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• OKC Coach Meetup + Walk & Talk (November)

  • When
    Sat, November 14, 2026
  •  
    10:00 AM - 12:00 PM
  • Location
    The Red Cup restaurant at 3122 N Classen Blvd in OKC

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  Coach Meetup + Walk & Talk
  Saturday, November 14 | 10:00 a.m.
  The Red Cup | 3122 N. Classen Blvd., Oklahoma City

  Looking for more connection and community with fellow coaches? Join us for a casual Saturday morning meetup at The Red Cup. Come to connect, share, and get to know other coaches in our community. Come to share. Leave knowing you’re not alone.

  We’ll start with food and conversation at The Red Cup, then, if time and weather permit, head somewhere nearby for a walk and talk.

  See The Red Cup’s menu and details at https://www.theredcupokc.com/.

  The Meet Up is open to ALL, including members and non-members, aspiring, new, and experienced coaches. 

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• ICF AR-OK In Person Networking Event in Central Arkansas

  • When
    Mon, November 30, 2026
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    5:00 PM - 7:00 PM
  • Location
    Petit and Keet 1620 Market St, Little Rock, AR 72211 petitandkeet.com Ask For ICF Table!

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  Conversation, Connection, Community in Central Arkansas
  

  
  

  Description:  Join us for an informal networking event where our goal is to provide opportunities for members to grow through relationship building and collaborating in an in-person environment.  

   

  Cost:  No Cost to attend the meet up.  Drinks and apps and good conversation about coaching in central Arkansas!

  
  

  The Meet Up is open to ALL, including members and non-members, aspiring, new, and experienced coaches. 

  
  

  Please RSVP so we have enough chairs at the table: Wendy L Ward, PhD, ACC, ABPP wward@uams.edu 501 247 5169 (cell)

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• Their Map, Their Investment: Leveraging Language to Facilitate Client Growth (ICF San Francisco Bay Area Chapter Hosting)

  • When
    Wed, December 09, 2026
  •  
    2:30 PM - 4:00 PM
  • Location
    Zoom

  Register

  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.

  Ensure you complete the second step of the Zoom registration. If you do not, you will not receive the Zoom link or the recording. It is your responsibility to register with ICF Global.

  

  
  

  1.5 Core Competency CCEs

  DESCRIPTION:

  Words have the power to shape not only our perception of reality, but also how we engage with the world around us. In this 90-minute experiential workshop, attendees will explore how the vocabulary coaches and clients use can foster a spirit of curiosity and action. Ultimately, the goal with our clients is to co-create an accessible map they’re excited to use, not an overwhelming obstacle course they’re never able to start.

  Participants will experiment with techniques to help clients strategically choose what to put on their map. They’ll learn to harness language as a tool for cultivating a more proactive, goal-oriented mindset, and for helping clients recognize blind spots and gaps in their planning. A central theme of this workshop is that facilitating client growth isn't a checkbox confined to the final minutes — it runs through every part of a coaching conversation, drawing on the full range of ICF core competencies.

  LEARNING OBJECTIVES:

  -Identify opportunities to facilitate growth throughout the entire arc of client conversations

  -Implement techniques to help clients create a robust plan for post-session activation

  -Transform action planning into an experience that drives motivation

  SPEAKER BIO:

  Dina Venezky, PhD, PCC-ACTC, BCC, is a leadership coach who helps curious people and teams navigate the relational dynamics that shape their work and lives. She partners with clients to reflect on how their strengths and narratives can lead to greater fulfillment. With diverse expertise spanning senior communications roles at Smith College, Stanford GSB Executive Education, and the USGS Volcano Hazards Program, plus experience in data analytics consulting, marketing, HR, and entrepreneurship, Dina brings a multifaceted perspective to her coaching practice. Dina earned her PhD from Brown University, where she studied volcanoes and investigated innovative approaches to knowledge sharing. https://www.sparklingleaders.com/

  Laura Reid, PCC, Certified MentorCoach®, Professional Certified ADHD Coach, transforms stress into curiosity. She loves helping people live more intentionally, and work with – rather than against – the way they’re wired. Laura studied what makes people tick at Stanford, both from the inside out and through the lens of group dynamics (BA Psychology, MA Sociology). She loves exploring the stories we tell ourselves (consciously or unconsciously), and how they shape the way we engage with life. Laura partners with clients to untangle the web of interconnected factors preventing progress, and to create a new, resonant narrative that will propel them forward. www.resonantlivingcoaching.com

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• Alison Nail-Malone, ACC, Grief Literacy for Coaches: Supporting Clients Through Invisible Loss - ICF AR-OK Chapter Community Meeting

  • When
    Thu, December 10, 2026
  •  
    12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
  • Location
    Zoom

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  0.75 Core Competency and 0.25 Resource Development CCEs
  

  Alison Nail-Malone, ACC, is an ICF AR-OK chapter member and will be our featured presenter.

  Grief shows up in many coaching conversations—we just don’t always call it that. Whether a client is navigating a career transition, loss of identity, burnout, or anticipatory grief, they are often experiencing forms of loss that remain unseen and unnamed.

  In this interactive session, we’ll explore how coaches can become more “grief-literate” — understanding the many faces of grief beyond death and learning how to skillfully support clients through emotional transitions without overstepping into therapy. Participants will gain practical language, tools, and reflective practices to recognize grief when it appears, hold space with compassion, and stay grounded in ethical coaching boundaries.

  Drawing from my work as a Grief Coach, End-of-Life Doula, and former caregiver, this session offers a gentle yet transformative framework for integrating grief awareness into everyday coaching practice.

  WHAT YOU WILL LEARN:

  • Grief shows up in many coaching conversations—we just don’t always call it that. Whether a client is navigating a career transition, loss of identity, burnout, or anticipatory grief, they are often experiencing forms of loss that remain unseen and unnamed.

  • In this interactive session, we’ll explore how coaches can become more “grief-literate” — understanding the many faces of grief beyond death and learning how to skillfully support clients through emotional transitions without overstepping into therapy. Participants will gain practical language, tools, and reflective practices to recognize grief when it appears, hold space with compassion, and stay grounded in ethical coaching boundaries.

  • Drawing from my work as a Grief Coach, End-of-Life Doula, and former caregiver, this session offers a gentle yet transformative framework for integrating grief awareness into everyday coaching practice.

  
  

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• OKC Coach Meetup + Walk & Talk (December)

  • When
    Sat, December 12, 2026
  •  
    10:00 AM - 12:00 PM
  • Location
    The Red Cup restaurant at 3122 N Classen Blvd in OKC

  Register

  Coach Meetup + Walk & Talk
  Saturday, December 12 | 10:00 a.m.
  The Red Cup | 3122 N. Classen Blvd., Oklahoma City

  Looking for more connection and community with fellow coaches? Join us for a casual Saturday morning meetup at The Red Cup. Come to connect, share, and get to know other coaches in our community. Come to share. Leave knowing you’re not alone.

  We’ll start with food and conversation at The Red Cup, then, if time and weather permit, head somewhere nearby for a walk and talk.

  See The Red Cup’s menu and details at https://www.theredcupokc.com/.

  The Meet Up is open to ALL, including members and non-members, aspiring, new, and experienced coaches. 

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• Harnessing AI: Empowering Coaches to Inspire and Ignite Client Growth (ICF North Florida Chapter Hosting)

  • When
    Wed, January 13, 2027
  •  
    11:00 AM - 12:15 PM
  • Location
    Zoom

  Register

  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.

  Ensure you complete the second step of the Zoom registration. If you do not, you will not receive the Zoom link or the recording. It is your responsibility to register with ICF Global.

  

  .75 Core Competency, 0.5 Resource Development CCEs

  DESCRIPTION:

  AI offers new possibilities and innovative tools for coaches looking to better serve their clients, expand their influence, and grow their businesses. This session introduces generative AI’s application in enhancing client relationships, personalizing growth strategies, and optimizing business tasks. Coaches will engage in practical, hands-on exploration of AI tools to automate repetitive tasks and improve client collaboration.

  LEARNING OBJECTIVES

  1. Learn how incorporating AI properly supports ethical coaching practices, improves coaching agreements, and maintains confidentiality while streamlining business operations.

  2. Explore how AI tools can enhance coaching presence, active listening, and powerful questioning in alignment with ICF Core Competencies.

  3. Understand how AI can amplify coaching practices by automating repetitive tasks, resulting in improved client engagement, collaboration, and growth.

  Speaker Bio:                                  

  Lei Comerford is an award-winning Executive & Leadership Coach, Workshop Facilitator, and Certified AI Consultant with over 25 years of strategic and operational leadership experience in healthcare and hospitality. Her background spans pharmacy benefit management, biopharma, and consulting services, ultimately guiding her into Learning & Development, where she discovered a deep passion for coaching and empowering leaders.

  
  

  As founder of her own leadership development practice, Lei works with a diverse range of clients, including HR and L&D professionals, coaches, leadership teams, and organizations. A PCC-accredited ICF coach, she was recently named one of the 2025 Top Coaches in America by Top Coach Awards. Known for her warm, welcoming presence and deep commitment to growth, Lei designs and facilitates transformative workshops and retreats focused on cognitive diversity, Whole Brain Thinking, and core leadership competencies. Her signature program, the Advancement Leadership Development Program, equips emerging leaders to lead with confidence and prepare for what’s next.

  
  

  With a mission to “Help Leaders Advance,” Lei blends cutting-edge AI fluency training with human-centered coaching to challenge the status quo and guide clients from surviving to thriving. Whether speaking at SHRM and ICF conferences, leading AI webinars, facilitating on-site training, or coaching one-on-one, Lei empowers leaders to unlock what’s possible—with integrity, positivity, and a growth mindset.

  
  

  Lei currently volunteers with the ATD Nashville Chapter, serves as an Advisor for The Healthcare Business Woman’s Association Ambassador program, mentors through The Vanderbilt University Women in Business program, and gives back via coaching services through the Humanitarian Coaches Network. She resides in the Nashville, TN area

  
  

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• The Resonant Coach: A Focused Refresh of Listening Foundations and Competency 6 (San Francisco Bay Area Chapter Hosting)

  • When
    Thu, January 21, 2027
  •  
    2:00 PM - 3:30 PM
  • Location
    Zoom

  Register

  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.

  Ensure you complete the second step of the Zoom registration. If you do not, you will not receive the Zoom link or the recording. It is your responsibility to register with ICF Global.

  

  1.5 Core Competency CCEs

  In this interactive session, participants will revisit the essentials of Active Listening and explore how these foundations directly impact the coaching relationship. Drawing upon the presenter’s experience in coaching and education, this session will clarify the common barriers to effective listening and highlight why deep listening is so vital to coaching success.
  The session will also include a practical look at how ICF Competency 6 shows up in real-world conversations, identifying the small shifts that turn regular hearing into truly transformational listening. Through quick breakouts and lighthearted exercises, coaches will have the opportunity to align with these markers and sharpen their existing skills in a high-energy environment.
  

  This is an educational, reflective, and experiential session designed to support coaches in refreshing their core skills, regardless of their current level of experience.

  3 Learning Objectives

  Align their coaching practice with ICF Competency 6 markers, specifically focusing on the subtle shifts that move a conversation from simple hearing to transformational listening.
  
  Differentiate between "functional hearing" and "transformational listening," identifying the specific behaviors that move a coach beyond simple information gathering toward deeper resonance.
  
  Cultivate an adaptive coaching mindset by using lighthearted, high-energy interaction to overcome common listening barriers and maintain presence in a virtual environment.

  
  

  Speaker Bio: 

  Shachi Patel, PCC, is the founder of SETU Coaching & Consulting. With SETU meaning "bridge" in Sanskrit, she proudly serves as a bridge between her clients' technical expertise and leadership excellence. Drawing on over three decades of leadership in technology and healthcare, she leverages her engineering, program, and people management background to help STEM professionals and women in tech thrive in complex environments. Her coaching, training, and specialized workshops focus on helping leaders navigate pivotal career changes and transitions through a creative, compassionate, and courageous approach.
  
  With global experience spanning NORAM, EMEA, and APAC, Shachi offers a diverse approach to leadership development, change management, and strategic influence. As a Mentor Coach at UC Davis, she integrates a decade of coaching expertise to develop the next generation of coaches, helping them transform technical proficiency into coaching excellence

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• Overcoming Resistance - An Advanced Applied Neuroscience Perspective for Experienced Coaches (ICF New Jersey Chapter Hosting)

  • When
    Thu, January 28, 2027
  •  
    11:00 AM - 12:30 PM
  • Location
    Zoom

  Register

  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.

  Ensure you complete the second step of the Zoom registration. If you do not, you will not receive the Zoom link or the recording. It is your responsibility to register with ICF Global.

  

  1.5 Core Competency CCE

  DESCRIPTION:
  
  

  Resistance isn't your client's problem. It's their brain's solution. Discover the neuroscience behind why motivated clients stay stuck and learn how to coach beyond insight into lasting transformation.

  Resistance is often understood as a client’s reluctance to change, lack of motivation, avoidance, or failure to follow through. From an Advanced Applied Neuroscience (AAN) perspective, however, resistance is something more specific: an ineffective response pattern to emotional discomfort. This workshop introduces experienced coaches to a neuroscience-based framework for understanding why clients get stuck, especially when insight, motivation, and desire for change are already present.
  
  Participants will explore the difference between immediate threat responses associated with the amygdala and uncertainty-related threat responses associated with the BNST. They will learn why many forms of resistance are not simply cognitive blocks or motivational issues, but learned patterns shaped by past experience, meaning-making, and the client’s relationship with unpleasant emotions. The workshop will help coaches distinguish the client’s surface narrative from the deeper pattern of how the client interacts with emotional discomfort, giving them a more precise and practical lens for supporting difficult change.
  
  Key Takeaways. Participants will leave with:
  - A clearer neuroscience-based definition of resistance.
  - A distinction between “resistance to change” and resistance created by learned patterns of responding to discomfort.
  - A deeper understanding of why insight alone often does not create sustainable transformation.
  - A practical question they can begin using immediately: How is this client interacting with emotional discomfort?
  - A more precise way to listen beneath the client’s narrative and identify the patterns that may be blocking change.
  
  
  LEARNING OBJECTIVES:
  By the end of this workshop, participants will be able to:
  -Define resistance from an AAN perspective as an ineffective response pattern to emotional discomfort.
  - Distinguish between immediate threat responses and uncertainty-related threat patterns that may block transformation.
  - Identify why clients can be highly motivated to change while still remaining stuck in reinforced emotional-response patterns.
  - Recognize how past experience, meaning-making, and learned responses to discomfort shape client resistance.
  - Apply a practical coaching lens that separates the client’s narrative from the client’s relationship with emotional discomfort.
  
  SPEAKER BIO: 
  Reut Schwartz-Hebron is the founder of KCI (Key Change Institute) and a neuroscience-based coach educator specializing in difficult change, resistance, and transformation. Through her Advanced Applied Neuroscience Coaching programs, she has trained and certified hundreds of experienced executive and life coaches. Reut’s work brings together the neuroscience of threat, emotion, and transformation to help experienced coaches better understand why clients get stuck, why insight alone often fails, and how learned subconscious patterns of responding to emotional discomfort can block meaningful change. Her teaching offers a practical neuroscience lens for distinguishing the client’s surface narrative from the deeper patterns that shape resistance, adaptability, and sustainable transformation.

  
  

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• The Questions That Change Everything: Asking at the ACC, PCC and MCC Levels (ICF Gulf Chapter Hosting)

  • When
    Wed, February 24, 2027
  •  
    11:00 AM - 12:30 PM
  • Location
    Zoom

  Register

  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.

  Ensure you complete the second step of the Zoom registration. If you do not, you will not receive the Zoom link or the recording. It is your responsibility to register with ICF Global.

  

  CCE: TBD

  DESCRIPTION:

  A question asked at the ACC level sounds different from one asked at the MCC level. The words may be similar, but the intention behind them, the curiosity that drives them and the way they land for the client are not. In this hands-on session, Sophia Casey, MCC, shows how questions change as coaches grow through the credential levels, and why that change matters for the client.
  
  Participants will watch a live demonstration in the Intention. Curiosity. Flow. (ICF)™ Practice Lab, where a coach works with a client. Then the group will review the feedback together: what worked, what could grow, and which questions could have opened the conversation further. Participants leave with a clearer sense of their own questioning and what the next level asks of them.
  
  The session draws on Sophia's book, Intention. Curiosity. Flow. (ICF)™: Masterful Coaching Questions That Transform Conversations.
  
  The book isn't required to take part, but if you'd like a copy ahead of the session, you'll find it on Amazon.
  

  LEARNING OBJECTIVES

  1. Distinguish how questions differ at the ACC, PCC and MCC levels
  2. Recognize how intention and curiosity shape a question before it is asked
  3. Assess a coaching conversation for missed questions that could have deepened client awareness
  4. Pick one specific shift to move their own questioning toward the next credential level
     

  Speaker Bio:                                  

  Sophia Casey is an International Coaching Federation (ICF) Master Certified Coach (MCC), a globally recognized keynote speaker, executive coach, and

   leadership consultant. She is the Founder & CEO of

   Sophia Casey Speaks, and ICLI RISING, an ICF-accredited coach training and leadership development institute, where she has trained, mentored, supported, and coached thousands of leaders and professional coaches. She is also the Co Founder and Vice President of the International Black Coaches Alliance (IBCA), a global nonprofit organization committed to advancing visibility, opportunity, community, and economic empowerment for Black coaches worldwide.
  
  Sophia previously served as Director of First Impressions for a task force for the former Vice President of the United States and has led enterprise-wide leadership development initiatives supporting thousands of professionals across public and private-sector organizations. Her clients and audiences have included organizations such as Google, TJ Maxx, BetterUp, and Dress for Success. Sophia is also an eight-time published and bestselling author whose work has been featured on Fox News, NBC, CBS, and SUCCESS Magazine.
  
  A highly sought-after keynote speaker, Sophia Casey has spoken internationally on leadership, coaching excellence, organizational performance, and professional development. She is widely recognized as a thought leader within the coaching profession and has served in several influential leadership and advisory roles across the International Coaching Federation (ICF), including the ICF DEIB Global Council, the reinvention efforts connected to the ICF Mentor Coaching and Coach Supervision competencies and processes, and as the former inaugural lead for the ICF Coach Education Assessor Community. Sophia also served as the featured spokesperson and demonstration coach for the official 2025 ICF Core Competency #8: Facilitates Client Growth video, a global educational resource used by thousands of coach education organizations, training programs, mentor coaches, assessors, and credential-seeking coaches around the world. Her contributions continue to influence the evolution of coach education, mentor coaching, assessor development, and professional coaching standards globally.

  
  

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