The Coaches Summit
Dare To Play
You help others unlock their potential every day. Now it’s your turn!
Step inside the Exploratorium - where curiosity and play come alive - to spend a full day investing in you. The Coaches Summit is our first-ever in-person conference, designed for coaches, by coaches who are ready to reignite their passion, expand their thinking, and connect with a vibrant community that truly gets it.
This isn’t your average conference. It’s an experience. A playground. A spark. Infinite possibilities.
Learn from engaging speakers who will challenge and inspire you. Build genuine connections with fellow coaches. Explore fresh ideas in an environment designed to awaken your curiosity and fuel your growth. The Exploratorium isn’t just a backdrop - it’s a philosophy. Play isn’t frivolous. It’s formative.
Come ready to explore, connect, grow - and remember why you became a coach.
Friday, September 18, 2026, from 9:00 AM to 4:00 PM
Exploratorium, Pier 15 (Embarcadero at Green St), San Francisco
Who This Is For
- ICF SFBAC Members: You’re our priority. As a member, you get first access and the best rate. This day was made with you in mind.
- Aspiring & Non-Member Coaches: Curious about coaching or credentialing? You’re welcome here, too. Join us at the open registration rate and see what this community is all about.
Why Attend The Coaches Summit
- Expand Your Community & Find Your People: Build real relationships with coaches who get your journey. Share ideas, swap perspectives, and grow a network that actually sticks. This is a space where you’re not just attending - you’re seen, valued, and surrounded by coaches who share your passion and purpose.
- Reignite Your Passion For Coaching: Step out of the day-to-day and into an environment designed to spark creativity, curiosity, and a fresh love for your craft. This is your chance to reconnect with why you became a coach in the first place.
- Learn By Doing & Explore New Approaches: Dive into hands-on, experiential sessions - somatics, movement, art, music, and more - while exploring diverse coaching modalities and innovative techniques brought by practitioners in your own community. Walk away with tools you can use tomorrow.
- Exchange Real-World Best Practices: Skip the surface-level conversations. Engage in honest, meaningful dialogue about what’s working, what’s challenging, and how we evolve together as coaches in real practice.
- Invest In Your Professional Growth: Earn CCE credits, sharpen your skills, and stay aligned with ICF standards - because your development matters, too.
- Experience Coaching Beyond The Individual: Explore how coaching extends far beyond one-to-one work, shaping teams, organizations, and communities in ways that endure.
- Play Your Way To Brilliance: Set inside the Exploratorium, this conference is a true playground of possibilities - where curiosity, experimentation, and joy become the curriculum.
- Made By Coaches, For Coaches: Every detail of this experience is intentionally crafted by your community, for your community - grounded in what you actually need and how coaches actually grow.
Speakers
Our speaker lineup brings together an inspiring group of coaches from the San Francisco Bay Area, each leading interactive sessions designed to stretch your thinking and expand your practice - all set within the playful, curiosity-driven environment of the Exploratorium. From a dynamic keynote to workshops spanning somatics, burnout, improv, theater, AI, DEI, and more, every session is crafted to be engaging, experiential, and immediately applicable.
Agenda
Our speaker lineup features an incredible roster of coaches from right here in the San Francisco Bay Area Chapter, leading hands-on workshops across a rich range of topics and modalities. We’re designing the schedule to be integrated, balanced, and genuinely transformative - woven together through Art and Music, Somatics and Movement, Supervision, Improv, Theater, and more.
Pricing
Your investment. Your breakthrough.
Join us for a full day of connection, discovery, and play – high-energy speakers, meaningful conversations, and a coaching community ready to inspire you.
The earlier you register, the more you save – it’s that simple.
Early bird pricing won’t last. Lock in your spot at the lowest rate and start counting down to the most energizing day of your coaching year. Register now at the Early Bird Rate!
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