Reclaiming Love: A Coach’s Path to Thriving in the Era of Fear, Division and Indifference

Session Description:

The world is breaking. Fearful organizations grip more tightly, demanding performance at the expense of humanity, and that seeps into our coaching. Coaches become more risk-averse, and the people we work with become more guarded.

In its pursuit of professional credibility, coaching has built frameworks, competencies and measurable outcomes. But in doing so, it risks losing the essence that makes it come alive: love.

This contemplative session is a call to bring back love in coaching.

Rather than learning about love, coaches come to feel it, in their bodies, so that they experience their own worthiness and understand from the inside why this belongs at the heart of coaching.

In this session, we settle, we turn toward another with open hearts, and we let ourselves be met.

Join us as we:

•   Recognize and undo the conditioning that taught us to leave love at the door of our practices

•   Trust the intelligence of our hearts as a catalyst for change

•   Reclaim coaching as a whole human being

It’s an invitation into unhurried spaciousness and to walk away with an embodied sense of being seen and loved as we are, and a clearer appreciation of why that belongs in the coaching chair.

Speaker Bio:

Clare Norman, MCC, is an ICF Master Coach, specialized mentor coach, coach supervisor and coach educator with over 25 years of experience. She has a master’s degree in training and has received multiple awards for groundbreaking leadership development. She is the founder of Clare Norman Coaching Associates and the author of four books: Mentor Coaching: A Practical Guide (2020), The Transformational Coach (2022), Cultivating Coachability (2024) and Reclaiming Love in Coaching (2026). Her work asks coaches to do their own inner work first, and to trust that who they are is how they coach. She lives in the New Forest, Hampshire, where she paints in watercolor, sings in a choir and practices tai chi.

CCEU:

• Core Compentency 1.25

Pricing: 

• ICF Houston Members: Free

• Non-Global members \ Guest: $25