As the name suggests this class is facilitated to allow students to actually begin the practice of coaching - on each other. All students will have the chance to coach and be coached, with both facilitator comments and peer feedback. This is the place to be comfortable being a beginner or to jump in as a more experienced coach and hone your skills.

Led by Carol Harris-Fike

Our somatic experience – what happens in our bodies – is as important to forming the observers we are as are our thoughts and emotions. In coaching, attending to “the body”, our clients and our own, is a powerful avenue for discovery, learning and growth. Our clients’ thoughts and emotions are held in, shaped by and expressed through their bodies, which have their own wordless wisdom. Coaching to the client’s somatic experience can accelerate their ability to find liberating new perspectives and make meaningful changes in their lives. In this session we will explore the links between body, thought, and emotion, how to bring the client’s attention to their somatic experience in useful ways, how to support them in learning through the body, and how to use our own body experience effectively in our coaching

Led by Charles Feltman

Following participation in 133: Ethical Maturity Part One - Part 2 will deepen the exploration using Michael Carroll’s lens of ethical maturity with a reflective practice based on cases brought by participants.

Led by Robin Postel

On the surface, a code of ethics is fairly straightforward. In practice, it can be messier. In this 2 hour session, we will explore real ethical dilemmas participating coaches face in their practice, using Michael Carroll’s lens of ethical maturity. This is defined as “having the reflective, rational, emotional and intuitive capacity to decide whether actions are right and wrong or good and better, having the resilience and courage to implement those decisions, being accountable for ethical decisions made (publicly or privately), and being able to learn from and live with the experience(s)” (in Erik de Haan Supervision in Action 2012). An assignment will be given to all participants in order to prepare for Part Two next week!

Led by Robin Postel

This class is for participants who already have at least two current coaching assignments. Mentor coaching is a combination of listening to the coach describe their coaching challenges and an open forum for questions either about core competencies or ancillary topics such as building a coaching business. This is a required course for anyone seeking certification. Be prepared to discuss your coaching clients in a confidential way and clarify what skills you want to build in your own coaching.

Led by Carol Harris-Fike

Every 6 weeks, Lauren will host a drop-in session where you can bring your (ACP or ICF) questions, concerns or admin horrors. 

Led by Lauren Smith

As the name suggests this class is facilitated to allow students to actually begin the practice of coaching - on each other. All students will have the chance to coach and be coached, with both facilitator comments and peer feedback. This is the place to be comfortable being a beginner or to jump in as a more experienced coach and hone your skills.

Led by Libby Robinson with Guest Hellen Yang

While visions are often articulated in broad brush strokes, it can be very useful to bring specificity to the visions we create. Partnering with our clients to identify the texture and specifics of the outcomes they desire helps them build accountability markers along the way. Transforming learning and insight into action, and promoting client autonomy.

Led by Libby Robinson

Asking powerful questions is an important coaching competency. Stacking questions is asking more than one question consecutively without leaving space for the client to answer. This class will focus on why we commonly do that (we all do it!), the impact on the client (often confusion), and how to stop.

Led by Pam Rechel

Declarations are a powerful speech act that can help a client keep their commitments alive - even in the face of doubt, or obstacles. An authentic declaration - powerfully made and received by the coach can be a touchstone and a "mantra" for a desired future.

Led by Charles Feltman

As the name suggests this class is facilitated to allow students to actually begin the practice of coaching - on each other. All students will have the chance to coach and be coached, with both facilitator comments and peer feedback. This is the place to be comfortable being a beginner or to jump in as a more experienced coach and hone your skills.

Led by Carol Roller

In this workshop come prepared to coach and be coached, We will workshop a variety of question types to expand how questions can be used more powerfully in your coaching. We will look at how your questions can amplify your client’s values or how you might be amplifying your own. What are the ethics of this?

Learn about open channel questions, curious questions, open ended questions, and how to avoid close ended questions and stacked questions.

Led by Melanie Parish

In this class we will practice sticking with a topic longer than we may be comfortable - noticing our own tendency to pivot away from one question to another - darting about in a conversation versus diving deeper, and exploring further - getting to the essence of what our clients are experiencing, accessing the wisdom that resides there.

Led by Robin Postel

In this session, Carol will support participants as they complete the study of the Foundation of Ontological Coaching. They will grow in understanding how the OC distinctions are applied within coaching to support clients in how they are being to accomplish what they desire. Carol will coach a volunteer participant and then process with the participants how the principles were applied. Carol will share the deep value she has witnessed with her coaching and mentoring clients in her almost 20 years of Ontological Coaching practice. This is the final class for the 2nd FOL track for Season 12.

Led by Carol Harris Fike

Coaching presence that is light and gently irreverent can serve a client by helping them to see the patterns they live in may have become too small. Within the context of a trusting coaching relationship, lightness and humor gently shine a light on the breakdown – sometimes more effectively than through more direct means. Involves the core competencies of establishing trust and intimacy, direct communication and powerful questions

Led by Carol Roller

What are somatics? How is the physical body a domain of learning in coaching. In this class you will be given some of the basic distinctions in somatics, and begin to see how to enter this domain skillfully in your coaching.

Led by Carol Harris-Fike

Moods and emotions are one of the three main categories of human experience that ontological coaches use to help clients discover their breakdowns. In this course, students will look at the distinctions between emotions and moods. They also will take a look at four basic moods – resentment, resignation, acceptance and ambition. Understanding which mood clients spend their time in helps reveal what types of actions are available.

Led by Nora Bouchard

Supervision is a process in which coaches are supported in reflection on their practice as a professional coach by a coaching supervisor. The ICF recommends that all coaches participate in supervision, European coaching associations require supervision to maintain certification. Intervision is a supervision process among peers. Supervision aims to support coaches in ways that are restorative (e.g. self-confidence), formative (e.g. new learning and development) and normative (e.g. ethical clarity). Coaches typically leave supervision feeling resourced. This is an opportunity for you to bring forward issues that you are facing as a coach.

Led by Carol Roller

Ontological coaching uses the approach of observing what it means to be a human being. Epistemology, how we learn, is a component of what it means to be human. In what ways do we support or detract from our learning? How do we determine what territories we need to explore? Join us for a conversation on what learning has to do with coaching.

Led by Carol Roller

Good contracting is a very clear skill. Come prepared to coach and be coached. We will workshop when we are contracting and when we are coaching. This will help you develop a greater understanding of the skill of contracting. This will allow you to go into your coaching sessions with a very clear contract which will enable your coaching sessions to flow more clearly and your contracting with your client to be more clear. Good contracting leads to great contracting.

Led by Melanie Parish

Do you know what conversation you are in? Knowing some critical distinctions about conversations can help you and your teams increase efficiency, collaboration and innovation. What types of conversations are you typically in? Do you know? Attend this class to learn about different variations of conversations and how clarifying which conversation you are in or which oen you want to be in can help pave the way for better results with others.

Led by Leah Kedar

In this class, we will explore the linguistic construction of emotions - the story, the impulse and the purpose. This provides coaches with an opportunity to provide clients with a new way to appreciate their emotions, as well as explore a wider variety of emotional capacities. In this class, we will explore the territory or emotions and how emotions fundamentally underlie all human interactions.

Led by Nora Bouchard

Part 4 of 4: We often think of language as descriptive but it has much more power than that. Language also has a generative process. We will reveal the power of declarations, how to notice them, their "congurency" and how to use them in a coaching session.

Led by Carol Harris Fike

Every 6 weeks, Lauren will host a drop-in session where you can bring your (ACP or ICF) questions, concerns or admin horrors. 

Led by Lauren Smith

In this class, we will explore what we mean by a “breakdown”. Why it is relevant to ontological coaching and ways in which coaches can explore this domain with their clients in a way that empowers them to live life more fully.

Led by Carol Harris-Fike

Part 3 of 4: A key part of conversational mastery is understanding and utilizing the cycle of the promise. In this tele-class we will dive deep into the Cycle of the Promise and how it shows up in everyday life.

Led by Charles Feltman

In this class, we will engage in a conversation about questions. Questions are the primary tool we can use as coaches in order to better understand what is going on for our clients. Therefore, our ability to ask powerful and generative questions is critical to our success as ontological coaches. We will explore our questioning habits and practice expanding our questioning repertoire.

Led by Libby Robinson

Part 2 of 4: In this session we will look at the technology and distinctions of requests, offers and promises and the cylce of the promise to understand where a client's breakdowns in language may be occuring if they are not getting the results they seek. Language also "lives in the body and has mood and emotion as a backdrop. We will practice listening for effective use of requests, offers and promises in our everyday life.

Led by Pam Rechel

One of the best ways for new coaches to learn skillful coaching is to be coached by experienced ontological coaches and then debrief the coaching with them. In this fully experiential class, an accomplished PCC or MCC coach will demonstrate 1 or 2 brief coaching sessions with participants. Participants should be prepared with at least one topic they are personally willing to be coached on in front of others.

Led by Libby Robinson; Guest Coach Pam Rechel

Part 1 of 4 Part Series: Linguistics is the study of the nature, structure, and variation of language, including phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, sociolinguistics, and pragmatics. We will look at key distinctions in the "technology of language" - both yours as a coach and your clients. This class will focus on two main areas -- assessments and assertions and how you can start separating fact from story and the "phenomena" versus the "explanation of the phenomena". This one tool is absolutely essential to coaches not being "stuck" in the client's worldview. This is the first of 3 classes covering linguistics.

Led by Carol Roller