Events

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please contact Kelly Johnson at Info@ICFNewMexico.org

 

May
3
Wed
ICF Arizona: Book Study 2023 Q2 – Fearless Feedback: A Guide for Coaching Leaders to See Themselves More Clearly
May 3 @ 7:00 PM – 8:00 PM

Hosted by ICF Arizona

Fearless Feedback:
A Guide for Coaching Leaders to See Themselves More Clearly and Galvanize Growth

The Book Study meets on Wednesday evenings at 6:00pm via Zoom for 1 hour. The meetings will be facilitated by our host, and participants are invited to select a chapter(s) to present each week.

Join us to increase your knowledge and enjoy lively discussions with a small group of fellow coaches.

Do you seek a feedback process that can be tailored to equip leaders to accomplish their professional goals? Do you need a practical guide for mining stakeholder feedback and framing it in ways that make leaders hungry for the insights? Are you tired of being constrained by cookie-cutter 360-degree feedback tools used in organizations, tools that can be tone deaf to the underlying emotions? Do you wish you could uncover the fears which inhibit the change a leader needs, so they can design actions for future growth? Then Fearless Feedback is your answer! Among many things, this book provides: A practical seven-step framework on how to structure stakeholder feedback for leaders; An actionable guide with specific dos and don’ts; Intriguing dialogue between coach, leader, and stakeholder (articulating the unspoken thoughts and underlying emotions); and tested techniques, tips, tools, and templates!

When: Wednesday evenings from 6:00pm – 7:00pm (AZ time)
April 5, 2023 through May 24, 2023 (8 weeks)

April 5, 2023
April 12, 2023
April 19, 2023
April 26, 2023
May 3, 2023
May 10, 2023
May 17, 2023
May 24, 2023

Where: Zoom Meeting Room.
Login details will be sent on your e-mail confirmation upon completed registration.

Cost: $35 for ICF AZ Members and $40 for non-members for the 8 weeks
Note: Book is not included in registration.

CCEUs: 4.0 in Core Competencies and 4.0 in Resource Development

Cynthi Knight is an executive coach and consultant who helps small to mid-size organizations achieve higher levels of individual and team performance. Her more than 20 years of experience in Leadership Development, Organizational Effectiveness, and Talent Management provide her with a broad-based background to coaching. She started her coaching business, Winning Leaders, to help leaders achieve better results by bridging the gap between where they are today and where they want to be as leaders.

 

May
10
Wed
ICF Arizona: Book Study 2023 Q2 – Fearless Feedback: A Guide for Coaching Leaders to See Themselves More Clearly
May 10 @ 7:00 PM – 8:00 PM

Hosted by ICF Arizona

Fearless Feedback:
A Guide for Coaching Leaders to See Themselves More Clearly and Galvanize Growth

The Book Study meets on Wednesday evenings at 6:00pm via Zoom for 1 hour. The meetings will be facilitated by our host, and participants are invited to select a chapter(s) to present each week.

Join us to increase your knowledge and enjoy lively discussions with a small group of fellow coaches.

Do you seek a feedback process that can be tailored to equip leaders to accomplish their professional goals? Do you need a practical guide for mining stakeholder feedback and framing it in ways that make leaders hungry for the insights? Are you tired of being constrained by cookie-cutter 360-degree feedback tools used in organizations, tools that can be tone deaf to the underlying emotions? Do you wish you could uncover the fears which inhibit the change a leader needs, so they can design actions for future growth? Then Fearless Feedback is your answer! Among many things, this book provides: A practical seven-step framework on how to structure stakeholder feedback for leaders; An actionable guide with specific dos and don’ts; Intriguing dialogue between coach, leader, and stakeholder (articulating the unspoken thoughts and underlying emotions); and tested techniques, tips, tools, and templates!

When: Wednesday evenings from 6:00pm – 7:00pm (AZ time)
April 5, 2023 through May 24, 2023 (8 weeks)

April 5, 2023
April 12, 2023
April 19, 2023
April 26, 2023
May 3, 2023
May 10, 2023
May 17, 2023
May 24, 2023

Where: Zoom Meeting Room.
Login details will be sent on your e-mail confirmation upon completed registration.

Cost: $35 for ICF AZ Members and $40 for non-members for the 8 weeks
Note: Book is not included in registration.

CCEUs: 4.0 in Core Competencies and 4.0 in Resource Development

Cynthi Knight is an executive coach and consultant who helps small to mid-size organizations achieve higher levels of individual and team performance. Her more than 20 years of experience in Leadership Development, Organizational Effectiveness, and Talent Management provide her with a broad-based background to coaching. She started her coaching business, Winning Leaders, to help leaders achieve better results by bridging the gap between where they are today and where they want to be as leaders.

 

May
17
Wed
ICF Arizona: Book Study 2023 Q2 – Fearless Feedback: A Guide for Coaching Leaders to See Themselves More Clearly
May 17 @ 7:00 PM – 8:00 PM

Hosted by ICF Arizona

Fearless Feedback:
A Guide for Coaching Leaders to See Themselves More Clearly and Galvanize Growth

The Book Study meets on Wednesday evenings at 6:00pm via Zoom for 1 hour. The meetings will be facilitated by our host, and participants are invited to select a chapter(s) to present each week.

Join us to increase your knowledge and enjoy lively discussions with a small group of fellow coaches.

Do you seek a feedback process that can be tailored to equip leaders to accomplish their professional goals? Do you need a practical guide for mining stakeholder feedback and framing it in ways that make leaders hungry for the insights? Are you tired of being constrained by cookie-cutter 360-degree feedback tools used in organizations, tools that can be tone deaf to the underlying emotions? Do you wish you could uncover the fears which inhibit the change a leader needs, so they can design actions for future growth? Then Fearless Feedback is your answer! Among many things, this book provides: A practical seven-step framework on how to structure stakeholder feedback for leaders; An actionable guide with specific dos and don’ts; Intriguing dialogue between coach, leader, and stakeholder (articulating the unspoken thoughts and underlying emotions); and tested techniques, tips, tools, and templates!

When: Wednesday evenings from 6:00pm – 7:00pm (AZ time)
April 5, 2023 through May 24, 2023 (8 weeks)

April 5, 2023
April 12, 2023
April 19, 2023
April 26, 2023
May 3, 2023
May 10, 2023
May 17, 2023
May 24, 2023

Where: Zoom Meeting Room.
Login details will be sent on your e-mail confirmation upon completed registration.

Cost: $35 for ICF AZ Members and $40 for non-members for the 8 weeks
Note: Book is not included in registration.

CCEUs: 4.0 in Core Competencies and 4.0 in Resource Development

Cynthi Knight is an executive coach and consultant who helps small to mid-size organizations achieve higher levels of individual and team performance. Her more than 20 years of experience in Leadership Development, Organizational Effectiveness, and Talent Management provide her with a broad-based background to coaching. She started her coaching business, Winning Leaders, to help leaders achieve better results by bridging the gap between where they are today and where they want to be as leaders.

 

May
24
Wed
ICF Arizona: Book Study 2023 Q2 – Fearless Feedback: A Guide for Coaching Leaders to See Themselves More Clearly
May 24 @ 7:00 PM – 8:00 PM

Hosted by ICF Arizona

Fearless Feedback:
A Guide for Coaching Leaders to See Themselves More Clearly and Galvanize Growth

The Book Study meets on Wednesday evenings at 6:00pm via Zoom for 1 hour. The meetings will be facilitated by our host, and participants are invited to select a chapter(s) to present each week.

Join us to increase your knowledge and enjoy lively discussions with a small group of fellow coaches.

Do you seek a feedback process that can be tailored to equip leaders to accomplish their professional goals? Do you need a practical guide for mining stakeholder feedback and framing it in ways that make leaders hungry for the insights? Are you tired of being constrained by cookie-cutter 360-degree feedback tools used in organizations, tools that can be tone deaf to the underlying emotions? Do you wish you could uncover the fears which inhibit the change a leader needs, so they can design actions for future growth? Then Fearless Feedback is your answer! Among many things, this book provides: A practical seven-step framework on how to structure stakeholder feedback for leaders; An actionable guide with specific dos and don’ts; Intriguing dialogue between coach, leader, and stakeholder (articulating the unspoken thoughts and underlying emotions); and tested techniques, tips, tools, and templates!

When: Wednesday evenings from 6:00pm – 7:00pm (AZ time)
April 5, 2023 through May 24, 2023 (8 weeks)

April 5, 2023
April 12, 2023
April 19, 2023
April 26, 2023
May 3, 2023
May 10, 2023
May 17, 2023
May 24, 2023

Where: Zoom Meeting Room.
Login details will be sent on your e-mail confirmation upon completed registration.

Cost: $35 for ICF AZ Members and $40 for non-members for the 8 weeks
Note: Book is not included in registration.

CCEUs: 4.0 in Core Competencies and 4.0 in Resource Development

Cynthi Knight is an executive coach and consultant who helps small to mid-size organizations achieve higher levels of individual and team performance. Her more than 20 years of experience in Leadership Development, Organizational Effectiveness, and Talent Management provide her with a broad-based background to coaching. She started her coaching business, Winning Leaders, to help leaders achieve better results by bridging the gap between where they are today and where they want to be as leaders.

 

Aug
1
Tue
Race Matters in Coaching
Aug 1 @ 1:00 PM – 2:30 PM

Hosted by the ICF Washington State Chapter

This mini-workshop intends to raise awareness about obstacles that keep us from having meaningful race-related conversations in coaching spaces. The workshop offers an introduction to strategies and an opportunity to engage in dialogue with the aim of increasing equity and inclusion in the coaching community. You will leave this workshop with a better awareness of what stops you from engaging in conversations about race, equity, inclusion, and related topics.

The outcome of this workshop will be a beginning awareness of what stops you from speaking so that you can make more conscious choices about where and how you want to have conversations about race, diversity, and the like. We aim to support self-exploration that lays the foundation for transformative change.

CCEUs: 1.5 in Resource Development

COST:
Sliding scale: $33, $25, $15
Non-members: $5 more

 

There are two steps to registering for the event:
1) After registering for the event, you will receive a zoom registration link.
2) Please use the zoom registration link to register and obtain your zoom meeting link.

About Cami McLaren, presenter

Cami McLaren has been coaching professionally since 2008. She is certified as a Professional Performance Coach and credentialed by the International Coaching Federation with the MCC designation. Cami specializes in individual and group coaching, as well as in-house corporate coaching and a vast array of public workshops.

Since 2019, Cami has been training people to become professional coaches, both as a career path and as a way of becoming “coach-style leaders” in their organizations, in her Transformative Coaching Essentials program. (www.mclarencoaching.com/coach-training) Most recently she has been developing “next level” trainings for coaches.

About MK Chavez, presenter

MK Chavez is a certified coach, educator, and trainer. She/They is an Afro-Latinx advocate dedicated to social justice work. Over the last three decades, she has been involved in the non-profit world, in various roles, including executive director and senior director of diversity, equity, and Inclusion, and senior director of education and training.

Her professional training includes certification from the McLaren Transformative Coaching program, a Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in the Workplace Certificate issued by USF Office of Corporate Training and Professional Education, and a certification in Positive Intelligence Coaching. She aligns her coaching and teaching practices with real-world scenarios, thus offering more relevant and practical opportunities. She coaches individuals and teams who are leading organizations through systemic and programmatic change.

Sep
12
Tue
ICF Arizona: Book Study 2023 Q3 – The Sum of Us
Sep 12 @ 7:00 PM – 8:00 PM

Hosted by ICF Arizona
Co-Facilitated by Elle Cronin & Lori Raggio

The Book Study meets on Tuesday evenings at 7pm (New Mexico time / MT) via Zoom for 1 hour. The meetings will be facilitated by our co-facilitators.

Join us to increase your knowledge and enjoy lively discussions with a small group of fellow coaches.

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER LONGLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD;
One of today’s most insightful and influential thinkers offers a powerful exploration of inequality and the lesson that generations of Americans have failed to learn: Racism has a cost for everyone—not just for people of color.

WINNER OF THE PORCHLIGHT BUSINESS BOOK AWARD ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: Time, The Washington Post, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Ms. magazine, BookRiot, Library Journal

This is the book I’ve been waiting for.”
Ibram X. Kendi, #1 New York Times bestselling author of How to Be an Antiracist 

Heather McGhee’s specialty is the American economy—and the mystery of why it so often fails the American public. From the financial crisis of 2008 to rising student debt to collapsing public infrastructure, she found a root problem: racism in our politics and policy making. But not just in the most obvious indignities for people of color. Racism has costs for white people, too. It is the common denominator of our most vexing public problems, the core dysfunction of our democracy and constitutive of the spiritual and moral crises that grip us all. But how did this happen? And is there a way out?

McGhee embarks on a deeply personal journey across the country from Maine to Mississippi to California, tallying what we lose when we buy into the zero-sum paradigm—the idea that progress for some of us must come at the expense of others. Along the way, she meets white people who confide in her about losing their homes, their dreams, and their shot at better jobs to the toxic mix of American racism and greed. This is the story of how public goods in this country—from parks and pools to functioning schools—have become private luxuries; of how unions collapsed, wages stagnated, and inequality increased; and of how this country, unique among the world’s advanced economies, has thwarted universal healthcare.

But in unlikely places of worship and work, McGhee finds proof of what she calls the Solidarity Dividend: the benefits we gain when people come together across race to accomplish what we simply can’t do on our own. The Sum of Us is not only a brilliant analysis of how we arrived here but also a heartfelt message, delivered with startling empathy, from a black woman to a multiracial America. It leaves us with a new vision for a future in which we finally realize that life can be more than a zero-sum game.

Where: Zoom Meeting Room.
Login details will be sent on your e-mail confirmation upon completed registration.

  • 9-12-23 Chapter 1
  • 9-19-23 Chapters 2 and 3
  • 9-26-23 Chapter 4
  • 10-3-23 Chapter 5
  • 10-10-23 Chapter 6
  • 10-17-23 Chapter 7
  • 11-7-23 Chapters 8 and 9
  • 11-14-23 Chapter 10

Cost: $35 for ICF AZ Members and $40 for Non-Members for the 8 weeks
Note: Book is not included in registration.

CCEUs: TBD

Sep
19
Tue
ICF Arizona: Book Study 2023 Q3 – The Sum of Us
Sep 19 @ 7:00 PM – 8:00 PM

Hosted by ICF Arizona
Co-Facilitated by Elle Cronin & Lori Raggio

The Book Study meets on Tuesday evenings at 7pm (New Mexico time / MT) via Zoom for 1 hour. The meetings will be facilitated by our co-facilitators.

Join us to increase your knowledge and enjoy lively discussions with a small group of fellow coaches.

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER LONGLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD;
One of today’s most insightful and influential thinkers offers a powerful exploration of inequality and the lesson that generations of Americans have failed to learn: Racism has a cost for everyone—not just for people of color.

WINNER OF THE PORCHLIGHT BUSINESS BOOK AWARD ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: Time, The Washington Post, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Ms. magazine, BookRiot, Library Journal

This is the book I’ve been waiting for.”
Ibram X. Kendi, #1 New York Times bestselling author of How to Be an Antiracist 

Heather McGhee’s specialty is the American economy—and the mystery of why it so often fails the American public. From the financial crisis of 2008 to rising student debt to collapsing public infrastructure, she found a root problem: racism in our politics and policy making. But not just in the most obvious indignities for people of color. Racism has costs for white people, too. It is the common denominator of our most vexing public problems, the core dysfunction of our democracy and constitutive of the spiritual and moral crises that grip us all. But how did this happen? And is there a way out?

McGhee embarks on a deeply personal journey across the country from Maine to Mississippi to California, tallying what we lose when we buy into the zero-sum paradigm—the idea that progress for some of us must come at the expense of others. Along the way, she meets white people who confide in her about losing their homes, their dreams, and their shot at better jobs to the toxic mix of American racism and greed. This is the story of how public goods in this country—from parks and pools to functioning schools—have become private luxuries; of how unions collapsed, wages stagnated, and inequality increased; and of how this country, unique among the world’s advanced economies, has thwarted universal healthcare.

But in unlikely places of worship and work, McGhee finds proof of what she calls the Solidarity Dividend: the benefits we gain when people come together across race to accomplish what we simply can’t do on our own. The Sum of Us is not only a brilliant analysis of how we arrived here but also a heartfelt message, delivered with startling empathy, from a black woman to a multiracial America. It leaves us with a new vision for a future in which we finally realize that life can be more than a zero-sum game.

Where: Zoom Meeting Room.
Login details will be sent on your e-mail confirmation upon completed registration.

  • 9-12-23 Chapter 1
  • 9-19-23 Chapters 2 and 3
  • 9-26-23 Chapter 4
  • 10-3-23 Chapter 5
  • 10-10-23 Chapter 6
  • 10-17-23 Chapter 7
  • 11-7-23 Chapters 8 and 9
  • 11-14-23 Chapter 10

Cost: $35 for ICF AZ Members and $40 for Non-Members for the 8 weeks
Note: Book is not included in registration.

CCEUs: TBD

Sep
26
Tue
ICF Arizona: Book Study 2023 Q3 – The Sum of Us
Sep 26 @ 7:00 PM – 8:00 PM

Hosted by ICF Arizona
Co-Facilitated by Elle Cronin & Lori Raggio

The Book Study meets on Tuesday evenings at 7pm (New Mexico time / MT) via Zoom for 1 hour. The meetings will be facilitated by our co-facilitators.

Join us to increase your knowledge and enjoy lively discussions with a small group of fellow coaches.

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER LONGLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD;
One of today’s most insightful and influential thinkers offers a powerful exploration of inequality and the lesson that generations of Americans have failed to learn: Racism has a cost for everyone—not just for people of color.

WINNER OF THE PORCHLIGHT BUSINESS BOOK AWARD ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: Time, The Washington Post, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Ms. magazine, BookRiot, Library Journal

This is the book I’ve been waiting for.”
Ibram X. Kendi, #1 New York Times bestselling author of How to Be an Antiracist 

Heather McGhee’s specialty is the American economy—and the mystery of why it so often fails the American public. From the financial crisis of 2008 to rising student debt to collapsing public infrastructure, she found a root problem: racism in our politics and policy making. But not just in the most obvious indignities for people of color. Racism has costs for white people, too. It is the common denominator of our most vexing public problems, the core dysfunction of our democracy and constitutive of the spiritual and moral crises that grip us all. But how did this happen? And is there a way out?

McGhee embarks on a deeply personal journey across the country from Maine to Mississippi to California, tallying what we lose when we buy into the zero-sum paradigm—the idea that progress for some of us must come at the expense of others. Along the way, she meets white people who confide in her about losing their homes, their dreams, and their shot at better jobs to the toxic mix of American racism and greed. This is the story of how public goods in this country—from parks and pools to functioning schools—have become private luxuries; of how unions collapsed, wages stagnated, and inequality increased; and of how this country, unique among the world’s advanced economies, has thwarted universal healthcare.

But in unlikely places of worship and work, McGhee finds proof of what she calls the Solidarity Dividend: the benefits we gain when people come together across race to accomplish what we simply can’t do on our own. The Sum of Us is not only a brilliant analysis of how we arrived here but also a heartfelt message, delivered with startling empathy, from a black woman to a multiracial America. It leaves us with a new vision for a future in which we finally realize that life can be more than a zero-sum game.

Where: Zoom Meeting Room.
Login details will be sent on your e-mail confirmation upon completed registration.

  • 9-12-23 Chapter 1
  • 9-19-23 Chapters 2 and 3
  • 9-26-23 Chapter 4
  • 10-3-23 Chapter 5
  • 10-10-23 Chapter 6
  • 10-17-23 Chapter 7
  • 11-7-23 Chapters 8 and 9
  • 11-14-23 Chapter 10

Cost: $35 for ICF AZ Members and $40 for Non-Members for the 8 weeks
Note: Book is not included in registration.

CCEUs: TBD

Oct
3
Tue
ICF Arizona: Book Study 2023 Q3 – The Sum of Us
Oct 3 @ 7:00 PM – 8:00 PM

Hosted by ICF Arizona
Co-Facilitated by Elle Cronin & Lori Raggio

The Book Study meets on Tuesday evenings at 7pm (New Mexico time / MT) via Zoom for 1 hour. The meetings will be facilitated by our co-facilitators.

Join us to increase your knowledge and enjoy lively discussions with a small group of fellow coaches.

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER LONGLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD;
One of today’s most insightful and influential thinkers offers a powerful exploration of inequality and the lesson that generations of Americans have failed to learn: Racism has a cost for everyone—not just for people of color.

WINNER OF THE PORCHLIGHT BUSINESS BOOK AWARD ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: Time, The Washington Post, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Ms. magazine, BookRiot, Library Journal

This is the book I’ve been waiting for.”
Ibram X. Kendi, #1 New York Times bestselling author of How to Be an Antiracist 

Heather McGhee’s specialty is the American economy—and the mystery of why it so often fails the American public. From the financial crisis of 2008 to rising student debt to collapsing public infrastructure, she found a root problem: racism in our politics and policy making. But not just in the most obvious indignities for people of color. Racism has costs for white people, too. It is the common denominator of our most vexing public problems, the core dysfunction of our democracy and constitutive of the spiritual and moral crises that grip us all. But how did this happen? And is there a way out?

McGhee embarks on a deeply personal journey across the country from Maine to Mississippi to California, tallying what we lose when we buy into the zero-sum paradigm—the idea that progress for some of us must come at the expense of others. Along the way, she meets white people who confide in her about losing their homes, their dreams, and their shot at better jobs to the toxic mix of American racism and greed. This is the story of how public goods in this country—from parks and pools to functioning schools—have become private luxuries; of how unions collapsed, wages stagnated, and inequality increased; and of how this country, unique among the world’s advanced economies, has thwarted universal healthcare.

But in unlikely places of worship and work, McGhee finds proof of what she calls the Solidarity Dividend: the benefits we gain when people come together across race to accomplish what we simply can’t do on our own. The Sum of Us is not only a brilliant analysis of how we arrived here but also a heartfelt message, delivered with startling empathy, from a black woman to a multiracial America. It leaves us with a new vision for a future in which we finally realize that life can be more than a zero-sum game.

Where: Zoom Meeting Room.
Login details will be sent on your e-mail confirmation upon completed registration.

  • 9-12-23 Chapter 1
  • 9-19-23 Chapters 2 and 3
  • 9-26-23 Chapter 4
  • 10-3-23 Chapter 5
  • 10-10-23 Chapter 6
  • 10-17-23 Chapter 7
  • 11-7-23 Chapters 8 and 9
  • 11-14-23 Chapter 10

Cost: $35 for ICF AZ Members and $40 for Non-Members for the 8 weeks
Note: Book is not included in registration.

CCEUs: TBD

Oct
10
Tue
ICF Arizona: Book Study 2023 Q3 – The Sum of Us
Oct 10 @ 7:00 PM – 8:00 PM

Hosted by ICF Arizona
Co-Facilitated by Elle Cronin & Lori Raggio

The Book Study meets on Tuesday evenings at 7pm (New Mexico time / MT) via Zoom for 1 hour. The meetings will be facilitated by our co-facilitators.

Join us to increase your knowledge and enjoy lively discussions with a small group of fellow coaches.

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER LONGLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD;
One of today’s most insightful and influential thinkers offers a powerful exploration of inequality and the lesson that generations of Americans have failed to learn: Racism has a cost for everyone—not just for people of color.

WINNER OF THE PORCHLIGHT BUSINESS BOOK AWARD ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: Time, The Washington Post, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Ms. magazine, BookRiot, Library Journal

This is the book I’ve been waiting for.”
Ibram X. Kendi, #1 New York Times bestselling author of How to Be an Antiracist 

Heather McGhee’s specialty is the American economy—and the mystery of why it so often fails the American public. From the financial crisis of 2008 to rising student debt to collapsing public infrastructure, she found a root problem: racism in our politics and policy making. But not just in the most obvious indignities for people of color. Racism has costs for white people, too. It is the common denominator of our most vexing public problems, the core dysfunction of our democracy and constitutive of the spiritual and moral crises that grip us all. But how did this happen? And is there a way out?

McGhee embarks on a deeply personal journey across the country from Maine to Mississippi to California, tallying what we lose when we buy into the zero-sum paradigm—the idea that progress for some of us must come at the expense of others. Along the way, she meets white people who confide in her about losing their homes, their dreams, and their shot at better jobs to the toxic mix of American racism and greed. This is the story of how public goods in this country—from parks and pools to functioning schools—have become private luxuries; of how unions collapsed, wages stagnated, and inequality increased; and of how this country, unique among the world’s advanced economies, has thwarted universal healthcare.

But in unlikely places of worship and work, McGhee finds proof of what she calls the Solidarity Dividend: the benefits we gain when people come together across race to accomplish what we simply can’t do on our own. The Sum of Us is not only a brilliant analysis of how we arrived here but also a heartfelt message, delivered with startling empathy, from a black woman to a multiracial America. It leaves us with a new vision for a future in which we finally realize that life can be more than a zero-sum game.

Where: Zoom Meeting Room.
Login details will be sent on your e-mail confirmation upon completed registration.

  • 9-12-23 Chapter 1
  • 9-19-23 Chapters 2 and 3
  • 9-26-23 Chapter 4
  • 10-3-23 Chapter 5
  • 10-10-23 Chapter 6
  • 10-17-23 Chapter 7
  • 11-7-23 Chapters 8 and 9
  • 11-14-23 Chapter 10

Cost: $35 for ICF AZ Members and $40 for Non-Members for the 8 weeks
Note: Book is not included in registration.

CCEUs: TBD