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October 10-11, 2024 | Falls Church, VA
Coaching: Taking It To The Next Level
Are You Ready to Transform Your Coaching Practice?
The 2024 Capital Coaches Conference isn't your average professional development event. It's an immersive experience designed to ignite your passion, fuel your growth, and connect you with a vibrant community of fellow coaches.
Workshops
Led by experts in the coaching field, these sessions are buzzing with energy and fresh ideas
Networking
Designed to spark meaningful connections that last long after the conference ends
Community
Where you can share best practices, learn from each other, and find the support you need to thrive
Surprise Moments
To keep you engaged and inspired throughout the event
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Connect, Collaborate, Elevate: Intentional Breakfast Conversations
Tired of networking that feels like speed dating for business cards? We’ve got you. Skip the fluff and dive into conversations that count. Build meaningful connections with fellow coaches who are ready to collaborate, spark ideas that last, and walk away with relationships that actually push your business forward.
Breakfast
Join us for breakfast, included with your registration.
Opening Session: Venture Boldly Forward into the Unknown: Nomad Insights to Transform Your Work, Leadership, and Life
On January 1, 2018, Carrie Spaulding set out on a solo nomadic adventure, living and working all over the United States. More than six years later, Carrie, still a nomad, shares what she has learned in her ultimate improvisation--and how you can take bold, intentional action into your own unknown future.
Carrie’s story and insights will inspire you to venture boldly forward, right where you are, and help you to identify your own brave experiments to supercharge your growth, joy, contribution, and internal freedom. In a constantly changing world, discover ways to disrupt yourself for continuous growth, and learn to foster your own development and expansion with greater courage, compassion, and conviction. Take your life and work off auto-pilot and get on the road with the intentional action that will bring you deeper and deeper into who you are and what you are here to do.
Learn to:
Invoke the power of decision to dramatically increase your success
Take on intentional “Right Risks” and the mindset that increases chances of reward
Strengthen resourcefulness and confidence in your ability to thrive in the unknown
Stretch out of your comfort zone while honoring your authentic self
Develop and increase your trust in your intuition and creativity
Create and cultivate deeper connections with yourself, with others, and with the world around you
Adapt and keep going amidst grief, uncertainty, loss, change, and disruption
Use bumps in the road to course-correct and spring forward
The Missing Piece of the Burnout Puzzle
Here’s an all-too-common scenario: high-achieving leaders and professionals feel increasingly demotivated and unfulfilled by their old drives and dreams. What used to excite them has lost its luster, and they’re craving more meaning and fulfillment in both life and work. They feel stuck and disillusioned. They may suffer burnout symptoms and performance setbacks, allow their fear of the unknown to keep them mired in misery, trade one unsatisfying job for another, or find that their work-related despair is infecting their personal lives as well.
What if the sense of dissatisfaction and disengagement they’re experiencing in their work isn't burnout after all? What if, instead, it's an invitation to something deeper and greater than they've ever experienced before? What if they're not stalling out but growing in a powerful new way? In this session, you’ll learn how these experiences actually fit neatly into an adult development stage theory which psychologists have been using for decades, most commonly called “Vertical Development.” This mid-career angst is a common symptom of crossing over from one developmental stage to the next. For leaders, understanding how to navigate this shift can turn a season of burnout into a season of incredible transformation.
This session will give you tools and techniques to apply with leaders so they can embrace this growth and find more fulfillment in work and life.
Coaches: Are You Missing Out on 5 Core Competencies by Failing to Master This One?
Join Anne Kelly, PCC; Jennifer Lukas, ACC, Board of Directors, ICF Metro DC Chapter; and Gloria Valentine, ACC, Leadership Coach, PowerfulPerspectives.org, as we delve into the enormous topic of Ethical Coaching.
We will go immediately to the heart of what the ICF is looking for in a Performance Evaluation recording. Offering breakout group discussions and whole-group debriefs, we will focus on one competency coaches cannot afford to neglect.
This session will unlock ICF requirements and clarify the Domino Effect: Missing out on one competency and its negative impact on FIVE other Competencies. As a result of demystifying Coaching Ethics, your roadmap to the next level of Coaching will be clearer.
After this session, coaches will know the importance of the basic foundation exploration and evoking skills that underlie the ICF definition of coaching, skills which, in turn, empower us to demonstrate all eight of the coaching competencies.
This is a highly interactive session, and the content is appropriate for ACCs, PCCs, MCCs, and coach applicants. Plus, we have fun!
Music Makes Me: The Next Level of Music in Coaching
Neuro-Science has confirmed for years the power of music in our brains. As coaches, we have embraced Somatics as a powerful coaching modality. What keeps us from doing the same with music? Come to a highly experiential workshop to explore this Next Level of your own coaching.
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Breakfast & Tools and Techniques that Support Organizational and Individual Resilience
Looking to make the most out of your conference experience? Join us for breakfast in the main ballroom including a mini-presentation by Strategic Consulting Partners.
Employers are using organizational wellness tools and programs to increase employee engagement, reduce turnover, and increase productivity. During this session, learn about some of the tools and techniques coaches and consultants can utilize to support their client’s mental and physical wellness. SCP will demonstrate a wellness tool that can be integrated into your coaching.
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From Adversary to Ally: How To Coach The Inner Critic
Regardless of the type of coaching you do, we all run into the brick walls built by that voice in our head that says we’re not good enough in one way or another. We feel it firsthand as it stops us from confidently growing our businesses, makes us think we need yet another certification or course, or holds us back from charging our true worth. And it’s not just us—our clients face it also. Whether it’s in their struggles with confidence, battling feelings of being a fraud, or getting stuck in procrastination and confusion, our clients need a way out too.
Despite various tools available, many provide only temporary relief without addressing the root cause. So, how do we help ourselves and our clients move past the inner critic in a way that is effective and sustainable without having to be a therapist? That’s what we’ll explore in this presentation.
The AI-Driven Coach: How Rapid Advancements in AI and Digital Coaching Technology are Redefining the Practice of Coaching
Over the last three years the coaching profession has been undergoing rapid transformation.
The rapid rise of digital coaching platforms along with near overnight rise of generative AI has fueled unprecedented transformation in the coaching industry. As these new AI-driven technologies continue to evolve, the nature of coaching and how we define coaching will continue to change in unexpected ways. During the session we will explore the digital coaching landscape, the latest AI-driven technologies and the impact AI is having on coaching as a practice and a profession.
Dr. Woodward will also share his insights from the newly launched NYU SPS Coaching Innovation Lab.
Emotions Matter! Identify Your Motivational Fingerprint to Pursue the Life You Want
Over the past few decades, in study after study, emotional forces have been shown to massively outweigh human rationality in determining our actual choices and actions. This insight is reshaping both science and industry as its power is harnessed for therapeutic and commercial ends. Understanding this dynamic can enable coaches to better serve their clients, our coaching practices and our personal lives.
What are "first principles" underlying all human motivation? This session explores such principles within the context of two fundamental questions:
· “Where in your life do you wish to make a change?”
· “What level of change do you wish to make?”
Also, this session includes an opportunity to experience a newly developed 3-minute online measurement tool that enables coach attendees to clearly identify their key emotional needs and those of their clients as well as get started on a personal path to emotional fulfillment.
Learned Bravery: Empowering Transformational Change in Coaching
Being an effective coach and change-agent requires bravery: the bravery to challenge deeply embedded world views, the bravery to listen without internalizing, and the bravery to explore unchartered territory that could benefit the client.
Despite the importance of bravery in coaching, fear can cut off the pivotal conversations and actions needed for desired, lasting change. Wonderfully, research on adult development shows that bravery is a skill that can be learned and developed – and it is cumulative so that each brave step creates a foundation for another brave step.
Learned Bravery is the focus of this workshop! Learned Bravery is an evidence-based process for learning and developing the bravery needed to facilitate and support transformational change!"
Sessions
Inspirational Speakers
New Friends
Reasons to Celebrate
Registration Rates
Register by July 15 to Save - Rates Increase by $100 on JULY 16
ICF Metro DC Member
Metro DC Chapter Members
- All Access
- 24+ Sessions
- Daily Breakfast
- Thursday Lunch & Reception
ICF Member
Not a Metro DC Chapter Member
- All Access
- 24+ Sessions
- Daily Breakfast
- Thursday Lunch & Reception
Non-Members
Not an ICF Member
- All Access
- 24+ Sessions
- Daily Breakfast
- Thursday Lunch & Reception
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