ICF AR-OK Chapter upcoming events

The Thing Beneath the Thing: Mastering Agenda Setting with The Genco Method (ICF North Florida Chapter Hosting) (Wed, August 26, 2026)

Wed, 26 Aug 2026 17:00:00 GMT

0.75 Core Competency and 0.75 Resource Development CCEs

As a Master Mentor Coach and ICF Assessor at all three levels, Tijen has seen firsthand that one of the biggest challenges for coaches is the agenda-setting process. It's easy to get caught on the surface of a client's request and miss the deeper need.

This meeting is designed to help you move beyond surface-level structure to the core of where true transformation resides. Using Tijen’s Genco Method Coaching with Precision© framework, which blends holistic listening with Lean/Six Sigma principles, you'll learn to sculpt an agenda with precision and presence.

This three-part, interactive session will provide you with the tools to help clients achieve their desired outcomes, from behavioral change to neural recalibration, ensuring that these outcomes are not only achievable but also resonant and sustainable.

What to Expect:

• Introduction to Genco Method Coaching with Precision©: We'll dive into the core principles of my integrative methodology for agenda setting.

• Collective Coaching Practicum: Watch and participate in a live coaching session. Under my mentorship, you'll practice shaping the agenda in real-time and get instant feedback.

• Integration & Reflection Circle: We'll close with a group dialogue to solidify your insights and learn how to apply them to your practice immediately

WHAT YOU WILL LEARN:

• Heightened awareness of common missteps that block deep listening and client-centered agenda development.

• Best practices for defining session outcomes based on the client’s authentic, underlying needs.

• Increased capacity to revise and evolve the agenda in alignment with the client’s emerging insights.

• Strengthened trust in intuitive listening and relational agility during sessions. paying clients.

Speaker Bio:

Tijen Genco, MCC, Advanced Certified Team Coach, and National Board-Certified Health & Wellness Coach, brings a wealth of experience coaching individuals, executives, and teams across Fortune 100 companies, government agencies, and non-profit organizations worldwide. Renowned as a coach, educator, mentor, and ICF assessor, Tijen is deeply committed to fostering coaching excellence and advancing the profession.

She is the creator of the Genco Method Transcendental Coaching©. This innovative approach integrates evidence-based practices with the art and science of the mind-body connection to deliver sustainable, transformational outcomes. A thought leader in cutting-edge coaching methodologies, Tijen is a sought-after speaker and trainer, inspiring coaches globally to unlock their fullest potential. Her passion for fostering mastery in coaching is evident in her innovative methodologies, educational initiatives, and role in developing MCC assessors for the ICF.

Discover more about her groundbreaking work and upcoming events at gencocoaching.com

This is a 2-STEP registration process.

Since this webinar is being offered by ICF Global, registration requires a two-step process.

The first step is to register with our chapter. Once you successfully register and make the payment, you will receive a confirmation email with a link to register with ICF Global. Payment is only required during the first step. The second step authorizes ICF Global to send you the Zoom link for the webinar.

Ensure you complete the second step of the Zoom registration. If you do not, you will not receive the Zoom link or the recording. It is your responsibility to register with ICF Global.

ICF AR-OK Chapter Meeting: Shaping the Future of Our Chapter Together (Thu, August 27, 2026)

Thu, 27 Aug 2026 17:00:00 GMT

At our recent board retreat, we spent time reflecting on where our chapter is today, the impact we want to have, and how we can best serve coaches throughout Oklahoma and Arkansas. Those conversations led us to a renewed vision centered around three pillars: Community, Development, and Awareness.

Now we'd like to bring the conversation to you.

During our August chapter meeting, we'll briefly share the vision that emerged from the retreat and then spend most of our time in facilitated small-group discussions. We want to hear your ideas, perspectives, and hopes for our chapter.

What would create the greatest value for you?
What opportunities should we pursue?
How can we strengthen our coaching community and increase awareness of professional coaching across our region?

Your input will help shape our programming, initiatives, and priorities for the coming year before plans are finalized.

If a particular idea sparks your interest, there will also be an opportunity to indicate whether you'd like to stay involved as conversations continue. There's no commitment by attending or participating in the discussion. We want to hear your thoughts and perspectives.

If you're unable to join us, we'd still love to hear your thoughts. Feel free to email the board so your ideas can be part of the conversation.

We hope you'll join us as we imagine and create the next chapter of our ICF AR-OK community together.

Ask Better Questions, Get Better Results (ICF North Florida Chapter Hosting) (Wed, September 23, 2026)

Wed, 23 Sep 2026 17:00:00 GMT

1 Core Competency CCEs

Most coaches ask questions to gather information or show active listening. But the right question can do much more - unlock breakthroughs, spark action, and align clients with their deepest values.

In this masterclass, renowned coach Laura Berman Fortgang reveals how to turn questioning into a powerful art form, blending insights from psychology, neuroscience, and behavioral change. You'll learn how strategic inquiry can create profound shifts in thinking, feeling, and action.

Key Takeaways
• The Neuroscience of Questions: Discover how transformational questions rewire the brain, unlock creativity, and break limiting beliefs.

• The Question Hierarchy: Move from surface-level queries to deep, transformational questions that inspire action and alignment.

• Advanced Techniques: Master the Challenge Frame, Solution-Finding Method, Values Excavation, and Resistance Dissolution techniques.

• Practical Applications: Apply strategic inquiry in coaching, leadership, team building, business development, and personal relationships.

The Experience

Through live exercises and role-play, you’ll refine your questioning style, receive real-time feedback, and create a toolkit of powerful questions for coaching breakthroughs.

The Ripple Effect
Masterful questions create lasting change. Your clients will gain deeper insights, take aligned actions, and build confidence - while you’ll transform every interaction, from leadership conversations to personal relationships.

Why book this session?
With Laura’s decades of expertise and cutting-edge research, this session equips you with actionable strategies to elevate your coaching and communication. The right question at the right moment doesn’t just gather information - it changes lives.

Speaker Bio:

Laura calls herself an OG coach since she has over thirty years of experience, had the first book by a professional coach published in the US and the UK and helped to found the International Coaching Federation. She was also the first coach on the Oprah Winfrey Show!

Her life’s work supports other people to find theirs and join the A-List of life. No, she doesn't mean becoming a celebrity, but does mean not settling for anything less than the best you want to reach for.

Her Now What?® Methodology for career seekers and A-List Business Mentoring Program for entrepreneurs helps those who are:

• ready to take the back burner dream and put it on the front burner

• unclear about what you want to do or have never known

• reinventing after a life hiccup

• a coach ready for your next level of impact and income

This is a 2-STEP registration process.

Since this webinar is being offered by ICF Global, registration requires a two-step process.

Ensure you complete the second step of the Zoom registration. If you do not, you will not receive the Zoom link or the recording. It is your responsibility to register with ICF Global.

Fred Mandell, PhD, A New Coaching Paradigm; The Power of the Arts to Transform Individuals and Teams - ICF AR-OK Chapter Meeting (Thu, September 24, 2026)

Thu, 24 Sep 2026 17:00:00 GMT

0.5 Core Competency and 0.5 Resource Development CCEs

When we think of the arts, we tend to conjure up museums, orchestra halls and theatres. But what if we found ways to actually bring the tools and practices of the visual, musical, theatre arts into coaching relationships in ways that drove transformation at the personal, team and organizational levels?

Thanks to a major 10-year grant through the National Science Foundation we now have research that demonstrates the power of arts-based experiential learning to do exactly that!

Roll up your sleeves!

Through a combination of art making, presentation, group discussion we will introduce you to a new approach to leadership and personal coaching that inspires and transforms. NO art background is needed!

Through this 50 minute, highly interactive program participants will walk away with:

An understanding of the theory and science behind Arts-Based Experiential Learning (ABEL)
Practical examples of arts-based experiential exercises immediately implementable in a coaching relationship
A case study which demonstrates the impact of ABEL on individuals and teams
Introduction to a breakthrough method for measuring impact of coaching and training on clients.
Opportunities to reflect on and share learnings in breakout sessions.

My firm, Creating Futures That Work, is the global leader in providing experiential learning that uses the arts to help leaders create dynamic, successful and sustainable futures. We have been pioneering this work in major companies and organizations worldwide for over a decade, including research funded by the National Science Foundation.

We are now on a mission to introduce the coaching community to Arts-Based Experiential Learning (ABEL), a process that draws on the arts to develop leaders and help people in transition navigate change and create the future that matters to them.

WHAT YOU WILL LEARN:

1. Introduce the arts-based experiential learning framework to coaches

2. Provide practical exercises coaches can use with clients

3. Broaden coaches understanding of creative ways to support personal and leadership transformation

4. Introduce an innovative assessment tool for measuring coaching impact

Bio:

Fred is a founder and principal with Creating Futures That Work, a consultancy that draws on the precision and focus of science and the insights and skills of the arts to elevate leader effectiveness in the areas of collaboration, innovation, organizational culture and professional development.

Prior to establishing CFTW with Harvey Seifter, Fred served as a senior executive with American Express where he built leading marketing and sales businesses and ran a multi-billion dollar investment company. During his tenure, he introduced new business models for the practice of fee-based financial planning into a large financial services institution.

In 2014 Fred launched The Global Institute for the Arts and Leadership, a not for profit entity, whose mission is to build a more peaceful, sustainable and beautiful world by using the arts to catalyze social change. He currently serves as Chairman Emeritus of the Board.

Fred is the author of Can Art Save Us? (2016, TGIAL) He is also the co-author with Kathleen Jordan of Becoming a Life Change Artist; 7 Creative Skills to Reinvent Your Life at Any Stage (Penguin Avery.) He has been teaching the number one rated leadership series at MIT Sloan School of Management called The Leader as Artist since 2013. The Leader as Artist series is unique in the way it demonstrates the application of the art making process to innovative leadership and organizational vitality.

As an artist Fred has been featured in the national publication Gallery Guide. He has had one person shows in Minneapolis, MN, Providence, RI, Wellesley, MA, and South Africa. Most recently his bronze self-portrait has been commissioned for the international conference on “The Self/Le Soi” co-sponsored by the University of Chicago and the Sorbonne

Fred holds a Ph.D. in history from the University of Chicago and an Ed.M. in psychology from Boston University. He has three grown children, six grandchildren, and lives in Lynnfield, Massachusetts with his wife Karen, a writer and teacher.

Coaching with Mastery – The MCC Mindset (ICF Orange County Chapter Hosting) (Thu, October 15, 2026)

Thu, 15 Oct 2026 18:00:00 GMT

1.5 Core Competency CCEs

DESCRIPTION:

How do you bring your authentic self to coaching and still demonstrate the MCC qualities of being with the human you are coaching? "Everyone who develops mastery starts off in a beginner's mind. And those who continue to evolve masterfully stay in the beginner's mind the whole of their lives." Let’s discuss the fundamentals of coaching and how to use the ICF competencies as the launching point for mastery. Once you integrate your understanding, you then have the freedom to dance in your coaching conversations. Supporting your clients to explore transformational places. Observe a 20-minute coaching demonstration. Linking the coach’s questions to the MCC BARS and PCC Markers. Afterward, break out into groups to debrief the coaching demonstration with each other. Then, come back and pick Lyssa’s mind for her choice points. Make connections between the questions and the competencies.

LEARNING OBJECTIVES:

Explore what FULL Partnership means. Deepen your understanding of the competencies. See how the coaching container weaves the competencies: agreement setting, building trust, coaching presence, listening actively, evoking awareness, and facilitating growth. Observe an MCC Coach demonstrate the competencies through a real coaching conversation. Debrief on your insights.

SPEAKER BIO:

Lyssa deHart, LICSW, MCC, BCC, EMCC, author of StoryJacking: Change Your Dialogue, Transform Your Life, the Reflective Coach, Light Up: The Science of Coaching with Metaphors, and Sticky Outcomes: at the Intersection of Coaching, Neuroscience, and Lasting Change. She is also the host of the Coaching Studio Podcast. Lyssa is a recovering Therapist, Confidence Coach, Certified Mentor Coach, Coaching SUPERVision Partner, ICF PCC Assessor, and coaching educator. Lyssa’s understanding of ICF Core Competencies and neuroscience instills confidence in her ability to guide professional coaches. She empowers them to enhance their client outcomes through deep listening, client-led approaches, and ultimately, by fostering a partnership that empowers their clients.

In 2018, Lyssa began to develop the groundbreaking Power of Metaphor Program. This innovative program equips coaches to harness the metaphors their clients use, a crucial element in fostering stronger agreements, trust, and powerful embodied awareness. In 2022, she introduced the Updated Credentialing Exam PREP. This resource has significantly aided over 6,000 coaches in preparing for the updated ICF Exam, a testament to her profound impact on the coaching industry. In 2024, she introduced the ACE PREP for the ICF ACC Credentialing Exam.

In all her work, Lyssa is committed to improving the coaching community by enhancing the quality and impact of the coach-client relationship.

This is a 2-STEP registration process.

Since this webinar is being offered by ICF Global, registration requires a two-step process.

Ensure you complete the second step of the Zoom registration. If you do not, you will not receive the Zoom link or the recording. It is your responsibility to register with ICF Global.

Mendy Applegate, End-of-Year CEO Reset: Clean Up, Catch Up, and Set Up Your Coaching Business for Growth ICF AR-OK Chapter Meeting (Thu, October 22, 2026)

Thu, 22 Oct 2026 17:00:00 GMT

1.0 Resource Development CCEs

As the year comes to a close, many coaches find themselves busy—but not always clear on what’s actually working in their business.

This session is designed to guide both new and experienced coaches through a structured, practical end-of-year business review. Attendees will learn how to evaluate their financial performance, identify gaps in their systems, and organize their business operations to prepare for sustainable growth in the year ahead.

This presentation will cover:

Year-end accounting review and understanding key financial numbers
Evaluating business systems and identifying inefficiencies
Organizing files, documentation, and compliance essentials
Reviewing client activity, offers, and performance metrics
Creating a clear plan for what to keep, improve, or eliminate going into the new year

Participants will leave with a clear framework and actionable checklist they can immediately apply to close out their business with confidence and step into the next year with structure and clarity.

WHAT YOU WILL LEARN:

By the end of this session, participants will be able to:

Identify key financial metrics necessary to evaluate business performance
Assess and improve core business systems and workflows
Organize essential business documents for compliance and efficiency
Evaluate client activity and service performance for profitability
Develop a strategic plan for the upcoming year based on data and insights

BIO:

Mendy Applegate, Founder of Honey Do Checklist, is a Business Development Educator & Trainer who helps entrepreneurs build sustainable businesses through practical education in business setup, financial literacy, and operations. Through the HDC Academy and Business Blueprint Textbook—the "owner's manual" every entrepreneur wishes they had from day one—she teaches practical, real-world strategies they can implement immediately to avoid costly mistakes, constant Googling, and guesswork.

Their Map, Their Investment: Leveraging Language to Facilitate Client Growth (ICF San Francisco Bay Area Chapter Hosting) (Wed, December 09, 2026)

Wed, 09 Dec 2026 20:30:00 GMT

1.5 Core Competency CCEs

DESCRIPTION:

Words have the power to shape not only our perception of reality, but also how we engage with the world around us. In this 90-minute experiential workshop, attendees will explore how the vocabulary coaches and clients use can foster a spirit of curiosity and action. Ultimately, the goal with our clients is to co-create an accessible map they’re excited to use, not an overwhelming obstacle course they’re never able to start.

Participants will experiment with techniques to help clients strategically choose what to put on their map. They’ll learn to harness language as a tool for cultivating a more proactive, goal-oriented mindset, and for helping clients recognize blind spots and gaps in their planning. A central theme of this workshop is that facilitating client growth isn't a checkbox confined to the final minutes — it runs through every part of a coaching conversation, drawing on the full range of ICF core competencies.

LEARNING OBJECTIVES:

-Identify opportunities to facilitate growth throughout the entire arc of client conversations

-Implement techniques to help clients create a robust plan for post-session activation

-Transform action planning into an experience that drives motivation

SPEAKER BIO:

Dina Venezky, PhD, PCC-ACTC, BCC, is a leadership coach who helps curious people and teams navigate the relational dynamics that shape their work and lives. She partners with clients to reflect on how their strengths and narratives can lead to greater fulfillment. With diverse expertise spanning senior communications roles at Smith College, Stanford GSB Executive Education, and the USGS Volcano Hazards Program, plus experience in data analytics consulting, marketing, HR, and entrepreneurship, Dina brings a multifaceted perspective to her coaching practice. Dina earned her PhD from Brown University, where she studied volcanoes and investigated innovative approaches to knowledge sharing. https://www.sparklingleaders.com/

Laura Reid, PCC, Certified MentorCoach®, Professional Certified ADHD Coach, transforms stress into curiosity. She loves helping people live more intentionally, and work with – rather than against – the way they’re wired. Laura studied what makes people tick at Stanford, both from the inside out and through the lens of group dynamics (BA Psychology, MA Sociology). She loves exploring the stories we tell ourselves (consciously or unconsciously), and how they shape the way we engage with life. Laura partners with clients to untangle the web of interconnected factors preventing progress, and to create a new, resonant narrative that will propel them forward. www.resonantlivingcoaching.com

This is a 2-STEP registration process.

Since this webinar is being offered by ICF Global, registration requires a two-step process.

Ensure you complete the second step of the Zoom registration. If you do not, you will not receive the Zoom link or the recording. It is your responsibility to register with ICF Global.

Alison Nail-Malone, ACC, Grief Literacy for Coaches: Supporting Clients Through Invisible Loss - ICF AR-OK Chapter Community Meeting (Thu, December 10, 2026)

Thu, 10 Dec 2026 18:00:00 GMT

0.75 Core Competency and 0.25 Resource Development CCEs

Alison Nail-Malone, ACC, is an ICF AR-OK chapter member and will be our featured presenter.

Grief shows up in many coaching conversations—we just don’t always call it that. Whether a client is navigating a career transition, loss of identity, burnout, or anticipatory grief, they are often experiencing forms of loss that remain unseen and unnamed.

In this interactive session, we’ll explore how coaches can become more “grief-literate” — understanding the many faces of grief beyond death and learning how to skillfully support clients through emotional transitions without overstepping into therapy. Participants will gain practical language, tools, and reflective practices to recognize grief when it appears, hold space with compassion, and stay grounded in ethical coaching boundaries.

Drawing from my work as a Grief Coach, End-of-Life Doula, and former caregiver, this session offers a gentle yet transformative framework for integrating grief awareness into everyday coaching practice.

WHAT YOU WILL LEARN:

Grief shows up in many coaching conversations—we just don’t always call it that. Whether a client is navigating a career transition, loss of identity, burnout, or anticipatory grief, they are often experiencing forms of loss that remain unseen and unnamed.
In this interactive session, we’ll explore how coaches can become more “grief-literate” — understanding the many faces of grief beyond death and learning how to skillfully support clients through emotional transitions without overstepping into therapy. Participants will gain practical language, tools, and reflective practices to recognize grief when it appears, hold space with compassion, and stay grounded in ethical coaching boundaries.
Drawing from my work as a Grief Coach, End-of-Life Doula, and former caregiver, this session offers a gentle yet transformative framework for integrating grief awareness into everyday coaching practice.

The Resonant Coach: A Focused Refresh of Listening Foundations and Competency 6 (San Francisco Bay Area Chapter Hosting) (Thu, January 21, 2027)

Thu, 21 Jan 2027 20:00:00 GMT

1.5 Core Competency CCEs

In this interactive session, participants will revisit the essentials of Active Listening and explore how these foundations directly impact the coaching relationship. Drawing upon the presenter’s experience in coaching and education, this session will clarify the common barriers to effective listening and highlight why deep listening is so vital to coaching success.
The session will also include a practical look at how ICF Competency 6 shows up in real-world conversations, identifying the small shifts that turn regular hearing into truly transformational listening. Through quick breakouts and lighthearted exercises, coaches will have the opportunity to align with these markers and sharpen their existing skills in a high-energy environment.

This is an educational, reflective, and experiential session designed to support coaches in refreshing their core skills, regardless of their current level of experience.

3 Learning Objectives

Align their coaching practice with ICF Competency 6 markers, specifically focusing on the subtle shifts that move a conversation from simple hearing to transformational listening.

Differentiate between "functional hearing" and "transformational listening," identifying the specific behaviors that move a coach beyond simple information gathering toward deeper resonance.

Cultivate an adaptive coaching mindset by using lighthearted, high-energy interaction to overcome common listening barriers and maintain presence in a virtual environment.

Speaker Bio:

Shachi Patel, PCC, is the founder of SETU Coaching & Consulting. With SETU meaning "bridge" in Sanskrit, she proudly serves as a bridge between her clients' technical expertise and leadership excellence. Drawing on over three decades of leadership in technology and healthcare, she leverages her engineering, program, and people management background to help STEM professionals and women in tech thrive in complex environments. Her coaching, training, and specialized workshops focus on helping leaders navigate pivotal career changes and transitions through a creative, compassionate, and courageous approach.

With global experience spanning NORAM, EMEA, and APAC, Shachi offers a diverse approach to leadership development, change management, and strategic influence. As a Mentor Coach at UC Davis, she integrates a decade of coaching expertise to develop the next generation of coaches, helping them transform technical proficiency into coaching excellence

This is a 2-STEP registration process.

Since this webinar is being offered by ICF Global, registration requires a two-step process.

Ensure you complete the second step of the Zoom registration. If you do not, you will not receive the Zoom link or the recording. It is your responsibility to register with ICF Global.