What did you do in August, Daddy?

August is a special month for me. Apart from short breaks at Christmas and Easter, which are dedicated to family affairs, it is the one time when I can expect to shut down from running Brefi Group and spend time on development activities.

Sometimes, clients interrupt, but this year I wore a suit on only one day in August.

And what fun I had. I spent a couple of weeks further developing the Invisible Coaching and Inspiring Leadership package, then four weeks upgrading our web site. Do please visit and browse around.

We relaunched the web site early this year and it has been a joy to polish it up. It is now much tighter and more compact, with the addition of videos and also inclusion of the 26 lessons of our directors' e-course on publicly available pages.

Interestingly, I notice that after nearly thirty years of low personal profile, I am beginning to emerge with a higher profile.

This coincides with an increasing desire to hand over to a new generation of management!

Brefi Group operates in three major divisions: the original Brefi Group offerings of consultancy and facilitation for organisations and soft skills development for managers; director development and corporate governance for boards, and the ASEC coach training programmes.

Increasingly my focus is on content development, in both coach training and corporate governance, and I continue to seek new associates interested in building on what we have already achieved.

Will you be at the ICF conference in Las Vegas?
As part of my desire always to be ahead of the game, I attend the ICF conference every year. I attended much loved CoachVille conferences in 2003, 2004, 2005, and have attended every ICF Annual conference since. If you will be in Las Vegas this year, please contact me.

Summer reading
I am always looking for new books to read and strongly regret that the ICF has cancelled its on-site bookshop. An Amazon list is not the same at all. The bookshop at the conference used to be one of the main attractions for me.

So I thought you might be interested in my reading list for August. Note: I have not read them all yet ;-(

• Marva Collins' Way Marva Collins and Civia Tamarkin
• Prosperity Without Growth, Tim Jackson
• The Power of Now, Eckhart Tolle
• Saved by the Light, Dannion Brinkley
• Embraced by the Light, Betty J Eadle
• Power vs. Force, David R Hawkins (revisit)
• Games People Play, Eric Berne (revisit)

Invisible Coaching
Following the very positive response to the workshop we ran in June to provide video material for a self study pack, I have developed the concept so that we can run it as live workshops for our existing market of corporates and as a open events.

The programme has been extended to a full three days, which can be provided in one, two or three day modules.

In addition, I have taken the concept forward to a three day "Inspiring Leadership" programme, also available as one, two or three day modules.

The two programmes can be run together as a five day intensive leadership course.

As with the ASEC Coach Certification Program, we intend to offer these internationally to events and training companies. We can deliver them or train and license others to do so. For Invisible Coaching and Inspiring Leadership, we are looking for partners in the UK as well.

I have written an information booklet and am busy completing a promotional video so that I can take them to Las Vegas.

If you are interested in working with us, information packs will be available from 1^st October.

There will be a new web site, www.invisible-coaching.com, and some information is already available there.

Richard Winfield is founder of Brefi Group.
An international facilitator, he coaches and
facilitates directors and boards in transition:
helping them to make progress by bringing
structure and clarity to their thinking.

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