Seeing and Exploring Coaching in Action: The Puget Sound Coaches Association Fish Bowl Adventure
Bring your hip boots and wade right into this collaborative coaching experience. The PSCA meeting on March 6th at REI Seattle, 5:00 p.m.- 8:30 p.m. will be a deep dive into a real-time exploration of ICF professional coaching. Your PSCA program committee has come up with a program that will reel you in and add to your tackle box of resources and coaching skills.
We have carefully selected four coaching scenarios that will challenge all levels of coaching experience:
1. Creating awareness with a micromanaging leader who wants to empower a team but continues to wonder why they are not responding.
2. Direct communication with a client who may need therapy rather than coaching.
3. Accountability with a client who "talks a good game" but rarely follows through.
4. Being fully present with an angry, blaming client who has just been laid-off from their job.
Local coaches with current ICF credentials are stepping forward to coach peer clients in each of these four scenarios. They are courageous and bold to come forward to coach for all to witness and learn from together. After each scenario we will deepen our collective learning through a variety of reflection processes, including insights from a powerful panel of experienced coaches who are intimately familiar with the ICF Core Competencies; small group dialogue; and debrief with the full group.
Those on the outside of the Fish Bowl will have the opportunity to support the coaching container and to learn from observation and discussion. The activities after each session are intended to evoke thoughtful reflection, insight, curiosity and inquiry into the many styles of effective coaching and the variety of ways to be of service to the client within the coaching paradigm.
Come get your feet wet in this evening of experiential learning!
Request for coaches and clients: Break out from the safety of a school of fish: volunteer to be a client in our Fish Bowl Adventure. Individuals who volunteer to be clients will be asked to embody the scenario without being canned or scripted. The program committee will assign your situation and coach on the night of the meeting so there's little pressure to “act” or prepare. Our intent is that these impromptu, real-time scenarios come alive from the essence of the person who is the client.
Please send an email to Amoráh and Jody at programs@pugetsoundcoaches.org about your desire to be coach in the Fish Bowl on Tuesday, March 6th. Share with us your coaching background and training, your area of coaching specialty and which ICF credential you currently hold. If you’d like to be a client, please step forward; no credentials necessary! Swim upstream and volunteer today!
