Exploring Belonging

What does it mean to Belong?...

As ICF community members, we ascribe to the core values of integrity, excellence, collaboration and respect. The foundation of these values is a shared commitment to diversity, inclusion, belonging and justice. We will focus on three core coaching competencies: Cultivates Trust and Intimacy, Evokes Awareness and Facilitates Client Growth.

In this program, we will explore belonging: What does it mean? What does it embody? What values, stories and experiences inform a deep sense of that word? And how does it affect our relationships and communications with our clients.

Learning Objectives:

Helping Clients discover their path

1. Coaches will identify Belonging for self and as a core competency for relationship and communication with clients.
2. Coaches will leave with a deeper understanding that positive communication and relationships have as their base, “Belonging: A feeling of being valued, being oneself without judgment.”
3. Coaches will identify key components for Belonging that supports diversity, member and client engagement.

 Join this highly interactive session which offers a deep transformative experience for coaches to explore belonging- the meaning and felt sense of it.

CCEs - 1 Core Competency and .5 Resource Development 

Meet the Speakers Joan Haan & Seetha Karruppiah:

Joan Haan, MA CPCC PCC CTNC is an International Coach Federation, ICF, Professional Coach and certified trainer through BEabove Leadership, as a NeuroTransformational Coach. Joan coaches individual leaders and teams to move to greater personal and organizational effectiveness using neuroscience tools and other relational systems approaches and embodiment practices.  Joan is a Lead Facilitator for Minnesota Council of Churches’ Respectful Conversations Project, serves on the DEIJB (Diversity, Equity, Justice, Belonging) Team of ICF Minnesota, and as a leader with ISAIAH, community organizing for a “Multiracial Democracy and a Caring Economy”. 
Joan was the recipient of ICF Minnesota’s 2020 Elaine C. Gaston Award for Distinguished Service.  Joan has traveled and worked in the West Bank, Jordan, Israel, Iraq and Rwanda.


Seetha Karuppiah MBA ATP ACC is an International Coach Federation, ICF, Professional Coach. Her coaching journey formally began in the year 2016 when she did her ‘Coaching for Transformation’ from ‘Leadership That Works’ Institute. Seetha is a deep listener, and this helps her to connect with her clients at a deeper level. She is gifted with high Intuition which helps her access the wisdom beyond logic. Her unconditional positive regard helps the clients become the BEST version of themselves. She lives the journey of self-awareness and transformation which makes her coaching sessions powerful. She is a learning and development professional with over 19 years of experience. After a very successful stint in the training team of ICICI Prudential Life Insurance for over 7 years, she moved to consulting. She is a Trainer, Facilitator, and a coach. She has done over 300 hours of coaching and is an ACC from ICF. Her wide variety of clients include C Suite executives, Mid-level managers, parents, students, entrepreneurs across different countries and cultures. She has worked with several corporates, non-profit organisations, and colleges in India and in the United States. She is also a founding member of the DEIJB team of ICF Minnesota. She is a speaker, author, and a seasoned coach.