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• Net-Workshop CC#5 Maintains Presence

  • When
    October 13, 2026
  •  
    4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
  • Location
    Zoom
  • Spaces left
    84

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  Join us for our ICF Core Competency Net-Workshop!

  This is a great opportunity to connect with other ICF San Diego members, build your coaching network and dive deeper into the core coaching competencies. A member of the ICF San Diego Board will lead a short lesson focused on one of the competencies. Then, in break out rooms, you'll have opportunities to meet other San Diego coaches, discuss the competency of the month and share collective wisdom on how you can apply these learnings to best support your clients. We look forward to collaborating and growing with you and expanding on best practices.

  In this Net-Workshop we will be covering CC#5 Maintains Presence. 

  We will discuss:

  What it means to be fully conscious and present with the client, employing a style that is open, flexible, grounded and confident.
  

  *All participants will receive 1.5  Core Competency Credits.

  PRESENTER: Sharon Saevitzon, PCC

  
  

  Sharon Saevitzon, PCC is a Certified Energy Leadership and Transformation Coach, specializing in guiding women, teenagers and young adults to overcome emotional, mental and physical blocks. With expertise in Psychology, Business and various healing modalities, Sharon empowers her clients to lead lives filled with self-love, balance, well-being and happiness.

  Sharon immigrated from South Africa in 1992 where she was an executive in the advertising industry.

  Sharon has successfully raised her 2 children into the top tech and law companies. Sharon teaches spin classes and enjoys pickleball, yoga and hiking.

  
  

  *CCE Requirement Notes for Participants: Zoom: You will not be able to join the meeting if you are not logged into a Zoom account. If you don't have a Zoom account, you can create one for free at https://zoom.us. For attendance tracking purposes, all participants are required to login to their zoom account associated with their event registration. CCE’s: To be awarded CCE’s for participation in this event it is required to remain on camera for a minimum of 80% of the scheduled event. AI note takers: Will not be allowed unless you are also attending in person.

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• Coaching with Mastery - The MCC Mindset

  • When
    October 15, 2026
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    11:00 AM - 12:30 PM
  • Location
    Zoom

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  ICF Orange County Chapter Presents: Coaching with Mastery - The MCC Mindset

  How do you bring your authentic self to coaching and still demonstrate the MCC qualities of being with the human you are coaching? "Everyone who develops mastery starts off in a beginner's mind. And those who continue to evolve masterfully stay in the beginner's mind the whole of their lives." Let’s discuss the fundamentals of coaching and how to use the ICF competencies as the launching point for mastery. Once you integrate your understanding, you then have the freedom to dance in your coaching conversations. Supporting your clients to explore transformational places. Observe a 20-minute coaching demonstration. Linking the coach’s questions to the MCC BARS and PCC Markers. Afterward, break out into groups to debrief the coaching demonstration with each other. Then, come back and pick Lyssa’s mind for her choice points. Make connections between the questions and the competencies.
  
  LEARNING OBJECTIVES:
  Explore what FULL Partnership means. Deepen your understanding of the competencies. See how the coaching container weaves the competencies: agreement setting, building trust, coaching presence, listening actively, evoking awareness, and facilitating growth. Observe an MCC Coach demonstrate the competencies through a real coaching conversation. Debrief on your insights.
  

  CCE's:

  *1.5 Core Competency CCEU

  IMPORTANT: This registration process consists of TWO STEPS.

  After completing your initial registration, you will receive an additional email instructing you to ALSO register via Zoom.

  Please note that your registration will not be considered complete unless you also register through Zoom.

  
  SPEAKER:Lyssa deHart, LICSW, MCC, BCC, EMCC,

  
  

  Lyssa is the author of StoryJacking: Change Your Dialogue, Transform Your Life, the Reflective Coach, Light Up: The Science of Coaching with Metaphors, and Sticky Outcomes: at the Intersection of Coaching, Neuroscience, and Lasting Change. She is also the host of the Coaching Studio Podcast. Lyssa is a recovering Therapist, Confidence Coach, Certified Mentor Coach, Coaching SUPERVision Partner, ICF PCC Assessor, and coaching educator. Lyssa’s understanding of ICF Core Competencies and neuroscience instills confidence in her ability to guide professional coaches. She empowers them to enhance their client outcomes through deep listening, client-led approaches, and ultimately, by fostering a partnership that empowers their clients.
  
  In 2018, Lyssa began to develop the groundbreaking Power of Metaphor Program. This innovative program equips coaches to harness the metaphors their clients use, a crucial element in fostering stronger agreements, trust, and powerful embodied awareness. In 2022, she introduced the Updated Credentialing Exam PREP. This resource has significantly aided over 6,000 coaches in preparing for the updated ICF Exam, a testament to her profound impact on the coaching industry. In 2024, she introduced the ACE PREP for the ICF ACC Credentialing Exam.
  
  In all her work, Lyssa is committed to improving the coaching community by enhancing the quality and impact of the coach-client relationship.
  

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• Business Development Roundtable:The ROI Roundtable: Where to Invest Your Time and Money in the New Year

  • When
    October 16, 2026
  •  
    9:00 AM - 10:00 AM
  • Location
    Zoom link provided after registration

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  Business Development Roundtable: The ROI Roundtable: Where to Invest Your Time and Money in the New Year

  
  

  The Business Development Roundtable is designed as a welcoming and collaborative space for ICF San Diego chapter members. This virtual roundtable offers opportunities to learn, exchange ideas, and share resources that support the growth and sustainability of your coaching practice.

  
  

  Where is the best place to invest your time and money next year? Every fall, coaches

  face the same question: which professional organizations, communities, or resources

  will actually move the needle for their business in the coming year? There are plenty of

  options out there, but the challenge is knowing which ones are worth it.

  What are your ideas? What has worked well (or not) for growing your coaching

  business? Come ready to share one recommendation at our next Coaches BD

  Roundtable, Friday, October 16th at 9:00am PST.

  To kick off the conversation, Karen Bryant, Community Engagement Manager at the

  Better Business Bureau, will share how the BBB supports small businesses at every

  stage including an invitation to join an upcoming two-day Small Business Accelerator

  Boot Camp.

  
  

  Together we will:

  • Explore community and professional resources that could support your coaching business in 2027
  • Save you time and money by helping you weigh the ROI of the many options available to small business owners
  • Learn from the collective wisdom and experience of fellow coaches

  
  

  *Each participants will receive 1 Resource Development CCEU

  
  

  Meet your facilitator, Katherine (Kit) Prendergast, PCC, Leadership Development Coaching & Training 

  
  

  Kit is from Northern Nevada. She brings great energy and hard-won wisdom to the conversation, having guided her own coaching and training business through 25 years, three economic downturns, and an international move.

  
  

  Special Guest: Karen Bryant, Karen Bryant, Community Engagement Manage at the BBB

  

  Karen enjoys creating exceptional experiences that go beyond the ordinary! She is passionate about building meaningful connections with people and the business community. Focused on fostering a welcoming and inclusive environment for the BBB's guests and local community, utilizing acute organizational skills to plan events and activities that unite the community.
  

  
  

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• STRAIGHT TALK . . . What It REALLY Takes to Succeed as a Coach!

  • When
    October 21, 2026
  •  
    4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
  • Location
    Zoom

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  STRAIGHT TALK . . . What It REALLY Takes to Succeed as a Coach!

  Do you believe you have to work hard … put in long hours … and pay your dues in order to be successful as a coach?  That’s definitely one formula for success.  But it’ll probably fail you as often as it delivers the goods because some important must-haves are missing from the equation.  What if someone could show you, step by step, exactly how to work more strategically and promote yourself in the smartest possible way … a way that’s easier and virtually foolproof? 

  In this very personal, fast-paced, and fun presentation, you’ll discover the essential steps in Denise’s practice-building system that thousands of coaches and business owners have used to attract clients and build a solid book of business.

  You CAN significantly increase your chances of success, but there are some things you have to know … and do … differently to set yourself apart from the crowd.

  What you’ll learn:

  • The top 3 characteristics you must possess … or foster in yourself … in order to build and sustain success as a coach. 
  • The keys to streamlining your promotional efforts, so you stop wasting time and start to generate more clients and opportunities, expand your circle of influence, and make more money!
  • How to master the strategies, tools, and “ways of being” by which extraordinarily successful people live their lives.

  PRESENTER: Denise Hedges

  

  Denise Hedges is a business development coach and speaker coach with over 30 years’ experience in sales and marketing.  She’s an ICF Professional Certified Coach (PCC), Mentor Coach, and she served as a faculty member at Coach University for over a decade.  Denise has sustained a six-figure coaching practice for nearly 20 years!

  She specializes in working with coaches to market themselves more effectively using the strategy of speaking.  Denise has trained personal and business coaches all over the world!

  For more information about Denise and her work, please visit her website at: DeniseHedges.com

  Each participant will receive 0.75 Core Competencies and 0.25 Resource Development CCEUs

  CCE Requirement Notes for Participants: For attendance tracking purposes, all participants are required to login to their zoom account associated with their event registration. CCE’s: To be awarded CCE’s for participation in this event it is required to remain on camera for a minimum of 80% of the scheduled event.

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• SPECIAL EVENT: Neuroscience of Trigger Management

  • When
    November 12, 2026
  •  
    12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
  • Location
    Zoom

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  ICF San Francisco Bay Area Chapter Presents: Neuroscience of Trigger Management

  DESCRIPTION:
  In this presentation, Neuroscientist Dr. Kelly Kent and Hayden Lee MCC will help coaches explore the neuroscience of triggers, how to manage them effectively, and how to implement this information into coaching sessions.
  
  Coaches will learn the neuroscience behind emotional triggers and a practical coaching framework for introducing neuroscience concepts into coaching conversations. Participants will explore why emotional humility is the foundation of effective emotional management, understand the interconnected relationship between emotion and intellect, and discover why this integration is essential for creating lasting awareness and change in coaching.
  
  3 Learning Objectives:

  • Identify the neuroscience underlying emotional triggers in coaching conversations.
  • Explore a practical framework for introducing neuroscience concepts into coaching sessions.
  • Examine why emotional humility is foundational to effective emotional management.

  CCE's:

  *1 Core Competency and 0.5 Resource Development 

  IMPORTANT: This registration process consists of TWO STEPS.

  After completing your initial registration, you will receive an additional email instructing you to ALSO register via Zoom.

  Please note that your registration will not be considered complete unless you also register through Zoom.

  PRESENTERS

  Kelly Kent, PhD, is a neuroscientist, educator, speaker, and co-founder of adaptED Consultants, where she applies neuroscience to help individuals and organizations grow and perform at their best. She earned her PhD studying the molecular mechanisms of stroke recovery and has conducted post-graduate research in autism at the University of Southern California.

  Kelly currently teaches neurobiology to psychotherapy graduate students at Antioch University and brings brain science into the workplace by helping leaders create brain-friendly cultures, strengthen leadership practices, and develop neuroscience-based approaches to organizational effectiveness.

  Recognizing the powerful connection between neuroscience and coaching, Kelly partnered with Master Certified Coach Hayden Lee to co-found the Master Mind Institute, which integrates neuroscience with coaching to enhance human and organizational potential.

  Hayden Lee, MCC, is a Master Certified Executive Leadership Coach, the highest credential awarded by the International Coaching Federation, and co-founder of the Master Mind Institute, where he partners with neuroscientists to integrate brain science with professional coaching.

  Recognized as one of the “Top 20 Best Coaches in Los Angeles” by Expertise.com, Hayden coaches executives, senior leaders, and teams from organizations including Google, Meta, TikTok, Lyft, FanDuel, and Match.com. He is also an international Enneagram master coach and faculty member with Integrative Enneagram Solutions and Leadership Education for Asian Pacific (LEAP).

  Hayden co-created the ICF-accredited course Information for Transformation: The Neuroscience of Coaching and has spoken and facilitated trainings for organizations and audiences including TEDx, UC Berkeley, Nielsen, the Association for Talent Development, and the International Enneagram Conference.

  
  

  
  

  
  

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