Conscious Business: a Telecourse for Coaches

This course is designed for experienced coaches and human resources professionals and other professionals working in the areas of adult development who wish to qualify to apply for the Coaching for Authentic Leadership program, and who have not taken the Authentic Leadership Certificate Program. This course is based on Fred Kofman’s Conscious Business tape series, which is required listening for the course.

Directed by Micki McMillan and facilitated by Nikki Carpenter

Topics

• Learning versus Knowing. The Victim and the Player and Unconditional Responsibility
• Skillful conversation: Advocacy, Inquiry and Conflict Resolution
• Defensive Routines and the Dilemma of Change
• Commitment and Recommitment Conversations
• Emotions and Values and Virtues for Ethical Business
• Mental Models and Stages of Consciousness
• Identity and Spiritual Optimism

Benefits

• Provides experienced coaches and other adult development professionals with the learning distinctions that are the foundation of the Coaching for Authentic Leadership program
• Allows participants to understand the learning distinctions and apply them to their own work/life
• Build the cognitive framework to use when learning to coach in the Coaching for Authentic Leadership course
• Participate in a vital learning community
• Flexible learning format designed to accommodate busy working or practicing coaches

Format

• Six telecourse calls held over a twelve–week period of time
• Lectures, readings and application exercises sent between telecall sessions
• Listening to Fred Kofman’s Conscious Business tape series available from Sounds True
• Participants receive one coaching session

Dates

• January 25– April 5, 2007
• Thursdays, 12:00pm–2:00pm MST. January 25; February 8; February 22; March 8; March 22; April 5

Fee
The fee for the twelve–week course is $850. Included in the fee are the teleconference calls, the readings and lectures and the coaching call with a faculty member. The student is required to purchase Fred Kofman's "Conscious Business" tapes, available from Sounds True.

Application: To receive an application please contact Mark Wilding at 303-245-4651 or mwilidng@naropa.edu or Nikki Carpenter.

To Register: Upon acceptance please register by calling Extended Studies or send a check payable to Naropa to:

School of Extended Studies
303-245-4800 or 800-603-3117
2130 Arapahoe Ave, Boulder, CO 80302
Fax: 303-245-4819

Note: For participants who take the Conscious Business for Coaches Telecourse as a means to admission in the Coaching for Authentic Leadership. Because this is a telecourse it does not have an on-site component. The listed number of on-site days required and the coaching hours provided will differ from those listed for the Coaching for Authentic Leadership Certificate program.

For more detailed information about the program please contact Nikki Carpenter at 303-733-4226 or e-mail at createability@earthlink.net

Faculty Biographies:

Nikki Carpenter, M.S.S., PCC is an experienced coach and organization development consultant who completed both the Authentic Leadership and the Coaching for Authentic Leadership programs in 2003. She also completed the Coaches Training Institute advanced coaching courses in 2000. Her company, Creating Ability, works with leaders and teams who want to lead and work in ways that maximize their fulfillment and enable them to reach their potential. She has been involved with leadership development since 1992. She also enjoys coaching coaches and sharing resources and ideas to enable them to succeed with greater speed and ease.

Micki McMillan M.Ed, MCC, is the Director for Coaching for Authentic Leadership. She holds a Master Certified Coach from ICF, and has had several years of leadership and management experience in mid–size organizations. She is also the vice–president of Conscious Talent Development, and Partner, for Wisdom Works Group, Inc., a consulting and coaching firm that teaches and supports 21st Century Leadership.

Conscious Business Participant Learning Stories
The Conscious Business Telecourse for Coaches provided a wonderful learning opportunity in an extremely convenient venue. I was very impressed with our facilitator’s ability to create an interactive, engaging learning environment. Our group really learned from the examples and sharing of each other’s work and personal lives; this made application easier. It was a great experience all the way around.
–Michele Young, Customer Service Director. The Children's Hospital

Related Programs

Authentic Leadership Certificate Program
January 16 to May 5, 2007
Director: Susan Skjei with Barbara Lawton, Micki McMillan, Mark Wilding and Guest Faculty

The fifteen-week program comprises two five-day residential sessions with coaching, online courses and action learning in-between. This in depth program will ground your leadership in confidence, power and genuineness and teach you to manifest these qualities skillfully in your workplace. Online collaboration combined with short residential workshops allows you to engage in this program from wherever you are with minimal time away from work. The program will be offered on a yearly basis. The cost of the program is $5,200. The cost for registered non-profit organizations is $4,160. There is a 10% discount if you register by before December 1, 2006 for non-credit.

The Program may be taken for credit for $5,800.

For more detailed information see www.naropa.edu/leadership, call 303-245-4651 , or email mwilding@naropa.edu

Coaching for Authentic Leadership Certificate Program
January –August, 2007
May 14- August 15, 2007
Directed by Micki McMillan with Susan Skjei, Mark Wilding, Nikki Carpenter and Guest Faculty

This is a program for coaches and leaders who want to encourage and facilitate personal and professional development in organizations. Developed by master certified coaches and business executives, this program prepares coaches and leaders to succeed in today's rapidly changing organizational environments. The program includes two courses: Authentic Leadership (see above) and Advanced Coaching Skills. http://www.naropa.edu/marpa/coaching/index.html

School of Extended Studies
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2130 Arapahoe Ave , Boulder, CO 80302
Fax: 303-245-4819
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