Message from the President
Dear HKICC Friends,
Can everybody be a coach? Should everybody be a coach?
Thomas Leonard, often referred to as the "Founder of Coaching", certainly thought so:
"Thomas' vision was to bring the provocative power of coaching to the lives of everyone. Not only did he want to create the largest and most progressive community of coaches and resources in the world, he also wanted to bring coaching to the mainstream so that everyone could and would develop a coaching approach to their own lives.
Keep reading
Charlie Lang
President, HKICC
president@coachinghk.org
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The Top 10 Questions to Ask Yourself ... Regularly
The Power of Positive Thinking
Inner Conversations
Coaching to the Human Soul
Meet our Coach Members: Catherine Florent
Sponsored Events & Announcements |
| The Top 10 Questions to Ask Yourself ... Regularly |
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Article by: Shale Paul
Adapted by Carole Lewis from: http://topten.org/public/BA/BA153.html
Dr Hilary Armstrong's article this month talks about having the ability to reflect on yourself and ask yourself questions about your own coaching. Read these top ten questions to ask yourself to help reflect on your own coaching.
Someone once observed that you learn more by the questions you ask than by the answers you give. Call it Socratic learning, if you will, but I find that asking questions of myself helps keep me on track. Here are ten I ask regularly.
- What am I resisting?
- What is the lesson here?
- Have I been here before?
- Am I losing energy to this?
- Am I holding onto something I need to let go of?
- Am I in the present?
- What do I need to do now?
- Who's in control here?
- What is my responsibility here?
- Am I at peace with this?
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| The Power of Positive Thinking |
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Adapted for HKICC by Carole Lewis from: http://www.marin.cc.ca.us/~don/study/2positive.html
Key Point:
You are what you think. You feel what you want.
Why Think Positively?
All of our feelings, beliefs and knowledge are based on our internal thoughts, both conscious and subconscious. We are in control, whether we know it or not.
We can be positive or negative, enthusiastic or dull, active or passive.
The biggest difference between people is their attitudes. For some, learning is enjoyable and exciting. For others, learning is a drudgery. For many, learning is just okay, something required on the road to a job.
"Most folk are about as happy as they
make up their minds to be."
Abraham Lincoln
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| Inner Conversations |
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This article "Building Quality Coaching Relationships: Reflexive Awareness and the Inner Village" is written by Dr Hilary Armstrong, Director of Training and Research, Institute of Executive Coaching, Australia and Hong Kong
When a person seeks coaching they have a story to tell. This story can differ depending on the social and cultural context the person is telling it in and the quality of the coaching relationship. It is important as one listens to a story to realise that a coachee's story is full of things s/he chooses to tell, as well as many untold things. What determines this selectivity is the quality of the coaching relationship.
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| Coaching to the Human Soul |
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Adapted by Michelle Gabbe from an article excerpted from a trilogy of books on Ontological Coaching authored by Alan Sieler (http://www.newfieldaus.com.au/)
Ontological Coaching is a powerful approach for getting to deep issues that block us from going forward. The depth of these issues is about the human soul. An ontological approach to coaching has the potential to touch the soul of coachees and radically shift their perceptions of themselves and what is possible in life. Ontological Coaching utilises an interpretation that the nature of human existence (way of being) is a 3-way interrelationship between language, emotions and body. Coaching that only involves language is a single dimensional approach. The combination of language, emotions and body brings a richness and depth to what is possible in a coaching
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| Meet our Coach Members: Catherine Florent |
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VP Professional Development - Executive coach, Director of Energie creative - Certified NLP practitioner, Coach U and Corporate coaching graduate
What led you into coaching?
I've always had a true interest in individuals and their unique qualities. In consulting and advertising so far, I enjoyed drawing out creativity and executives' own talents for the sake of clients' brand building. Actually, the more I respect individuals in their uniqueness, the better they perform. Then in multinational corporations I figured out many times that such behaviour, bringing individuals' ownership and satisfaction, would really benefit work performance, and give the missing dimension towards great result.
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| Sponsored Events & Announcements |
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Find out what really motivates you and how you can make the changes you need to make to feel fulfilled in your work.
Read more at: www.loving-your-work.com/workshop.htm.
When: Monday June 16 2008, 7-9pm
Cost: $480
Contact Carole Lewis at carole@lovingyourwork.hk or on 2135-5044 for more details and to reserve a space.
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Who should attend?
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Or you are a consultant who wants to become a successful external executive coach.
Special rate for HKICC members!
Read more about this unique program:
http://www.progressu.com.hk/events/events-for-leaders.htm |
Active Communication is proud to announce that the "Coaching in Action" workshop held at end of the April was an overwhelming success!
The wide reach and acceptance of the Ontological concept and methodology was emphasized by participants who went out of their way and traveled from Singapore and Malaysia to join the workshop in Hong Kong!
The composition of the group reflected on the diverse ways of applying Ontological Coaching. Trained and practicing coaches interacted with managers, team leaders and L&D executives and all had fun!
The next workshop will be held July 3rd - 5th.
Find workshop details here |
Coaching Conference Not To Be Missed
The Coachmecca Coaching Retreat will be held on 16 - 17 October in Queenstown, New Zealand. Coaches will join together for two days of information & inspiration from outstanding speakers, opportunities to network and other entertaining activities. It is open to all coaches, no matter their location, coaching niche or experience level. Register now for $750 NZD (Approximately $3385 HKD) or receive a further 20% off if you register as a Coachmecca club member for just $99 NZD (Approximately $610 HKD). Go to www.coachmecca.com/coachingretreat for full information and to register. |
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Dear Readers,
Here I am, ready and willing to serve you. So tell me, what do YOU like about YOUR monthly newsletter? What would YOU like to change? What do you want MORE of, what do you want NEW? Now is your opportunity to stand up and ask for what you want. Please email me your suggestions.
To our professional coaches, who would like to be profiled in our newsletter? Let me know and it can be arranged! And who would like to recommend three or four books that might be of interest to all our members, coaches and non-coaches? If there is sufficient interest, I'm happy to make this a monthly feature. The first person to make a submission is guaranteed an entry in next month's newsletter.
Until then, how can you become more aware of your internal chatter? With awareness, we get choice - choice to reframe or let go beliefs, to think and behave differently!
Glynis Ferguson
Editor, HKICC
PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT EVENT
WHAT: TBA
WHEN: Our June event has already taken place, meeting for July to be announced
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For Book Lovers
Glynis recommends:
"Fearless Living - Live Without Excuses and Love Without Regret" - Rhonda Britten (Mastering our Emotional fears).
"Return to Love" - Marianne Williamson (Spirituality).
"The Verbally Abusive Relationship" - Patricia Evans (Boundaries).
"The Call - Discovering Why You are Here" - Oriah Mountain Dreamer (For anyone going through the process of transformation, this book offers solace and hope). |
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NEW Articles from the HKICC coach-authored South China Morning Post 'Signposts' article series
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