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PCAM Newsletter	February 2010

Dear Friend of PCAM:

A belated Happy New Year to those of you whom I have not yet had the opportunity to greet personally this year. I trust that your year has started off awesomely, and that you are well on your way to living your dreams in 2010!

We began this year with a highly spirited and artfully re-formatted Power Session in Troy, co-facilitated by Dan Leask and Nancy Mathias. The meeting was designed to support our overall chapter theme for the year. Thanks to Dan and Nancy for their hard work in making the January Power Session a huge success!
Those of us who attended the ICF Conference in Orlando, Florida were blessed to hear Peter Block speak on his book "Community - The Structure of Belonging." We, the members of the PCAM Board have decided that "Community" will be the focus of our efforts in PCAM this year. The intent will be to lead from the perspective espoused by Block, which invites us to seek transformation of our community and organizations. We will do this by having the appropriate group conversation necessary to drive change in the organization. We'll be focusing on identifying and utilizing the gifts of all members of PCAM; and we will be certain to ask the right questions of ourselves to evoke a choice for individual accountability and commitment.

I invite all PCAM members to read "Community" to better appreciate the perspective from which we plan to lead, and hold us accountable to lead in this fashion. Similarly, we invite each of you to identify which of your gifts you will commit to investing in PCAM this year in support of our overall community. The PCAM Board is scheduled to meet on February 18, and I look forward to sharing our goals and objectives for 2010 with you in the March newsletter.
Let's make it a great year!

Best regards,

Milt

Milton Eric Fletcher
2010 PCAM President

Community Highlights

PCAM Power Session! Our next Southeast Michigan meeting will take place on Saturday, March 20th from 8:30am - Noon. We have decided to begin the meeting 30 minutes earlier to facilitate networking since we rarely have time to do so during or after the meeting. Several members will be providing highlights from the ICF Conference in Orlando, which will serve to make this a very valuable session. Thanks to Elisabeth Garbeil and Preston True for volunteering to facilitate.

International Coach Week is February 7 - 13. We are currently finalizing our plans to celebrate this event during the month of February, the details of which will be shared shortly. A committee has been formed to build on our 2009 Empower Michigan efforts, and we are excited about the plans that are being discussed!

The PCAM Coach Mentoring Program. Sylvia Becker-Hill, David Chinsky, and Grace Menzel have designed a professional, ICF compliant program to support you to obtain your ICF Credentials. The Spring 2010 session will be held on Thursday, May 6th, from 8:30 am to 5:00pm in the Detroit metro area. For more information, and to register, please visit http://michigancoaches.org/mentorprogram/

Re-live the incredible PCAM 2009 Conference! If you missed the conference, want a refresher or wanted to attend more than one breakout session at once, the conference audio is available for $99. Conference attendees may purchase for only $39. Please go to http://www.pcamconference.com/

Coach Cafes. The Coach Cafes meet monthly and continue to provide a dynamic and supportive experience for those who participate. They are geographically dispersed in four areas throughout the state. If you have not already done so you are encouraged to check out one of the Cafes' in your area. For more information, please visit the Events Page on the PCAM website at http://michigancoaches.org/events/ The Coach Cafe' flyer is at the bottom of the page with the name of the person to be contacted.