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October 5, 2012 - ICF Global 2012 in London

Prism Core Members Belma Gonzalez and Johnny Manzon-Santos presented at the International Coach Federation's annual conference. Their session, Test Kitchen: Serving Up New Recipes for Coaching, created a place to explore innovative applications of coaching.

Test Kitchen presentation

We took the stand that a) if social justice was not the goal of coaching, then the work was not innovative, and b) that cultural awareness was integral to the success of coaching.

We worked with key terms, including culture, cultural awareness, culturally aware coaching, and social justice—a vision of society that understands and values human rights, equality, and recognizes the dignity of every human being.

We showcased a few innovative applications of coaching within a US context: The African American Coaching Initiative, The Early Childhood Connections Project, Civic and Community Leadership Coach Certification, and Creative, Resourceful and Whole, a project of Beyond Emancipation in Oakland, California.

Johnny, Belma, and Jan Portillo



April 26, 2012 - Isms Collaborative Conference

[Isms Photo]


April 20-22, 2012 - ACTO Conference

[Prism-ACTO Award]

[ACTO-Prism Photo]


September 26, 2011 - ICF International Conference


June 15, 2010 - Kim Fowler Special Event

PRISM PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATION

Presents a Guest Speaker Event with:
Kim Fowler, MESA Coaching
4pm - 6pm
Felicia Stewart Center
1330 Broadway Street, Suite 1100
Oakland, CA


"Coaching as a Strategy for Peace: Conscious Relationship with Self and Others"

Humans engage in conflict from fear of loss. This could be loss of anything; loss of face, of money, of land, of history, of power, of love, of one’s or someone else’s life. The bigger the stakes, the more lethal the conflict. The problem is that often we are not honest about what we are terrified to lose.

What if vulnerability was our greatest strength? What if all parties in a conflict saw themselves as part of a system with many voices, a system that is trying to change and can’t because it is stuck in “being right” for fear of loss? What if each of those parties became more conscious of the truth of their individual fear and was willing to speak it?

This presentation will play with these and other questions regarding how coaching can create conversations that remove barriers to conscious, peaceful relationship.


Kim FowlerKim Fowler, CPCC is a coach, trainer, facilitator and consultant who has trained coaches worldwide as a faculty member of the Coaches Training Institute. Kim works with clients in the nonprofit and private sectors. She coaches executives and teams toward uncovering their strengths, the root of their roadblocks, and solutions that increase effective communication, satisfaction and performance. She also has a passion for working with individuals and family systems that have had a caregiving role for loved ones with dementia and leads writing workshops on this issue. She has published several articles, short theater pieces, and is completing a book about the aftermath of her mother’s stroke.

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