Dear Co-Active Coaches,

Welcome!

As always, Spring draws our thoughts to growth and new possibilities through budding trees and blossoming flowers. Here at CTI, we are seeing growth and possibility in new coaches, new courses and new leaders. In February, we announced new leaders who have joined us in Europe, and in early April, we completed North American leader auditions. We’ll be announcing those results soon. In March, we announced the newest addition to our course offerings: Come Alive! The Artful Play of Coaching. Each month, we’re thrilled to see new faces beginning the coaching journey in our courses and to welcome new CPCCs as they complete Certification.

This month, CTI’s international growth takes a new path with the first offering of our Co-Active Leadership Program in Europe. Read more under CTI News.

Our community continues to be active and vibrant. In our Community section, read about two great opportunities to hear from CTI co-founder Henry Kimsey-House in April—one with Come Alive! co-creator Gwen Gordon and one with CTI course leader Caroline Hall Otis.

Our topic this month is Emotional Intelligence: What is it? How have you seen coaching have an impact on emotional intelligence? How has an understanding of emotional intelligence affected your coaching? Under Articles, read three engaging perspectives on Emotional Intelligence. Marla Skibbins, CPCC, MCC; Erin Yoshimura, CPCC; and Jay Orlin share with us their thoughts on emotional intelligence and coaching.

Enjoy!

Warmly,
Kathy Curry, CPCC
Director of Marketing

Co-Active Leadership Program in Europe
We’re very excited to announce that CTI’s Co-Active Leadership Program is coming to Europe. While many Europeans have been among the nearly 1,000 people who have participated in this program in Northern California, many have been asking when it would be available in Europe. The answer is very soon!

The CTI Co-Active Leadership Program is a powerful experiential program designed to uncover, deepen and build on your natural strengths as a leader. This program encompasses a series of four residential retreats and in-between projects over a 10-month period. It is designed to foster the development of an international community of peers and leaders who grow and learn together through a variety of experiences that include adventure-based activities, lively discussions, interactive exercises, physical challenges and ongoing feedback. Learn more about the Co-Active Leadership Program.

The first-ever European Co-Active Leadership Program will begin in October 2005 at Almiral de la Font in Sitges, Spain. Almiral de la Font is a beautifully restored masia (manor house) less than an hour from the Barcelona airport.

When:	Retreat 1: October 18-23, 2005
	Retreat 2: February 7-12, 2006
	Retreat 3: May 16-20, 2006
	Retreat 4: September 5-9, 2006
Where:	Almiral de la Font, Sitges, Spain
Program Leaders	CTI co-founders, Henry and Karen Kimsey-House
Cost:	9,800,00 € (includes food and lodging at the retreat center)

We’re expecting this program to fill quickly. If you are interested, you may register online or call the Co-Active Leadership program office at 1-707-829-1110 for more information.

The Coaching Show Presents: Henry Kimsey-House and Gwen Gordon, Creators of Come Alive! The Artful Play of Coaching
Henry and Gwen will be guests on The Coaching Show via the Internet. Wednesday, April 20, 2005, from 8:20-9 a.m. Pacific Time. Tune in! This is Internet radio, available only from your computer. Go to www.wsradio.com, and click the "Show Schedule" button at the top, then select "Listen Live" below that. Call in and join the conversation! (If you cannot listen Wednesday, listen anytime in the archives! To hear archived shows, select the Business category, then “The Coaching Show.”) For further information, visit www.wsradio.com.

Gwen Gordon, MA, is a graduate of the Co-Active Leadership program and teaches play at the Institute for Transpersonal Psychology and Holy Names University. Gwen started a life of play designing Muppets for Sesame Street. She has received an Emmy award as a writer, written the study guide for the film “What the Bleep Do We Know?!” and is currently writing a book on play as a spiritual path.

Henry Kimsey-House, co-founder of CTI, is the main designer of the coaching course curriculum, including the Co-Active Leadership program. Today, Henry continues to develop and refine the CTI coaching curriculum, leveraging his creative insights and experience as an actor. He is also co-author of the industry best-seller Co-Active Coaching.

Co-Active Network
The Co-Active Network currently has nearly 4,200 members in the Main community and more than 40 niche and geographic communities. The purpose of the network is to support every member in achieving his/her greatest vision for Co-Active coaching and leadership in the world.

Each community has resources, discussions and community events. Check the full calendar on the Co-Active Network. There are an amazing array of exciting events. Also, many of the events held on the Main community have been recorded on audio podium. The list of recorded sessions is available under the “Resources” section of the Main community. Look for the topic “Audio Podiums from Network Main Event Sessions” for a full list.

In the Main community this month:

“Being” of Co-Active Leadership

Date: April 20, 2005

Start Time: Noon Pacific

End Time: 1 p.m. Pacific

Description: From Co-Active Coaching to Leadership: What has it "be" so magical? Join CTI Co-Founder Henry Kimsey-House and CTI course leader Caroline Hall Otis for an exploration of what it means to be a Co-Active leader in front of the room, in your organization, in your family, and in your daily life. This call is intended for those individuals who have not yet taken the Co-Active Leadership Program and will explore how the program helps you become a Co-Active leader in all aspects of your life. Click here to register.

Would you like to share your insight with fellow coaches?
We love to learn from our community, and sharing your thoughts with your fellow coaches is a great way to let us know what’s happening in your world. The Inquiry focuses on a specific topic each month. Topics for the next few months are:

May—Benefits of Certification: Why become certified as a coach? How has becoming certified changed your coaching or your coaching business? What impact does coach certification have on the profession of coaching?

June—Marketing: How do you effectively market yourself as a coach? What is this thing called “branding” and how does it apply to coaches? What advice would you give to a new coach starting out…or to an experienced coach wanting to take his/her business to a new level?

July—Diversity: What’s your perspective on diversity in the world of coaching? How can we increase diversity in the coaching community? And in the community of people being coached?

We invite you to submit articles and share your insight in The Inquiry. It is a fantastic way to increase your visibility in the coaching profession. Please send articles to newsletter@thecoaches.com. Read the detailed submission guidelines.

Emotional Intelligence and Coaching: A Winning Combination
The concept of Emotional Intelligence (EI) is based on the work of David C. McClelland, a psychology professor at Harvard in the early 1970s. He was first to challenge the generalized use of IQ tests as indicating anything more than a person’s abilities to take tests. He instead recommended finding an approach that measured “experience, wisdom and ability to perform effectively on various tasks that life presents.” To find out more about what Jay Orlin, executive coach, says about using EI to coach both business accounts and clients, read the article.

Nightmare on Coach Street: How Using Emotional Intelligence Can Turn Coaching Your Clients into a Dream
Coach: Good morning Mark…

Mark (a pause and an intake of breath on the other end of the phone line): I am so angry coach. I am angry at you…angry at myself. Don’t ask me any more questions! I don’t think that is what I need….

Most of the time our clients are glad to get on the line with us. But every so often one goes ballistic. In this article, Marla Skibbins CPCC, MCC, shows us how an understanding of Emotional Intelligence can save us when we get in very tight places with our clients. Read more!

Serving Up Emotional Intelligence
A woman recently called 911 from the drive-through at a Burger King. She wanted the 911 operator to send down an officer to force Burger King to make her Western BBQ Burger correctly. The 911 operator told her to act like an adult and calmly and rationally work this out with the manager. The operator refused to send down an officer and the woman demanded that the police come there to “protect her.” The operator replied, “From what? The wrong hamburger? A harmful hamburger?”

As coaches, we know the woman wasn’t really angry about the hamburger. There are probably a lot of places we could have coached her—or could we have helped in this situation? To find out more, read this article by Erin Yoshimura, CPCC.

Please join the CTI team in congratulating all of the Certified Professional Co-Active Coaches that have finished the rigorous certification program and passed their exams!

January
Suzanne Abeloff, Iola Freeland, Susan Freeman, Wilfred Lucas, Sharon Maurer-Schwartz, Bryan Neuberg, Pamela Noda, Liliana Stansbury, Janey Van Veen.

February
Shannon Bruce, Chantal Lemire, Dawn Lybarger, Delaney Tosh.

March
Jim Accetta, Alan Baquet, Beverly Benwick, Shannon Bruce, Kevin Conway, Heather Cummings, Becky Grantham, Lourdes Gutierrez, Suzanne Hart, Nick Hicks, Cathy Jacob, Jennifer Kelley, Rondi Kirby, Wendy Knee, Chantal Lemire, Dawn Lybarger, Cindy Mascheroni, Andy Miser, Keith Niemann, Ole Petter Ottersen, Jennifer Parish, Kenn Perry, Jannick Pitot, Julnar Rizk, Ursula Ruckstuhl, Ann Salsbury, Susan Samakow, Tammi Scott, Bradford Stauffer, Daphne Taylor, Delaney Tosh, Wim Vermaak, Gloria Williams, Beverley Wright.