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Friday 1st August
Midday AEST (Melbourne Time)
The instant fail: What to avoid in coaching conversations
So far in this Coaching Café series, we’ve explored what competent coaching looks like at the ACC and PCC levels. This week, we’re flipping the perspective and asking an equally important question:
What constitutes an instant fail in a coaching conversation—or during a credentialing exam?
This session is not about fear—it’s about sharpening our coaching awareness.
✨ What are the behaviours that assessors flag as “not yet competent” right away?
✨ What coaching practices break the partnership—or move away from core competency?
✨ How can we tighten up our coaching approach to avoid these common pitfalls?
Join Brigitte Calvert, Open Door’s Learning and Development Manager and long-standing ICF assessor, as she shares insights from years of assessing coaching conversations across all levels.
Hosted by Paula Jones-Hunt, this Café is your chance to:
✔️ Learn what leads to an instant fail in ICF credential assessments
✔️ Spot these pitfalls in your own coaching practice
✔️ Make small, powerful changes that protect the coaching partnership and elevate your competence
Whether you’re preparing for credentialing or simply want to coach with greater impact, this is a Coaching Café you won’t want to miss.
Let’s raise the standard—together.
Core Competency 0.5 hours
Friday 8th August
Midday AEST (Melbourne Time)
Coaching in action – listen to a coaching demonstration this week.
Over the past few Coaching Cafés, we’ve explored the ICF Core Competencies through the lens of assessment: what competent coaching looks like at ACC and PCC levels, and what can lead to an instant fail.
In this webinar we invite you to shift from talking about coaching… to experiencing coaching in action.
Join us for a recorded coaching demonstration, where you’ll have the chance to:
🎧 Listen to a full-length coaching conversation
🎧 Observe how the ICF Core Competencies come to life in real time
🎧 Reflect on what you notice about presence, listening, partnership, and curiosity
This is a valuable opportunity to tune in, compare your observations with ICF standards, and deepen your learning through listening to an experienced coach.
No commentary. No interruptions. Just a chance to listen deeply.
Next webinar, we’ll debrief the session and unpack what you heard—so don’t miss this one.
🎯 Raising the bar for ourselves as coaches.
Core Competency 0.5 hours
Friday 15th August
Midday AEST (Melbourne Time)
Coaching in action – debriefing the coaching demonstration this week
We invited you to sit back, tune in, and simply listen to a coaching demonstration—a real conversation designed to bring the ICF Core Competencies to life.
This webinar, we move into debrief mode.
Join Natalie and Brigitte as we unpack the coaching conversation together and explore:
✔️ How the ICF Core Competencies showed up in real time
✔️ What stands out to you about presence, partnership, listening, or questioning?
✔️ How did the coach uphold the ICF Core Competencies?
✔️ Where are the opportunities to deepen the learning?
✔️ What you can apply in your own coaching conversations?
This Coaching Café is a hands-on learning opportunity for all coaches. Let’s explore how we grow when we learn to listen closely—together.
Core Competency 0.5 hours
Friday 22nd August
Midday AEST (Melbourne Time)
Coaching in action – listen for PCC-level competencies this week
This webinar in the Coaching Café, we are continuing our deep dive into our coaching practice with another coaching demonstration—where we are particularly listening for PCC-level coaching competencies.
This is your opportunity to listen again with intention and curiosity. What does it sound like when a coach truly demonstrates:
🎧 Coaching presence
🎧 Evoking awareness
🎧 Digging under the surface
🎧 Creating metaphors
🎧 Exploring new thinking
🎧 Partnering—not leading
This week’s Coaching Café is another chance to listen deeply—not to judge, but to grow. We invite you to reflect on what you hear, observe how the ICF Core Competencies come to life, and begin identifying what raises a conversation to the PCC level.
There will be no commentary during the session—just a chance to listen and take it all in.
Next webinar, we’ll come together to debrief what you heard and discuss how to apply these insights in your own coaching.
🎯 Continuing our professional development as coaches.
Core Competency 0.5 hours
Friday 29th August
Midday AEST (Melbourne Time)
Coaching in action – let’s unpack last webinars PCC-level coaching demonstration
In the previous Coaching Café webinar, we will listen to a coaching demonstration focused on the PCC level of coaching competency. We invited you to tune in deeply—listening for presence, partnership, curiosity, evoking awareness, and how the coach explored thinking at a deeper level.
This webinar, it’s time to debrief what you heard.
Join Natalie and long-time ICF assessor Brigitte Calvert as we reflect on the conversation and explore:
✔️ What coaching at the PCC level really sounds like
✔️ How the ICF Core Competencies were demonstrated—or where they may have been missed
✔️ What deep presence and partnership actually sounds like in practice
✔️ How you can apply these insights to grow your own coaching
Whether you’re preparing for a credential or simply want to take your coaching to the next level, this is a powerful learning opportunity.
Let’s listen. Let’s reflect. Let’s grow—together.
🎯 Continuing our professional development as coaches.
Core Competency 0.5 hours
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- Open Door is bound by the guidelines issued by the International Coach Federation (ICF) in regards to the issuance of Continuing Coach Education (CCE) hours.
- Open Door uses Zoom to track and report on attendance and you have to attend the entire 30 minute presentation (as evidence on the report) to earn the CCE.
- If you do not attend at least 30 minutes of the presentation, then the CCE cannot be awarded. This is not negotiable.
- The facilitator will log on prior to the presentation for you to check your software, and you are encouraged to log on early to make sure that your attendance will be recorded. It is your responsibility to ensure that you can hear the facilitator and see the slides.
- Open Door will not be held responsible for any reason, if you can’t attend the full session, this includes software drops outs or personal matters including ill health.
- You must attend the live session in order to achieve the CCE – you are not eligible to earn the CCE by listening to recording afterwards.
- Open Door reserves the right to change the topic, time, date or presenter as needed. We obviously try to avoid this, but sometimes it cannot be helped. Thanks for your understanding.
