Current Events & News

• March 11 - APT-NYC Monthly Event
• March 18 - ICF-Westchester Monthly Event
• March 19 - ICF-NYC Monthly Meeting
• March 20 - Career Counselors Consortium Free TeleSeminar
• ICF-NYC Special Event
• April 20-25 - Columbia Coaching Certification Program
• April 25-27 - iPEC Life Potentials Training

Like fresh buds in my garden, new ideas blossomed at our Town Hall meeting in January - ideas to help achieve our twin goals of community outreach and developing more successful coaching practices.

While fostering positive, productive and enduring relationships amongst our members, we want you to feel you are part of a local community and a global movement. The Board is currently reviewing your many suggestions. We have already approved several community outreach programs, such as participating in upcoming career fairs sponsored by CUNY Technical College, the Village Chelsea LGBT and the Hispanic Alliance for Career Enhancement (HACE). Please drop me a line if you have an interest in participating.

We have a tremendous line-up of professional development presenters coming up this year. Katherine L. Poehnert, a partner and Chief Learning Officer in OPPELLE, a membership organization providing Peer Advisory Boards for highly successful women CEOs, wowed our membership in February with a dynamic workshop on how to create a fantastic and memorable presentation. This month we have a special treat – Ira Dressner, founder and first President of ICF-NYC. His Tibetan Bowls workshop won raves at the ICF Conference last year and he will be sharing that experience with our members. In April we will be learning the amazingly successful and easy U-Based Sales Process with Neo-Sage Founder Larry Sharpe. Also we are lining up special workshops in addition to our regular monthly meetings. Keep an eye out for information in our Newsletter and our website at www.icfnycchapter.org.


Wednesday, March 19, 2008; 6:00pm - 8:30pm

Topic: Being Balanced in Your Life: Working with the Tibetan Bowls

Presenter: Ira Dressner, PCC, Ph.D.

Experience a coaching and balance demonstration you will never forget! Ira Dressner's Working with the Tibetan Bowls will bring balance into your life and demonstrate the mind/body/spirit connection that is becoming recognized by the mainstream public as an essential part of almost any human endeavor. This is something all personal and business coaches will need to know within the next five years. Ira presented his very interactive coaching and balance demonstration at both the ICF National Conference this year, as well as the New Jersey Chapter of the ICF in December to rave reviews.

Not only will you be fascinated by this one-of-a-kind workshop, Ira invites you to bring your aches and pains to the meeting and have them reduced or remitted! Join Ira's Bowling Team for an unbelievable evening of outside-the-box coaching. Impossible to describe, you have to experience this for yourself. If time permits, a coaching demonstration will be done.

Ira Dressner PCC, Ph.D., is a Spiritual Coach and ADHD Coach. He began coaching in 1998, and in 1999 became the founder and first President of the NYC Chapter of the ICF. He was the ICF Chapter Chair from 2003 to 2006 and has served two years on the Board of Directors of the ICF. He is happily married for 26 years, lives in NYC and Arizona, and is also a psychotherapist and videographer. He offers trainings in how to work with the Tibetan bowls and pain management. His first 2008 workshop is in March in Tucson. You may reach him at idressner@gmail.com, or call 877-6-HEALED (43-2533).

Location: The Support Center For Non-Profit Management, 305 Seventh Avenue, 11th floor (between 27th & 28th Streets) in Manhattan

Advance registration: ICF (any chapter) members $10; non-members $20. (Advanced registration is disabled 24 hours prior to any event.)

At the door: $15 ICF members; $25 nonmembers

For questions only: Contact Bernie Siegel, ICF-NYC president, at bernie@berniesuccesscoach.com.


Wednesday, April 2, 2008; 6:00pm - 8:30pm

Join ICF-NYC Chapter President Bernie Siegel for a one-of-a-kind evening of personal finance coaching.

TV and radio host Jennifer Lewis-Hall called Bernie "one of the top personal finance experts in America and the only CPA-certified life coach in New York."

Learn how to:

• Put together a personal spending plan (budget).
• Take advantage of the tax benefits of being a sole proprietor.
• Improve your credit scores and reduce your debt.
• Protect your family and assets with life insurance and long term care programs.
• Meet your financial goals, such as saving for college education, buying a home or retiring, with a variety of savings vehicles.
• Ask your brokers and financial planners the right questions to insure your financial welfare is a priority.
• Confidently help your clients with their financial challenges.

Having spent 27 years on Wall Street where he was the CFO of TD Waterhouse (now TD Ameritrade), Bernie left Wall Street for Main Street and focuses his energy on helping his clients get control of their money so that money stops controlling them.

Bring your questions; Bernie's got the answers!

Location: The Support Center For Non- Profit Management, 305 Seventh Avenue, 11th floor (between 27th and 28th Streets) in Manhattan.

Questions only: Contact Bernie Siegel, ICF-NYC President at bernie@berniesuccesscoach.com

Cost: $40 members, $50 nonmembers (Advance registration required.)

In order to make this program meaningful, attendance will be limited to only 20 people, so register now!

Reciprocal Announcement Tuesday, March 11, 2007; 5:30pm - 8:30pm

Topic: MBTI, DISC, The Wheel: Which Instrument Should I Use?

Presenters: Magda du Preez and Stella Kaplow Lee, Ph.D.

Two assessment experts will set the context for our topic by providing a brief overview of the types of assessment instruments that are available and their appropriate use. We will then focus on one specific category of assessment, AEmotional Management/Interpersonal and explore three assessments in that category: the MBTI, the DISC and The Wheel. The criteria used to select a tool will be discussed. We will explore an approach to team building that uses The Wheel, an MBTI-based team building instrument.

Location: 105 East 22nd Street, Room 4A, (NE corner of Park Avenue South) NYC

Cost:
Before March 4 - APT NYC member $25.00, non-members $35.00
After March 4 - APT NYC member $35.00, non-members $45.00

Registration: Visit www.aptnyc.org, or call (301) 634-7450 and speak with John or Danielle.

For more information: Contact Jane Maloney at jane@interaction-inc.com.

Reciprocal Announcement Tuesday, March 18, 2008; 12:00pm - 2:00pm

Please join us for a "Coaches-To Coaches" networking and roundtable discussion on

• Questions/challenges that you are now experiencing
• Solutions that you may have found, and are willing to share
• New ideas and experiences
• Future initiatives for the chapter
• Ways you can be involved and participate in our internal referral directory

We look forward to joining with our fellow coaches in a mutually supportive sharing and exchange experience. We hope you will join us!

Location: Polytechnic University Graduate School, 40 Saw Mill River Road, Hawthorne, NY 10532.

Cost: $15

Registration: Please RSVP to pjbborsody@aol.com.

Reciprocal Announcement Thursday, March 20, 2008; 4:00pm - 5:00pm

Topic: How to Create a Media Plan

Presenter: Joan Stewart, The Publicity Hound Expert

Want to publicize your career/coaching services with state-of-the-art techniques that attract more clients? The Career Counselors Consortium invites you to join our members in attending a free 60-minute teleseminar, How to Create a Media Plan. Discover the new rules of media planning techniques by signing up for a lecture by Joan Stewart, www.PublicityHound.com.

A former newspaper reporter/editor with 22 years of experience, Joan offers sophisticated, state-of-the-art publicity and marketing techniques for businesses and services of all kinds.

Registration: Please email Ruth Shapiro, CCC Communication Chair, at ruthcareer@rcn.com. We will send you the link for the conference call phone number and pin number to connect to her teleseminar. The only cost is for long distance charges.

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