ICF Summer Newsletter
Message from Chapter President
With all the uncertainty and anxiety, there has never been a time where coaching was a more essential service than today. Your new volunteer Board of Directors for the Atlantic International Coach Federation is focused on advocating and demonstrating the value of coaching to our Atlantic Canada community and beyond! In partnership with our members, we are focused on continuing to build awareness of the power of coaching for organizations and individuals in our communities.
As the new President of the Atlantic Chapter, I am privileged to be collaborating with a talented mix of new and ongoing Board Members with vast experience across industry and practice areas. The Chapter’s 2020/2021 Board of Directors includes:
Mischaela Richter, Secretary (new board member)
Tim Brodie, Director of Professional Development (new board member)
Pat Rothenberger, Director of Membership (second year of service)
Brian Duggan, Past President (second year of service)
Susan Power, Current President (second year of service)
Thank-you to all our board members and other member volunteers for all of your dedication to our Chapter and for giving your time and energy. If any members have suggestions for areas that they would like the new board to focus on, please send an email to icfatlantic@gmail.com
The Board is meeting for a strategic planning session on August 25, 2020 so it would be timely to hear from you. We would love to hear from our members at anytime.
“Coaching is a profession of love. You can’t coach people unless you love them.”
Susan Power, MBA, CHRL, ACC
Founder & CEO of PowerUp Leadership
President of Atlantic Chapter of International Coach Federation
Membership Renewal Deadline (Due: June 30, 2020)
by Pat Rothenberger, Director of Membership
An important change to the ICF Atlantic’s current membership model was proposed and agreed upon at the ICFA AGM in May.
The following motion was passed by ICF Atlantic Chapter Members effective immediately:
“that ICF Atlantic change its membership model from a paid to a non-paid format whereby every person who is a qualified ICF Global Member and identifies with this Chapter automatically becomes a member of this Chapter with no fee involved”.
This means that effective immediately there is no longer a separate Chapter fee to join ICF Atlantic on top of the annual ICF Global Membership Fee.
Effective immediately, there will only be one level of membership for the ICF Atlantic Chapter (Full membership) and the associate and affiliate levels of membership will longer exist. To be recognized as a Full Member, you must be a member of ICF Global and on your ICF Global profile choose to affiliate with the ICF Atlantic Chapter. It is important that when you renew your Global ICF membership, you select ICF Atlantic as your home chapter, so our Chapter receives the appropriate level of annual funding from ICF Global. The deadline for membership renewals was extended by Global this year to June 30, 2020.
To ensure that you’re recognized as a full member of the ICF Atlantic Chapter:
Log into your profile on the ICF Global Website
Click on your name at the top right of your profile screen
On the left side of your profile page (Underneath where your membership number appears), click “Edit Profile”
On the left side of the edit screen, under “My Account Links” click on “My Chapter Affiliations”
Search for and select “ICF Atlantic Chapter”
The new ICFA Board has decided that any member who has already paid their 2020 ICF Atlantic Chapter renewal fee can request a refund, if they choose, by no later than 5 pm June 30, 2020. For members who choose to do so, they can email a refund request to ICFAtlantic@gmail.com along with their name and a mailing address for the refund cheque. If not requested, the funds will be used for the betterment of the Chapter.
So what does all of this mean?
Current paid members of ICFA will be able to attend all ICFA events for 2020 for free (except for any costs associated to travel, meals, hotels, etc.), plus other existing privileges
All others (ICF Global members, other coaches & others) will be considered guests.
Guests will pay “A la Carte” fees, meaning only for those events they wish to attend.
Full members who are interested in holding events that give CCEUs, can continue to have the CCEU costs offset for their webinars/events if applied for and approved by Global through ICFA.
Associates and affiliates who had already paid for their ICFA 2020 membership renewal will have their benefits of membership honoured until December 31, 2020, even if they’ve had their fee refunded. After that date, they will be considered guests unless they join ICF Global and affiliate with ICF Atlantic Chapter.
Please don’t hesitate to email icfatlantic@gmail.com if you have any questions.
Professional Development
by Tim Brodie, Director of Professional Development
This year will feature a series of international thought leaders with incredibly valuable messages to pass on to professionals in the coaching industry. The intent is not only to pass on strong value to our ICF Atlantic members, but to put this Chapter on the map in a global way as a centre of excellence and understanding of what it takes to be a fantastic coach.
The monthly online webinars will be free to ICF Atlantic members, however there will be a charge for other ICF chapter members joining as our guests. Also, we’ll be inviting professionals from other streams to share in our development sessions for the same price as our ICF cousins, with a vision of the workshops generating revenue to help us, once again, host a major coaching summit in the Spring of 2021.
I bet you would like to hear who we have got lined up as speakers for this coming year. Let me introduce you to our roster when they will be sharing their wisdom and what the topic will be. All the workshops will be one hour long, starting a noon Atlantic time, except for Michel Neray’s. He has an incredible 90-minute program ready for us.
July 22: Rick Carson, Taming your Gremlin
When it comes to gremlin taming, Rick wrote the book … literally. His book, Taming Your Gremlin, was first published in 1983 and his since gone through multiple editions. It has been translated into several different languages and forms the foundation of coaching models everywhere. He is going to join us for a candid conversation where you will be able to jump in and share what is going on in your life as grist for the mill in a spontaneous and online gremlin taming session.August 26: Cinnie Nobel, Conflict Coaching
Cinnie is a Canadian icon who delivers a double-barreled wallop! She is an Order of Canada member who is not only a coach, but also a mediator as well. She regularly travels around the globe teaching her conflict coaching model to transform the negative experiences into opportunities for growth and positive perspective. Spending an hour with Cinnie can change your life.September 23rd: Dave Carroll, Power and Change
Dave is the singer/songwriter who took on United Airlines when they refused to accept responsibility for damaging his guitar. 10 years later, his video “United Breaks Guitars” has over 20,000,000 views! From this one episode in Dave’s life he has grown into a professional speaker with a strong message about inner fortitude. He went on to meet Dr Wayne Dyer, become an author at Hay House, and now has a strong message about positive forward thinking.October 28: Quinn Simpson, Dreaming Big
Quinn is a woman who has chosen to impact the world in a powerful and positive way. Early in her coaching career she created a not-for-profit organization called “Akosia” that saw her travelling into some of the most challenging areas of the world coaching street kids and mothers to tell their stories and to realize they matter. She has created a coaching company called Graydin that works in schools to teach a coaching model that helps teachers increase their own positive impact with the children in their life. It is an incredible story.November 25: Michel Neray, Revealing Your Inner Story
Michel is a man of many talents. He is a singer, a musician, a public speaker, a storyteller, and a successful entrepreneur. More importantly though, he is just a heck of a great guy with a powerful message that comes straight from his core. He believes that true guidance comes from within and is most accessible when we get to know our own inner story and become our own storyteller. This 90-minute workshop will show you the way to access that part of you as well as giving you the ability to help your clients access that part of their self.December 16: Abby Yanow, The Questions We Have
Abby is an accomplished coach from the Boston area. She has experience with teams and leaders in a corporate setting, as well as working with individuals around emotional situations. As we close of the year 2020 Abby’s going to help us focus on the questions we have, how to fearlessly go deep and how to cull the important learnings from what has been a dynamic and challenging year.January 27: Alison Whitmire, Relationship Intelligence
Alison is the owner of Learning in Action Technologies, a company that leads the way in processes and instruments that help reveal the levels of engagement in a client around our emotional command systems. She is more than that though. She is one smart cookie. She hosts monthly podinars that invoke deeper thought around what self means and she explores the nature of the human experience in relationship. She is got a powerful message that will impact anyone who works with people. It is going to be an incredible hour.February 24: Carol Shirley, The Grieving Process
We all too often only consider the grieving process as something associated with the death of a family member or friend. Carol is a deeply respected Psychologist from Halifax, Nova Scotia, with an important message. After decades working with clients she’s seen the truth that grieving is much more common than we think, and that understanding the signs and symptoms of grief will give us the ability to walk with our clients through the grieving process in a positive and forward-thinking way. It is an important skill from a an incredibly talented and intelligent woman.March 24: Chip Huth, Unconditional Respect
Chip is a currently serving member of the Kansas City Police Department with an incredible experience to share. He was once the leader of a SWAT Team within the organization, where he was using aggressive tactics to take down and imprison dangerous criminals in his midwestern community. However, when he switched from an aggressive tactical method to one of unconditional respect his team increased effectiveness by 25% while simultaneously decreasing public complaints completely! Imagine if you could help your clients achieve that same success! It is possible and an hour with Chip will show you how.
ICF Atlantic is excited to announce that we are updating our website!
by Mischaela Richter, Secretary
ICF Atlantic is excited to announce that we are updating our website! We are working with the Halifax based company Up Public Relations ( to help us create a website that is modern, user-friendly and informative. We hope to launch the redesign by this Fall. Three bids were reviewed prior to awarding this contract to Up Public Relations.
A volunteer website committee is collaborating to create the content working with the selected vendor. Board members Pat Rothenberger and Mischaela Richter are leading the committee. We would like to extend a special thanks to ICF Atlantic member Wendy Jones for contributing her time and expertise to this project.
The Website Committee’s main objectives are to have a website that keeps members updated on all the news and events within our coaching community, as well as helping to raise the profile of coaching to the broader community of Atlantic Canada.
Highlights from the 2019-2020 ICF Atlantic Annual General Meeting
by Brian Duggan, Past President of ICF Atlantic
Highlights from the 2019-2020 Annual General Meeting
Farewell and thank you to Mary D’Arcy and Heather Stamp-Nunes who have completed their terms on the ICF Atlantic Board. We thank them for their generous commitment and insight in service to all our members.
Welcome and thank you to Mischaela Richter and Tim Brodie who have become Board Members for two-year terms. Mischaela is now the Board Secretary and Tim the Professional Development Director. We look forward to your energy and commitment to the work of ICF in Atlantic Canada.
2019 – 2020 Activity Highlights
Your Board was a hard-working group of five! We aligned ourselves with the ICF Global strategic Directions and focused on Professional Development and engaging members in discerning the future of the Chapter.
The PD events were a huge success highlighting Atlantic Canadian Coaching Talent. Webinars, Coaching Café’s and Covid-19 related facilitated conversations were well attended by people from Romania to California!
Member Consultation regarding the future of ICF Chapter were important and shifting conversations. The following suggestions emerged from the sessions:
Let us maintain this chapter as there are good things going on, let us refocus it on creating connections in the business community.
Let us move away from a paid membership model; everyone who is a Global ICF member automatically becomes a member of the Chapter; and that we eliminate the Associate and Affiliate member. Those who are not members will pay a slightly higher fee to participate in professional development.
Streamline processes and practices so we can refocus on education. (quarterly newsletters, continue to use a virtual assistant)