Opening Keynote

• Tap into your passion
• Meet people - network
• Learn something about coaching from a new perspective
• Activities based on improvisation and solutions focus approaches
• 3 activity formats experienced by everyone in small groups
• Sharing reflections
• Get ready to make the most of the conference

Discover The Seven Coaching MegaTrends That Are Affecting Every Coaching Practice

Presentation

Alun will present and describe the 7 Coaching MegaTrends that are changing the face of the coaching industry. You will cover what they are, how their impact will be felt and the likely threats to coaches' practices.

Coaches will be encouraged to consider how the MegaTrends will affect them individually, and to identify individual action plans that will put their coaching practices in the best possible position to benefit from them.

At the end of the presentation there will be a Q&A session where coaches' specific questions on the 7 MegaTrends, and the changes in the coaching market in general will be dealt with.

Workshop

Scaling is a surprisingly powerful tool for use in individual and team coaching. Whilst providing the backbone of Solutions Focused coaching (it is the 'S' of the 'OSKAR' model devised by Paul Z Jackson & Mark McKergow) it also works very effectively with other coaching approaches.

Scaling is a neat and easily accessible way to help clients discover and amplify the differences that make the difference to their progress.

In this highly practical, informative and interactive session you will be introduced to Solutions Focus as an approach to coaching and change and learn why, when and how you can use scaling to:

• Confirm progress
• Measure and encourage change
• Elaborate strengths
• Focus on how the client wants things to be
• Decide small action steps

You will take away a set of practical tools that can you can start to use straight away in your coaching.

This session will be a mix of facilitated group processes and speed sharing. The tools will be briefly introduced and you will then have the opportunity to apply them straight away by working in coaching pairs and groups.

Workshop

Coaching's entering adult-hood in the 21st century. From its birth in the sports field developing performance, migrating to the business world with an ever increasing emphasis on 'results' and now to a position where global corporates, technology and unconscious humanity have the ability to destroy our world as well as develop it.

As Sir John Whitmore noted in his keynote at the 2008 Association for Coaching conference, "Quantitative technological advance is far ahead of qualitative wisdom!" And there's a stirring in the collective unconscious perhaps because of this lop-sidedness.

Increasingly our clients are bringing issues of yearning for an identity beyond the superficial and for a sense of meaning and purpose in their lives as in the ubiquitous search for work/life balance! They're bringing the potential to evolve and contribute to the systems to which they belong rather than just self-serve as was the flavour of the late 20th century.

They're 'awakening, rousing from sleep, emerging from a state of indifference, lethargy...' or 'becoming fully conscious, aware and appreciative' (Webster's dictionary). And we coaches have a pivotal role in that process.

Firstly in evolving ourselves! Expanding so as to be able and equipped to midwife this significant transition towards inner-directed and far more meaningful relational behaviour in our own and our clients' personal and professional lives.

Passion and Success indeed for our clients and for ourselves! Developing as Robert Dilts suggests from 'Coach' to 'Awakener', incorporating all of our professional evolution so we can coach with a capital 'C'.

You will leave with an overview of Dilts' model, your current major identification as a coach, areas for development (or not!), meeting your own 'Awakener' and pinpointing your next evolutionary step.

For coaches interested in becoming an associate or in working with associate coaches

Panel Discussion

If you are such a great coach, how come you're not successful (enough)? If only you could step into a job as a coach, so you can get on with coaching whilst someone else deals with the marketing and admin. Is this what it is like to be an associate coach?

Panel members to be confirmed, but probably:

• A professional associate coach
• A representative from a large organisation of associate coaches
• A representative from a small group of coaches working together as associates

Workshop

Clean Language 'goes between the lines' of a conversation, focusing in and gathering insights and information about words, phrases, metaphors and non verbals, which are often lurking, untapped, just beneath the surface.

Devised by psychotherapist David Grove during the 80s and 90s, Clean Language is now being used, in varying degrees, by many coaches. Some use it extensively, while others dip in and out of it, when it seems appropriate - in particular when clients use metaphor to describe their experience. Others save it for 'moments of extreme stuckness'.

Marian will explain what Clean Language is, how it works, how it can facilitate powerful changes in clients, and how different coaches are using it.

During the workshop, you will also have an opportunity to have a go at asking some questions and to find out what it's like to have some clean questions asked of you.

Connecting with our hearts, connecting with others

Workshop

A practical way to be able to access heart-centredness which is applicable in all areas of our lives, not just coaching. Fun. A chance to explore this way of being in a safe environment.

You will have an opportunity to play with open heartedness. Engaging in communication, with a twist. Be prepared to participate fully, we get out what we put in - as the old saying goes.

Quick & Easy Strategies To Turn Prospective Clients Into Paying Clients That Last For Years

During this intensive, content rich event, you will discover...

• The simple, 3 step process for getting coaching clients and what to focus on in each step.
• How to create extremely enticing introductory session offers so that people will want to give your coaching a try (companies like IBM and Xerox can only dream of it being this easy to get an appointment with a potential customer) And...
• The 3 deliverables of an introductory session that will create tremendous value for your potential clients and at the same time will make them "get" why they must hire you right now! In fact, I'll reveal...
• The entire "Free Sessions That Sell" system of enrolling clients while adding tremendous value. (You'll get every step of the process so you can immediately start increasing your sign up rate) Plus...
• Key "magic" phrases that make potential clients feel safe while moving them closer to the sale (this eliminates pressure from the sales process so that they can make a clean and clear decision)
• And the whole class will be jam packed with even more "golden nuggets" than I can list here ("golden nugget" = strategies and ideas for faster and easier business development, marketing, and sales)

Workshop

Many coaches find that running workshops on coaching-related topics is a good way of introducing people to coaching, building their coaching businesses and reaching out to more people.

In this active session you'll try out some workshop activities. You'll learn tips and ideas for running your own lively workshops along with thinking tools for planning workshops that accommodate what people need in a learning environment.

You will get:

• Interesting learning situations with other coaches.
• Experiences for reflecting on what you appreciate as a workshop participant.
• Workshop ideas to use and adapt for your own workshops.
• Thinking tools for planning your workshops to suit your participants.

Workshop

Discover a new way

This session captures the essence of the innovative Develop Your Child (DYC) approach to family coaching. In learning new skills, you'll discover how, by connecting energetically in a wonderful new way, you can create relationships on a whole new level that empower you and the families you work with. You'll discover how to unleash their innate potential. You'll see how magic can happen.

Join us on an exciting journey

By the end of this interactive, informative and enjoyable session you'll have a good knowledge of our unique approach and be able to use your skills to create even better relationships within a family context. You may also experience personal transformation as you learn more about different ways of looking at life.

The Fundamental Principles of the DYC approach:

1. There is nothing wrong with a parent, they are doing the best they can with what they know. They need new skills, for today's children who are more sensitive emotionally, physically and psychically and must manage greater pressure from external influences than previously because of the tremendously rapid rate of change in technology, population dynamics and culture.
2. We believe that everyone is born pure, creative, resourceful and with unlimited potential. It is our role to help you to connect to that birthright.
3. Self care is critical. Parents are run ragged in order to keep the family running smoothly. You must be prepared to bring yourself up the priority ladder, yes even a little selfish, otherwise you will not be able to do your best for everyone.
4. Everyone must be open to allowing new possibilities that reveal themselves and be committed to trying them with consistency and integrity.

We will be exploring the family dynamic, effective tools to use and experiencing our energetic connection.

There will be group sessions and problem solving challenges.

For coaches who want more clients

Panel Discussion

What are your potential clients looking for? Sell more coaching by learning from the buyers

Panel members to be confirmed

Closing Keynote

Coaching has been around, as a formally recognised profession, for the last twenty or so years.

Why has it emerged now? What issues does it address? What is its future? And how is coaching about much more than just coaching?

Is coaching just about helping people achieve more, or is it about something bigger than that? Are we there merely to help our clients reach their goals, or to help them articulate something deeper?

In this session, we will explore the wider context in which coaching sits - the world we live in now is changing fast, and we need to explore different ways of being in this emerging world.

It is increasingly clear that "more of the same" is not an option. We need to ask fundamental questions about the assumptions we have made about how we live and work, in order to deal effectively with the changes and challenges we are facing.

Coaching needs to address these larger concerns if it is to have a sustainable future, and, more importantly, if it is to be of service to our world.

This will be a thought-provoking and stimulating presentation, offering questions and new perspectives about coaching and the world in which we do our work.

There will also be time for questions and discussion.