager, spoke on behalf of ICA as I was traveling from China to Australia. I wanted to include his speech in this newsletter as it so perfectly summarises our global vision and how the notion of expansion relates to ICA, our students, and our graduates.

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Graduation Speech
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by Kurt Stewart

Bronwyn, our CEO, is on a plane to Australia as we speak and so regrettably will not be able to be with us today. But she wanted me to offer her congratulations to each and every one of you and to let you know that we all have high hopes for you in your coaching careers.

I’m Kurt Stewart and part of the ICA management team. My role here, simply put, is to help ICA expand its training program across cultures, in different languages, so that students who don’t speak English can access our programs in their language. Already the CPCP has been translated into Chinese and we have ongoing projects for other languages.

So as ICA expands across borders, all of you too, as professional coaches are “expanding”, going beyond your own borders, and traveling into new territories. As you may have found for yourselves, coaching is very much about EXPANSION – expansion of the soul, heart, mind and vision of the self. Expansion of our innate capacities and the skills we are learning

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by Robyn Logan

Last newsletter I wrote about some problems my son Ryder was having at his school. He perceived his teacher as very ‘angry’, he often cried when it was time to go to school and he had a complete aversion to reading and writing.

As unbelievable as it seems, we have seen a full 180 degree shift in Ryder over the past 4 weeks. He is now happy in the mornings, likes his teacher and – amazingly – has started to enjoy writing! Last weekend I found him practicing writing in his special writing book our friend had given him. It was 9pm at night, he was hanging out his bed using the light from the hallway when he should have been sleeping, but hey, there he was writing a whole page of “b’s” all by himself. I was so happy I turned the hallway light up more and told him he could stay up a bit later if he wanted to practice more.

So, how did this happen?
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by Augustine Chow

Beginning in September 2008, ICA will launch a Chinese CPCP (Certified Professional Coach Program), to Chinese speaking coaches, from mainland China as well as Chinese speaking coaches living overseas.

“The program will be identical to our English program in every single aspect, except it will be conducted in Chinese putonghua language. For the existing ICA Chinese speaking coaches, this means that you can now choose to post your learning to the Chinese learning site, and conduct your peer coaching and supervised coaching in Chinese. To the mainland Chinese or the overseas Chinese, this will be one of the first internationally accredited coach training programs for Chinese speaking coaches,” said Bronwyn Bowery-Ireland.

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Congratulations to the following students who have now successfully graduated from the Certified Professional Coach Program (CPCP). These graduates now hold the designation of CPC and are welcomed as lifelong members of ICA’s alumni.

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