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• Coaching with Systemic Constellations: Expanding Awareness, Unlocking Potential (ICF British Columbia Hosting)

  • When
    Wed, September 17, 2025
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    2:30 PM - 4:00 PM
  • Location
    Zoom

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  1.0 Core Competency and 0.5 Resource Development CCEs

  Coaching with Systemic Constellations: Expanding Awareness, Unlocking Potential

  Join us for an enlightening and paradigm shifting workshop. Experience a lens that will help you discover how you move your coaching skills toward MCC, inspire instant awareness in your clients, and connect the dots in your business.

  A Systemic lens is a powerful approach to expanding awareness, unlocking client potential, shift limiting patterns, and creating lasting change.

  Led by Kim Leischner, MCC coach, trainer, mentor, and creator of the ICF-CCE certified program Coaching with Systemic Constellations, this session offers a unique opportunity to empower your coaching practice and enhance client results.

  You will be guided through experiential exercises designed to assist you to embody expanded systemic awareness, presence and listening. You’ll engage in mindfulness practices and constellation mapping exercises to tap into two distinct forms of human intelligence that can reveal hidden dynamics and unlock new pathways for growth.

  You'll gain clarity on the boundaries between coaching and therapy with three key guidelines to ensure ethical practice. You’ll experience a mapping exercise that can be immediately applied in your coaching sessions, and learn to use four powerful perspectives to evoke awareness.

  If time permits, we’ll conclude with a live coaching demonstration incorporating systemic constellation work, followed by a Q&A. Join us and discover how a systemic coaching lens can elevate your practice and amplify your impact!

  WHAT YOU WILL LEARN:

  Coaches will experience and be able to replicate the steps of a mindfulness exercise to deepen and expand their coach presence, and their ability to generate more trust and safety within self and with others. (Coaching Presence, Trust and Safety) Coaches will be able to list 3 key guidelines to help ensure they are acting within the scope of coaching, rather than (consciously or unconsciously) acting more so within the realm of therapy. (Demonstrates Ethical Practice) Coaches will be able to describe how using constellation maps assists a client to tap into two (2) types of human intelligence in order to evoke awareness. (Evokes Awareness) Coaches will experience and be able to repeat a mapping exercise designed to assist a coach to notice and observe these two types of intelligence, deepen their systemic awareness, and apply it in their coaching sessions. (Embodying a Coaching Mindset, Coaching Presence, Active Listening) Coaches will learn and be able to repeat the steps of mindfulness exercise to experience and further embody systemic awareness and bring this to their coaching sessions. (Embodying a Coaching Mindset, Coaching Presence, Active Listening) Coaches will be able to describe 4 perspectives to help to evoke awareness in a coaching session. (Evokes Awareness) Coaches will experience and be able to follow the steps of a simple constellation that can be used for self or client coaching sessions. (Evokes Awareness) If time permits, coaches will experience a coaching session demo that incorporates systemic constellation work. (All competencies) Coaches will have a chance to ask questions and be provided with ways to access further support using this approach in their coaching sessions. (All competencies)

  This program is for everyone interested in learning and growing themselves and others through coaching, and is most relevant and beneficial for Coaches at ICF-ACC level or higher. Participants will benefit personally and professionally through this interactive and experiential workshop.

  
  

  Speaker Bio:

  Kim Leischner is an MCC coach; trainer; mentor; assessor; and supervisor dedicated to exploring and expanding consciousness and human potential. Her work draws from many holistic fields of discipline including: mindfulness, emotional intelligence, energy work and somatic practices, values, parts work, NLP, nature-based and experiential learning, trauma-informed approaches and more. She is the creator of the ICF-CCE certified program 'Coaching with Systemic Constellations: An advanced training for coaches who want to enhance the results of their coaching using this empowering, systemic approach.' Kim is also on the faculty of two separate global Level 1 and 2 coach training schools. She has been “hatching” ICF accredited coaches for more than 16 years. 

  Participants in her programs remember her for her focus, passion and ability to convey complex ideas in a way that is grounded and accessible.

  Website: https://kimleischner.com 

  LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kimleischner/ 

  YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@kimleischnercoaching2190 

  Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/kimleischnercoaching 

  Insta: https://www.instagram.com/kim.leischner/

  
  

  This is a 2-STEP registration process.

  Since this webinar is being offered by ICF Global, registration requires a two-step process.

  The first step is to register with our chapter. Once you successfully register and make the payment, you will receive a confirmation email with a link to register with ICF Global. Payment is only required during the first step. The second step authorizes ICF Global to send you the Zoom link for the webinar.

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• Integrity Index: Recovery and Energy Leadership Strategy for Success (ICF South Carolina Hosting)

  • When
    Thu, September 18, 2025
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    11:00 AM - 12:30 PM
  • Location
    Zoom

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  1.25 Core Competency and 0.25 Resource Development CCEs

  Step into a transformative coaching experience where leadership meets healing. This session introduces the Integrity Index, a self-leadership framework designed to help clients align energy, values, and actions with authenticity and purpose. Grounded in recovery principles and Energy Leadership™ concepts, participants will explore practical strategies to support sustainable leadership, through resilience practices, mindset reframing, and emotionally intelligent communication. Coaches will walk away with tools to help clients navigate burnout, rebuild self-trust, and lead with clarity and conviction, all while deepening their alignment with ICF Core Competencies. 
  
  

  WHAT YOU WILL LEARN: 

  In this session, you’ll learn how to apply the Integrity Index as a coaching framework to help clients assess and align their leadership energy with their core values. You’ll explore how to integrate recovery principles into coaching conversations to promote sustainable growth and self-leadership. Using tools from Energy Leadership™, you’ll gain insight into identifying and shifting energy drains, helping clients move from burnout to balance. We’ll cover techniques for reframing limiting inner narratives, cultivating resilience, and modeling authenticity in leadership. Additionally, you’ll develop strategies to foster psychological safety, trust, and presence in both one-on-one and team settings—equipping you to guide others through powerful, values-driven transformation. 

  
  

  
  

  Speaker Bio:

  Tara L Estevez, PCC, ELI-MP, CVRC 

  Founder of Mindset Motivator | Life Navigation Coach | Recovery Leadership Catalyst 

  Tara is a Professional Certified Coach (PCC), speaker, and leadership mentor who brings together decades of corporate experience and deep recovery wisdom to help others lead with clarity, compassion, and conviction. With over 25 years in executive leadership and a personal journey through addiction recovery, Tara offers coaching that’s raw, real, and rooted in truth. 

  She is the founder of Mindset Motivator, where she helps women rebuild after hitting bottom; whether from addiction, codependency, trauma, or the quiet ache of losing themselves. A certified Energy Leadership™ Master Practitioner and Core Values Recovery Coach, Tara integrates mindset tools, recovery principles, and spiritual alignment to guide her clients from breakdown to breakthrough. 

  Tara has adopted and expanded the Integrity Index framework into her own values-based leadership tool, the Goodness Gauge- a practical and powerful way to help leaders align decisions, energy, and impact with their highest truth. She weaves this work into her leadership training and coaching; empowering others to lead from a place of wholeness, not performance. 

  A passionate marathoner, Tara is also chasing finish lines across the globe- including the Abbott World Majors. For her, every mile is a metaphor: transformation happens one step at a time; with grit, grace, and God. Her lived experience and spiritual depth have shaped Even If Recovery- a growing community for women reclaiming their voice, power, and peace. 

  Whether she’s coaching, speaking, or pushing through mile 20, Tara helps others navigate life with resilience, integrity, and an unshakable belief in their comeback. 

  
  

  This is a 2-STEP registration process.

  Since this webinar is being offered by ICF Global, registration requires a two-step process.

  The first step is to register with our chapter. Once you successfully register and make the payment, you will receive a confirmation email with a link to register with ICF Global. Payment is only required during the first step. The second step authorizes ICF Global to send you the Zoom link for the webinar.

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• Mastering Client Conversion: Empowering Coaches to Transform Skeptics into Committed Clients (ICF North Florida Hosting)

  • When
    Tue, September 23, 2025
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    10:00 AM - 11:30 AM
  • Location
    Zoom

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  0.5 Core Competency and 1.0 Resource Development CCEs

  Coaches know how transformative coaching is—but when it comes to selling, even the best struggle to get potential clients to say “Yes!” The problem isn’t price or timing. It’s how you’re showing up in the sales conversation. In this talk, Chris shares The I-Help Selling System, a 5-step process for conducting sales calls that make potential clients feel seen, heard, and understood. Most coaches unintentionally create objections. That’s why they get ghosted or hear “I need to think about it.” Learn how to sell with confidence, integrity, and a “coach approach”—so the right clients say yes without hesitation.

  WHAT YOU WILL LEARN:

  1. Master the "Coach Approach" to Sales Calls – Learn how to conduct sales conversations that make potential clients feel seen, heard, and understood, leading to confident buying decisions.

  2. Identify and Eliminate Hidden Objection Triggers – Recognize how traditional sales tactics (and even well-intended coaching habits) create resistance and objections—and what to do instead.

  3. Prevent Ghosting and “I Need to Think About It” Responses – Understand the deeper reasons potential clients hesitate and gain a proven process for guiding them to a clear and confident yes.

  
  

  Speaker Bio:

  Chris Kenney has spent the last two decades as a master sales coach, multi-million dollar business owner, and sought-after wealth mentor. He teaches brilliant coaches, consultants, and creative service providers how to break their money rules, rapidly accelerate their income, and live with uncommon freedom & choice. When he's not coaching his private clients, you can find him speaking on stages around the world, sharing his 7-figure sales secrets with talented entrepreneurs, teaching them to step into their legacy work by shedding the chains of money shame and undercharging. His true gift is to show you how to become totally present to and accepting of your ability to impact the world.
  

  
  

  This is a 2-STEP registration process.

  Since this webinar is being offered by ICF Global, registration requires a two-step process.

  The first step is to register with our chapter. Once you successfully register and make the payment, you will receive a confirmation email with a link to register with ICF Global. Payment is only required during the first step. The second step authorizes ICF Global to send you the Zoom link for the webinar.

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• Marlin Blankenship, Ph.D., PCC - Clear Agreements, Strong Coaching: The Power of Effective Coaching Agreements- ICF AR-OK Chapter Community Meeting

  • When
    Thu, September 25, 2025
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    12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
  • Location
    Zoom

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  .25 Core Competency and .75 Resource Development CCEs
  

  Clear Agreements, Strong Coaching: The Power of Effective Coaching Agreements

  Great coaching starts with clear agreements. In this interactive session, we’ll explore how to create thoughtful coaching contracts and agreements that build trust, provide direction, and deliver results. You’ll learn why many coaches rush past this critical step—and what to do instead.

  We’ll discuss how to:

  • Contract effectively with clients and stakeholders before coaching begins
  • Set clear, aligned goals for the engagement
  • Create powerful agreements at the start of each session

  If you’ve ever felt like your coaching was drifting—or that something unseen was getting in the way—this session will help you lay a stronger foundation for success. 

  
  

  

  Bio:

  Dr. Marlin Blankenship is Director of Coaching at Strata Leadership, an executive leadership coach, and a want-to-be creative. Marlin has spent a lifetime working to help others achieve personal and professional success and live balanced, happy lives. Formerly an executive director, Marlin has a broad professional background having worked in emergency services, healthcare, human resources, and education before transitioning into coaching full-time. For the last 10 years, he has coached leaders from three continents and a diverse range of industries.

  Marlin has a deep curiosity that helps his clients to understand what has gotten them to their current success and is hindering the next step of their career. Beyond his coaching skills and professional background, Marlin draws from decades of lifelong learning in communication, leadership, theology, positive psychology, health and wellness, and education to provide a holistic executive coaching experience that meets leaders where they are at and takes them farther than they thought they could go.

  Marlin is a professional certified coach with the International Coach Federation, holds a PhD in Workforce and Adult Education from Oklahoma State University and is a graduate of the UT-Dallas Executive and Professional Coaching program. He is also a big fan of dark roast coffee and thunderstorms.

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• The Uncomfortably Fun Truth about Growth (ICF Gulf Coast Hosting)

  • When
    Wed, October 01, 2025
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    12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
  • Location
    Zoom

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  1.0 Core Competency and 0.5 Resource Development CCEs

  This presentation explores how embracing discomfort is crucial for growth and how it can be developed. Participants will learn five science-based tools to help their clients change their brain chemistry by incorporating fun, which makes new behaviors more appealing and repeatable.

  WHAT YOU WILL LEARN: 

  • Understanding why our brains naturally avoid discomfort

  •  Strategies to help clients tackle challenging tasks despite their brain's resistance 

  • How to use fun to make difficult things more enjoyable through: 

  • • Fun-Fusing: combining challenging tasks with enjoyable activities 

    • Fun-Framing: reframing threats as challenges and gamifying tasks 

    • Fun-Friending: leveraging social connections for fun and accountability in productivity sprints 

    • Fun-Setting: strategically incorporating recharge time 

    • Fun-Vesting: building stress resilience through consistent fun activities 

  The session emphasizes that true achievement lies beyond comfort zones and provides evidence-based techniques to make stepping outside those zones enjoyable for both coaches and their clients.

  
  

  Speaker Bio: 

  James Garrett is a brain coach and founder of Brain by Design. He’s spoken on stages ranging from Harvard to TEDx and his work has been featured by The New York Times, FastCompany, and Harvard Business Review. He spent years doing research with some of the best psychologists in the world at Columbia, Tufts, and Yale. He’s a content creator and course builder and his course called, “Brain Science for Coaches” has been rated as one of the best courses for coaches and is currently certified by ICF for 30 continuing coach education credits. He’s a certified coach through the Whole Fit coaching program. He also built one of the only brain-based positive psychology curricula in the Middle East and trained thousands of Arab youth in partnership with Queen Rania of Jordan. A rare combination of scientist, trainer, and entrepreneur, in 2019 James launched the Deep Change Project, a personal journey to discover what’s possible at the outer edges of neuroplasticity and how to overcome fear. 

  
  

  This is a 2-STEP registration process.

  Since this webinar is being offered by ICF Global, registration requires a two-step process.

  The first step is to register with our chapter. Once you successfully register and make the payment, you will receive a confirmation email with a link to register with ICF Global. Payment is only required during the first step. The second step authorizes ICF Global to send you the Zoom link for the webinar.

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• Chad Hall, MCC - Who Can Afford Coaching? - ICF AR-OK Chapter Meeting

  • When
    Thu, October 23, 2025
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    12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
  • Location
    Zoom

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  1.0 Resource Development CCE

  To make a living as a coach, you must be able to connect with coachable people who can afford to work with you.  That's not an easy proposition.  Personal budgets are tight.  Those most in need of coaching are often the least able to afford it.  It can seem hopeless. 

  In this session, seasoned coach Chad Hall, MCC will share three approaches for getting clients who can afford coaching.  These are approaches that have worked for him and his team at StrongLead, a professional coaching firm in Hickory, NC to provides over 2500 hours of coaching per year to clients ranging from solopreneurs to non-profit leaders to millionaire business owners.

  Learning Objectives:

  • Find your why for coaching (and it can't be money)
  • Learn to put a price on your coaching (and it must be money)
  • Develop creative ways to get clients who can afford coaching AND to make coaching affordable for clients who can't otherwise pay for your coaching.

  
  

  Bio:
  
  

  Chad is a Master Certified Coach who helps leaders, teams and organizations improve performance and well-being. He has coached top-level leaders around the world in technology, healthcare, marketing, finance and non-profit sectors. His areas of expertise include coaching, training, and performance development and he’s a qualified practitioner with assessments such as MBTI, LPI 360, and Core Values Index.

  Chad is a graduate of Lenoir-Rhyne University (BA), Duke University (MTS), Princeton Seminary (ThM), and Western Seminary (DMin). He has written several journal articles and books related to leadership and coaching, including the Amazon bestselling eBook, The Coaching Mindset. He lives in Hickory with his wife, Holly.  

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• Leveraging both the Scrappy and the Skilled Use of Polarities in Coaching (ICF San Antonio Hosting)

  • When
    Tue, November 18, 2025
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    12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
  • Location
    Zoom

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  1.0 Core Competency and 0.5 Resource Development CCEs

  Bold and humble; task and relationship; support and challenge:  These are polarities. Capitalizing on polarities in coaching is a superpower and can evoke meaningful awareness with clients.  Without training, however, implementing this skill can feel intimidating.  Join this session with Cathy Carroll, MCC to deepen your understanding of how to frame a polarity and improve your coaching skills.  Through stories, Cathy will demonstrate how to use the very basics of polarities in both individual coaching and team coaching, and then she’ll recommend a variety of resources to facilitate coach growth from scrappy to skilled in this important coaching skill.  No experience in polarities necessary.

  • WHAT YOU WILL LEARN:
  • ·       The role of understanding polarities in coaching
  • ·       How polarities create blind spots for clients
  • ·       How to mentally and emotionally prepare to help clients deepen their self-awareness
  •         How to leverage polarities to evoke client awareness

  
  

  Speaker Bio: 

  Founder and President of Legacy Onward, Inc., Cathy Carroll, MBA, MCC, is an internationally recognized family business leadership coach, speaker and author of Hug of War: How to Lead a Family Business With both Love and Logic. In addition to coaching, she trains coaches who specialize in coaching family enterprises as well as coaches who maintain their credential with the International Coaching Federation.

  Cathy earned certificates in both Leadership Coaching and Executive Facilitation at Georgetown University, an MBA at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business, and a BA at Boston College.  She is also a Master Certified Coach (MCC) in the ICF.

  An active member of the community, Cathy currently serves as Vice-Chair the Board of the Purposeful Planning Institute and co-founder & Treasurer of A Leg To Stand On which provides prosthetic limbs to children in developing countries.  

  www.LegacyOnward.com

  www.LegacyOnward.com/hug-of-war

  www.LinkedIn.com/in/cathyacarroll

  
  

  
  

  This is a 2-STEP registration process.

  Since this webinar is being offered by ICF Global, registration requires a two-step process.

  The first step is to register with our chapter. Once you successfully register and make the payment, you will receive a confirmation email with a link to register with ICF Global. Payment is only required during the first step. The second step authorizes ICF Global to send you the Zoom link for the webinar.

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• ICF AR-OK Chapter Community Meeting - Yearly Wrap Up

  • When
    Thu, December 11, 2025
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    12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
  • Location
    Zoom

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  Join us for our year end Chapter Community Meeting. 

  Focus:  Conversation - Connection - Communication

  We will review the year and look ahead to 2026 as well as share updates on how to get involved in our local chapter and opportunities available through ICF Global.  

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