Coaching Demos

The coach with seven voices: A coach's role repertoire
Alison Hendren, MCC (Canada) - View bio.
David Matthew Prior, MCC (USA) - View bio.
Sunday, September 25: 10:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. / 1030-1230
CCEU: 1.50 CC
Room:  Tradewinds A/B
It's time to play to the edge in this coaching demonstration, adapted especially for the stage using the Septet Coaching Model (from The Mindful Coach by Douglas K. Silsbee, 2004). In a live moment-to-moment coaching session, Alison will employ the coach's role repertoire of partner, contractor, investigator, teacher, reflector, guide, and master.

Within the context of coaching as a mutual relationship, the coach will elicit from the client key questions and nuances while providing a magic mirror of learning, insight, and guidance toward a committed action. Come to observe what happens when coach-how meets client-who.

The session will be facilitated by David Matthew who will engage the audience, coach, and client in a voice-activation process while linking the model to the ICF Core Coaching Competencies.

Coaching's creative quotient
David Matthew Prior, MCC (USA) - View bio.
Monday, September 26: 10:30 a.m.-12:00 p.m. / 1030-1200
CCEU: 1.50 CC
Room: Tradewinds A/B
A picture is worth a 1,000 words. Less is more.  Once upon a time there was a client... The field of coaching has evolved a variety of models to help coaches highlight the key elements of process and interrelationships. Blending the worlds of creativity and applied improvisation, David Matthew will coach and facilitate three separate mini-coaching sessions using visual images, 5-Word and 3-Word Coach, and an improvisational story spine to partner with the client in creating a new vision.

Tapping into the coach's ability to innovate, the creative models will be explained and demonstrated on stage, accompanied by periodic opportunities for the audience of coaches to practice the tools themselves in real time. "There is no question that a playfully light attitude is characteristic of creative individuals." Mihalyi Csikszentmihalyi

Two brains are better than one: Using 4-Quadrant Brain Theory for deepened client connections
Dr. Terrence Maltbia (USA) - View bio.
David Matthew Prior, MCC (USA) - View bio.
Tuesday, September 27: 10:30 a.m.-12:00 p.m. / 1030-1200
CCEU: 1.50 CC
Room: Tradewinds A/B
Recent advances in the field of neuroscience can provide us with insights and implications for the process that takes place between coach and client. A coach's effectiveness is enhanced by their ever expanding field of awareness of self and the others (i.e. emotional and social intelligence). In this coaching demonstration, Terrence, Program Director of Columbia University's Coaching Certification Program, will introduce the Neethling Brain Assessment (NBI) to explain the power behind knowing how the individual thinking preferences and mental processes of coach and client can influence the focus, energy, direction, and relationship dynamic during a coaching interaction.

The NBI profile assessments (measures preferences that align with the four major quadrants of the brain) of the coach and the client will be shared with the audience, while the coach is out of the room. Without knowing the client's brain profile, the coach will then be invited back into the room to coach the client, while the audience observes interplay between coach and client. Then the thinking preferences of both the coach and client will be revealed to inform the balance of the conversation. When is the optimal time for the coach to ask and listen for the what, the how, the why, and the who? Come to see how the need for accuracy, planning, imagination, and feeling manifest within the coaching brain. This session will seek to expand your coaching worldview. "We don't see things as they are, we see things as we are." - Anais Nin