This experiential and active 4-day coaching diploma is where your journey to become a coach starts. Here you will discover the key principles of coaching, start to practice your new skills and getting the feedback to improve your skills.

The 4-day coaching certificate is split across two separate weekends (several weeks apart) so you can build your skills and practice in the “real world” before returning to hone them again in weekend 2 gets you practicing your new skills and prepares you to start coaching clients outside of the training room.

Coaching foundations, and NLP coaching – 4-day course.

– Laying the Foundations – Days 1 & 2

• Introductions – programme, programme leaders, fellow participants
• Clarity and expectations of being a coach
• Building effective relationships to support the coaching process and your client’s outcomes
• Deeper understanding of you – personality, behaviours, strengths
• Qualities and characteristics that support a great coaching
• Presuppositions of coaching
• The art of effective questioning
• Active and empathetic listening skills
• Learn and practice the GROW model
• Self-management – managing emotions, mindset, energy and attention
• Language – the importance of language with clients and with our selves
• Goal setting, understanding goals and trajectories
• Life coaching, performance coaching and adopting a coaching approach when managing others

Practical coaching sessions

Between the two modules, you’ll be expected to deliver a number of coaching sessions, and put your learning into practice.  This is both fun and essential to move ahead with coaching, and make the most of this training. (It is also a brilliant way to find new clients for when you are qualified)

– Coaching using NLP – Days 3 & 4

• Neuro Linguistic Programming (NLP) principles to support you and your client in getting meaningful and long-term results
• Cognitive bias – understanding how we create our reality
• Well-formed issues and outcomes
• State management – to support you and your clients
• Supporting habit and behaviour change
• The power of reframing and perspective change
• Identifying and exploring your client’s values and beliefs
• The power of language
• Coaching tools – why, when and how to use them for great results
• Perceptual positions and emotion-free coaching
• Visualisation and the unconscious mind
• What next? How to move ahead as a coach.
• Memberships, insurance, professional bodies, etc.

Throughout the 4-day programme you will have access to open communication, sharing of learning progress, stories, insights and articles with your fellow students and tutors.  As the learning between the modules is even more important, the practical, hands on coaching experience and reflection is where the magic happens.  Time between modules is built in to allow deeper research, reflection, practice and as well as the important client coaching to take place.

To pass your Coaching diploma

The diploma involves self-directed coaching homework between the modules, and after the final module. Between the two weekends we will ask you to coach a few individuals to gain practice and for feedback. After the weekends we will also ask you to continue your practice coaching and to evidence this.

You will be expected to keep a coaching journal and coaching paperwork around each client- evidence will be requested

An integration paper and written work showing evidence of learning and application of coaching techniques

Between the two weekends you will be offered a supervision session by telephone to support your work, and to ensure you gain the most from the training.

Course structure

This is a face-to-face, in-person course, taught by senior coach trainers. Because it is intensive, no more than 16 people will be on the course. You will be working with other delegates and sharing experiences and activities together to hone your skills

This is NOT a role-playing environment, and all activities will be around actual experiences. Please be your authentic self at all times.

Your Trainers

Your trainers are Julia Bickley and Sue Haswell. They are both active, qualified and experienced coaches, and also qualified and experienced trainers. Here’s some more information about them: LINK

Accreditation

This course is in the process of being accredited as an ACCPH Level 3 Diploma Course.

Investment

TIME: You will be expected to attend in person for all four days of the programme.

ATTITUDE: This course is experiential and engaging, and you will be expected to bring your full authentic attention into the room at all times, and to participate in activities.

You may be working with people with different backgrounds. The coach attitude is non-judgemental and you will be expected to treat everyone with respect.

FINANCIAL: Investment for this 4-day certificate course is £475 with early bird discount available.