Brief Content Description

This life coach or business coach training program is a comprehensive coach certification program for individuals whose work involves interacting with, influencing and assisting othersThis program is also for those who want to pursue a career as a professional coach.

The Coach Certification Program is 120 hours long and is divided into four different sessions that conveniently run every other month. Each four-day training session is comprised of 30 hours.

Life Coach Certification Training Instructional Methods

• Brief lecture
• Live demonstration
  
• Discussion
  
• Small group processes
  
• Coaching practice in between sessions with students
  paired up from the class
• Simulations and Role Plays
• Video Lectures by Tim Gallwey
• Training Assistants/consultants, who oversee small groups,
• Model how to be a learner in the program, give individual feedback, supervise small group exercises, etc.
  
• Paid coaching practice with another participant during the program in between sessions

1. Meeting ethical guidelines and professional standards

• The Definition of Coaching
  
• ICF Description of Coaching
  
• Roots of Coaching
  
• Drawing Distinctions
  
• Ethics discussion
  
• Coaching Perspectives
  
• The Coach from Hell
  
• Self Assessment

2. Establishing trust and intimacy with the client

• Pacing and Leading—Gaining Rapport
  
• Setting Intent and holding the space for change
  
• Speaker listener technique—'the floor' (also relates to Active Listening)
  
• Coaching Partners
  
• Sponsoring/holding the space for the client—believing in
  your client
  
• Psychogeography
  
• Tap Exercise—sensory vs. interpreting
  
• Time framing—seeing the best in others

3. Coaching presence

• Grinder's three components necessary to make a change:
• Outcome
• Rapport
• Ritual
  
• Holding the Space-way of the Shaman Multi-tasking drill
  
• Praise vs. Acknowledgment

4. Active listening

• The Floor
  
• Backtracking
  
• Conversational Flags
  
• Powerful listening

5. Powerful questioning

• Presuppositions
  
• Presuppositions exercise
  
• Directionalizing the coaching conversation
  
• The Quest of Your Questions
  
• Powerful Questions Templates
  
• Meta model Review—"pointers"
  
• Belief Assessment (10)
  
• Should... need to... have to...
  
• The Language of Levels
  
• Language Patterns and Conversational Flags
  
• Meta Program Language and Change

6. Direct communication

• Generative NLP Format (planning and reframing from multiple perspectives)
  
• Leaking Power
  
• Leaking Power, Plugging the Holes
  
• Values, Criteria and Coaching
  
• Criteria Discovery and Decisions
  
• Hierarchy of Criteria

7. Creating awareness

• Building a ready No
  
• Growing Healthy Habits
  
• Shopping for Habits
  
• S.C.O.R.E. (A big frame for sorting out experience.)
  
• Internal Dialogue
  
• GEO and Modeling
  
• Identifying Limiting Beliefs
  
• Beliefs and Coaching
  
• Belief Chaining
  
• Self Witnessing
  
• Burn out identification and change

8. Designing actions

• Beyond Wealth
  
• New Behavior Generator
  
• S.C.O.R.E. Model
  
• Disney Strategy
  
• Belief Chaining
  
• EFT Procedure
  
• Universal States

9. Planning and goal setting

• Well formedness conditions for outcomes
  
• The outcome template
  
• Chunking Down an Outcome
  
• Choosing Your Life
  
• Language of Choice
  
• Belief Assessment
  
• S.C.O.R.E. Model
  
• SCORE Worksheet
  
• Requirements for Achieving Goals
  
• Interferences to Reaching Goals

10. Managing progress and accountability

• Designed alliance
• Committing to Habits
  
• Commitment
  
• Chunking
  
• State management
  
• Delivering Feedback
  
• Feedback Research
  
• Observer Feedback Sheet
  
• Overall competencies: These are topics and competencies that are overall or general 'big chunk' skills
  • The Coaching Session Chart (Another of the backdrop frames for the training, in
  • other words, a 'big picture' of coaching.)
    
  • Encouragement Checklist this is a simulation with detailed feedback. It is used for both training and certification.
    
  • Integration
    
  • Self Assessment
    
  • Spirit of Coaching
    
  • Preferences for Sorting Information
• Stages of learning:
  • Unconscious Incompetence
  • Conscious Incompetence
    
  • Conscious Competence
    
  • Unconscious Competence
• Coaching Competency and Feedback Seminar - final integration using the 'Encouragement Checklist'
  
• (Student demonstrates competency in coaching through the following activities in a collegial format: Demonstration of knowledge and skills in coaching role-plays with feedback from Training Assistants and/or faculty, and an oral presentation of a coaching technique, application or concept
  
• Building a Coaching Practice
  
• Marketing First Steps
  
• Coaching Logbook
  
• Recommended Reading

You will also learn:

• International standards, practices, and ethics in the field of coaching
  
• How to create the designed alliance and coach-client contracts
  
• Coach specific tools and skills
  
• Typical coaching issues that clients bring to the coaching relationship
  
• Helping clients set useful and achievable goals
  
• Dealing with clients' barriers to achieving what they want.
  
• Helping clients make sound decisions, set meaningful criteria, prioritize and move into action
  
• Helping clients to identify and change limiting beliefs
  
• Directionalizing a coaching conversation
  
• Providing clients with structure and support
  
• Delivering meaning feedback and encouragement
  
• Establishing a coaching specialty
  
• Marketing a coaching practice
  

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