The Long Day’s Dining Into Night @ ICF-Con 2005
Here are pictures of some lovely people at the recent International Coach Federation Conference held in San Jose, California. Most of them I spent the day and much of the night eating with. At left you have the fantabulous Stever Robbins with that wildman of blogging, Andy Wibbels. This as many in this series was taken at Il Fornaio restaurant in San Jose after a very long day of eating with different groups of people (Andy was a constant) about every two hours or so as the presentations conferenceside were frankly, boring. The conversation at these small get-togethers of friends and colleagues that have worked together for years (or just newly met) were on the other hand, stimulating, insightful and bred many new alliances, friendships and joint ventures…
Ah! And at that same lavish soiree were gathered myself, Donna Steinhorn, Carol Solomon and Sheri Horne - Il Fornaio’s Pizza Cristina was fabuloso as usual but the talk and cameraderie were surpassingly excellent…
We all agreed that the one nice thing about the conference was the Exhibition Hall, which was separated from the main speakers area by space and heavy curtains. I’m here with Andrea Lee and Tina Forsyth of the Multiple Streams of Coaching Income with the Pink Spoon I created while in the program. It’s literally my Certified Energy Coach Program Startup Kit free CD, with a real pink spoon from the icecream store attached as a gag for Andrea. Made ya laugh, A! <g>
Gosh, I look a little punchy. And no, I don’t do drugs - ’twas all the late nights catching up with me…as they were with all of us…
In between this late lunch and the cocktail hour, we were politely asked to move out of the restaurant while it was prepared for the dinner crowd. Not content to stop our chat, we took to the streets, ambling about looking for a place to perch. We ended up in the conference Networking area, a crew of "ribald refugees" that included here seen, Andy Wibbels, Donna Steinhorn and Kim George.
This was last thing at night, around midnight, after Andy and I had a final nosh, nibble and very late dinner and the equally irrepressible John Miles, here all the way from Devon, England. John is an energetic dancer and a brilliant conversationalist. This was one of the most interesting dinners I had…and a perfect end to a very, VERY long day.
Thanks folks, for a conference I’ll remember fondly for a long, long time!
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