The Presence-Based Coaching Course

Presented by Doug Silsbee and Reframe Leadership Inc.

Supporting the development of others in challenging times requires a robust understanding of how humans grow and change, a methodology to accelerate sustainable learning, and the authenticity and depth that comes from a rigorous commitment to our own development.

This course is a two-part program designed to provide coaching and change professionals with a pragmatic toolkit for accelerating your own life-long development and that of your clients. We hold a dual emphasis on building and extending our own presence, and on the specific coaching moves that build long term competence and self-generation in our clients. You will build a foundation of presence-based coaching skills, with a particular orientation toward developing the whole person. The entire curriculum is grounded in a developmental model of human change, leading toward the self-generative capacity to be present and a learner in all of life.
Each part consists of a approximately two hours of pre-work, a three day retreat in beautiful Banff, Alberta, Canada, and two class follow-up phone conversations with Doug. Part I: Being a Development Partner can be taken as a stand-alone program appropriate for any level of coaching experience. Taken with Part II: Evoking Self-Generation, the entire course offers an entry into a coaching approach with considerable depth, appropriate even for experienced practitioners. ICF coach certification credits are available.

The Presence-Based Coaching Course is designed for:

• Experienced coaches, facilitators, and OD practitioners seeking to accelerate self-development and bring presence explicitly into their work
• Business and non-profit leaders using coaching to develop people and build relationships
• New and aspiring coaches wanting a coherent and integrated coaching approach
• Educators and helping professionals who recognize that their way of being, and ability to ask artful questions, is essential for the learning and empowerment of others.

Our overall promises for the Presence-Based Coaching Course are that you will:

• Build your capacity to extend mindfulness and presence into your coaching conversations
• Build competency in using specific coaching roles, artful questions, and presence-based coaching moves to open new possibilities of seeing and acting
• Increase your self-generative capacity by receiving and acting on feedback
• Build competency in creating learning partnerships between coach and client
• Design development plans that integrate mutually reinforcing learning strategies including somatic (body) practices, self-observations, and action steps
• Develop your resilience, authenticity, resourcefulness, and ability to stay present no matter what is going on.

Presence-Based Coaching 1: Being a Development Partner
October 4-6, 2010 – Banff, Alberta.
Required text: The Mindful Coach. (Available at Chapters.ca)

Specific areas of content focus:

Observing somatic, emotional, and cognitive levels of experience

Identifying and working with behavioral and cognitive habits

Cultivating and holding presence in a coaching partnership

Distinguishing and selecting seven distinct coaching roles

Framing artful questions for catalyzing awareness, defining outcomes, and mapping a plan of action

Working with metaphors and distinctions

Designing body practices and self-observations

Building an integrated development plan.

Presence-Based Coaching 2: Evoking Self-Generation  (Pre-requisite:  PBC 1)
January 5-7, 2011 – Banff, Aberta
Required text: Presence-Based Coaching(Available at Chapters.ca)

Specific areas of content focus:

Understanding a model for building self-generation through practice

Distinguishing self-generative and habit-driven loops

Evoking the quality of presence in a coaching conversation

Designing coaching processes to develop self-generative capacities in parallel with specific professional competencies

Increasing your capacity for holding a field of presence for your clients

Designing fieldwork and somatic practices to support self-generation

Workshop Leader
The retreat will be led by Doug Silsbee, a thought leader in the fields of presence-based coaching, leadership development and resilience. A master teacher, he has worked with leaders on five continents. His unique Presence-Based Coaching encourages his clients to make bold commitments and to take meaningful and skillful action to produce results about which they care deeply. Doug is the author of The Mindful Coach and Presence-Based Coaching, a Master Somatic Coach with Strozzi Institute, and the creator of an ICF-approved coach training program.
For more information on Doug’s work, please visit  http://www.dougsilsbee.com/doug.

Workshop Location
The workshop will be conducted at beautiful Buffalo Mountain Lodge in Banff Alberta, Canada.

See http://www.crmr.com for more information on this beautiful hotel with amazing food.

Participants will be required to arrange their own accommodations at a reduced Reframe Leadership rate of $150/night for deluxe rooms.  Please contact Buffalo Mountain Lodge at
Toll Free 800-661-1367

Or http://www.crmr.com/reservations.php
And quote “Reframe Leadership” for your discounted rate.
The price of all meals, breaks and snacks is included in the tuition fee.

 

 

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