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Pre Conference Overview

Our intention in providing this preconference day is to engage with delegates in their different areas of interest, and to accommodate for different levels of experience and expertise. We aim to provide stimulating sessions at a deeper depth than is possible in shorter 90 minute concurrent sessions during the conference.
During the preconference workshops, we start as we intend to finish, by embodying and contributing to sustainability in its broadest sense. We offer you a choice of three different but inter-related experiences as opportunities to develop yourself and your practice.

Stream One: How to develop a viable (and Inspiring!) Coaching Business in any climate.

Stream Two: Adapting your coaching business to respond to emerging market trends and issues

Stream Three: Civic and corporate entrepreneurship, sustainability and the emergent application of coaching approaches.

Stream 1

How to develop a viable (and Inspiring!) Coaching Business in any climate.

We will look at Developing Coaching Practices that "Walk The Talk", exploring what it means to achieve—

The best I can be…
The best ROI for others…
The best I/we can do for the planet…

This exciting and practical stream is for you if you've asked yourself:

How can I position myself in a way that brings clients to my door?
How can I build a profitable business in alignment with my values?
How can I succeed with social networking without wasting my time?
How can I build a large fan base without spending money?
How can I make my business stand out in a busy marketplace?
What do I need to know before spending a cent online?
What are my most effective (and free) strategies for brand awareness?

We'll be looking closely at sustainability in terms of personal, business and the planet, and taking a sneak peek at an “elegant business model”

As you know, small shifts can cause incredible change, so come prepared for a significant turning point in your lifestyle as a coach.

This ¾ day program focuses on business development and will enable you to attain the following outcomes:

An understanding of current trends and opportunities—including little known strategies for success online
Strategies to consider for development in financial, social and environmental areas
A clear plan for marketing
Connections with like-minded people
Clarity and confidence to move forward strongly
You'll also leave with valuable resources as a bonus, to support your continued success and a spring in your step.

Q. Why is the current economic climate an exciting time for coaches?
A. See you there to explore the possibilities!

Presenter Kerrie Phipps is passionate about supporting new coaches and difference-makers in the world as they clarify who they are and how they best contribute. She believes that as you build a strong, profitable business you are well placed to be more effective in your local and global community.

Kerrie Phipps is a passionate, energetic coach who comes from a farming background and lives in the regional city of Dubbo, where she loves life with her husband of 15 years, her young son and a diverse range of friends around the world. Having rapidly developed her own coaching practice, Kerrie has contributed significantly to the Results Coaching Systems community, and has represented Results globally as a training consultant and mentor and trainer for coaches.

She specializes in coaching passionate entrepreneurs in regional and isolated areas to find the clarity and confidence to live their unique purpose.

She also shares insights from her inspiring story as host of a monthly teleconference "Coaches Connect" for coaches in regional areas across Asia Pacific to share the journey with other difference-makers and to stretch in their sense of possibilities. Kerrie is committed to her own growth and development, regularly throwing herself out of her comfort zone, making fabulous discoveries, which she generously shares with her growing network.

Kerrie has written the "Personal Best" page for Regional Business Magazine from 2006-2008, spoken regularly on ABC radio and published her first book, Create the Life Journal in December 2008. www.createthelifeclub.com/kerrie-phipps

Stream 2

Adapting your coaching business to respond to emerging market trends and issues

This workshop is designed for well-established coaches. It offers you a rare opportunity to talk openly with peers about what is changing and is possible in how coaching is applied in communities and organisations.

What are the new frontiers for coaching in terms of how it is conceived and delivered? What are new business models for coaching and for our role with clients? What are we called to do at this unique moment in history where so much is in flux?

This will be a highly interactive and self-directed collective conversation. To kick off this workshop stream and warm us up to our issues and questions, David Drake will lead a panel discussion with four of our conference presenters. This will lead into an "Open Space/World Cafe" workshop style, facilitated by Michael Prince, enabling participants to 'self-direct' into a number of small group conversations where participants can pursue the questions that are important to them along with others who care about the same issues. The panel members will also participate in these small group conversations as catalyst and resources. The day will conclude with a 'closing circle' allowing all participants to share what has emerged for them from the day. You will also have the chance to contribute to the visioning for a new web-based community of coaches engaged in addressing the issues of our time.

This is an opportunity to spend time with some "pioneers" who are exploring new territory in coaching and to tap the collective wisdom from all participants about what we are learning in our respective practices and about what coaching is becoming. We would welcome your engagement and stories as well.

This stream is for you if you are asking yourself questions such as:

How are our current global challenges (including GFC and Climate Change affecting other established coaching businesses? What are other experienced coaches and related professionals doing?
What are the trends that are shaping our professional development, our businesses and the industry? What is the next big leap in our sector?
What are the roles and responsibilities of coaches in helping clients deal with the ethical and sustainability challenges they face? How will coaching change as a result?
How can we use this turbulent time to develop ourselves in new ways to be able to thrive in the years to come?

Expected outcomes

During this workshop you will:

Interact with and learn from a variety of other experienced coaching practitioners (including the panel members)
Be validated AND stretched in how you think about your business and practice your coaching
Make new connections and generate new ideas for how you want to live and work

Facilitators

David B. Drake, PhD is the Director of the Center for Narrative Coaching in California. Prior to finding the center in 2006, he spent fifteen years consulting on change projects, management and leadership development programs, and coaching initiatives in over seventy organizations. He teaches advanced coaching skills in organisations and narrative coaching skills to professionals, consults and writes on coaching and narrative strategies, and he is active in the international coaching community as a researcher, writer and presenter. David has consulted to five organisations in helping them move to integrated coaching-based cultures. He has developed extensive training resources on coaching skills in the workplace and taught his coaching skills program to over 2,000 leaders, managers and professionals to help them shift the ways that business gets done.

David's doctorate is in Human and Organizational Systems from Fielding Graduate University in California. His primary research interest is the role of stories in understanding and shaping identity, development and change. He has also studied and taught Jungian psychology, grief work, spiritual formation, and rites of passage as a foundation for his work. David has developed and taught masters-level and professional courses on narrative/coaching skills and management/leadership for six universities in the U.S. and Australia. He has written over twenty articles, papers and chapters on narratives, evidence, and coaching. He is the chief editor for a forthcoming anthology on the philosophy and practice of coaching (www.practiceofcoaching.com) and helped launch an online dialogical space for coaches and the future of coaching (www.coachingcommons.org).

Michael Prince, together with Kim Lisson, is a founding Director of The Winding Staircase (TWS), established in 2002 to provide coaching, coach training and leadership development support to organisation. TWS's first initiative was Coach School (an 18 month, three semesters Diploma of Professional Coaching) commenced in 2003. This evolved into TWS's current strategic intention which is to ‘evoke and enable leadership for sustainability; sustainable relationships with self, others and the natural environment.

Michael brings over twenty five years of experience working with leaders in Australia and Asia as a manager, consultant and coach, working with a range of organisations (small to large, business, government, not-for-profit) with a particular passion for working in developing countries. For example, he spent seven years in the 1990s as the Training & Development Manager for the United Mission in Nepal — adopting a coaching approach in developing his twenty-strong team and a coaching culture amongst the 2000-strong workforce.

Michael has a Diploma in Professional Coaching (2000) from the Newfield Institute, is a past president of the West Australian Sub Chapter of ICFA and serves on the board of World Vision Australia.

Panel Members/Open Space Catalysts
Engaging Leaders in New Ways
What are the roles and responsibilities of coaches in helping clients deal with the ethical and sustainability challenges they face? How will coaching change as a result?

Gayle Hardie will share her experience in providing the Turtle Camp Leadership Experience as an opportunity for leaders to contribute to a significant ecological project and support their own self-discovery. It offers leaders the time to critically and thoughtfully reflect on themselves and their businesses-particularly in evolving their leadership practices to more fully support corporate and social responsibility and address the needs for an environmentally sustainable world.

Leaders work with 3 endangered species of turtle in conjunction with an indigenous community in a remote location and experience first-hand the direct impact of global warming, environmental pollution and degradation. The experience both confronts and challenges their "world views" and causes leaders to rethink and reprioritise what is important for them-personally, professionally and organisationally.

Gayle is the Co-founder of Global Leadership Foundation and is passionate about making a positive difference to people's lives, their businesses and their communities. The three guiding principles of Global Leadership Foundation (Self-Realisation, Collaboration and Stewardship) guide the development of vital and exciting projects and programs which challenge, engage, stimulate and inspire leaders to look at themselves and rethink the way in which they relate to others, the communities in which they operate and the world around them. All profits made by Global Leadership Foundation are placed in a philanthropic fund to support the development of leaders in this community.

Creating More Sustainable Lives
How can we use this turbulent time to develop ourselves in new ways to be able to thrive in the years to come?

Jeanette Isaacs-Young will share about her work in 'permacoaching' as part of her personal journey with coaching that began as a way to evolve a more 'sustainable' way of living. Her personal changes for better energy conservation (spiritual, emotional and physical) led naturally to her increasing dedication to 'physical' changes (establishing a permaculture garden, bulk buying, reducing their travel, simplifying their lives, building more community, and increasing their capacity for self-sufficiency and resilience).

This has created an interesting dynamic as she intentionally downsized aspects of her life, whilst building and 'growing' a coaching business. Permaculture principles and engagement with Transition initiatives have been very informative as models from which to plan and act. She is interested in talking with other coaches who are exploring how to change their daily habits to increase what she calls 'radical resilience'-both in their lives and in their local community. What are the unique opportunities for coaches to serve and offer their skills at times of dramatic transition? How can coaches create a reserve of energy, time and resources to be able to sustainably and courageously act?

Jeanette has a background in Occupational Therapy, where she assisted people in community settings to adapt to changes in their life 'capacities'. She trained with Coach U as part of her long-term self-sufficiency/sustainability plan. She notices that when clients begin to take better care of themselves, their habits adjust and their lives simplify-usually resulting in daily choices and actions which are also better for the earth and other people.

How are our current global challenges (including GFC and Climate Change) affecting other established coaching businesses?
What are other experienced coaches and related professionals doing?

Sue Gregory and Frank Ansell will share about their work in bringing together coaching principles and indigenous leaders. The indigenous people of Central Australia developed cultural strategies that gave them resilience and adaptability for harsh desert conditions. Their sustainable relationship with country enabled them to survive for eons of time. Their traditional wisdom offers us a model for a way forward; it can shift us to a different paradigm, give us ways to support our clients in uncertain times, and spark new ways of thinking about how we operate our coaching businesses.

As we seek to learn how best to engage with these challenging times, we can learn from the indigenous people who have tapped into the energy of the land to access its power in order to survive and be sustainable. How can we adapt to tough times using indigenous approaches to local and global issues? How can we increase our collective resilience through greater connectivity and relationship with the power and energy in the land around us? Come join in this exploration of new solutions based on the wisdom of Australia's oldest culture and how a deeper understanding of the aboriginal way of being and seeing the world (ie dreamtime) could be of benefit to your coaching business and your clients.

Sue is an executive leadership, career and life coach; Frank is a traditional medicine man from Central Australia. They offer a unique blend of modern coaching and ancient healing practices that is a journey into interconnectedness, timelessness and presence.

Taking Coaching into New Places
What are the trends that are shaping our professional development, our businesses and the industry? What is the next big leap in our sector?

Tracy Tresidder and MJ Corcoran will share about their experience in bringing coaching principles and practices into schools and families. The Global Financial Crisis is having a major impact on families. Many parents are feeling overwhelmed, over-worked and isolated as well as less and less competent and more and more exhausted. In this time, parenting feels harder and many parents are feeling ill-equipped to handle the demands on them both at home and in the workplace. Tracy will talk about her work in helping parents build and sustain dynamic and functional families capable of launching self-aware, self-responsible, successful and independent young adults into the world at large.

MJ will talk about how she has introduced a new approach to coaching into a school district and its classrooms. This is an exciting opportunity in that much of what coaches do in the workplace, for example, is to help adults address some of the learning and development challenges that have arisen from their formative years. What would education look like if it were built around a coaching model? How are professionals and parents changing as a result of their use of coaching as a tool to work with children and youth? How can the larger profession support and learn from the ever-widening range of coaching applications?

Tracy has a Masters Degree in Education, is a professionally trained and certified executive, family and life coach who specializes in working with parents and teens. She is devoted to partnering with parents, educators and business leaders to help our adolescents to see themselves as leaders in their own lives, discover and lead from their strengths, and learn how to choose well, partner powerfully and live lives of confidence, courage and compassion.

Stream 3

On the Bus!

Civic and corporate entrepreneurship, sustainability and the emergent application of coaching approaches.

This stream is designed for seasoned practitioners who are exploring or experimenting with the broader use of coaching (and allied) approaches to address sustainability concerns. We are increasingly aware of the need to live and work in new ways even as we struggle to figure out how and where to begin in ways that are meaningful.

We have organized a small (25-30 people) bus tour that will include visits with organisations actively engaged in developing more sustainable approaches and discussions with the leaders who initiated these projects about what they are doing and learning. An important part of the trip will be the conversation on the bus that taps into our collective, emergent wisdom.
This stream is for you if you want a hands on experience and are asking yourself questions such as:.

This stream is for you if you want a hands on experience and are asking yourself questions such as:

How can I think about my work and business in new ways that would enable me to more actively engage with the pressing issues of our time?
How can I “unpack" what leading edge business people are thinking and doing differently in order to figure out the implications for my business and for coaching?
What will I have to change about how I see, live and work if I were to take these challenges seriously? What will help me do so?
How can I—and coaching in general—serve the needs of these new businesses and these new approaches to communities, education, government, etc.?

Numbers are strictly limited. Registration will be on a first come, first served basis.

Facilitators

You will be guided on this trip by your tour guides and bus conversation facilitators, Kim Lisson and Josie McLean. As co-designers of this experience their intention is to introduce you to our Provocateurs, guide the conversations with them and then, back on the bus, assist us all consider what this means for us. To unpack, review, decipher and integrate.

Kim Lisson
Kim's background in adult learning is based on an extensive background in people and organisational development within the Australian federal government, and as a consultant and adult learning facilitator for many Australian organisations. He has complemented that with his work with as a professional coach over the past ten years, and he is amongst the most experienced of Australia's professional coaches, having commenced coaching in 1997. Kim is well recognised by many of his peers within the WA coaching community as “the coach's-coach”, having founded the local chapter of the International Coach Federation and WA's premier coach training organisation, Coach School.

Kim brings to all his work, a strong personal belief and emphasis on individual personal development, with a focus on personal awareness and responsibility. He also has a strong interest in supporting people to improve their skills in dialogue and conversation (implying emotional intelligence) since nothing happens in families, organisations, communities or nations except through conversation. He is committed to facilitating processes which are deeply intentional, clear and well structured, and which enable those he works with to 'own' the learning agenda and to draw on their own inner wisdom. He enjoys adding value as a facilitator through a unique blend of intelligent caring support, challenge and accountability, metaphor and imagery, playfulness and humour, and the sharing of personal insights and anecdotes.

Kim's qualifications include a Bachelor of Arts, majoring in Sociology, from the Australian National University, study towards a Masters in Leadership & Management degree at Curtin University's Graduate School of Business and he was the first professional coach in WA to have achieved the status of Professional Certified Coach (PCC) status with the International Coach Federation.

Visit Kim's website on www.windingstaircase.com.au

Josie McLean, PCC
Josie has a diverse and broad background as a financial analyst, corporate strategic planner, financier, business advisor and since 1999, executive coach and change agent.

The common thread in all her work has been her contribution to creating new futures through visionary leadership.
Her strengths as a change agent include her ability to create safe places in which people can examine what is and what might be; her willingness to hold the space of 'not knowing' and allow it to emerge from the group; her ability to integrate a systems thinking approach to all her work; her strong sense of playful humour; and her desire to be authentic.

Her qualifications include a Bachelor of Economics and Graduate Diploma in Business Management. She has recently been preparing for PhD studies at University of Adelaide, at the intersection of leadership and sustainability within organisations.
Visit Josie's website to learn more about her work at www.the-partnership.com.au

Bus stop 1: Just Peachy

—Reclaiming Community in Adelaide's Northern Region

Just Peachey is a big solution for a big problem. The big problem is the socio-economic morass that has developed over the last 40 years in Adelaide's northern suburbs, particularly Playford and the region centred on Peachey Road.

Just Peachey recognises that, just as the problem is complex and multi-layered, so too must be the solution. We cannot simply address one facet of the malaise and expect that it will somehow 'lift' the whole system. To tackle the challenge of community renewal in this way requires collaboration on a grand scale, and Just Peachey provides a framework for that collaboration — local and state government, training and education, business, welfare, research and of course the community itself.

Just Peachey is designed to facilitate this level of collaboration, without requiring that any participant surrender their individual identity. One of the principles underlying Just Peachey is 'abundance': whoever is attempting to make a contribution in some way to this region, we can find them a place at the table. They do not have to lose themselves in some greater cause — there is enough for everyone — enough kudos, enough profile, enough fulfilment, enough profit. Just Peachey is not a rigid 'blueprint', but a conceptual framework, whose underlying principles are constant, but whose final shape can accommodate all players.

Provocateurs:
Steve Thomas—Steve is the conceiver and principal “architect” of Just Peachey. He is a builder-developer by trade (and has been since the age of 17), and a “civic entrepreneur” by vocation. His business skills and experience extend to start-ups, franchising, sales, business planning and stakeholder management. He is a staunch South Australian. He provides the teams he works in with vision, passion and conceptual strength.

Sam Wells — Sam is a visionary and proud idealist who has supported and co-developed the Just Peachy vision. He brings a strong theoretical and conceptual element as he translates his background as Director of the MBA program at University of Adelaide and senior lecturer in Organisational Sustainability, to this practical project.

Bus stop 2: Yalumba

—product stewardship through the full life-cycle.

“Quite simply, excellence in winemaking required excellence in environmental management — the two are inseparable." Robert Hill Smith, Managing Director

Founded in 1849, the Yalumba Wine Company is the oldest family-owned wine company in Australia. Operating in the rural environment for 160 years Yalumba — aboriginal for "all the land around" — have been working to ensure that environmentally and socially sustainable activities are an intrinsic aspect of both wine quality and normal operating practice.

In addition to objectives focusing on stewardship of the land, management of waste and mitigation of greenhouse gases, Yalumba has also implemented a product stewardship program that focuses on analysing and managing the full life-cycle of their products. This involves commitment to working co-operatively with its suppliers to mainstream lifecycle thinking, and to help them minimise their environmental impacts by adopting clean technologies, including eco-packaging and eco-labelling. Yalumba also gives preference to locally produced goods and services, and has a focus on customer education on issues such as litter reduction and recycling.

Yalumba's commitment to environmental sustainability has seen them recognised with a number of awards, including:

2005 —Australia's first 'Leader' under the Australian Government's Greenhouse Challenge Plus Programme, with a 9.5% decrease in greenhouse emissions for every litre of wine produced at Angaston.
2007—a Climate Protection Award for their whole-of-business Environmental Management Programme from the US Environmental Protection Authority.
2007—International Green Apple Award in the UK for Environmental Best Practice (Australia & New Zealand).

Provocateur:
Dr Cecil Camilleri — is the Manager (Sustainable Wine Programmes) at The Yalumba Wine Company and he is truly a leader in this field. Born and bred in Malta, he has worked in Europe, Papua New Guinea and Australia in various fields including rural development, floriculture, the cotton and wine industries and the agrochemical industry.

Cecil has an Honours in Plant Sciences and a Masters in agricultural economics from London University, postgraduate qualifications in rural development from Deakin University and, most recently, a PhD looking at sustainable development paradigms for the Australian wine industry, focusing, of course, on The Yalumba Wine Company. But Cecil’s interest goes far beyond the science and business of sustainability; he is passionate about strategies for communicating sustainability to stakeholders and is currently undertaking further action research with the Centre of Creative Cultures and Communications Research, a multi-disciplinary research group at the University of South Australia. His mantra is ‘constancy of purpose, consistency of approach’.

Bus stop 3: The Watershed

—Leadership for Innovative Water Conservation

In South Australia, where water is precious and in short supply, The City of Salisbury is committed to an ongoing strategy of sustainability.

This is not a narrowly focussed initiative but one which is designed to achieve viable fulfilling and rewarding lifestyles for its community, a thriving and retrogressive business sector and responsible and innovative management of its environment and natural heritage.

Water conservation is a vital part of Council's daily work. The City of Salisbury has led the change in water conservation technology and continues to develop new initiatives, to better conserve water and reduce reliance on the River Murray. Council's Water Business Unit is responsible for the management and development of the Salisbury's leading capabilities in water conservation, including wetlands, stormwater harvesting, reWater, integrated water management plan and aquifer storage and recovery.

Here you will find information about all water-related projects, innovations and resources. From the interpretive Watershed Sustainability Centre, to details about Salisbury's unique water management practices, to the wetlands and informative resources, we invite you to learn all there is to know about water and sustainability in the northern region.

Provocateur:
Colin Pitman—Colin is Director of City Projects at the City of Salisbury and has led the development of water conservation technology and its associated water initiatives within the community. His philosophy is captured in the following:

“When we accept tough jobs as a challenge to our ability and wade into them with joy and enthusiasm, miracles can happen. When we do our work with a dynamic conquering spirit, we get things done.” Gilbert Arland

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