*Uncommon Conversation* for August 12 - Celebrating the Future for Coaching:Where We Came From and Where Are We Going?
| August 12, 2008 | ||
| 2:00 pm | to | 3:00 pm |
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Topic: Celebrating the Future for Coaching: Where We Came From and Where Are We Going?
Tuesday, August 12th
Time: 2:00 to 3:00 pm EDT
Dr. Patrick Williams joins us once again and you will definitely want to be a part of this conversation!
In many recent forums, the future of coaching surfaces a hot topic– for reflection, for discussion, for collaboration, for design….
Dr. Williams says that many coaches and other interested professionals are saying: ‘Let’s have a closer look at that — the Future of Coaching — and look at areas/categories where we want to ask provocative questions?!’
As Ruth Ann Harnisch offers, ‘What are we Not Looking At?’ http://www.coachingcommons.org/featured/what-are-we-not-looking/
To begin this Uncommon Conversation, there are a few things that come to mind:
How has coaching to date informed the present coaching milieu?
- What is happening right now in coaching based on the past?
- What are the current blindspots in coaching and how will we even know that we have those blindspots — who will help us illuminate ourselves, this ever emerging profession and what we want for this profession?
What and who will inform the future?
- will it be just those of us who adore coaching?
- will it be other already declared and recognized professions ( and which ones )?
- will it be the people we call clients, who have experienced coaching first hand?
- will we coaches ask clients and others how/in what ways to use coaching to develop the profession?
What do you have to say about all this? We want to hear your coaching voice in this discussion.
One of the early pioneers of coaching, Pat is often called the ambassador of life coaching. Pat has been a licensed psychologist since 1980 and began executive coaching in 1990 with Hewlett Packard, IBM, Kodak and other companies along the front range of Colorado. He is a member of Phi Beta Kappa and a Cum Laude graduate of Kansas University in 1972. He completed his masters in Humanistic Psychology in 1975 and doctorate in Transpersonal Psychology in 1977.
Pat joined Coach U in 1995, closed his therapy practice six months later and became a full time coach. He was a senior trainer with Coach U from 1997-1998. Pat then started his own coach training school, the Institute for Life Coach Training ( ILCT) which specializes in training those with a human services orientation. ILCT has trained over 2,500 helping professionals and has opened offices in Korea, Turkey, Italy, China and the UK.
Pat is the department chair of the Coaching Psychology program at the International University of Professional Studies (www.iups.edu) and has taught graduate coaching classes at Colorado State University, Denver University, City University of London and many others. He was a curriculum consultant for the Coaching Certificate program at Fielding International University (www.fielding.edu/hod/ce/ebc/faculty.htm)
Pat is a past board member of the International Coach Federation (ICF) and co-chaired the ICF regulatory committee. He is currently the president of the Association of Coach Training Organizations (ACTO), and honorary VP of the Association of Coaching Psychology.
In May 2006, Pat was honored as the first Global Visionary Fellow by the Foundation of Coaching for his Coaching the Global Village initiative to bring coaching methodologies to villages in developing countries and to the leaders of nonprofit and nongovernmental organizations who serve them. He is passionate about coaching and dedicated to ensuring is remains a respected profession.
Pat has authored several articles, book chapters and co-authored the following books:
- Therapist as Life Coach: Transforming Your Practice (2nd Edition 2007)
Total Life Coaching: 50+ Life lessons, Skills and Techniques to Enhance Your Practice and Your Life (2005)
Law and Ethics of Coaching: How to Solve and Avoid Difficult Problems in Your Practice(2006)
Becoming a Professional Coach: Lessons from the Institute for Life Coach Training (2007)
To attend this Uncommon Conversation and participate live with questions or comments, please sign up in the ‘registration for an Uncommon Conversation’ box.
If you can’t attend live, please remember to join the discussion with your comments-thoughts-questions below. And remember to come back The Coaching Commons where the recording will be posted for your listening pleasure.
Cost to attend the call: Free, except for your own long-distance telephone charges.
Popularity: 19% [?]
Comment by Elizabeth Crouch on 8 August 2008:
This is great! Yes, let’s look around the corners and into ourselves for those places that give us pause, that take our breath away.
It seems to me that it’s easy for our ‘coaching tribe’ to gather at annual conferences, workshops and even in our familiar teleconferences. We either share the delicious successes or conversely bemoan the plight of being a small business owner.
Don’t get me wrong. I know we in coaching do have extraordinary foundations. I listened to Jim Selman speak clearly about coaching this week and have read heaps of Vikki Brock’s amazing research on our roots. And yes, I want more. I believe we are identified now as a profession — clearly we can, and we need to, ask ourselves heaps of courageous questions that we can research and continue with bigger investigations and celebrations!
Comment by Latifu on 11 August 2008:
What are some of the issues to be addressed in coaching cross cultural clients who might be from or live within the U.S.A., as well as those who live in other countries?
Comment by Michelle Doiron on 11 August 2008:
I just completed the foundational program in coaching at ILCT in June. I am hoping to begin coaching this Fall. I’m very interested in where the profession is going as I’m just entering it, and leaving my private practice in psychotherapy. Basically took the summer off to re-evaluate everything, focus on my health and figuring out how I can be of best service as a life coach.
Comment by Linda Ballew on 12 August 2008:
Pat,
Just a wonderful call! Thanks for sharing your deep love of coaching and for asking such thought-provoking questions. I really liked approaching the “field of coaching” as the “coaching client” and asking that “field/client” who it wants to be in the future. Brilliant.