Testimonials

"I keep coming back here to the International Gay Coaches Conference because I'll be honest, it's one of the cheapest ways to get a top of the line experience, lots of hours towards my CCEs, and lots of connections."

"One thing that we capture here is a community that really surrounds us and helps develop us at our practice, and also as men who seek out to do our part in the world. So, if you're questioning whether you should come, I say: go ahead and click now to confirm your spot here at Easton Mountain."

"I didn't totally know why I was coming for any specific reason.I just kind of felt a calling and felt very welcome to come. And so many things have clicked into place here that I didn't expect to."

"I learned so many things about so many different areas of coaching, some that I've been wanting to learn more about, and some that I had no clue I was thinking about."

"I’ve been to every one of these conferences, and it’s really important to me. It’s about community, but it’s also about networks. I’ve gotten great collaboration partners through the GCA and through this conference, and it’s just a really helpful, sweet space to be in professionally, but also as a retreat."

"The conference for me, really, is the annual antidote to the imposter syndrome. I know probably most coaches feel like they struggle with imposter syndrome. I'm here with all of these amazing coaches that have all this skill, but they bring their humanity, and they bring their wisdom."

"I leave some ideas and some personal growth, but mostly I leave with a sense that this is my tribe and I can belong here. And contribute."

"How I arrived: I'm 72 years old, living a gay life, having all this stigma about age and aging. And there was shame, there was regret around my age…"

"I'm coming out of this four day conference, claiming my age, feeling completely okay with who I am, the way I am. How I am embraced with love and self acceptance and magic."

"What I love about the IGCC is that here we build community in real time. We have meals together. We learn from each other. We teach one another. It’s like a big family for a week."

"Many of us make plans to do things together outside of the IGCCC as well, which makes it so much more impactful."

"I loved the intergenerational experience here. And I loved learning about coaching from different perspectives, different industries, different styles styles. That's what I'm taking away."

"This is my first time attending the conference, and I really had such a tremendous, heartwarming and fulfilling experience with this amazing collection of people. This community that we need now more than ever.

"It's been such an uplifting and rewarding experience, and I know this is just going to be the first time that many that I'm here."

"I get to experience a part of myself that I never get to be in other places, complete feeling of safety, learning from so many great guys, and also been in this really beautiful environment at EastonMountain."

"It's just like getting a warm hug, and it's like the biggest warm hug that you can possibly get, and it fillls me up for the rest of the year."

"I come all the way from England every year because there is nothing else in the world that could get close to this conference."

"The conference has really given me a sense of community. People who don't necessarily think the same way, but have a similar orientation towards the way the world needs to be healed and helped. It’s really important to me to feel a sense of kinship, brotherhood, with folks who are doing the same kind of work."

"The information in those sessions was really high quality, and being able to get the ICF credits - That was quite an unexpected benefit of coming, for sure."

"I've learned a lot about possibilities in coaching skills and rediscovering communication skills. The attention I paid to creating a community here is really, it's awesome…I can be an isolator, so this has really opened me up to being part of something bigger than myself."

"You connect with people on a deeper level than you have before, especially , if you enjoy being challenged, if you have a curious mind, the types of people that come here are also in that same space, very open minded, very interesting people in the coaching space."

"I always enjoy coming to the GCA conference, both for the content of what we get in programming, but more importantly, the relationships that I think that you form here, as well as the beautiful surroundings that this conference center has. Nature, and it's a real opportunity for his self care."

"What I get from the GCA conference, I get to meet colleagues, I get to see how many different ways there are of being a coach and of approaching the task of coaching."

"Firstly, there's a big chunk of personal development in the programs and discussions during the program. Then there was the technical side, there might be a skill, a format, a tool that you can glean for many of the presentations."

"And then third, I'd say, is just the conversations between the conversations before, between and after, there's networking, there's friendship building, and then plenty of hugs in between, all the rest of it."

"People should come to the GCA conference because it's a totally unique experience with the most amazing group of men who want to do good .That's why I support this, that's why I come. And these are exceptional people."

"It's also a place to try things out in a safe space, something you might have wanted to do that you've never experimented with before, and be supported and okay to maybe have it not work and learn something."

"And, come to the GCA conference because it's just fun as hell!!."