ICF Edmonton upcoming events

The Resonant Coach: A Focused Refresh of Listening Foundations and Competency 6 (19 Aug 2026)

Wed, 19 Aug 2026 19:00:00 GMT

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This Event Awards 1.5 Core Competency CCEUs. Participants must attend live to be eligible for CCEUs.

Date: August 19, 2026

Time: 1:00 pm - 2:30 pm MST | 3:00 pm - 4:30 pm EST

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

In this interactive session, participants will revisit the essentials of Active Listening and explore how these foundations directly impact the coaching relationship. Drawing upon the presenter’s experience in coaching and education, this session will clarify the common barriers to effective listening and highlight why deep listening is so vital to coaching success.

This session will also include a practical look at how ICF Competency 6 shows up in real-world conversations, identifying the small shifts that turn regular hearing into truly transformational listening. Through quick breakouts and lighthearted exercises, coaches will have the opportunity to align with these markers and sharpen their existing skills in a high-energy environment.

This is an educational, reflective, and experiential session designed to support coaches in refreshing their core skills, regardless of their current level of experience.

3 Leaning Objectives:

Align their coaching practice with ICF Competency 6 markers, specifically focusing on the subtle shifts that move a conversation from simple hearing to transformational listening.

Differentiate between "functional hearing" and "transformational listening," identifying the specific behaviors that move a coach beyond simple information gathering toward deeper resonance.

Cultivate an adaptive coaching mindset by using lighthearted, high-energy interaction to overcome common listening barriers and maintain presence in a virtual environment.

About the Speaker

Shachi Patel, PCC

Shachi Patel, PCC, is the founder of SETU Coaching & Consulting. With SETU meaning "bridge" in Sanskrit, she proudly serves as a bridge between her clients' technical expertise and leadership excellence. Drawing on over three decades of leadership in technology and healthcare, she leverages her engineering, program, and people management background to help STEM professionals and women in tech thrive in complex environments. Her coaching, training, and specialized workshops focus on helping leaders navigate pivotal career changes and transitions through a creative, compassionate, and courageous approach.

With global experience spanning NORAM, EMEA, and APAC, Shachi offers a diverse approach to leadership development, change management, and strategic influence. As a Mentor Coach at UC Davis, she integrates a decade of coaching expertise to develop the next generation of coaches, helping them transform technical proficiency into coaching excellence.

The Thing Behind The Thing: Mastering Agenda Setting with the Genco Method (26 Aug 2026)

Wed, 26 Aug 2026 17:00:00 GMT

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This Event Awards 0.75 Core Competency CCEUs and 0.75 Resource Development CCEUs. Participants must attend live to be eligible for CCEUs.

Date: August 26, 2026

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

Tickets: ICF Members: $20 CAD | ICF Premium Members: Free | Non-Members: $35 CAD

As a Master Mentor Coach and ICF Assessor at all three levels, Tijen has seen firsthand that one of the biggest challenges for coaches is the agenda-setting process. It's easy to get caught on the surface of a client's request and miss the deeper need.

This meeting is designed to help you move beyond surface-level structure to the core of where true transformation resides. Using Tijen’s Genco Method Coaching with Precision© framework, which blends holistic listening with Lean/Six Sigma principles, you'll learn to sculpt an agenda with precision and presence.

This three-part, interactive session will provide you with the tools to help clients achieve their desired outcomes, from behavioral change to neural recalibration, ensuring that these outcomes are not only achievable but also resonant and sustainable.

What to Expect:

Introduction to Genco Method Coaching with Precision©: We'll dive into the core principles of my integrative methodology for agenda setting.
Collective Coaching Practicum: Watch and participate in a live coaching session. Under my mentorship, you'll practice shaping the agenda in real-time and get instant feedback.
Integration & Reflection Circle: We'll close with a group dialogue to solidify your insights and learn how to apply them to your practice immediately

What to Expect:

Heightened awareness of common missteps that block deep listening and client-centered agenda development.
Best practices for defining session outcomes based on the client’s authentic, underlying needs.
Increased capacity to revise and evolve the agenda in alignment with the client’s emerging insights.
Strengthened trust in intuitive listening and relational agility during sessions. paying clients.

About the Speaker

Tijen Genco, MCC

Tijen Genco, MCC, Advanced Certified Team Coach, and National Board-Certified Health & Wellness Coach, brings a wealth of experience coaching individuals, executives, and teams across Fortune 100 companies, government agencies, and non-profit organizations worldwide. Renowned as a coach, educator, mentor, and ICF assessor, Tijen is deeply committed to fostering coaching excellence and advancing the profession.

She is the creator of the Genco Method Transcendental Coaching©. This innovative approach integrates evidence-based practices with the art and science of the mind-body connection to deliver sustainable, transformational outcomes. A thought leader in cutting-edge coaching methodologies, Tijen is a sought-after speaker and trainer, inspiring coaches globally to unlock their fullest potential. Her passion for fostering mastery in coaching is evident in her innovative methodologies, educational initiatives, and role in developing MCC assessors for the ICF.

Discover more about her groundbreaking work and upcoming events at gencocoaching.com

Challenging Coaching, Going Beyond Traditional Coaching to Face the Facts (29 Sep 2026)

Tue, 29 Sep 2026 23:30:00 GMT

1 RD & 1 CC

Join Linda Maul and your ICF Edmonton Chapter colleagues in person for an evening of engaging conversations and community building

Challenging Coaching is a real-world, timely and provocative book which provides a wake-up call to move beyond the limitations of traditional coaching. Based on the authors' extensive experience working at board and management levels, they suggest that for far too long coaching approaches have shied away from adopting a more challenging stance - a stance that can provoke greater performance and unlock deeper potential in business leaders and their teams.

The authors detail their unique FACTS coaching model, which provides a practical and pragmatic approach focusing on Feedback, Accountability, Courageous goals, Tension and Systems thinking. The authors explore FACTS coaching in theory and in practice using case studies, example dialogues and practical exercises so that the reader will be able to successfully challenge others using respectful yet direct techniques.

This is an original and thought-provoking book that dares the reader to go beyond traditional coaching and face the FACTS.

What Makes This Approach Different

More direct, courageous, and evidence-based.
Less about non-directive neutrality; more about honesty and results.
Integrates psychology, adult development, and leadership thinking.
Helps coaches avoid “collusion” — going along with limiting stories to preserve comfort.

Benefits to the Coach

Coaches who adopt this approach typically:

Become more confident confronting tough issues
Build stronger impact with senior leaders
Reduce polite, surface-level coaching
Grow their own range — moving from safe to bold
Create measurable behavioural shifts in clients

Bottom Line

Challenging Coaching is a powerful resource for coaches ready to stretch their clients, not simply support them.
The FACTS model gives you a practical way to raise accountability, encourage growth, and tackle uncomfortable realities — all while maintaining trust and partnership.

It’s particularly useful when you’re coaching experienced, ambitious clients and you want to push boundaries in a clean, ethical, and productive way.