Topic: Poetry for Coaches: The Value of a ‘Third Thing’    Free registration, CCE pending.
Presenter: Christine M. Wahl, MCC, CDC, MA.ED.
Date: Oct 25, 2023,  8:00 US PT, 11:00 US ET, 17:00 CEST, 20:30 IST (90 minutes)
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This presentation will present poetry curated to issues that we often see in our work with clients. This is not a seminar in poetry analysis; rather, it invites listening inwardly and translating the poet’s message into valuable information for both coach and client. Coaches who attend will get an opportunity to respond to the poems and ask questions related to using poetry in coaching.

Participants will take away a new appreciation for poetry and how it can be useful to create awareness and conversation. The use of poetry requires that the coach listen well, both inwardly and with clients. Participants will find that the poems are natural fits for common client concerns.

Chris Wahl is an ICF-certified MCC, executive coach, and organization development consultant who has coached executive leaders, teams, and groups or over two decades. Certified as a developmental coach, Chris brings a developmental perspective to her work with leaders, helping them build their capacity to succeed beyond challenges and dynamics and recognize opportunities to create thriving professional life and attendant human ecosystems. Sought after for her wise counsel, appreciative approach, clarity and pragmatism, Chris works with leaders interested in generating enlivening change aimed at creating more effective results. Chris is the founder, creator, and former director of the ICF-accredited Georgetown University Leadership Coaching Certificate program, where she built and led an expansive faculty team and instructed on both team coaching and vertical development. She is an adjunct faculty member teaching vertical development in Georgetown’s accredited Health and Wellness coaching program; she recently joined the faculty of the University at Buffalo leadership coaching program, and she taught Vertical Development at George Mason University and at the University of Maryland. Chris has been on the team for the EMBA program at Notre Dame University, debriefing the Leadership Circle Profile 360 instrument. In 2018 Chris was surprised to be chosen from a pool of hundreds of practitioners for the Leadership Circle’s annual award for “Outstanding Contribution to Leadership on the Planet.”