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Day 1 Friday 10/18

time iconOctober 18, 2024 08:30 am

Welcome to “Disruption in Coaching: Breaking Open and Breaking Through”

time iconOctober 18, 2024 09:00 am

Embracing the Edge: Uncertainty and Impostor Syndrome as Catalysts for Profound Transformation

In an era where disruption is the norm, the coaching profession stands at a pivotal juncture. This workshop delves into the under-explored terrain of Productive Uncertainty—the deliberate use of ambiguity and self-doubt as tools for transformative change. Rather than seeking refuge in certainty or battling against impostor syndrome, this session invites coaches and clients alike to inhabit the discomfort of the unknown, recognizing it as a fertile ground for innovation and profound personal growth.

We will explore the paradoxical power of uncertainty: how it dismantles our illusions of control, challenges the comfort of established norms, and forces us to confront our deepest vulnerabilities. In this space, coaches and clients can transcend traditional boundaries, breaking through limiting beliefs and habitual thought patterns. The facilitators will help participants navigate advanced techniques that leverage these disruptions, converting the fear of the unknown into a strategic advantage and a wellspring of creativity. This session will resonate with those ready to move beyond surface-level solutions and engage in a coaching practice that embraces complexity, fosters resilience, and ignites transformative change.

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Divya Parekh, PCC
The DP Group LLC

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Vahbiz Shroff, PhD, PCC
Living Your Best Coaching LLC

time iconOctober 18, 2024 10:30 am

The Power of Receiving: Disrupting Limiting Beliefs to Create Abundance

“The universe operates through dynamic exchange...giving and receiving are different aspects of the flow of energy in the universe,” as eloquently expressed by Deepak Chopra. In a world that often values giving over receiving, understanding the art of receiving can be a game-changing shift for your clients' coaching journey. It's essential to guide clients in balancing these energies, as they both are pivotal for their personal and professional growth. Focusing exclusively on giving can lead to burnout and hinder progress, while resisting receiving may block their path to success. Embracing receiving with gratitude is a disruptive approach that overcomes fears, scarcity mindset, and feelings of unworthiness. This energetic transformative shift not only enhances their well-being but also unlocks new opportunities and abundance. By learning to receive graciously, we not only empower ourselves but also allow others to experience the joy of giving.

Through thought-provoking discussions and practical strategies participants will learn how to help their client breakthrough these beliefs, fostering an environment where they can openly receive and achieve their highest potential.

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Linda Selner Vasquez, CPC
Gateway to Abundance LLC

time iconOctober 18, 2024 12:00 pm

Lunch & Networking

It is lunch time in Raleigh, NC! Grab lunch (or a snack) and head over to the Lounge where you will find opportunities to network with coaches based on your interests.

time iconOctober 18, 2024 01:00 pm

Keynote: Courageously Disrupt: Evoke Awareness That Heals & Emboldens

What is your reaction to being told disruption is a serious challenge? The state of being disrupted may not be ignored today. Whether you think of disruption as an unwelcome intruder, a natural cycle in nature, a principle of economics (creative deconstruction) or a consequence of human actions.

The pain people are feeling is not being transformed through healing; it is being transmitted to others. There are so many examples of inequity across industries and sectors, including education and government, that it is a head-spinning disruption to contemplate. All this disruption points to the importance of putting relationships first. In the words of noted sociologist, Edgar Schein, connection, and belonging are fundamental units of human society.

Organizational leaders now, more than ever, yearn for a personal experience of being enlivened, as workplace incivility caps out at an all-time high. Unless leaders disrupt the entrenched status quo, post-disruption innovation will fail. So, what does all of this mean for coaching and leading? Coaching partnerships must invite change. As coaches, our value and contribution to clients is to evoke awareness and oLer the space to be curious about their habits, preferences, assumptions, and biases that function as barriers to connection and belonging.

Our presence and courage to challenge clients to look more deeply within initiates the generative process. Evoking awareness in this more holistic fashion supports leaders to open thinking, feeling, and acting with clear-eyed consciousness. Anything that prevents you from seeing the world as it is, is worthy of your attention.

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Janet M. Harvey, MCC
inviteChange

time iconOctober 18, 2024 02:30 pm

Networking Break

Time for a break to rest and stretch.  Take a moment to head over to the Lounge where you will find opportunities to network with coaches based on your interests.  Visit our Sponsor Area to connect and chat with our Sponsor organizations.

time iconOctober 18, 2024 03:00 pm

Busting Coaching Website Myths: What You Truly Need to Turn Clicks Into Clients

Is your website working hard enough for you?

Is it connecting with ideal clients, and driving them to work with you?

The key isn’t technology or perfection.

While industry gurus may have you chasing the perfect flashy website and fancy technology - join us to disrupt these ideas & reveal what REALLY matters when creating an effective, compelling website for your coaching practice: telling your story and inviting true connection.

So before you get lost in the weeds of SEO, ads, and more - let’s make sure your site delivers your value clearly in this quick, action-focused presentation taught by Annie Franceschi - a former Disney storyteller, bestselling business author, and branding expert to hundreds of coaches and consultants.

Together, we’ll discover 5 practical things you can do to help your site connect with more ideal clients and more confidently communicate your value through branding. With extra time for questions, you'll even be invited to volunteer for live expert feedback on your current website!

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Annie Franceschi
Greatest Story Collective

time iconOctober 18, 2024 04:00 pm

Networking Break

Time for a break to rest and stretch.  Take a moment to head over to the Lounge where you will find opportunities to network with coaches based on your interests.  Visit our Sponsor Area to connect and chat with our Sponsor organizations.

time iconOctober 18, 2024 04:30 pm

Neurodiversity: A Celebration of Disruption

“Neurodiversity: A Celebration of Disruption” is a presentation to evoke fresh awareness and increased appreciation for neurodiversity in our community. Coaches will learn the definition of neurodiversity and how it appears in our schools, workplace, and larger community. Supporting neurodiverse clients with a strengths-based lens is important to establish for both current stability and future growth. Through this presentation, participants may even develop a greater compassion for their own eclectic approach to life.

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Sandra Clifton, PCC
Clifton Corner

time iconOctober 18, 2024 06:00 pm

Networking Break

Time for a break to rest and stretch.  Take a moment to head over to the Lounge where you will find opportunities to network with coaches based on your interests.  Visit our Sponsor Area to connect and chat with our Sponsor organizations.

time iconOctober 18, 2024 06:30 pm

Disrupt Your Listening for Partnership

Imagine the breakthroughs waiting beneath the surface of your typical coaching conversations—insights that could transform your clients' lives but remain just out of reach because they are wrapped in metaphors, often missed as we listen to our clients. Let’s explore the ways habitual listening can limit our coaching effectiveness. This session will teach you how to disrupt biased or performative listening patterns, creating space for more intentional and impactful conversations that honor the client's unique conceptual framework.

Metaphors are not just linguistic sayings but keys to deeper self-awareness for clients through safer exploration. If it’s true that to be heard is fundamental in coaching. Then, explore how you might learn to listen with more intention in support of clients, uncovering transformative insights that may otherwise remain hidden. By discovering the art of listening for metaphors in coaching, you can support "sticky outcomes"— deeply felt and long-lasting transformations, for your client's success and growth.

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Lyssa deHart, MCC, BCC
Lyssa deHart Coaching

Day 2 Saturday 10/19

time iconOctober 19, 2024 09:30 am

Attract Great Clients, with or without a Specific Niche

Most coaches have gotten advice that they must define a niche if they want to grow a successful coaching practice. But all too often, this narrow perspective keeps talented coaches stuck in analysis paralysis, worried that they’re “doing it wrong.”

Ready for some good news? While a niche is a good way to focus your business, it is definitely not the ONLY way.

Presenter Mary Cravets teaches from her own experience of earning multiple six figures for years before she chose a niche.

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Mary Cravets
Simply Get Clients

time iconOctober 19, 2024 10:30 am

Tapping into the Body's Wisdom: Leveraging the Body’s Felt Sense to Harness Disruption for Transformative Coaching

Disruption, whether internal or external, triggers our natural tendency to retreat into familiar patterns and resist change. However, reframing and embracing disruption can allow coaches to guide clients to their intuitive wisdom and embrace the opportunity to break free from limiting beliefs, stagnant behaviors, and the status quo. Drawing on insights from mind-body experts such as Eugene Gendlin, Joe Dispenza, Bessel van der Kolk, John Sarno, and Herbert Benson, this session will teach coaches how to help clients tune into their bodily sensations to access deep-seated emotions, memories, and wisdom that can fuel transformative change.

Attendees will learn how to become aware of and interpret the body's signals during times of disruption, to invite new perspectives, foster resilience, and inspire creativity and growth. This approach not only empowers clients to move into their discomfort, it also teaches them to use the awareness to move beyond it.

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Dani Fox, MBA
Dani Fox Coaching & Hypnosis

time iconOctober 19, 2024 12:00 pm

Lunch & Networking

It is lunch time in Raleigh, NC! Grab lunch (or a snack) and head over to the Lounge where you will find opportunities to network with coaches based on your interests.

time iconOctober 19, 2024 01:00 pm

Fireside Chat: Embracing Disruptions: A personal journey as a woman, immigrant, and a coach

In today’s world, change is the only constant. My journey began when I moved across the globe to the U.S. for grad school. Little did I know, more big shifts were on the horizon. After establishing a successful career and building a family, I felt an inner calling for yet another transformation—leaving a high-paying job at a global tech company to dive into the unknown world of coaching. At the time, coaching was unfamiliar to most people in my network. I had to completely reinvent myself, adopting a coaching mindset to build credibility and impact in a field where few looked like me. This included leading the Washington ICF chapter and consistently “walking my talk” as a coach. Each challenge I faced pushed me to ask, “What is this disruption asking me to become?” The answers weren’t always clear, but the journey—though often daunting—was transformative. Along the way, I encountered incredible colleagues and friends who cheered me on, offering support in times of doubt.

This talk will be delivered in a Q&A format, where I’ll share personal stories that highlight key takeaways for the audience.

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Sharmin Banu, PCC
Greenleaf Leadership Coaching

time iconOctober 19, 2024 02:00 pm

Networking Break

Time for a break to rest and stretch.  Take a moment to head over to the Lounge where you will find opportunities to network with coaches based on your interests.  Visit our Sponsor Area to connect and chat with our Sponsor organizations.

time iconOctober 19, 2024 02:30 pm

Navigating Disruption: Unleashing Values for Transformative Coaching

Amy will guide participants through a reflective journey to uncover their core values. By understanding what truly matters to us, we can better support our clients in their own self-discovery. In a world of constant change and upheaval, coaches play a pivotal role in helping individuals and organizations navigate through disruption. Amy Schoen invites fellow coaches to explore how values can serve as powerful tools.

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Amy Schoen, PCC
Motivated to Marry Relationship Coach Training Program

time iconOctober 19, 2024 04:00 pm

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