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ICFNE Presidents' Welcome
Message
Welcome to ICFNE - your local connection to the coaching community!
Reflecting back over the past four years, it is remarkable to consider how we have all been affected by global events, and how much our world is in need of healing. And the need for healing is not just "out there" in the world at large but begins within us, closer to home.
Whether in the context of one's inner life, finances, family, business,government, or environment, it is difficult to remember a time when Coaching was more valuable as a path to healing and growth.
We encourage you to attend this month's program, "The Coach as Shaman: Lessons from the Elders to Enrich Your Practice," with Maya Balle and Richard Whitely. The evening promises to expand your view of the possibilities, as well as providing you with valuable connections and resources for your business.
We encourage you to make ICFNE your chapter and to get involved with our local activities. We look forward to getting to know you and to exploring all the possibilities ahead for ICFNE!
Dianne Webster and Monica Brunaccini
Co-Presidents, ICFNE
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Monica Brunaccini & Dianne Webster
Co-Presidents, ICF-New England
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ICFNE News Gets a
New Name
ICF-NE News is now the New England Coaches Connection!
 Thanks and
congratulations go to Star Durgin, who provided the winning name for our
newsletter. Star is an ICFNE member and a Certified Co-Active Coach. You can find
out more about Star at her website, www.stardar.com.
Thanks to everyone who sent in names for the newsletter.
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ICFNE Special Event - October 17, 2005
The Coach as Shaman: Lessons from the Elders to Enrich Your Practice, Presented
by Maya Balle, CPCC, MCC and Richard Whiteley
| The effective executive and personal coaches of today must assume many roles with their clients. In the course of this important relationship, we are called upon to be a facilitator, a teacher, a muse, a cheerleader, a listener, a provoker. This engaging and highly interactive workshop introduces a new role…the Coach as Shaman.
Shamans, or medicine people, are healers who engage in three primary practices: healing, divination, and enlightenment…and they have been doing this for 100,000 years. Derived through |
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practices.
The objectives of this session are to help you to:
- Understand the role of Shamanic healing in the coaching process.
- To learn the elder's views of coaching today.
- Learn how or deepen your knowledge of a Shamanic journey.
- Deepen the experience for those of you who attended our session at ICF Quebec.
- Discover your personal Power Animal.
- Practice using your Power Animal to assist in achieving powerful coaching results.
- Have fun!
The learning media used to achieve these objectives will include: presentation, individual exercises, small group work, application of the learnings to a real life coaching situation and to clients, and large group discussion. For maximum learning, please bring to the
workshop a beginner's mind and a current coaching dilemma for which you would like some coaching.
Click here for
more info!
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ICF 10th Anniversary
Celebration Event
There will no ICFNE program in November as the International Coach Federation celebrates their 10th anniversary with a stimulating and exciting three day program at the McEnery Convention Center in San Jose, California! We will be "honoring the
past ... celebrating the present and realizing our future." It’s not too late to register.
Visit the ICF website for more details.
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Feature Article: The
Coach as Shaman
Based Upon an Interview with Richard Whitely and Maya Balle
Written By Marie
Murphy
An article in Business Week from Nov 1, 1999, titled “Religion in the Workplace,” describes Richard Whitely as a “Harvard Business school-educated, best-selling author, and management consultant who moonlights as an Urban Shaman.” It seems an unlikely transition from successful business consultant and entrepreneur to urban shaman.
Just as unlikely is the path of Maya Balle, known in the ICFNE community as “Matchmaker Maya,” for her skill in creating partnerships and seeing the possibilities in many different types of relationships. Her transition from matchmaker to healer is hardly a traditional journey.
Despite Richard’s and Maya’s divergent past, their similarities are what drew them together – their shared love of learning and the calling to a spiritual practice that is both ancient and relevant in today’s world. Years of personal growth work inspired both Richard’s and Maya’s careers and lives and led them to the study and practice of shamanism. Their teachers were many and distinctly different, but the essence of the practice they bring into their work is similar.
Shamanism is an ancient spiritual practice that is both a healing art and a pathway to inspired living. Traditionally, every tribe had a shaman who was a healer and advisor. The shaman’s role was to “journey” in search of answers for those seeking their help. Answers come in many forms, and the journeys to other realms of consciousness can be both adventuresome and mystical.
“Journeying,” Richard says, “is like letting your imagination run wild. And if that’s all it is, what does it matter as long as it works? And it does work.”
How does this ancient healing practice contribute to the work of coaches?
Journeying is at the heart of shamanism. Similar to guided imagery, it invites us into a world of active imagination where we can access information of any type we might be interested in. It’s a visioning process and, as Maya says, “Isn’t this, in fact, the foundation of business success? Doing visioning work?”
Richard describes journeying as a tool that is helpful in gaining insight, whether it’s for yourself, your client or your business process. It’s a simple process that can be easily learned and taken away as a tool to use, much like a meditative practice that will improve your effectiveness by the insight you gain and the sense of inner peace that comes with it. Add to this that it’s fun! Journeying takes you into worlds that are not open to you otherwise. You enter different realms and have extraordinary experiences not limited by time and space reality.
Richard and Maya first got together a year ago at the Quebec ICF conference. Their workshop was a great success and inspired ICFNE to call them in to create a local event. Maya explains that this workshop will teach people to journey who haven’t done so before and deepen the experience for those who have. She and Richard want to engage people in deepening relationships with power animals and nature spirits or whatever it is for you that you feel connected with in the natural world.
We look forward to blending the experiences of shamanism and coaching at our October meeting and hope that you will join us for this valuable addition to your coach tool box. It’s guaranteed to be an event that’s out of this world!
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Alliance
Partner Events
New England Women Business Owners (NEWBO) October Dinner Meeting:
- Event Title: How to Create Extreme Sales Results
- Presenter: Nancy Stephens, CEO of Global Sales Alliance
- Where: The Holiday Inn, Newton
- When: Tuesday, October 11, 2005 from 5:45-9:00 p.m.
- Cost & Reservations: $40.00 for members; $50.00 for non-members.
Sponsorship opportunities are also available. Pay at the door by cash, check or credit card. Phone 617-566-3013 for information, reservations and directions.
- Link for More Info: http://www.newbo.org/
Central Mass. ASTD Special Event:
- Event Title: The Latest Trends in Employee Training and Employee Assessment Tools
- Presenter: Multiple Presenters
- Where: Holiday Inn, 500 Lincoln Street, Worcester, MA
- When: Tuesday, October 25, 2005 from 7:45 am - 12:00 noon
- Cost & Reservations: $50.00 for CMEA & CMASTD Members, $65.00
for Chamber Members, $75.00 for non-members.
- Link for More Info: http://www.cmastd.org/Meetings.htm
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ICFNE Holiday
Celebration & Silent Auction
 Mark your calendar for our 3rd Annual Holiday Celebration and Silent Auction
which will be held on Monday, December 12th. It will be a great opportunity to
come together, celebrate all we have to be grateful for, have fun, and dance up
a storm. In the spirit of giving we will be contributing a portion of our
proceeds to a charitable organization aligned with the values and purpose of the
Coaching profession.
Here’s how you can help:
- Volunteer to solicit auction items.
- Contribute auction items.
- Volunteer to help out on the committee.
Ideas for soliciting items:
- What services and products do you use frequently?
- Who do you know who has an usual item they would be willing to donate?
THINK CREATIVELY and THINK BIG! Here are some examples of
great auction items:
- Vacation Getaways
- Event Tickets (theater, sports, etc)
- Fine dining
- Spa packages
- Art Work
- Jewelry
Contact Roberta Taylor with your ideas, questions and auction item donation information:
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ICFNE
Sponsorship Opportunities
Have you considered exposing you business/practice to over 350 professional ICFNE members and to over 100 attendees at our regular
meetings? As one of the largest, regional ICF chapters in the country, ICFNE provides
numerous sponsorship opportunities to help you share your good work with our members and guests.
Additionally, you may know of other product and service providers (e.g., assessment firms, educational programs, training centers, etc.) who would be happy to participate in sponsoring our growing and vibrant association for the purpose of building their business. We now offer a new,
limited-time reward program (where you can obtain a free ICFNE meeting) if you can connect us to potential sponsors.
For more information visit the ICFNE website at http://www.icfne.org/index.php?page=sponsor_an_event.
If you'd like to speak with a live person, contact Melissa Mathers at (508) 839-0636 or
email her at m_mathers@charter.net.
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Boston Philharmonic
Orchestra Offers Discount to ICFNE Members
 The fall concert season is upon us, and Ben Zander and the Boston Philharmonic Orchestra
(BPO) are offering a feast of four wonderful concerts. You'll recall that Ben asked for ICFNE support for this concert season when he so generously presented and inspired us at our March meeting.
The BPO is offering a $40 Discount (or $10 per concert)
to ICFNE members on Boston Philharmonic Orchestra subscriptions. Bring friends, family, and
colleagues. This is a wonderful opportunity for the possibility of classical music to energize and inspire your fall and winter. We hope you'll support Ben and the orchestra this season by helping us FILL the concert halls!!
For more information, download the brochure at www.wellcoach.com/bp/BPO_05-06_Season.pdf,
visit the BPO website at www.bostonphil.org/
or contact:
- Margaret Moore, BPO Board Member and CEO of Wellcoaches Corporation
- tel: (781) 431-9538
- toll free (866) 932-6224 ext 707
- email: margaret@wellcoaches.com
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Special Event to
Benefit Katrina Survivors
Mark you calendars for November 17, 2005. Spiritual Cinema Circles, the International Coach Federation and the National Speaker’s Association are partnering to create a night of film and conversation to raise money for survivors of Katrina.
- Event Title: Triumph over Tragedy: Restore healing and lend your support.
- When: Thursday night November 17, 2005 7:00 p.m.
- Where: Embassy Theater, 16 Pine Street Waltham, Ma.
Please join us for an evening of film and conversation about what inspires and heals!
The first documentary film that Disney has released, America’s Heart and Soul, tells the story of ordinary Americans doing extraordinary things, revealing through their joy and passion their greatest gifts,
feedom and diversity. Award winning filmmaker Louis Schwartzberg captures the unparalleled beauty of our land and the incomparable spirit of our people.
Join us to greet honored guests Rick and Dick Hoyt, Team Hoyt (who are also profiled in the film) father
and son triathlete Boston marathoners!
All of the proceeds of the film will go directly to Oxfam America for Katrina survivors
(www.oxfamamerica.org). Oxfam is
non-sectarian and works with local organizations like the Southern Mutual Help
Organization (www.southernmutualhelp.org)
to help the poorest of the poor and blend both emergency relief and on-going action.
Minimum suggested donation $35.00, family/group donations including children gratefully welcomed. Donations over $100 will be matched.
For details and information on how to spread the word through your community and organization please
contact Maya Balle via email, cinemacircles@yahoo.com
or telehphone 617-536-1317
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Editorial Staff
and Contact
The New England Coaches Connection editorial staff
welcomes your comments and suggestions. Please send them to any of the four
staff members below.
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