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Dear Colleagues,
One of our traditions within GCA is to select a theme for each new year. In recent years, the themes have been the Bigger Game, Sustainability, the Power of Stories, Building Castles in the Air, and Awaken the Leader Within. As this year’s President, it was my task to select the theme for 2010. Easier said than done, believe me. I wanted the theme to reflect where we are today, where we’ve come from, what’s going on around us in the world, and what’s possible in the future.
Our theme for 2010 is GCA 2.0. Obviously, this is a play on Web 2.0 and what that implies.
It may interest you to know that Web 2.0 doesn’t refer to any new technical specifications or breakthroughs, but rather to cumulative changes in the way people interact with the internet. Similarly, GCA 2.0 doesn’t imply a whole new version of GCA, but rather cumulative changes in our organization as we’ve grown and matured.
Web 2.0 has been referred to as an “architecture of participation” because it’s platform for building community. Web 2.0 cannot exist without users’ contribution of content through blogs, wikis, videos, tweets, and the like. The same is true of GCA.
GCA 2.0 is our architecture of participation and our platform for building community. Our organization can’t exist without the participation, contribution, and the collaboration of our coaching community. And, the coaching community includes coaches, educators, individual coaching clients, organizations that use coaching to develop talent, business service providers, and anyone else who is interested in coaching.
In summary, GCA 2.0 stands for affiliation, community, collaboration, and participation – by YOU.
Warmly,
Kim Freedman
2010 President
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