Seeds

Two years ago during ICF conference in Montreal I had the honour to see Vandana Shiva

speaking about the importance of seeds. At that time I was not aware of her work, or about the importance of original seeds. Take a moment, and ask yourself how much of the food you eat now is natural and has organic base. It is useless to say that food is food, and it is not important if we still eat organic tomatoes or vegetables, if our flowers that we love and give to our wives, mothers and friends are from our gardens, if the eggs and meat we buy have hormones and chemicals inside.

Spring is here and if you have a small garden you can choose to start a small organic garden, there is a seeds bank in Romania who can provide organic seeds if you convince them that you want to grow organic vegetables.

What is the link with coaching?

Let me explain, 15 years ago a group of enthusiast people in US decided to start a non-profit organization, called ICF. In the early days they were around twenty people, today ICF has more than 16.000 members, over 150 chapters in more than 45 countries. It is offering the only global recognized, independent credentialing program. This process is based on eleven competencies to support understanding the coaching profession.

The way of working in every country is like having a small organic garden, every member of the local chapter participates to the greater effort of educating the market, of course one person at a time. Last year our local effort was globally recognized in Orlando in the section for small chapters with global spirit.

This year in Bucharest we will benefit from the wisdom of three recognized international coaches, Andrew Atter, Alan Seale and Alain Cardon.

We invite all the ”organic” seeds of coaching from Romania and Balkans and why not Europe to join us in celebrating 15 years of ICF and 4 years in Romania.