The "I'm A Coach, Now What" SIG provides a forum for coaches to share resources and experiences and be supported in creating a successful coaching business. Our purpose is to not only support coaches in gaining clarity on what they need to do to be a successful coach but also who they need to be in order to follow through with their marketing strategies.

The ICF ADHD SIG, supported by the ADHD Coaches Organization (ACO,) is a meeting place for ICF coaches to learn more about ADHD coaching. Learn how ADHD Coaching assists clients to stay focused on their goals, overcome obstacles, and address core ADHD-related issues like procrastination, rumination, organization, and self-esteem. Please join us to discuss your own challenges and those with ADHD clients and to share your concerns, strategies, and success stories.

This SIG provides a forum for ICF coaches to learn about research discoveries in the neurosciences and how an understanding of these discoveries can inform our practice. Through guest speakers, topical readings, and open discussion of our experiences, we will explore how the brain works and the implications for coaching strategies and techniques. Our purpose is to explore an interdisciplinary, yet fundamentally brain-based perspective as a foundational science for evidence-based coaching.

The SIG seeks to assist coaches to build their businesses. The SIG provides an opportunity to acquire sales skills, marketing know-how, and basic business knowledge needed to build a thriving, independent coaching practice

The Career Coaching SIG is designed for coaches who specialize (in whole or in part) in career coaching. We invite your participation if you work independently, or within an organization, assisting clients in work-related areas including: finding career/job direction, life purpose, life/work balance, job search strategies, and similar tasks. Our mission is to support excellence in career coaching while supporting career coaches in building full practices. We do this by providing continuing ed...

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This group is for coaches who are coaching in K-12 schools and universities (or want to!). The education field would greatly benefit from the services of professional coaches, from the classroom to the boardroom. Our sessions are interactive and educational with frequent speakers.

The Coaching in Asia SIG exists to enable the building of a community of coaches who are new to or currently practising in Asia. It is an interactive forum for those are interested in enhancing their capabilities to be more effective in: - Networking with other professional and internal coaches in Asia; - Addressing Asia-related coaching challenges and issues; - Exploring coaching models for application in the Asia context; - Sharing coaching resources, best practices and success stories ...

Coaching as a profession has experienced tremendous growth in China over the past ten years. The Coaching in China SIG is created with a mission to provide a platform and a forum for coaches from China and the ICF community around the world to share best practices, to promote excellence, to provide support and feedback from peer coaches, to learn new developments in coaching and to further upgrade coaching skills which will help towards building successful practices.

Global Impact: Coaching Social Entrepreneurs, Visionaries & Changemakers. What if you could change the world without leaving your house? Would you like to be one of the first players in an exciting and expanding coaching niche? There is a huge untapped market of potential clients in the global Social Enterprise movement.

The Enneagram is a system for understanding what motivates people and the patterns that exist around their strengths and limitations. It provides a lens through which we as coaches can see what is happening for our clients and ourselves. We invite you to join and increase your awareness of the Enneagram, share in the knowledge and experience of those who work with the Enneagram, and participate in an open dialogue about the use of the Enneagram in coaching.

Conflict Coaching blends principles of coaching and conflict management and helps people develop constructive ways to address conflictual situations, in their personal and professional lives. This SIG provides a forum for sharing best practices, exploring new approaches in conflict coaching, and considering how coaches’ own conflict management skills may impact their coaching skills. Monthly teleconferences will include guest speakers and topic-focused discussions.

Starting Feb. 3, The Equine Experiential Coaching (EEC) SIG fosters the development and acceptance of equine experiential coaching for personal and professional development of individuals and organizations. We provide a forum for the sharing of ideas, best practices and resources, and serve as an advocate for the interests of ICF equine experiential coaches. Our theme for 2009 is Facilitating the Horse/Human Coaching Partnership and will focus on issues of vital concern to coaches who are in...

This SIG groups coaches from around the world working with intercultural challenges. Be it the expatriate community or businesses and individuals leveraging multicultural diversity, we help our clients use their intercultural transitions as an opportunity. Monthly meetings allow members to join discussions with global experts, share resources and network to build our coaching businesses. Join us on the second Wednesday of each month for a dynamic exchange on global coaching.

The Global Executive Coaching SIG primary focus is on models and practices that support executive excellence, creativity, and responsibility in a global and intercultural context. Coaches from all countries and backgrounds are warmly welcomed.

The initial goal of this SIG is to create a community for those individuals who are coaching in the field of healthcare. The primary goals of the SIG will evolve over time based on the needs and priorities of the participants. Feel free to join us whether it's to network, brainstorm about an issue, or simply spend time with others who share an interest in your niche.

This group is an on-going forum for ICF coaches who work with clients with addictions. Our mission is to explore and develop coaching models and practices that support the needs of clients in recovery, to advance recognition and appreciation of our profession, and to support the development of superior Recovery Coaches.

The purpose of the Internal Coaching SIG is to foster the development and impact of internal coaching programs in business and organizations throughout the world. We provide a forum for the sharing of ideas, best practices and resources, and we serve as an advocate for the interests of internal coaches to the ICF. 2006 was a growth year for the Internal Coaching SIG. We more than doubled our membership, and currently have nearly 160 members representing 65+ companies. These companies in...

The International Disaster Support SIG has been created to encourage global conversation on the sensitive, but timely topic of how the coaching profession can best help individuals, businesses, relief organizations, health care personnel, government workers, and military in times of crisis. The mission of this SIG is to educate members on specific competencies that are required by coaches so that they can aid in community, state and/or countrywide response, preparedness and/or restoration, s...

Beginning January 19, A Community of Japanese Speaking Coaches to expand the possibilities of coaching and Career development. The focus is to topic on “effective introduction, practice coaching in the small and medium-sized enterprise in Japan” with an original social background..And share the activity resources of coaches. Also be the platform of Japanese Speaking Coaches, educate one another and learn from different coaching cultures. To increase the View points and deepen knowledge, wou...

This SIG is chartered to advance the art, science and practice of professional leadership coaching worldwide. We invite speakers to address the emotion, body and language domains for leadership coaches. We also invite speakers to offer professional and business tips and tools in the leadership and executive arena.

This group is open to all coaches with a physical disability and is intended to meet the special interests of coaches with a physical disability. The purpose of this group is to: *Celebrate successes and provide support in solving problems unique to disability. *Brainstorm innovative ideas and solutions for building, promoting, and marketing our coaching practice and/or modifying traditional promotional methods to accommodate for physical disability. *Share resources and information a...

The Relationship Coaching SIG provides a forum to promote excellence in the Relationship & Systems coaching arena. Relationship Coaching is cutting edge. It is one of the next evolutions of the coaching profession. Relationship coaches work with all kinds of relationships, organizational, group, couples, families and work partnerships. Working with a relationship system is demanding. It requires a different skill set than individual coaching. We will have professional development sessions del...

The Research Forum is a monthly discussion for coaches and academics interested in forwarding research on coaching. As coaching grows from a popular phenomenon into a formal field and profession, theory and research are essential. The Research Forum is one way to build a community of individuals interested in seeing coaching research grow. We have topical discussions, guest speakers, and disseminate information about exciting developments in coaching research. Please join us on the cuttin...

The retreat Coaches SIG inspires, supports and educates Coaches who want to combine their coaching skills with leading retreats of all kinds: Women's, Executive Teams, Couples, Adventures and More! There's something for everyone from new Coaches searching for a niche to experienced Retreat Leaders. Participants learn new skills, gain valuable information on how to be a profitable Retreat Coach and become part of a community of like-minded coaches.

The Self-Care for Coach and Client SIG is designed to help coaches in building and practicing strong self-care skills within their own lives while effectively supporting their clients in practicing extraordinary self-care. Participants of this SIG recognize that great self-care is a foundational piece for having a fulfilling practice and fulfilling life. We come together to share resources, ideas and best practices. Specific strategies, models, and exercises will be discussed as they perta...

To expand the network capabilities and expertise of Spanish speaking coaches around the world. The focus is to expand and bring awareness of the coaching profession in Latin America, US, Canada and European countries where there is an increasing number of Hispanics. We aim to be the premier coaching group to share information about different coaching practices, educate one another, learn from different coaching schools and sponsor translation of tools and methodologies, as well as sharing bes...

This SIG is focused on developing spiritual coaching techniques. Its objectives are to: (1) discuss spiritual coaching issues (2) share experiences, successes, ideas, exercises, and goal setting tips (3) explore how coaching can positively impact the culture of spirituality (4) contribute to the improvement of the client's spiritual outcome with a focus on interconnectedness and balance in their life, work, and spirituality. Existential imperatives like-- "Is that all that there is?"-- and ...

As coaching continues to evolve, many of us will be called to work with teams, not just as a group of individuals being coached, but as a living system in its own right. In the world today we increasingly find ourselves in multiple teams, at work, in our communities, at school and with our colleagues. The workplace is asking that teams form, perform and disband at an astonishing rate. This group will focus on the challenges, methodologies and successes of team coaching. We will also identify ...

(Beginning August) The major task of adolescents is to become "their own person." Although each life unfolds in its own unique pattern, there are a number of issues that are similar to each teenage child. As teens develop increasingly complex knowledge systems, they also adopt an integrated set of values and morals. Furthermore, teenagers swing back and forth between dependence and independence as they work on this task. Coaches have an amazing opportunity to empower these youth to become...

The initial aim is to learn and appreciate the issues facing people nearing The Third Age -- their life in retirement. This SIG is for experienced Life Coaches and coaches who have a special interest in coaching people for quality life in retirement -- exploring and expanding their options, including people who want to make dramatic late-career shifts.