News From ACTO
President’s Message: November 2019
I hope that you have had an opportunity to review the Updated ICF Core Competency Model shared with all ICF accredited schools and attend one of the ICF webinars on the updates earlier this month. I imagine that many of you are wondering how your school will update, and adapt, your training programs to align with the new model. As the owner of a coach training school, I have been pondering this as well with [...]
President’s message: October 2019
At the 2019 ACTO Conference, our presenters shared their wisdom about diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging to open our eyes and expand our awareness as coach trainers, coaches and, most importantly, as human beings. Attendees were both excited and overwhelmed, wanting to jump into action, while realizing that they need to learn more about themselves before making changes with their teams and to their curriculum. We are all at different levels of understanding, and acceptance, [...]
President’s message: September 2019
Courageous Conversations Have you ever been in a conversation with a trusted colleague or friend and held back from starting a dialogue about a sensitive topic? You trust the person but this is uncharted territory and the last thing you want to do is damage your relationship. Instead of creating an opportunity for dialogue, you choose to say nothing and feel a sense of relief in not going “there.” Initiating a dialogue on a sensitive [...]
President’s message: August 2019
What Does "Inclusion" Mean for Your Coach Training Program? The importance of inclusion in our coach training schools was the subject of a recent discussion I had with a colleague. She asked me what I meant by the term "inclusion" which led me to wonder what inclusion means to each of us as coach trainers. When I look at the ACTO Stand, it is clear that "ACTO is committed to creating diversity, inclusion and belonging [...]
ACTO Diversity Committee Update
A critical first offering from our Committee as a resource for ACTO members: Please make the investment in watching this video, with speaker Dr. Robin DiAngelo. This serves so well in providing a place for us to come from, free from guilt or shame or defensiveness and to be in a place to receive and learn. It will be of value whether you were at the 2019 ACTO Conference, or whether you were not, whether you [...]