AGM and Conference - Our Tapestry
November 8, 2025
Registration closes November 7th

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Join us for the ICF BC Conference & AGM on November 8, 2025, at the Terminal City Club! Breakfast and lunch are included in the ticket price. 

Our Tapestry – Celebrating the Uniqueness of Coaching and What We Bring to our Organizations and Communities

We aim to celebrate the beauty of our own individual uniqueness that enhances the strength of our collective connection and together we weave an ecosystem where coaches thrive, leaders grow, and communities feel supported. 

AGENDA:

Along side the AGM formalities will will have learning sessions from various speakers as follows:

Session 1

PathWAYS - An Indigenous Narrative Coaching Framework for Coaching

Speaker - Jonathan Evans, PCC

Realizing Western coaching frameworks required sensitive adaptation to make coaching appropriate and accessible for our Indigenous Client-Partners. Incorporating Indigenous ways of being and knowledge into the coaching profession became essential for decolonizing and indigenizing culturally appropriate approaches for First Nations, Métis, and Inuit.

The PathWAYS narrative coaching framework was developed in partnership with Elders and Indigenous participants during a Talking Circle and has been applied in Jonathan’s coaching practice with Indigenous leaders, entrepreneurs, students, and faculty. This approach integrates traditional knowledge, ceremony, and a collective perspective, enabling client-partners to build new relationships rooted in community, beyond mere individual goal setting. 

Learning Objectives:
Recognize the importance of cultural competencies in coaching and adapt frameworks to serve the client-partner effectively.
Practice applying an Indigenized coaching framework.
Reflect on the coach’s power, privilege, and intersectionality when working across cultures.

Total CCE Credits Available: 

3.75 CC

2.25 RD

Speaker: Jonathan Evans, PCC 

What makes a great coach? For over 20 years, Jonathan has explored this question across labs, ropes courses, boardrooms, and Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside. Coaching, he’s learned, is where self-knowledge, purpose, and values meet practice. From guiding executives in high-trust team challenges to leading an NGO—work that earned him the Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal. Today, as an Indigenous Advisor and Coach at BCIT, he draws on his MA, CPCM, PMP, and research on an Indigenous coaching framework to help leaders navigate change, honour relationships, and craft their own authentic paths forward.

Session 2 
AGM

Session 3 

The Power of Belonging: Exploring Uniqueness in the Community and leadership 

Speaker: Lily Seto, PCC

“Belonging is about being valued for who we are and for what makes us unique. This session will explore how our identities as a coach can foster or challenge belonging in our communities.”
Focusing on Core Competency 6.1: “Considers the client’s context, identity, environment, experiences, values and beliefs to enhance understanding of what the client is communicating.”
Let’s start with ourselves as a coach – who are we?

By the end of the session, participants will:
1. Reflect on some of their dimensions of identity that form who they are as a
coach.
2. Engage in a dialogue that shares diversity of identities and how they are part of
our larger coaching community.
3. Reflect on how we embrace Core Competency 6.1
Reflect on some of their dimensions of identity that form who they are as a
coach.
2. Engage in a dialogue that shares diversity of identities and how they are part of
our larger coaching community.
3. Reflect on how we embrace Core Competency 6.1

Speaker Bio:

Lily is a global coach and one of North America’s first coaching supervisors, with extensive experience supporting individuals and groups in internal and external contexts. She co-edited Coaching Supervision: Voices from the Americas and Coaching Supervision Groups: A Practical Guide. As co-lead of the 400-member Americas Coaching SuperVision Network for eight years, she has advanced global learning through monthly webinars and an annual conference. A recipient of the 2016 Leadership Victoria Award and a 2020 EMCC Global Supervision Award, Lily offers deep listening, healthy challenge, and humour. She lives on Coast Salish territory and delights in being a grandmother.

Session 4 
Panel Discussion of the national Black led, Black Focused and Black serving (B3) Capacity Development Program in the charitable sector.   

Our Panel
Nneka Allen, PCC, Rasie Bamigbade, Marielle de Vassoigne, ACC

Together we will: 
Understand the purpose and impact of the Black Fundraisers Collective Capacity Development Program as a case study in equity-focused coaching.
Identify coaching practices and approaches that create psychological safety, amplify strengths, and foster empowerment for underrepresented clients.
Apply insights from lived experience of Black coaches to broaden their cultural competence and awareness in their own coaching practice.

Speaker Bios:

Nneka Allen is a Black Afro-Metis woman, a Momma, and a descendant of the Underground Railroad. As a relationship builder, freedom fighter, storyteller, and leadership coach, she founded The Empathy Agency Inc., to guide clients toward hope, purpose, and justice in their relationships with themselves, others, and Earth. Her mission is to inspire wholeness, honouring our humanity through compassionate coaching.

Rasie Bamigbade is the founder of RB Jumpstart Coaching and RB Jumpstart Mentorship & Youth Leadership Training Society. A dynamic leadership coach, book coach, speaker, and author of the Amazon bestsellers Be Not Alone, Lead In Your Truth, and Heal On Your Terms, she delivers impactful leadership training, development programs, retreats, and seminars for organizations. Rasie also guides aspiring authors from ideas to published work. Through her Youth Mentorship Program, she empowers young people with resources and mentor connections. Committed to closing the leadership opportunity gap, Rasie inspires individuals to lead authentically and reach their fullest potential.

Marielle de Vassoigne is a bilingual leadership coach specializing in people change management.
An Associate Certified Coach (ACC) member of the International Coaching Federation, UBC Certified Organizational Coach, Prosci® certified organizational change management specialist,
and twice-published fiction author, Marielle empowers you to take ownership of your narrative and act upon it despite the fear of change.
With more than twenty years of experience leading change for major corporate transformations, Marielle de Vassoigne combines pragmatism and creativity to help you take the step
back required to write a new chapter that will propel you forward. She will challenge you with kindness and is committed to creating a safe space where new possibilities centered on your goals and roadmap to success are generated together.

Session 5

Thread by Thread: Belonging-Centered Coaching for Neurodiverse Minds

Speaker: Jacquelin (Jackie) Connelly (she/her) 

This talk explores how belonging can be built, rather than assumed, and presents a reframe of belonging from something we deliver into something coaches can intentionally co-design with their clients, across neurotypes. Drawing from her HR leadership work experience, her coaching practice with diverse clients, and her lived experience as a stroke survivor and her acquired neurodivergent brain as a result, Jacquelin will share practical and neurodiversity‐affirming considerations for coaching conversations. Attendees will have the opportunity to deepen their learning through reflective table activities.

Together, we will:
• Recognize common inclusion barriers for neurodivergent individuals and explore what
belonging looks and feels like in practice.
• Apply three micro-practices, Design for Differences, Consent & Cadence, and Co-
Creating Containers, to increase clarity, safety, and participation.
• Integrate identity-affirming language and options without pathologizing or over-
functioning.
• Share and learn from our fellow coaches through a reflective table activity.
• Leave with a reading list for neurodiversity‐affirming coaching.

Speaker Bio:

Jacquelin is a white, straight, cisgender woman born in Canada with Irish and Scottish roots. A stroke survivor with a neurodivergent brain, she brings lived experience and 11+ years in HR leadership—spanning recruitment, engagement, organizational development, EDI, and accessibility—to her coaching work. As founder of Coaching That Belongs, she helps clients claim their sense of belonging in career and leadership. Jacquelin holds a BFA and Certificate in Organizational Coaching from UBC, plus a Post-Degree Diploma in HR Management from Camosun. She is an Alumni Lead for UBC’s coaching program, a CPHR and ICF member, and pursuing coaching accreditation. 

Session 6 

Belonging in the Canadian Tapestry: British Columbia.

Speaker: Shiren Van Cooten 

The workshop will start with historical context, speaking to diverse communities in BC at the time of its founding in the mid-18th century. It will look to diverse communities that were here, exploring how they got here and their contribution to the Canadian tapestry of the time. I will use historical case studies from various aspects of my work as an educator and filmmaker that have illustrated this tapestry.

We will then question why this is not the 'tapestry' we see today and why we are not encouraged to view these as the typical Canadian stories. I will explore the history behind this, to demonstrate how government actions and policies contributed to the makeup we come to accept as conventionally 'Canadian' today.

The audience will walk away with a refresher on the history and policies that shaped BC's 'tapestry' today, while questioning how they fit into it, feel they don't, or feel others do or don't so they can take a holistic view of belonging in BC into their own work in leadership and coaching

Speaker Bio:

Shiren is an Honours graduate of the University of Toronto’s Peace and Conflict Studies Program, where she explored diversity within nations and pathways to peace across differences. Of diverse heritage herself, Shiren brings a deeply personal lens to questions of identity, belonging, and cultural conflict in the Canadian context. A community educator and filmmaker, she shares her discoveries through research and storytelling. She worked with the Royal BC Museum on early Black history in BC and  created a Black History Research Guide for the BC Archives, and presented it for Hogan’s Alley Society and schools province-wide.

Tickets

$25.00 Member Ticket Virtual (AGM & Conference)

$0.00 Member Ticket Virtual (AGM ONLY)