Upcoming events
ICF DC Chapter presents Coaching with a Twist: Improv for Coaches
Join guest facilitators, Betsy Salkind and Amy Warshawsky, creators of Improv for Coaches – where coaching meets the spontaneous art of improvisation. Discover more joy in coaching, as we play with presence, active listening, succinctness, and co-creation – embracing the bottomless well of possibilities in each coaching moment.
Come for the warm-up games. Stay for “Coaching with a Twist.”
Upon completion of this session, you will be able to:
Quickly come into a calm, creative, resourceful state.
Actively listen and bring greater precision to reflections of client desires, values and strengths.
Bring more playfulness and empathy into your coaching.
Find more freedom in your coaching through non-judgment of self and others.
Integrate ICF core coaching competencies in ways that support client transformation.
Bring your adventurous spirit, your sense of play and fun.
Coaching With a Twist: Book Launch Party
Join in on the fun and games as we celebrate the launch of Coaching with a Twist: Improv for Coaches.
Closing Keynote —The University of Wisconsin - Stevens Point International Health & Wellness Coaching Conference
CLOSING KEYNOTE — Coaching With A Twist: Improv for Coaches
In this energizing closing keynote, coaching meets the spontaneous art of improvisation to uncover new levels of joy, presence, and creativity in the coaching process. Designed for coaches of all experience levels, this highly interactive session explores how the core principles of improv—presence, listening, collaboration, and adaptability—can deepen client connection and unlock fresh possibilities in every conversation. Through playful exercises drawn from theater, comedy, and coaching-specific frameworks, participants will learn to let go of rigid planning, embrace spontaneity, and trust their intuition. Attendees will leave feeling recharged, inspired, and equipped to co-create with greater ease, flow, and authenticity.
HuddleFest: Successful Co-Facilitation — Design & Delivery
Group coaching does not have to be scary, limiting, or lonely. In this interactive session, you’ll explore — and experience — the power of co-facilitation. As a seasoned co-facilitation team, we will share real-world techniques, best practices, and lessons learned from what works (and what doesn’t). This session will go beyond theory and into action.
Improv for Coaches Workshop
Hone your coaching skills while having fun. As coaches we are improvisers; we have structures and skills (competencies), but to apply those most effectively, we must be in the moment, listening, connecting and co-creating.
Using improv rules and structures from theatre and comedy, as well as those tailored just for coaches, we experiment, play and learn. You’ll get comfortable with not pre-planning or getting ahead in your coaching conversations, and trust in the bottomless well of ideas and possibilities that we all (coaches and clients) have access to all of the time.
Holding Hopelessness
A COLLABORATION BETWEEN BNA AND ABETTER WAY
This 3-hour workshop will cover practical skills and ethical concerns around coaching clients experiencing suicidality.
Starting with new perspectives on suicidality based on the latest research, you’ll learn to apply coaching techniques to address this and other red flags – all while staying in scope. You will see a demonstration of this approach as well as practice having these crucial conversations in a low-stakes environment.
Upon completion of this course, you will:
Have different perspective on suicidality that honors client agency, and is more empowering and encouraging for the client.
Know when and how to access higher level support for you and your clients.
Have increased capacity to support those experiencing distress within scope of practice.
Understand how to coach a client to greater self-efficacy in accessing support and envisioning a future worth living.
Ethical Decision Making
We hear a lot about ethics in coaching but how do we actually make ethical decisions in complex situations? In this experiential offering, you will learn a 6-part Ethical Decision Making Model and then practice applying it to ethical dilemmas in coaching. You will leave with a framework for working through any ethical challenge.
Upon completion of this 3-hour workshop, you will be able to:
Recognize that ethical dilemmas are common, normal, and often uncomfortable
Understand the six parts of the Ethical Decision Making Model
Use the Ethical Decision Making Model to support your decision-making process
Participants will also receive supporting resource materials for ongoing reference.
NBHWC approved course #CEA-100155-1.