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• The Uncomfortably Fun Truth about Growth

  • When
    1 Oct 2025
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    11:00 AM - 12:30 PM
  • Location
    Online via Zoom

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  This Event Awards 1.0 Core Competency and 0.50 Resource Development CCEUs

  All who register for the event will receive a link to the recording, afterwards.
  

  

  Date: October 1, 2025

  Time: 11:00 am - 12:30 pm MST | 1:00 pm - 2:30 pm EST

  Tickets: ICF Members: $28.00 | ICF Premium Members: Free | Non-Members: $35 CAD

  This presentation explores how embracing discomfort is crucial for growth and how it can be developed. Participants will learn five science-based tools to help their clients change their brain chemistry by incorporating fun, which makes new behaviors more appealing and repeatable.

  WHAT YOU WILL LEARN:

  • Understanding why our brains naturally avoid discomfort

  •  Strategies to help clients tackle challenging tasks despite their brain's resistance 

  • How to use fun to make difficult things more enjoyable through: 

  • • Fun-Fusing: combining challenging tasks with enjoyable activities 

    • Fun-Framing: reframing threats as challenges and gamifying tasks 

    • Fun-Friending: leveraging social connections for fun and accountability in productivity sprints 

    • Fun-Setting: strategically incorporating recharge time 

    • Fun-Vesting: building stress resilience through consistent fun activities 

  The session emphasizes that true achievement lies beyond comfort zones and provides evidence-based techniques to make stepping outside those zones enjoyable for both coaches and their clients.

  

  About the Speaker

  James Garrett

  
  James Garrett is a brain coach and founder of Brain by Design. He’s spoken on stages ranging from Harvard to TEDx and his work has been featured by The New York Times, FastCompany, and Harvard Business Review. He spent years doing research with some of the best psychologists in the world at Columbia, Tufts, and Yale. He’s a content creator and course builder and his course called, “Brain Science for Coaches” has been rated as one of the best courses for coaches and is currently certified by ICF for 30 continuing coach education credits. He’s a certified coach through the Whole Fit coaching program. He also built one of the only brain-based positive psychology curricula in the Middle East and trained thousands of Arab youth in partnership with Queen Rania of Jordan. A rare combination of scientist, trainer, and entrepreneur, in 2019 James launched the Deep Change Project, a personal journey to discover what’s possible at the outer edges of neuroplasticity and how to overcome fear. 

  
  

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• Lunch and Learn / Office Hours

  • When
    7 Oct 2025
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    12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
  • Location
    Online

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  Are you new to coaching or new to ICF and want to learn more? 

  Join us (Chapter President, Gillian MacLean, and Director of Programming, Sarah Thomas) for this lunch and learn / ICF Edmonton office hours event where we will explore all things ICF and answer any burning questions you may have about the ICF.

  Get to know the ICF Website - Learning Portal & More Information on 2024 ICF Credentialing Webinar Series.

  Hot topics will include:

  • The credentialing process from ACC to MCC.
  • Tips for navigating the website.
  • The ICF Learning Portal – how to access ICF provided Continuing Coach Education (CCE credits) , a requirement of maintaining your ICF credential. 

  And anything else you are curious about. 

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• Book Club Diversity, Inclusion and Belonging In Coaching, A practical guide

  • When
    8 Oct 2025
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    5:30 PM - 7:00 PM
  • Location
    TBD

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• Leveraging both the Scrappy and the Skilled Use of Polarities in Coaching

  • When
    18 Nov 2025
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    12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
  • Location
    Online via Zoom

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  **Please note special registration instructions in your confirmation email**

  This Event Awards 1.0 Core Competency and 0.5 Resource Development CCEUs

  All who register for the event will receive a link to the recording, afterwards.
  

  

  Date: November 18, 2025

  Time: 11:00 am - 12:30 pm MST | 1:00 pm - 2:30 pm EST

  Tickets: ICF Members: $35 CAD | ICF Premium Members: Free | Non-Members: $49 CAD

  Bold and humble; task and relationship; support and challenge:  These are polarities. Capitalizing on polarities in coaching is a superpower and can evoke meaningful awareness with clients.  Without training, however, implementing this skill can feel intimidating.  Join this session with Cathy Carroll, MCC to deepen your understanding of how to frame a polarity and improve your coaching skills.  Through stories, Cathy will demonstrate how to use the very basics of polarities in both individual coaching and team coaching, and then she’ll recommend a variety of resources to facilitate coach growth from scrappy to skilled in this important coaching skill.  No experience in polarities necessary.

  WHAT YOU WILL LEARN:

  • The role of understanding polarities in coaching
  • How polarities create blind spots for clients
  • How to mentally and emotionally prrepare to help clients deepn their self-awareness
  • How to leverage polarities to evoke client awareness

  

  About the Speaker

  Cathy Caroll, MCC

  Founder and President of Legacy Onward, Inc., Cathy Carroll, MBA, MCC, is an internationally recognized family business leadership coach, speaker and author of Hug of War: How to Lead a Family Business With both Love and Logic. In addition to coaching, she trains coaches who specialize in coaching family enterprises as well as coaches who maintain their credential with the International Coaching Federation. 

  Cathy earned certificates in both Leadership Coaching and Executive Facilitation at Georgetown University, an MBA at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business, and a BA at Boston College.  She is also a Master Certified Coach (MCC) in the ICF. 

  An active member of the community, Cathy currently serves as Vice-Chair the Board of the Purposeful Planning Institute and co-founder & Treasurer of A Leg To Stand On which provides prosthetic limbs to children in developing countries.  

  www.LegacyOnward.com

  www.LegacyOnward.com/hug-of-war

  www.LinkedIn.com/in/cathyacarroll

  
  

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• The Fundamentals of Group Coaching

  • When
    15 Jan 2026
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    12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
  • Location
    Online via Zoom

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  **Please note special registration instructions in your confirmation email**

  This Event Awards 1.5 Core Competency CCEUs

  All who register for the event will receive a link to the recording, afterwards.
  

  

  Date: January 15, 2026

  Time: 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm MST | 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm EST

  Tickets: ICF Members: $35 CAD | ICF Premium Members: Free | Non-Members: $49 CAD

  Group coaching is on the rise and with growing demand comes the opportunity to lead with impact. Whether you're just starting or looking to sharpen your skills, this insights-packed session with Dominique will give you the confidence and tools to grow your group coaching practice with intention and clarity. In this interactive session, you will:

  • Define key terms and clearly distinguish group coaching from other group modalities.
  • Explore the DOLIX Model™, a practical framework that maps the elements of cohesive coaching groups with a special emphasis on trust.
  • Apply a simple group coaching session structure.
  • Reflect on the content in small breakouts and have space to ask questions to deepen your understanding.

  Whether you're designing your first group or evolving an existing offer, this session will help you differentiate your coaching and create meaningful impact, together.

  WHAT YOU WILL LEARN:

  Coaches will learn how to:

  • Co-create psychological safety with their coaching groups and remain in coaching vs. teaching / facilitating mindset
  • Utilize the DOLIX™ framework to build cohesive coaching groups
  • Maintain strong presence as a group coach

  

  About the Speaker

  Dominique Mas, PCC

  

  Dominique is the CEO at Group Coaching HQ, an ICF-accredited trainer that equips organizations and coaches with the expertise and support to lead the future of coaching: impactful, scalable group coaching programs. Dominique has built group coaching programs for Fortune 500 companies and trained over 250 coaches in the art of group coaching. As a consultant for organizations scaling their group coaching programs, she supports them to amplify their coaching culture. 

  She holds a M.Ed in Educational Leadership and Change, is an ICF PCC, Certified Mentor Coach, Certified Systemic Team Coach, Hogan Assessments Certified Coach and certified LEGO® SERIOUS PLAY® Facilitator and Coach. 

  A surfer and adventurer, and she lives a peaceful life in Brooklyn, NY with her partner, the artist Swissipino and Professor the awesome dog.

  
  

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