Professional Development Sessions

This experiential session guides participants through a surprisingly deep process of confronting shadow and learning to be with one's wholeness. Participants will have a chance to complete two reflection exercises (Leadership MIssion and Shadow Mission) and will have time for discussion and dialogue after each exercise. The process has been impactful for highly experienced and self-aware practitioners, and aligns with ICF Core Competencies of "Evoking Awareness" and "Facilitating Client Growth". You'll walk away having crafted a personal leadership mission statement, a shadow mission statement, and with new understandings of why the work of being with our wholeness is vital for individual and collective development.

Vav is the Hebrew letter that means AND. It's a letter that has a lot to teach us at a time when leaders of Jewish communities and organizations are faced with divisiveness, uncertainty, and a need to hold the tensions of what may feel like opposing values and direction. Imbedded in our tradition, and in the teachings of the letter vav, is an alignment with coaching frameworks and tools that teach us to reframe what may seem to be polarizing tensions of EITHER/OR,, into the opportunities of BOTH/AND. I'll be sharing the work of the Polarity Approach to Continuity and Transformation (PACT™) ; we'll apply it to ourselves and learn the basics of how to use it with clients, supporting our capacity leverage the positive potential of polarities through balance, integration, and choiceful response.

This session is all about building your coaching business, with a focus for coaches in Jewish organizations and communities.We'll look at how to develop a distinctive point of view that differentiates you from other experts and makes industry leaders take notice; how to design a "selectively famous" strategy that prioritizes meaningful influence with key decision-makers; and how to leverage your existing expertise and champion network to amplify your reach.

Gen Z clients are entering adulthood amid economic uncertainty, institutional distrust, and heightened anxiety—often before fully forming career or identity anchors. Research and qualitative interviews from Navigating the Quarterlife Career Crisis show that religion, faith, and spirituality remain powerful (and often under-recognized) sources of meaning, resilience, and decision-making for many Gen Z clients. This session equips ICF-credentialed coaches with culturally responsive, competency-aligned tools to coach Gen Z clients through early-career uncertainty while ethically holding space for faith, spirituality, and identity—without advising, diagnosing, or proselytizing.