Make this a time of personal and professional growth! The Ontario Institute for Studies in Education of the University of Toronto has joined with Adler to offer Certificates in Leadership Coaching.
Experienced coaches: what new skill will advance your organizational/executive practice? As of January, 2009, Donna Karlin introduces her internationally acclaimed method of Shadow Coaching™, a particularly effective advanced application of reflective and observational coaching. This real-time learning approach develops refined self-awareness by reflecting on clients’ actual day-to-day practice. As a result, clients become self-observers for the long term and coaches expand their practice and their capabilities.
Earn recognition from the foremost university and the foremost coach training institution in Canada. These Shadow Coaching™ workshops are exclusive to Adler/OISE in the Ontario, Quebec regions.
We are offering the following workshops for the fall of 2009:

14 hours ICF CCEU credits given for completion of this course.
Shadow Coaching™: Advanced Reflective and Observational Coaching
Lead Instructor:
Donna Karlin, Certified Executive Coach
Logistical details
Where:
Adler International Learning
890 Yonge Street, 9th Floor
Price:
$998 + $49.90 (GST) = $1,047.90
Date:
Tuesday & Wednesday, January 13 - 14, 2009
or
Friday & Saturday, March 20 - 21, 2009
Time:
8:30 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.
"To strip an idea down to its core, we must be masters of exclusion. We must create ideas that are both simple and profound, something so laser and to the point that an individual can want to spend a lifetime becoming masterful at it. Once we know something, we can't begin to imagine what it would be like to not know ‘it’.
That is the world of Shadow Coaches and their clients.
We have a finite amount of time available to us to coach clients on the fly, in the centre of complex challenges in chaotic times. Unlike most coaching sessions, shadow and laser coaching sessions can be a matter of moments in time, where we coach on one thought, one moment in time that had just unfolded in such a way that when they're coached on it, they not only "get it" but it sticks.
Add to that equation working with client's shadow personalities, and not only do they 'get it' but they embrace it, all aspects of themselves within the context of their worlds as they know them.
Combining evidence with patterns of behavior I can say that 50% of the data I use when Shadow Coaching my clients is what they don't tell me. It's located between their words. I discern what wasn't said, pick up what wasn't evident and become a catalyst so my clients could discover what it was they weren't aware of, in real time. It's all about context.
It's fast, dynamic, powerful and, because it happens in real time, they create sustainable change.”
This is the world you will explore and can integrate in your current practices so you can go deeper with your clients than ever before. Once you become at ease with this model you can use it in your languaging even when coaching over the phone.
Click here to read what past participants of this training have to say
Shadow Coaching™ Grad Basic
Description: Graduates of the SOSC Advanced Coach Training: Come together to sharpen your Shadow Coaching tools and go even deeper with this methodology. Do you have any lingering questions about the methodology, want to practice with others who have “been there, done that” and integrated Shadow Coaching™ into their practices? Then this is not to be missed. We only hold these grad basics a few times a year, so register now as we keep the numbers low.
Lead Instructor: Donna Karlin, Certified Executive Coach
Cost: $249.00 + $12.45 (GST) = $261.45 (1/2 day)
Dates: Thursday, January 15, 2009
Time:
8:30 a.m. - 12:00 noon
Prerequisite: Must have finished the 2 day Shadow Coaching Advanced Coach Training
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Organizational Leadership Training from a Shadow Coaching™ Perspective
Every profession has its own intellectual models, delivery protocols and style of thinking -- as does coaching. Combining leadership and coaching, we'll show you how to adjust your thinking, assumptions and approach to be a successful leader by bringing with you the best of what has worked before and weaving in what will work best for you in your formal role as a leader. This reduces the learning curve significantly.
Date:
Tuesday & Wednesday, February 3 – 4, 2009
Time:
8:30 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.
Where:
Adler International Learning
890 Yonge Street, 9th Floor
***Shadow Coaching™ Intensive: Phoenix, Arizona
Advanced Reflective and Observational Coaching
for Executives & Organizational Leaders
with Donna Karlin, CEC2-Day Course, 9:00 am – 4:30 pm daily
Date: January 28 - 29, 2009
Adler School of Professional Coaching-South West, LLC
Are you walking away from some of your coaching sessions feeling as if something's missing and would love to know how to go that level deeper so you can help facilitate breakthrough for your clients? This training will help you do just that.
Shadow Coaching™ is a
particular advanced application of reflective and observational coaching
that provides one way for clients to go below the surface into the core
dynamics of a situation, illuminating the truth of the moment and making
decisions that move people forward.
Shadow Coaching™ is a real time learning approach in developing a refined
self-awareness and capabilities in the workplace as a result of reflection
on practice. It enables people, not only to benefit from the continuous
presence of an observing coach over an extended period of time in a typical
set of workdays, but also develops their own role as self-observer for the
long term. It teaches clients to become reflective practitioners.
This type of coaching is ideally suited to organizational leaders who must
make decisions and act adaptively in intense work environments. Shadow
coaching involves partnering with clients in their work environments and
brings another experienced and fresh perspective that helps to identify
problematic dynamics, work habits and assumptions that impede effectiveness.
Within Shadow Coaching™ is the competency of Laser Coaching™ which involves
being able to provoke the leader’s awareness of these problematic features
in ways that they can be addressed immediately. It goes beyond support to
problem solving. Shadow Coaching™ attends to
the individual, social, relational and environmental aspects of the client's
‘world’. It creates seismically altering change.
Prerequisites: Interest, capacity, resourcefulness, skill, and desire to become a masterful executive coach. Must be an experienced coach, having coached a minimum of 10 clients.
Location: Western International University - Phoenix Campus, Arizona
Cost: $1095
For more info: Contact us at 602-493-1886 or contact@adlercoachsw.com
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