Annual Meeting + Coaching with a Twist: Improv for Coaches

What becomes possible when you stop planning your next question and fully engage with what is happening now?

As coaches, we improvise every day. Our structures and competencies provide a foundation, while our presence, listening, and curiosity allow us to connect and co-create with each client.

Join ICF High Country for a year-end gathering that combines chapter celebration with experiential learning.

Noon–12:30 p.m. | Annual Chapter Meeting

Connect with fellow members, meet the incoming Board, hear a brief chapter update, and enjoy giveaways as we celebrate our community and look toward the year ahead.

12:30–1:30 p.m. | Coaching with a Twist: Improv for Coaches

Amy J. Warshawsky, MCC, NBC-HWC, and Betsy Salkind, PCC, NBC-HWC, co-authors of Coaching with a Twist: Improv for Coaches, will guide you through structured improv exercises drawn from theatre, comedy, and coaching.

After demonstrations from the facilitators, you’ll spend most of the workshop practicing in pairs and small groups. Each exercise includes discussion to connect the experience to your coaching practice.

Together, we’ll explore how to stay present, listen closely, respond with creativity, and loosen the impulse to plan ahead. Expect opportunities to experiment, bring more playfulness into your coaching, and build connections with other coaches.

Coaches at every experience level are welcome. Come ready to participate, explore, and play!

By the end of this program, participants will be able to:

• Apply improv techniques to access a calmer, more creative, and resourceful state.

• Practice active listening and reflect client desires, values, and strengths with greater precision.

• Explore ways to bring playfulness and empathy into coaching while remaining responsive to the client.

• Recognize self-judgment and judgment of others, and practice responding with curiosity.

• Connect improv practices to ICF Core Competencies, including maintaining presence, listening actively, and evoking awareness.

Attendance at this program earns you 1 Core and 0.5 RD CCEUs.

Betsy Salkind, PCC, NBC-HWC, is a health and mentor coach with expertise in team, group, and leadership coaching. She trained at the Mayo Clinic and served as Associate Director and Lead Mentor Coach for the ADAPT Health Coach Training Program. A professional standup comic and television writer, her credits include The Tonight Show and Roseanne. She holds an MS in Organization Studies from MIT Sloan School of Management.

Amy J. Warshawsky, MCC, NBC-HWC, is a leadership and mentor coach with expertise in coaching individuals, teams, and groups. She integrates somatic practices to deepen self-awareness and embodied leadership. A former faculty member of the ADAPT Health Coach Training Program, Amy has held roles in nonprofit and higher education settings. She holds an MS in Journalism from Northwestern University and a BA from Cornell University.

Amy and Betsy are co-founders of BNA Mentor Coaching and co-authors of Coaching with a Twist: Improv for Coaches. Learn more at BNAmentorcoaching.com.