NCCA Meeting Minutes

26 June 2003

Attendees

• Joan, Bobbie, Sue, John, Mindy, Diane, Lucinda, Lynne, Christine, Carl, Tony

How do you describe coaching when people ask you what it is?

• I help people bring their authentic contributions to the world
• I help people figure out what they want to do with their career and figure out how to get it
• I'm a midwife of dreams
• I use the words incredible, inspiration, dreams
• I help people figure out what they want to be when they grow up
• I focus on goals and growth, on strength rather than dysfunction
• I help people achieve any of their goals
• I help you do what you know you should be doing, and if you don't know, I help you figure that out
• I help people through transition by discovering the clarity of their passion
• I help people see possibilities they're not aware of, to achieve their goals

NoCoNet

• John is working with a bunch of people who are starting a group called NoCoNet to help people who are out of work.
• It's a weekly forum starting at 8:30 on June 30th.
• The website is www.noconet.org.

Summer Coaching League

• Irene should be sending out the information soon.

Budget Guidelines

• We'll try to cover this at the next meeting since Martha wasn't here today
• Martha is the keeper of the budget, and the leadership circle makes big decisions around where to spend our money.

Update on Colorado Regulations - Christine

• Currently the Colorado law says that coaches should register as unlicensed therapists, $200/year with more information supplied
• Currently this covers life coaching, not corporate coaching, but that might be changing
• You would be bound by their code of ethics, need to take a jurisprudence workshop
• This law is due to sunset this year
• Pat is working with an ICF-attached group (the "dirty dozen") on how/when/if coaching should be regulated by the government - this group is focused on Colorado and there's a larger ICF group looking at the big picture of regulation
• The group is looking at compelling reasons for why the law should be changed
• There's a lot of implications of making progress on this issue: Need to define coaching, need to reconcile different definitions, need to relate to other professions, what profession will "own" coaching, ….
• The group should be more proactive about letting people know what's going on. It's a tough task!
• If you want to know what's going on or want to influence the process, contact Christine at < christine@hawkview.net >.

ICF Research Symposium - Diane

• This will be in Denver on November 12th
• There will be some interesting talks about theory, research that's been done
• This is helping to position Northern Colorado as a base of coaching research
• Diane and Irene are going to the first research-based conference in Sydney next month
• Diane is getting to start a study with Regis
• CoachVille is starting a peer review journal for review of research
• Diane is going to be the ICF research community liaison
• Diane's paper is attached

Powerful Choices for a Power-full Life - Christine

• Julio Olalla is holding a workshop in Santa Fe September 11-12
• He's pretty leading edge, talks about our role and responsibility to the community, directing our profession
• Julio is moving to Boulder
• To build awareness around this, they're willing to hold a teleconference for us
• Christine will send out a poll, looking to schedule the call around the week of July 28th, probably at 5:30pm. Tuesday looks best. Christine will get back to us with details.
• The website is: www.newfieldnetwork.com

What do we want to bring to the ICF Conference?

Ideas we've heard

• The Denver group would like to have a party sponsored by Colorado coaches
• As individuals we can act as greeters, hosts
• We could sell some ball caps that have values printed all over them
• Oxygen bar
• Have a room where we facilitate some discussions about regulation, could have some really hard and probing discussions
• People promote some of the unique things they're doing, announce it and have a discussion - a hospitality room with open discussions facilitated by various people
• A "coaching salon"

Impact we might like to have on the conference

• Community building within our state
• Impact on the coaching community as a whole
• Establish Colorado as a leader in regulation, in research
• Facilitating the ease of the conference
• Take the conference's theme to a very very high level
• Have the ICF impact Denver and Colorado in a very cool way - community outreach
• The theme "being of service" can be applied in many ways - being of service to other coaches, to the community, …. - it can be a theme for the week

Things we could do

• Some tables where people can meet over lunch
• Have more access to author-coaches from Colorado, get more exposure, develop a more heart-centered relationship with them
• Coach people in the community for free, contribute to some very important community issues
• A community outreach - open talk to the community, open coaching to the community at Fiddler's Green - show the power of coaching
• Specific areas of needs: shelters, out-of-work
• A call center, partner with a TV station [a person at the Denver chapter is hooked up to channel 9] - different coaching specialties during periods of time
• Have coaches go out to various locations "coaching on the road"
• Coaching civil service, coaching at shelters, …
• Have a party, perhaps in celebration of these other activities
• Connect with a radio/TV station
• The hats are a neat identifier, recognition
• Clear Channel Radio might be very open to sponsoring something
• Get donations to fund someone to have a coach for a year - coaching scholarships for the general public, coach can offer it at a reduced price
• Recognize various schools of coaching by having coaches from different schools do coaching
• Change the language around "regulation" to be more "being of service"
• Offer coaching or other information to the Colorado lawmakers
• Take a bunch of coaches to the state capitol and give a presentation
• "Model of Excellence" theme: excellent service, getting great feedback and acting on it, ombudsman/concierge
• Help by meeting the needs identified by the volunteer coordination committee (Margaret Hensle)
• Welcome in the airport
• Water bottles, skin cream, massage people, relaxing music
• Fact sheets about Colorado, conference
• Make it very clear who is sponsoring this, clearly identifiable, "Colorado Coaches in Service: A Model of Excellence"
• Provide a way for people to be active, to contribute, to get involved
• See if we can find a company that can make CDs of what we're doing
• Computer hookup in the salon

Next steps

• A circle of people who would like to focus on this: Christine, Lynne, Joan, Lucinda, Diane, Tony
• Anybody else who would like to be involved please contact Lynne at < whirldpeaz@attbi.com >
• Christine will take these ideas to the other coaching chapters to see where they have energy

Why would other Colorado coaches want to get involved in this?

• Be as cool as us :-)
• Join in the energy
• More expansive thinking
• Being more positive (what can we give -vs- what will regulation do to us)
• Attract more clients
• Create an identity for Colorado coaching

Facilitator for next meeting

• John Spencer volunteered - thank you!