The document is a newsletter from Dinah Snow, President of ICF Colorado, that provides updates on recent and upcoming events for the organization. It summarizes that the organization recently had a successful conference where members made valuable connections. It encourages members to provide feedback on the conference and get involved in leadership by joining the board. It also announces an upcoming holiday party and monthly meeting where new board members will be voted in.

1. November 2015
Message from Dinah Snow
President, ICF Colorado
I think the unusually warm weather this season has finally given way to
a true fall!
I am so proud of our team for the work that
they put into our Dare to THRIVE! conference!
My heartfelt thanks goes out to the Board and
on-site volunteers for making this event flow
seamlessly. I have heard some excellent
feedback with regard to how many of you took
valuable learnings home with you and made
precious connections. Keep those relationships
and new insights alive so that your business
and supportive network will continue to grow.
We would love your feedback and comments
with regard to how we can support you at next
year's conference and what content you would
like to see, so please feel free to share your comments with anyone on
the Board.
We look forward to seeing you at the November meeting when we will
be voting in new Board members for 2016. If you are an ICF-CO
Professional Member, you can be on the Board and vote. It’s not too
late to raise your hand and join our leadership team to serve our
members with your unique contribution. Contact our current President-
Elect, Greg Aden at greg@adenleadership.com, to discuss the positions
available.
And please save the date for our annual holiday party, which will be on
December 10, 2015. Location TBA.
In service,
Dinah
Dinah Snow
President, ICF Colorado
IN THIS ISSUE:
President's Message
November 17, 2015:
Teleseminar on Appreciative
Inquiry
ICF Colorado Book Club
November 12, 2015:
Monthly Meeting
Special Interest Groups
(SIGs)
IN THE SPOTLIGHT:
Amanda Yuill
FEATURED ARTICLES:
Check out this wealth of
information
Membership: New Member
Sponsors Needed
General Meeting Information
ICF CO Meetup Groups
Our ICF Colorado Meetup
Groups are an opportunity
for our community to
continue conversations and
keep communications going
in-between our monthly
meetings.
ICF CO Meetup Groups
currently in Boulder and Ft.
Collins.

2. Dinah@DinahSnow.com
303-499-0408
ICF Colorado October 2015 Fall Conference
Dare to THRIVE!
Teleseminar: November 17, 2015
Topic: “Using Appreciative Inquiry to Assist Your Clients in Thriving”
Speaker: Patricia Schwartz, MBA, PCC
Date and Time: November 17, 2015 from 2:00 - 3:45pm
CCEUs: TBA
Location: Teleseminar – Conference Bridge Line provided upon
registration
PLEASE NOTE: Everyone must register for teleseminars, programs and
events including ICF Colorado members
Cost:
ICF Colorado Members (Professional): Free
Interested in hosting an ICF
CO Meetup Group in your
area? Let us know:
info@icfcolorado.org
Link on Meetup
*Please check the link
above for any
updates/changes
announced by the Meetup
Group leaders.
Questions? Please contact
info@icfcolorado.org
Check out ICF CO:
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Like Us on Facebook
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Questions? Email us at
info@icfcolorado.org
Questions?
Comments? Ideas to
Share?
info@icfcolorado.org
www.icfcolorado.org
Advance Your Practice
and Career with
LinkedIn Discussions
ICF Colorado extends
outside just the monthly
meetings. Jump in and join
the conversation!
Questions about the ICF
Colorado LinkedIn group?
Contact:
Carl Dierschow
carl.dierschow@smallfish.us

3. ICF Colorado Members (Affiliate): $5
Non-Members: $20
ATD-RMC Members: $20 (enter code for discount)
Click Here to Register
This session will give you an experience with Appreciative Inquiry (AI)
and a chance to understand the relationship between AI and thriving
and its potential for supporting you, your business and your clients! You
will walk away with action steps and tools you can use immediately.
Participants will have the opportunity to identify and renew/reset your
sense of purpose and to know the powerful wellspring that fuels it. You
will strengthen your connection to your best contribution. Methods will
include powerful questions, visualization, experiential activity,
mindfulness, reflection, writing, discussion.
No matter where you are in your coaching career, each participant can
benefit from this opportunity to step into the intersection of your unique
strengths and passions/values and what the world is calling for. This
wellspring becomes a reference point for resilience and thriving you can
visit regularly.
The model you will experience is an integrated, embodied application of
AI, Strengths Based approaches and Positive Psychology to support
thriving.
About Patricia Schwartz, MBA, PCC
Patricia Rachel Schwartz, MA, PCC, BCC is a
strategic listener and transformation agent. She
helps leaders magnify their results in a fraction
of the time. She is a Professional Certified
Coach (ICF), Board Certified Coach (CCE),
Certified Mentor Coach (CEC) and leadership
trainer for executives and their teams. Patricia
specializes in Appreciative Inquiry and other
strengths based approaches that ignite
innovation, support the development of
emotional intelligence competencies, infuse the
team and organizational culture with positive
energy and increase bottom line productivity.
Patricia has over thirty years experience in
leadership development, fund development and management locally,
nationally and internationally in the business and nonprofit arenas. She
has been a trainer for twenty years, coaching for fifteen years and has
been a senior faculty of the post-graduate College of Executive
Coaching for ten years, where she teaches courses and coaches senior
leaders.
Patricia is certified in and/or uses assessments such as the MBTI, EQi
2.0 and EQi360, CPI 260, LPI 360 (Leadership Challenge), and the
Strengthsfinder 2.0. She is also certified in OD approaches such as
Open Space Technology and Appreciative Inquiry. She holds an MA in
International Management. She coaches in English and occasionally in
French or Spanish.
Click Here to Register

4. ICF Colorado Book Club!
FREE to Professional Members and Affiliates.
We will be starting a book club soon, and we'll meet by conference call
so you can join us from any part of the state. Dates and times will be
listed on the ICF Colorado Meetup.
Please check in on the list and let us know what dates/times would work
best for you.
The first book in the queue:
Brian Whetten's Yes, Yes, Hell No! The Little Book for Making Big
Decisions.
Some future suggested readings:
Coaching to the Human Soul, vols 1-3, Alan Sieler
The Prosperous Coach, Chandler & Litvin
We look forward to some rich learning together!
Tom Lietaert
Treasurer, ICF Colorado
(419) 699-6100
November 2015: Monthly Meeting
Date: November 12, 2015
Time: 6:00PM - 9:00PM
Speaker: David Firth
Topic: "There’s Your Story, and There’s You Telling Your Story: A
Workshop On Narratives, Performance and Being A Coach"
Special Interest Groups (SIGs) will be conducted from 6:00PM - 6:50PM
before the general meeting.
Location:
PPA Event Center, 2105 Decatur Street, Denver, CO 80211
CCEUs: TBD
David will take us on a fun, thought-provoking and interactive
deep-dive into the world of stories, and how you can best embody them
for the benefits of your coaching practice and your coaching business.
He will share some of the essential story structures, demonstrating how
they work to trigger the audience’s listening – and he will highlight the
key moments in those structures so that you can hone your current
stories, presentations, elevator pitches right there in the workshop.
David will also cover some key things to remember when sharing your
story – because storytelling is a vocal tradition and it’s in the telling that
they come to life.
Come and spend 75 minutes playing with your stories – and you as your
own very best storyteller, with a guy with a cool accent and for whom
the phrase was coined: “You can take the boy out of the theater, but
you can’t take the theater out of the boy.”

5. About Our Speaker, David Firth:
David Firth is committed to the future of work
on this planet being a lot more inspiring, fun
and generative than its history has been.
David is a change management expert,
conference speaker, management consultant
and executive coach in Progressive
Organizational Development.
David helps global clients – and those nearer
to his home in Loveland, Colorado - institute
profound practices for engagement,
enrollment and workforce participation. He
brings people back to being the source of change - rather than its
victims or objects - by unleashing the entrepreneurial spirit of creativity
and ownership. This, he suggests, is not a top-down or even bottom-up
shift, but an inside-out one.
At the heart of all David’s work are his proprietary COQUORA PROCESS
and CONVERSATIONS FOR CHANGE methodologies, which are
guaranteed to generate creativity, energy and accountability where
there was only resistance, stasis and blame in the past.
He has just created a company called The Coquora Project, whose
mission is to create substantive change in communities, local
government, healthcare and education, for all stakeholders, by running
One Thousand CoQuora Processes around the world over the next five
years. Current clients include the International Olympic Committee,
Amnesty International, Unilever and a globally - famous family
confectionary business.
As an author, his books stand as a provocative complement to
traditional thinking about leadership, and include How to Make Work
Fun; The Corporate Fool; From "Making a Living: to Creating a Life and
the subject of his recent TEDx talk, Change Your World One Word at a
Time. Click here for his Loving Your Work Manifesto.
Further information on David’s consulting and coaching work can be
found at www.davidfirth.com and www.coquora.com
Information and Registration Page:
http://icfcolorado.org/events/icf-co-november-monthly-meeting/
Location:
PPA Event Center
2105 Decatur Street
Denver, CO 80211
CCEUS: TBD
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PLEASE NOTE: Everyone must register for the monthly meetings &
events including ICF Colorado members
Cost:
ICF Colorado Members (Professional and Affiliate): Free
Non-Members: $30

6. ATD-RMC Members: $25
CLICK HERE TO REGISTER for the November 12, 2015 Meeting
Special Interest Groups (SIGs)
EXECUTIVE COACHING CASE STUDY SIG
November 12, 2015
6:00PM - 6:50PM
Facilitated by: TBA
Are you an Executive Coach who wants to grow your skills and bounce
ideas around with peers? Join us for discussions on real executive
coaching cases. The group reviews both live examples from coaches in
the room, as well as case studies. Learn and gain new perspectives with
others in a safe and engaging environment.
EXPERIENCED COACHES SALON
November 18, 2015
7:00PM - 9:00PM
Location: see information below
Facilitated by: Judy Sabah
5+ Years of Coaching Experience? You’re Invited to Check Us
Out!
The Salon format is a safe place in the home of one of the participants
where experienced seasoned coaches share their journey as coaches
with other like coaches in open, safe intimate dialogue, while boring
deep into shared seasoned coach's issues.
Location: Judy's home in Denver, CO
(address and phone sent to RSVP’s)
Please RSVP to judy@judysabah.com for the salon.
We look forward to seeing you there!
Facilitator:
Judy Sabah
judy@judysabah.com
BUILDING YOUR BUSINESS SIG WITH NANCY CHEN
November 12, 2015
6:00PM - 6:50PM
Facilitated by: Nancy Chen
SUCCESSFUL ENROLLMENT CONVERSATIONS
Join Stephanie Wachman, Past President of ICF Colorado, Executive
Coach and Sales Expert, to explore the Plan of Action you need to have
to maximize the number of your enrollment conversations with
prospects, and what to say to seal the deal.
**Stay up-to-date with assignments and the latest news for the
BUILDING YOUR BUSINESS SIG by JOINING OUR NEW
LINKEDIN ICF COLORADO SIG SUBGROUP (located on the lower
right of the ICF CO group page)
Facilitator:

7. Nancy Chen
nancychen1@gmail.com
IN THE SPOTLIGHT: Amanda Yuill, ICF CO Communications Director
Amanda Yuill is an Australian Explosives Chemist turned Career & Lifestyle
Coach. She founded Light Yourself Up, dedicated to helping people connect
with the things that light them up and build thriving careers around them.
Using the principles of positive psychology heavily throughout her work, she
loves nothing more than witnessing the energy that people bring to the world
when they are doing the things they are truly passionate about.
Click here to read more
FEATURED ARTICLES:
Click here to access previously featured articles
In our ongoing efforts to add value to your
membership, we have the Featured Article section in
our newsletter and on the website. We'd love to
receive submissions from YOU about coaching in your
niche, particular processes that you use, interesting
client issues you've coached or anything interesting or
fun you'd like to share. This is a win-win for all of us!
While this is not intended to be a sales pitch piece, we
would be happy to link the article submitted back to
your website. Feel free to recycle great articles that
you've already written.
If you'd like to submit an article for consideration,
send them to: amanda@lightyourselfup.com. Be sure to include an article (up to one page, ~500-750
words preferred), your name, company name, contact info, link back to your website (or the blog link if
you’ve already published it) and a brief bio.
We look forward to more great stuff from YOU.
ICF Colorado
Membership in the ICF Colorado: New Member Sponsors Needed
We now have 9 persons serving as New Member Sponsors, but have new members waiting for a
sponsor. Your help is needed!
As the Membership Director, it is my hope that new members are welcomed into our Chapter and

8. quickly find a home in our "family." To ensure this happening well, we are starting an experiment
called New Member Sponsors. A new member sponsor is someone who has been in the Chapter for
perhaps a year or more who will help welcome a new member and make sure they become integrated
into the life of the Chapter. For the first few months, the sponsor will befriend the new member,
become acquainted, introduce him or her to others in the Chapter, explain the various benefits and
programs of the Chapter, and perhaps have coffee or lunch with the person.
If you have been a member of our Chapter for a year or more, please consider becoming a New
Member Sponsor. It is a four-month commitment to make friends with someone and ensure that they
become actively involved in the Chapter. You will be provided with some orientation and suggestions
on how to best sponsor someone. Please contact Walt Hastings to express your interest in welcoming
new members. Call Walt at 303-526-9490 or e-mail him at walthastings@hotmail.com.
Why Join ICF Colorado?
* A community of individuals committed to making a difference in the lives of their clients.
* Connect with other coaches.
* Become engaged in the work of learning together and creating a strong community.
* Receive valuable training each month that you can directly apply to your life or work with clients.
Click here to Join or Renew
Click here to learn about Member Benefits
If you have questions about membership, please call Walt Hastings at 303-526-9490.
To your success!
Walt Hastings
ICF CO Membership Director
General Meeting Information
Regular Monthly Meetings
Members: No Charge

9. Non-Members / Guests: $25 per meeting fee
When: 2nd Thursday of every month (unless otherwise noted)
6:00PM - 9:00PM
SIGs start at 6:00PM, and the General Meeting starts at 7:15PM sharp.
Where: PPA Event Center, 2105 Decatur Street, Denver, Colorado 80211
Phone: 303-433-8247
The PPA Event Center is on the corner of 21st Avenue and Decatur Street
PPA Event Center website: www.ppaeventcenter.com
Map to PPA Event Center:
2015 ICF Colorado Board Members
Dinah Snow
President
Dinah@DinahSnow.com
303-499-0408
Greg Aden
President Elect
greg@adenleadership.com
469-879-8211
Walt Hastings
Membership Director
walthastings@hotmail.com
303-526-9490
Amanda Yuill
Communications Director
amanda@lightyourselfup.com
720-464-6336
Lisa Hale, Ph.D.
Education Director
lisa@focusedleadershipconsulting.com
505-690-3354
Tom Lietaert
Treasurer
tom@sacredodyssey.com
419-699-6100

10. Mary Gail Becker
Secretary
marygailbecker@gmail.com
720-320-7977
Elke Saeubert
Marketing/Outreach Director
elke.saeubert@gmail.com
303-968-6366
Stephanie Wachman
Past President
stephanie@coachinglib.com
720-232-3693
info@icfcolorado.org
Copyright 2015 ICF Colorado