Phase 2: Deepening Presence & Systems

Breakout Session A: Enter Stage Left - Theater Scenes For Coaching Agility - 1.0 CC

Speaker: Ariela Morgenstern, ACC

What if the fastest path to becoming a more empathetic, present, and agile coach ran through the rehearsal room? In this experiential session, participants use scenes from plays and films as a hands-on tool for deepening the human capacities at the heart of great coaching. After a brief physical and vocal warm-up, we'll explore the principles behind scene-based learning and then work in pairs with a short scene. No acting experience required. Rooted in acting technique and adult learning theory, this approach brings ICF Core Competencies, including Embodies a Coaching Mindset, Cultivates Trust and Safety, and Maintains Presence to life in a way that is immediate, embodied, and genuinely fun.

Learning Objectives:

• Practice embodied empathy by stepping into another person's perspective with curiosity and without assumption.

• Develop greater intentionality around nonverbal communication, body language, and energetic presence.

• Strengthen deep listening through full attention and attunement to a partner in the present moment.

Breakout Session B: Burnout, Unbundled - A Systemic Approach To Supporting Organizations Struggling With Burnout - 1.0 CC

Speaker: Betsy Block, PCC-ACTC, ITCA, EMCC, EIA

When you think about coaching burnout, are you focused on individual resilience? Or do you hear organizations are fixed on workload or pay as the only solutions? Decades of evidence point to drivers of burnout that are an organizational responsibility and can be addressed with systemic approaches to culture and workflow. This session helps team coaches reframe the burnout challenge through a discussion of six systemic drivers of burnout. Through this more nuanced understanding, we will see how systemic team coaching can support key levers to shift organizational culture. Coaches will also consider diagnostic frameworks that can support these conversations — no heroics or big budgets required.

Learning Objectives:

• Identify the six drivers of burnout based on the work of Christine Maslach.

• Apply principles of systemic team coaching that can help shift organizational culture.

• Review diagnostic frameworks to support designing coaching engagements around burnout.

Breakout Session C: From Stuck To Sparked - Creativity As A Coaching Superpower - 1.0 CC

Speaker: Astra Fox, PCC

Creativity is not a personality trait. It is a tool for transformation. In this experiential session, discover how to use the creative mind as a direct pathway to the subconscious, where lasting transformation lives. Drawing from NLP, music psychology, and the Musical Mantras methodology, participants experience firsthand how rhythm, intentional language, and imaginative play bypass the critical mind and open clients to new levels of awareness and possibility. Whether your clients feel blocked, burned out, or disconnected from their purpose, this session gives you a fresh perspective to meet them where they are and spark something real.

Learning Objectives:

• Understand how creativity accesses the subconscious mind to support lasting client breakthroughs.

• Experience firsthand how music and creative expression shift awareness and expand what clients believe is possible.

• Identify tools to help clients move through blocks and reconnect with their purpose.

Phase 3: Integrating Innovation & Wholeness

Breakout Session A: Bringing ICF Core Competencies Into The Body - 1.0 CC

Speaker: Laura Geduldig, MCC

This interactive playshop invites participants to explore the ICF Core Competencies through a powerful and often underutilized lens: the body. Moving beyond cognitive understanding, participants will engage in embodied somatic practices that bring the competencies to life in a deeply experiential way. This session offers a fresh, integrative approach to strengthening coaching presence, awareness, and impact.

Learning Objectives:

• Explore how somatic intelligence enhances integration of the ICF Core Competencies.

• Apply embodied awareness to enhance real-time coaching interactions, including presence, listening, and partnership.

• Experiment with integrating somatic awareness to evaluate its impact on coaching effectiveness and client outcomes.

Breakout Session B: AI - The AI Playground - From Curiosity To Confidence - 0.5 CC / 0.5 RD

Speaker: Mo Lei Fong, ACC

Research shows we learn best when learning is active, hands-on, and playful. Across 225 studies, learners in active learning environments were 1.5 times more likely to succeed and continue learning than those in traditional lecture settings. So this is not a lecture about AI. It's a chance to explore it. Together, we'll experiment with AI using text, voice, images, and reflection in a way that is creative, practical, and designed for coaches. No tech expertise needed. Just curiosity. Come ready to explore, experiment, and discover what becomes possible when you learn by doing.

Learning Objectives:

• Explore AI tools through hands-on experimentation with text, voice, images, and reflection.

• Experience active, playful learning as a model for how coaches can support client engagement and discovery.

• Identify at least one practical application of AI relevant to your coaching practice.

Come ready to explore, experiment, and discover what becomes possible when you learn by doing.

Breakout Session C: The Spacious Coach - Mirror, Not Map - 1.0 CC

Speaker: Sarika Shankarnarayan

As coaches, in our quest to add value, we often lead, advise, and display our craft, quietly pulling clients off their own path. This highly participatory, in-person session is mindfulness designed for coaches, so we can show up cleaner, clearer, and more useful to the people we serve. It reframes the coach as the mirror, not the map, and offers modern, practical practices for the moments before, during, and after every coaching conversation. Together, participants will uncover their own behavioral patterns as coaches and the human blind spots they carry into every room, experience real spaciousness in their questioning, and learn to bring the full blend of their experience and craft into the room as a presence the client feels, without it ever taking the spotlight.

Learning Objectives:

• Identify micro-practices to interrupt subtle habits that pull coaches toward leading or advising.

• Practice listening without the pull to fill, fix, or steer.

• Apply the principle of full presence without competing with the client's process.