IAC Hong Kong Chapter

HKICC and CityU Scope will jointly organize a free Coaching Seminar on 29th Jul at 7-9:30pm at CityU campus,  It is an extemely good opportunity to know what Coaching is about and grasp a taste of how it works.

Mark your dairy and more information will be announced by HKICC and CityU Scope soon. 

Theme: Road Map to IAC Certification by Coach Lee

If you are a professional coach or you plan to become a professional coach to offer high standard coaching services to your client, probably you will not miss the international certification offered by either IAC or ICF. 

IAC is an international certification accounting on the proficiency of coaching to the masterful level.  The process to attain the certification is not just for the designation.  Moreover, it is a valuable continueous learning for every coaches. 

Coach Lee will share her experience in going through the process and alo giving out detailed information about WHY, WHAT and HOW of the IAC Certification.

Date & time: Wed Jul 8th, 2009 -
Registration 6:45 to 7:00 pm - Presentation 7:00 to 8:30 pm
Venue:  29/F, Times Media Centre, 133 Wanchai Road, Wanchai 
Language: Cantonese
How much: free for members; $100 for non-members

Source: Hong Kong International Coaching Community

Theme : Coaching Being

Facilitator : Coach Benny
Date and Time : 14th Jul 2009 (Tue) 7:00-8:30pm 
Place : Queens Cafe (Cake Shop), LG2 - shop 27, Festival Walk, Kowloon Tong.
Fee : Free
Language : Cantonese

chapter meeting hosted by Coach Lee

 reported by Coach Karen

The sharing tonight was so stimulating and enlightening as we ventured from our personal journey to coaching being.  Our exploration of the topic started by Coach Lee's awakening question, "Do you think you have given sufficient love to yourself?" as this is the ground for giving ourselves extremely care.

 Benny believes that our perspectives of our own value is one of the most important factors affecting whether we can truly love ourselves, which in turn determines if we can love others as well.  Karen found that the appreciation of pure existence allows her to turn attention from doing to being of which the foundation of self-love is.  Jasmine experienced that as we grow and reach certain cornerstone in life, we begin to re-examine if we are leading a life we desire and how we can love and care for ourselves more.

 Our discussion extended from the tangibles to the intangibles - of the things we can do to give ourselves more care to the inner essence we can connect with in giving us the strong foothold of our being.  We also had some exciting discovery and made distinction between concepts like 「理解」、「接納」, 「包容」、「寬容」, which envisioned us the frontier we can reach as we allow ourselves to grow and explore in our pathway.

 And how all of these related to coaching? Interestingly, as our sharing continued, we found that what client needs most from the coach is not the outcome of how he can deal with the problems in his life, but is the space in which he can allow his authentic self express.  Then how can we ensure a safe space and supportive relationship is available for the client?  That depends on the power of love and care we can give ourselves and others.

 As the chapter meeting ended, we felt so grateful that we had constructed such a supportive group that allowed us to grow and flourish together.  We agreed that every time joining our meeting is an act of our extremely self-care!

Intuition - chapter meeting hosted by Coach Benny

Intuition is a wonderful wisdom of life.  We were so curious to learn more about this topic as led by Coach Benny this night.  The curiosity, which also came from our intuition, had enabled us to discover the following interesting and inspiring concepts of this wisdom. 

Intuition can be categorized into two different major forms.  One is the messages we can directly perceive as we interact with the external environment that stimulates our senses.  Another one is induced by our inner world, which is often a result of our sharp awareness.  Sometimes, we may receive some "hints" from our mind or our bodies that something is going to happen or we should make certain decisions of an issue.  This is our inner awareness that allows us to acknowledge things through intuition instead of logical reasoning. 

However, we need to be conscious on the differences between "Intuition" & "Illusion" which is a tricky area that we may have experienced.  In brief, intuition is our instinctive knowing. It is the knowledge based on insight rather than on reasoning, yet it is not arisen in a vacuum or fascination.  Illusion, on the contrary, is the falsify fabrication that misleads us.  To distinguish the two, we need to be courageous and truthful in facing our authentic self.

Then how could we cultivate our intuition that empowers us to explore the unknown?  Some suggestions were brainstormed tonight:

·            Have regular meditation practices (can be in any form such as yoga and yen) which enhances our inner awareness;

·            Consciously use our gut.  Apart from breathing with chest, try to breathe with our abdomen everyday.  When we interact with people or confront an issue, try focusing our energy in the abdomen area and sense what message it gives us;

·            Go with the nature.  Simply explode ourselves in sunshine, waterfall, grassland...and let the universe teaches us;

·            Engage in regular exercise, our body movement stimulates our instinctive knowing and

·            Last but not least, be true to and trust ourselves.

Using effectively in coaching, intuition can assist us to build better rapport and have deeper understanding with our clients.  As a coach, how would you make the best use of your intuition to support the coachee?  And how would you check if your intuition is valid?

reported by Karen Au

Theme : Extremely Self Care

Facilitator : Coach Lee
Date and Time : 9th Jun 2009 (Tue) 7:00-8:30pm 
Place : Queens Cafe (Cake Shop), LG2 - shop 27, Festival Walk, Kowloon Tong.
Fee : Free
Language : Cantonese

Theme : Intuition

Facilitator : Coach Benny
Date and Time : 12th May 2009 (Tue) 7:00-8:30pm 
Place : Queens Cafe (Cake Shop), LG2 - shop 27, Festival Walk, Kowloon Tong.
Fee : Free
Language : Cantonese

We enjoyed very much the group coaching session led by Coach Susie as when we left the venue, we found one of the clues of Attraction is "the sense of Allowing".

Have you ever allow things happening as is?

Have you ever allow differences?

Have you ever allow your authentic self be exposed?

Have you ever allow whatever the outcome teaches?

What if your sense of Allowing becomes your unconsciouse competence?

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Exercise  used in the session:

Exercise 1

a)  What is not working in your life at this time?  List everything you can think of:

b)  Write the opposite from what is not working.   Write what you want.

Exercise 2

What have you been resisting in your life that's keeping you stuck?

Write about a difficult time you went through that you thought you'd never make it through, but now that you look back, you actually appreciate it for who it helped you become.

Exercise 3

What makes you feel most connected/aligned?  When did you have ecstasy?

Was it:

-                -  a religious experience

-                - a time in nature

-                 - feeling connection with a person or a pet

-                  - a feeling of appreciation for all that is

-                  - dancing

 Exercise 4

What types of feelings are hardest for you to allow?

If we allow our feelings to be there, they will diminish soon.  Then ask yourself, what do I really want in this situation?

Exercises devised by Teri Thomas (Attraction Coach and Teacher)

source: http://hkuspace.hku.hk/web_course/show_course.php?code=2174 

HKU Space Coaching Program

:: 課程簡介

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:: 課程結構

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