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Patterns
What keeps recurring, and how might coach and client both contribute?
Complexity-Informed Coaching
Every coaching conversation
holds more than two worlds.
Explore how patterns, tensions and possibilities emerge in the coaching relationship.
With Abi Shilon & Leonid Frolov
Starting Thursday, November 19, 2026 · 6–9 pm CET
3 weekly online sessions3 hours per session9–12 participants
Completing the workshop grants you 8 ICF CCE units.
19 NovemberThursday · 6–9 pm CET
26 NovemberThursday · 6–9 pm CET
3 DecemberThursday · 6–9 pm CET
9 hours together6–9 pm CET each week
An invitation to inquire
When familiar approaches leave something unexplored.
A client’s intentions pull in different directions. A conversation keeps returning to the same place. Something shifts between coach and client before either can explain what has changed.
Complexity-Informed Coaching invites us to investigate how these experiences arise through interaction, what they might reveal, and how we can respond in service of the client.
What are we participating in—and what could become possible here?
Four openings for exploration
Notice more.
Expand how you respond.
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Tension
What becomes possible when we stay curious about competing needs and perspectives?
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Emergence
How can we notice and support possibilities that neither person could have planned?
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Participation
How do our assumptions, reactions, and choices shape the coaching relationship?
The learning experience
The group becomes
a place of inquiry.
Our differences in background, perspective, and coaching experience become opportunities to observe complexity as we participate in it.
Experience. Observe. Reflect. Experiment.
Across three sessions, we combine experiential activities, coaching practice, shared reflection, and concise theoretical input.
Bring real questions from your practice. Experiment with different ways of noticing and responding, alongside colleagues whose perspectives may differ from your own.
Who is this for?
Coaches holding ICF PCC credentials or above, interested in questioning familiar assumptions and expanding their capacity to work with uncertainty.
Your facilitators
Learning in conversation.
Join Abi Shilon and Leonid Frolov for a shared exploration of complexity in coaching relationships.
Abi Shilon
MCC, CPCC, ORSCC · Coach, trainer & supervisor
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Abi has spent more than two decades coaching leaders and supporting fellow coaches through training and supervision. His international work with CTI brings together individual and systems perspectives.
With an earlier career in engineering and leadership, he explores how relationships, uncertainty and emerging patterns shape change—and what they ask of the coach. Outside coaching, he enjoys playing chamber music.
Leonid Frolov
PCC, CPCC · Coach, trainer & facilitator
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Leonid works with individuals and groups, helping people develop their coaching, communication and relationship skills. His experience spans coach education, executive coaching and mentoring practitioners.
A CTI faculty member and senior faculty member at ACT Leadership, he has taught in its coaching program delivered through Brown University. He brings experience in facilitation and a background in linguistics to the workshop’s shared inquiry.
Join the workshop
Make room
for possibility.
Dates · 2026Nov 19 · Nov 26 · Dec 3
Day & durationThursdays · 3 hours each
Session time6–9 pm CET (UTC+1)
FormatLive online · 9–12 coaches
Workshop feeUS $985 per participant
Continuing education8 ICF CCE units
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