June 2026Culture, Identity and Labels
Brian Gorman
David Ridley-Parris
and more..
Panel Chair
Aaron Listhaus
Monthly Community Conference Calls
Each month the Gay Coaches Alliance hosts a community call for it's members.
Members check-in, discuss tools & technologies, participate in a topic-focused interview or panel discussion, ask for & get help, form partnerships and share what they are currently working on.
Recordings and call participation is open only to members.
Members can also join us each month for our Social Hour
May 2026Coach Plus: Mixing coaching with other methodologies
Brian Gorman
David Ridley-Parris
and more..
Panel Chair
Aaron Listhaus
February 2026
- Advice for new coaches
- What success looks like.
- What kind of money should a new coach can expect to make.
- And more..
An open panel Q&A with:
David Sherrod, Matthew LeBaron, Sean Kosofsky, Justin Meli, and Aaron Listhaus
January 2026
A Panel Discussion with:
Rajiv Ramdat, David Ridley-Parris and Harry Faddis
Phases can include the shifts that come we age, but also passages such as grief, career change, stepping into or out of relationship etc..
What do coaches do to support their clients through shifts such as these?
December 2025
The Needs at the Root of Our Feelings
a presentation based on the teachings of nonviolent communication.
with: Rev. Daniel Rodriguez Schlorff
October 2025
Using Tests in Coaching
Join our panel of coaches who use a range of tests (such as the Enneagram and Strengths Finder) discuss the pros and cons of testing. We’ll talk about what clients gain and how the investment (if any) in specific tests can be weighed against your clients’ needs and potential income.
September 2025
AI In Coaching Update
The panel: Joshua New , Karl Hebenstreit, Garry Schleifer , Justin Meli
AI is probably the fastest-moving technology that is likely to have a wide impact on coaching in the next few years. We ran a call just a year ago on how AI could be used by coaches, but thought it was time for an update. Our panel will discuss how they use AI and how coaches can either harness the power of AI to help their coaching or business… or how they can stay relevant in a world where AI threatens to take our jobs and clients.
July 2025
Dream it Forward
earn how to connect with your deepest desires or dreams and manifest them using the transformational process from book The Gift of 5 Blessings.
Sariel Beckenstein is the insightful author of The Five Steps to Attracting the Love of Your Dreams and The Blessing Effect. With a background steeped in life coaching, he weaves together the delicate practices of tapping and the ancient Hawaiian philosophy of Ho’oponopono, offering a quiet wisdom that resonates with many. But perhaps his most cherished role is that of a grandfather to Maya, where his wisdom finds its truest expression in the simple, loving moments they share.
coaches.
June 2025
Integration Coaching with Psychedelics:
Unlocking Profound Client Transformation
Join Pat Boze as he explores the emerging field of psychedelic integration coaching. Integration coaching helps clients maximize this healing potential by incorporating insights from psychedelic experiences into daily life during the critical 2-4 week neuroplasticity window. Pat will share practical approaches combining traditional wisdom with evidence-based practices that enable powerful mindset shifts and lasting change. How might these tools help you or your clients break through stubborn barriers to growth or remember the cosmic truths of the universe? Discover why this rapidly expanding niche offers both profound client outcomes and exciting professional opportunities for coaches.
April 2025
Weight Loss Coaching
Experienced leadership coach, educator, and nonprofit administrator, I’m passionate about helping people and organizations overcome obstacles to achieve peak performance. I believe that leaders move the world, and supporting them in reaching their goals is what drives me.
March 2025
Gay Sex in 2025 PART TWO
The role of coaches in supporting our clients' sexual and gender identity.
January 2025
Gay Sex in 2025
The role of coaches in supporting our clients' sexual health and exploration.
December 2024
Fishbowl Coaching
Mark Schall will lead us in an exploration of this energetic technique for practicing and getting feedback on coaching skills, as well as discuss it's variations.
We'll demo this "tag team" style and offer our members a chance to jump in.
November 2024
October 2024
Supporting Aging Gay Men
with Matthew Bennett, Harry Faddis, Jim Cartwright, Nicholas Rustad and Anthony Warren
September 2024
July 2024Overcoming Shame - for your and your Clients
with Matthew Bennett & Paul Everitt-Clay
June 2024Learn From Successful Coaches
with Kyle Elliott, Adam Robersmith, Jim Arnoff and Tim Kincaid
April 2024Improv Your Coaching
with Robby Hutter
Coaching and Improv have a lot in common. As coaches we are required to listen deeply, get creative, maintain presence and partner with clients. There is no script, no way of knowing what our client will say next or what direction the session will take. This workshop will introduce to you the tools and skills that actors and improvisors use for success. These creative tools are being used in business, leadership, and change management to enhance resilience, flexibility and presence. Whether you're a seasoned coach or just starting out, this interactive session will help you think on your feet, adapt to unexpected situations, and foster creativity in your coaching practice. No prior experience in improvisation or coaching is required – just come with an open mind and a willingness to explore new ways of connecting with your clients.
March 2024How To Make Compelling Grants
with Kenneth Mitchell
This month GCA Member Dr. Kenneth Mitchell will be sharing his experience in creating compelling grants. Grants can help coaches serve people who might not otherwise not have access to coaching.
January 2024What Other Businesses Can Teach Us About Business Building In Coaching
with Kyle Elliott
A panel discussion with:
Allen Siewert, Brian Falduto, Julio Alvarez, Mike Kline
December 2023Know Wonder I'm a Coach!
with Thor Falk
Breaking down who we are and what we want to become as a coach. Explore a process that can be adapted to individual coaching, group coaching/team building, business development and more.
October 2023Just the Tip: The Psychology and Neurobiology of Leadership and Coaching
with Jarret Jackson
What do Donald Trump, Simone Biles, and the Wizard of Oz have in common? They all understand the power of the parasympathetic nervous system and its importance when it comes to influence, performance, and connection. Join me to learn how you can use neurobiology to become more influential and helpful in your coaching practice!
In this session, I provide an overview of the latest research into the neurobiology of leadership, motivation, and coaching. After a brief intro to motivational psych, we’ll dig below the tip of the iceberg to understand the relationship between the subconscious and the autonomic nervous system, which drives how we engage with the world.
I’ll unveil a new framework that disaggregates our fear, shame, and guilt responses to understand their relationship to our emotions, needs, and how we are influenced. Science can be boring, so we’ll talk about it in the context of the Titanic, All In The Family, and Janet Jackson, instead.
In the end, I’ll leave you with a simple rule-of-thumb to facilitate interactions that a c-suite executive dubbed the antidote to toxicity. I call it e3: empathize, educate, empower. The science of leadership.
Host: Jeff Nally
August 2023Queering Our Minds In Coaching
with Mike Findlay
In coaching, we often hear about and use models that relate to our clients mental health. But what is the actual benefits that coaching brings to better gay men's mental health?
This session will offer a deep dive into understanding what some of the mental health challenges are for gay men, and how coaching can provide part of the solution.
Mike will discuss some research findings as a result of a small number of short interviews he has conducted with fellow gay coaches.
The session will also invite us to look into ourselves, our previous experiences & trauma, to get to a greater insight as to how we as coaches should tend to our own mental health needs to help us best serve our clients.
"Queering our minds in coaching" was first presented at the Gay Coaches Alliance Global Conference at Easton Mountain earlier this year. Mindful that some participants will have been at the session, Mike will make some small adjustments to the presentation to keep it dynamic for those joining.
Host: Allen Siewert
July 2023Going Deeper: Cultivating the Roots of Meaningful Work
with Nick Duggan
Meaningful work is a top driver of hiring, engagement, and retention, but most people still say that their work isn't nearly as meaningful as it could be. That lack of meaning is leading to higher burnout and dissatisfaction for individuals, and increasing turnover and people-related costs for companies. The good news is that we as coaches can play a key role in making work more meaningful! In this month’s call, we’ll go beyond the basics to explore the "roots" of what makes work meaningful, not just from a logical, practical approach, but from a deeper perspective that involves reflection, intuition, connection, and intention. You’ll walk away with a framework you can use to help foster meaning for your clients as well as tools to work more meaningful for yourself.
Host: Kyle Elliott
June 2023Retreats
with Wil Fisher
This month's call focuses on coaches who create retreats.
Facilitated by Wil Fisher
Panel: Harry Faddis and Michael Kline
April 2023Being the Daring You in All of Parts of Your Coaching….Creating a Thriving Coaching Business
with Jim Arnoff
This call is all about being the authentic, true you in every interaction as a coach......whether it's one-on-one coaching, group coaching or leading workshops. What does it take to be courageous in challenging yourself and your clients to be open, vulnerable and daring. How do you create that powerful, trusting relationship with clients to accelerate their growth through powerful breakthroughs. The most powerful coaching is an intimate dance building on the foundation of authenticity, bravery and audacious actions. What does that dance look like, how can you co-design that dance with your clients and what does it really take to honor that dance...always.
March 2023Preview: International Gay Coaches Conference
with Chris Cooper
This month we are previewing May’s International Gay Coaches Conference at Easton Mountain. Whether you’re already registered, still deciding or can’t make it this year, the session will still be for you.
Chris Cooper will lead an interactive session around the conference theme Who We Are: Exploring Identity in Creating Change, speak to some of the men presenting workshops, provide other important information about the event, and answer any questions you have about the conference.
February 2023Coaching on That which is Greater
with Reverend Dr. Daniel Rodirugez Schlorff
"That which is greater" is all about a client's connection to anything that feels greater or larger than themselves. And that can be experienced in a multitude of ways. It can be experienced on horseback, gardening, playing the piano, going to masjid/temple/synegogue/church, walking our dogs, being ignored by our cats, contemplating trees in the forest, reading holy scriptures or poetry, appreciating a full moon, a family dinner, or sailing. Whatever. Any experience of a connection to something greater will create feelings of awe, gratitude, contentment, joy, appreciation, fulfillment, delight, connection, belonging, and love. And why is it important for our clients to experience connection? And why would it be powerful to be a coach who incorporates this area in our practice?
January 2023Podcasting: Winter Virtual Conference
with Wil Fisher, Maddox, Brian Falduto, Kyle Elliott, and Dean Meyers
What Gay Coaches Need to Know About Hosting and Guesting
December 2022Preview: Winter Virtual Conference
with Chris Cooper and Pete Simmonds
The program for the Winter Virtual Conference 2023 is designed to provide a high quality mix of sessions* delivered over two days by coaches from our talented GCA community. These are centered around our theme for the event of exploring the role of gay coaches in evoking the change we need to see in the world.
October 2022The Power of Brand
What you need to know about Mankind Project and Illuman-Men’s Rite of Passage for you and your clients.
with Julio G. Alvarez
September 2022Men’s Growth Experiences
What you need to know about Mankind Project and Illuman-Men’s Rite of Passage for you and your clients.
with Richard L. Warren,CPCC
July 2022GCA Presidents: Past, Present and Future
The direction, vision and plans for the Gay Coaches Alliance.
April 2022Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging
DEI committee workshop & discussion about diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging
February 2022
December 2021Preview of 2022 Virtual Winter Conference
November 2021
October 2021
September 2021Matthew Bennett
in conversation with Tim Kincaid
July 2021Dean Meyers
in conversation with Garry Schleifer
MURAL virtual whiteboard, LEGO play and other modalities.
June 2021Music, Creativity, and Coaching
w/Cameron Murdoch
Fabulous Strategies to Price Your Coaching Services
w/Kyle Elliott
Preview of Spring GCA Virtual Conference
w/Chris Cooper
March 2021Using Energetic Attraction to Build the Business of Your Dreams
Andrew Sartory
M.Ed. Coach, Mentor, Speaker
February 2021
Dissolve Emotional Blocks & Transform
Pain with RIM (Regenerating Images in Memory)
Michael J. Kline
Master Certified RIM Facilitator & Trainer
Jack Canfield Senior Trainer
December 2020
Effortless Transformation - really?
The Three Principles
November 2020
Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Our Personal & Professional Lens & Its Impact
October 2020
Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Our Personal & Professional Lens & Its Impact
July 2020
Writing & Publishing for Purpose Part II
June 2020
Writing & Publishing for Promoting Part I
March 2020
Inside the Magic of Coaching: The Neuroscience of Changing Minds and Behaviors
w Jeff Nally and Brian Gorman
February 2020
Leadership and self-acceptance in LGBTQ world
w Leonid Frolov
January 2020
The basics of creating and using the various social media platforms for coaches
w Frank Strona
December 2019
NEW ICF CORE Competencies
What coaches need to know
November 2019
How to know what works for you and what brings you success
October 2019
Creating more Free Time for Coaches
September 2019
Recovery Coaching
June 2019
The Neuroscience of our Three Brains.
March 2019
Realize Your Greatness
February 2019
7 Learnings For New Coaches
January 2019
Notes on Gay Male Culture
December 2018
Coaching clients on spiritual direction.
November 2018
Using generative language to create powerful results.
Oct 2018
Lack of capacity for intimacy often gets in the way for gay men..
March 2018
Work with your clients around their erotic issues.
February 2018
Demystify this rapidly growing segment of the coaching profession.
January 2018
Coaching with the Brain in Mind.
December 2017
Drawing out the best in your workshop attendees..
November 2017
"Eros is probably the most avoided topic in coaching."
October 2017
Get to know our coaches origin stories
September 2017
Using "Super-Vision" coaches get to look clearly into their practices.
July 2017
Opportunities in Elder Care
June 2017
isn’t it time you found how to work with the clients that best align with your talents and gifts?
April 2017
Coaching in the Congo. How I became a better coach, coaching abroad
March 2017
Body-Based Techniques: Coaching Transformations from the Inside Out
February 2017
Growing Your Coaching Business with Ease and Confidence
January 2017
The Future of Coaching.
December 2016
Change
September 2016
The BLISS Model of Conflict Resolution
July 2016
The Power of Mentoring
June 2016
Easy Client Testimonials
April 2016
Through TENOR for Coaching - Using Emotions to Enhance Performance
March 2016
Learn the inner game secrets of those who have fulfilling relationships
February 2016
HIV “A hard three letters to absorb”
January 2016
Coming Out (Successfully) as an Older Gay Man
December 2015
Coaching Diversity
November 2015
How To Be A Big Bold Fabulous Coach
September 2015
Relationship Coaching
July 2015
Stepping into Elderhood
June 2015
6 Key Points Every Coach Should Know about Social Media
May 2015
Gay Coaches Conference recap
April 2015
Creating an integrated life not a compartmented life.
March 2015
Building Your Practice Through Business and Government Contracting: What You Need to Know
February 2015
Exploring Psycho Spiritual Coaching
January 2015
Are You Ready for the Fullness of Your Life?
December 2014
Build your business(es) on a foundation of what you love
November 2014
Robert Naylor carries the curiosity forward...
October 2014
Rick Reddington on Thomas Leonard
September 2014
Coaching Coaches
July 2014
Interview with Tony Hain
June 2014
Helping Clients Transition
February 2014
Gay and Aging with Pride and Purpose
January 2014
Working with ADHD
December 2013
Balancing multiple passions
November 2013
Coaching highly sensitive men and those who love them