This course includes:

💻 Self-study lectures and notes

📚 Access to all necessary additional resources

🧑‍🏫 4 live online masterclass sessions

💬 2 live online 1-2-1 tutorials

🕜 60 hours total learning time

      Metanoeo Guild membership

🪪 Associate Association of Coaching membership

🎓 Level 5 accreditation with iTOL

What you’ll learn:

Core Foundations

• Defining Coaching: Understand how coaching differs from counselling and mentoring by focusing on moving someone from where they are now to where they want to be.
• Theoretical Underpinnings: Explore the concept of positive psychology and the optimistic view that every person has value and agency.
• Constructivism: Learn how personal perspectives and unique lenses construct an individual's "reality".
• Linguistics: Examine how the study of language and the specific words we choose impact our experiences and map our world.

Communication Skills

• Verbal Tools: Develop the skill of "matching" a coachee’s lexicon to build empathy and shared understanding.
• Active Listening: Understand that active listening is the primary tool for helping coachees achieve self-discovery.
• Non-Verbal Communication: Learn to manage body language, facial expressions, and "therapeutic architecture" (the physical environment) to make clients feel secure.
• Powerful Questioning: Master the use of open and closed questions, maintaining a target ratio of approximately 75% open questions to encourage deep reflection.

Coaching Models and Frameworks

• The GROW Model: A deep dive into the most widely known framework: Goal, Reality, Options, and Will.
• The CLEAR Model: Learn an alternative acronym-based structure that emphasises contracting and session review.
• Solution Focused Coaching: Explore the OSKAR model and the use of "scaling" to help coachees identify small, measurable steps of progress.
• Advanced Approaches: Introduction to Transformational Coaching (layered learning), the Inner Game model (managing self-talk), and Ontological Coaching (language, emotions, and body integration).

Community-Based Specialisms

• Psycho-social Approach: Recognise how well-being is influenced by a blend of internal psychological factors and the external social environment.
• Human and Social Capital: Learn to help coachees identify their internal strengths (human capital) and external support networks (social capital).
• Key Meta-Themes: Working with the themes of Identity, Creativity, Resilience, and Reconciliation specifically within a community setting.

Professional Practice

• Ethics: Study the Global Code of Ethics for coaching and its implications for integrity, confidentiality, and professional conduct.
• Session Structure: Learn how to "contract" with clients to set ground rules and boundaries before coaching begins.
• Self-Awareness: Develop into a "reflexive practitioner" by integrating your own life journey, values, and biases into a personal coaching style.

Blended learning approach

Using our blended-study approach we have developed our training to make the best use of individual and group-based learning. Plus you can study from the comfort of your own home with access to our e-learning portal which contains all the necessary lectures and additional study resources. This includes:

• A suggested programme schedule to support you organise your learning.
• Pre-session work for each session.
• Core session lectures and guided additional study.
• Post session reflection work.
• Live online masterclasses reviewing each module.
• Live online tutorials.
• A portfolio-based assessment.