NCCA Newsletter

28 October 2004

Attendees

• Jeff, Carmen, Sue, Carl, Joan, John, Peggy (visitor)

Joan's fun activity

• Toss the ball between people
• What did you notice about how the other people threw the ball to you?
• What does that reflect about how you communicate as a coach?

Check-In

• Joan just joined the eWomen network.  They offer business makeovers at various stages of business growth.  Joan won a PR makeover!  Full Circle Marketing created a kit for her, they did a fabulous job.  She is also doing a periodic "Claim Your Genius" program, intended to be extremely flexible.
• Carmen and Joan are doing a joint venture: "2005 - The year of Action!"
• Carmen did a workshop for the government, and followed up with individuals on their goals and commitments from that.  She's teaching a class with Healthy Inspirations (who focus on a holistic approach to weight loss), "Intangibles For Success," through November and December.
• John has been working a lot of hours.  There's been a bumper crop of new people at NoCoNet, from Agilent, LSI, and AE.  They're bringing a lot of new energy to the group.
• Carl did a presentation to the Northern Colorado Technology Roundtable last week with Terry Anna, and sold 3 books.  He's coached two executive development programs now and is signed up for another in December.
• Jeff is finishing a training program with the Academy for Coach Training.  He's coaching 4 clients now.  Two areas of focus:  Diabetes, and Career Transition.  He's partnering with another person on estate planning, and is hoping to bring a coaching element to that.
• Peggy belongs to NoCoNet and is currently unemployed.  Areas of interest are wellness, training and development.  She has particular interest in applying coaching to obesity.
• Sue quit her job, got married, went to Greece, and moved to Loveland.  Her new e-mail address and phone are on the website.  Her business covers coaching, dispute resolution, communication and mediation.  (Joan's resource: www.crucialconversations.com - a coach's approach to mediation.)  She's getting a website up and running.

Special-Needs Coaching Panel - Jeff, Carmen, John

• John doesn't tell people they're AD/HD - instead he helps people to come to their own realization
  • He focuses on unique skills and abilities, the positive aspects, what's possible
  • He finds it's more about how others treat the person
  • He helps his clients to hold the big picture for themselves, that's quite important
  • He helps clients to develop self-regulation and bring balance
  • There's opportunities to partner with the medical community to help the client
• What does a coaching accomplishment with an AD/HD person look like?
  • I was able to accomplish specific things, to choose my focus
  • Helping the person to find out how their own brain works
• Carmen has fibromyalgia, and has worked with clients with various disorders including fatigue and OCD
  • She got lots of comments about people who couldn't afford it, they often had exhausted their insurance trying to figure out what they had
  • Often people with fibromyalgia are A type personalities, this causes a lot of internal conflict
  • She helps people to accept and be gentle with themselves
  • She does spiritual coaching with them, to see this as a gift
  • Her view is that each and every person has a "disability", although unfortunately that's a negative word
• Jeff has type 1 diabetes, and helps others to understand where they fit in the whole world of diabetes
  • There's no longer a big age distinction between type 1 and type 2 as there has been in the past
  • Type 2 is skyrocketing - 18 million in the US - partly because our lifestyles have changed
  • The medical community is getting the two types confused
  • Jeff helps people to have hope, to see the world through a different filter
  • He's thinking about creating a package which gives people tools and consultation with a person who's been through it
  • He helps clients to get balance, much like traditional coaching
  • He provides mentoring, examples of how others do it, and coaching to help apply it personally
  • The challenge is getting cooperation from the medical community - there's a whole range of diabetes educators who believe they own the space, with some ignorance about what coaching is.  He isn't using the word "coaching" heavily in how he communicates with them.
  • There are support groups, which can provide a lot of help.  A lot of what they do is "in the head", they need more creativity and emotion.  Jeff is looking to give a presentation at a support group.
  • It's a challenge getting doctors to pay attention to the educators
  • He find that when people really embrace their disability, it helps them to open up to help, assistance, and other ways to deal with their lives
• Working with other communities
  • Medical - doctors, hospitals
  • Drug companies
  • Wellness people in ICF or CoachVille
• There's an attractive power to having personal experience with these issues
• Should we have each coach's specialty listed on the members page of the NCCA website?
• Is it harder to keep a strong line between mentoring based on experience vs. coaching?
  • Absolutely, especially as you strongly identify with the client
  • Education is different than mentoring

Chapter Business

ICF Conference

• Carl to represent leadership team.
• We've had many people who were very impactful
  • Research, legislation
  • Check up on Joan's books - having them shipped back to Colorado
• There's a number of chapters who are nominated for awards, DCF is one of them
  • Chapter presidents are voting on which to give awards

Future Meetings

• Next meeting is November 18^th
  • ICF conference information
  • Resource exchange to create a reference list on the web
• Reserve Saturday December 11^th for holiday outing at Joan’s in Redstone Canyon, tentatively 2:00 Barbeque
• January - no topic yet
• February - Ann Strong - Creating a Sacred Space
• March - Dianne Stober - Coaching Research
• Meeting time and location?
  • This location is good
  • General desire to move back to lunchtime
  • November meeting is set, so if we change it will be in January

Special Interest Group: Starting a Business

• There's varying inputs for whether there's general interest in the group for topics around starting and maintaining a small business