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How the Soviets Made Me a Better Coach

  • Tuesday, November 18, 2014
  • 5:00 PM - 8:30 PM
  • Red Lion, 11211 Main Street, Bellevue WA 98005

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Like most coaches, Patty Burgin had a dynamic career before this one. In those early careers most great coaches learned about courage, presence and how to both advocate and inquire. In this presentation, she will point out and illustrate how her experiences with people in the Soviet Union of the 1980s taught her about:

·   Dancing in the moment

·    Believing in the irresistibility and fruitfulness of human restlessness and

·   How humor can help us to be our resilient best

Following this session, attendees will:

a.   Be inspired to find meaning in their own “before-we-were-coaches” lives that anchors them to their power and practice and presence today,

b.   Identify and use their own stories to expand and give texture and color and meaning to their practice of the core competencies,

c.   Enjoy increased respect and camaraderie.


A light dinner buffet will be served.


ICF CCEs available for attending this event. Be sure to register online and check in at the event in order to receive them.

About Our Speaker 
Patty Burgin

As a leader and coach of leaders, Patty has trained and mentored thousands of individuals and teams toward better performance, communication and meaning. In 2008 she launched The SeattleCoach Training Program for people who see coaching as an extra--and increasingly essential--gear in their leadership.

With two masters degrees, one in Theology and a second in Applied Behavioral Science, and as a Master Certified Coach, Patty works with senior level executives, directors, managers and people in transition with an approach that is warm, practical, innovative and generous. The first two chapters of her career (the first in the executive leadership of an international Christian non-profit, and following that as a licensed family/systems therapist) deeply inform the depth and quality of her work now. As Patty likes to say, "Those terrific experiences are not just behind me, they are part of me". 

Her faith still deeply informs her life and work, helping her to live the big "why-am-I-here question" we all share through the arc of our lives. She thinks excellent coaching is like grace: Rarely intrusive, usually disruptive, more nuanced than announced, and just as much about "how" as "what".