Find out how you could start a full or part-time career as a life coach, or add life coaching skills to your current career by attending our free 2-hour Introduction to Life Coaching webinar hosted live by one of our exceptional life coach trainers. We'll talk about the fundamentals of life coaching, as well as talk your through the range of diplomas and courses we offer.
We've trained over 14,000 coaches since we started in 1999.
Click the box below to find out more and browse the upcoming dates, or click on the 'Our Coaching Courses' box to find out more about our diplomas and courses.
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We understand how important it is for your life coaching courses and qualifications to be accredited and endorsed. Details of each of these accreditations can be seen below, and you can click on any of the logos to find out more. These organisations exist to ensure that the training we provide meets strict criteria, and their high standards. For you - it means you are an accredited life coach, and that's what most people look for when searching for a life coach.
To ensure that your qualification remains current, recognised and relevant we have a designated team whose sole purpose is to keep us and you at the forefront of the life coaching industry.
Formed in 1995, the ICF is a global organisation, with over 21,000 members, dedicated to advancing the coaching profession by setting high professional standards, providing independent certification, and building a network of credentialed coaches.
The Coaching Academy Personal Performance Coaching Diploma has been awarded 121 Approved Coach Specific Training Hours (ACSTH). Graduates of the programme will have met the requirements for the coach training hours required to apply for further individual credentials from ICF, dependant on the requested level of certification*.
* Information regarding the specific credential requirements can be located on the ICF website.
Each of our individual niche training events have been awarded 6 CCE hours.
The Coaching Academy are a SFEDI Awards Approved Centre and are the ONLY Coach Training Organisation able to offer this LEVEL 5 DIPLOMA Qualification in Personal Performance Coaching.
The standards within this Diploma have been approved by OFQUAL - the regulatory body for qualifications in England. You will have a level 5 DIPLOMA qualification (degree level) on the RQF (The Regulated Qualification Framework). You can become a studying member of the IOEE (The Institute Of Enterprise and Entrepreneurship). Once qualified you can further this membership and have letters after your name (F.I.O.E.E.). You will be able to have a professional listing on the SFEDI Directory.
The Coaching Academy are proud to announce that we are one of the first training providers in the UK to be awarded The Provider of Training Excellence and are the very first coach training provider to receive this prestigious award from the Professional Development Consortium.
The Professional Development Consortium was founded in 2010 predominately as a research project exploring professional development, education and training. This provided a strong academic platform for the Consortium.
Today the Consortium work with a range of different educational organisations, training providers, professional bodies and oversee the CPD Standards Office who deliver a set of accreditation services within a formal CPD context.
We are also an Organisational Member of the Association of Coaching.
As qualifications in coaching become increasingly important, The Coaching Academy aims to always be at the forefront of the profession and will always add to courses as new coaching techniques evolve and seek appropriate accreditations that are right for our coaches.
The CPD Standards Office are an independent accrediting body that focuses on recognising quality training provision that fits within the continuing professional development classifications.
The Coaching Academy are an approved training centre and all of our Diplomas have received a dedicated accredited quality mark. This means each Diploma has been externally appraised and meets with the quality standards as universally accepted CPD guidelines.
Furthermore, attendance of any of our CPD for Coaches Accelerator Days will result in a certificate of attendance and can be recorded on your own formal CPD record for a professional body, institute or employer.
The Coaching Academy are a SFEDI Awards Approved Centre and are the ONLY Coach Training Organisation able to offer this LEVEL 5 DIPLOMA Qualification in Personal Performance Coaching.
The standards within this Diploma have been approved by OFQUAL - the regulatory body for qualifications in England. You will have a level 5 DIPLOMA qualification (degree level) on the RQF (The Regulated Qualification Framework). You can become a studying member of the IOEE (The Institute Of Enterprise and Entrepreneurship). Once qualified you can further this membership and have letters after your name (F.I.O.E.E.). You will be able to have a professional listing on the SFEDI Directory.
The Coaching Academy are proud to be an approved supplier for ELCAS (Enhanced Learning Credits Administration Services).
The Enhanced Learning Credits Scheme (ELC) is an MOD initiative to promote lifelong learning amongst members of the Armed Forces. The ELC scheme provides financial support in the form of a single up-front payment towards national qualifications at level 3 or above for those who have served 4 years or more. If you have completed 4 years full-time service since 1st April 2000, are a current ELC scheme member and meet with UK residency requirements then you may be entitled to up to £2000 worth of funding towards our Personal Performance Diploma.
For further information regarding this please call the office on 0208 996 5057 to discuss your requirements in further detail or visit the ELCAS website.
Established in 1999, The Coaching Academy is the largest life coaching course provider of its kind in the world and we are incredibly proud of the reputation we've developed since opening our doors 23 years ago. As well as life coaching, we also provide courses to enable our coaches to establish their own training niche, by that NLP, business and corporate coaching, or coaching parents and children.
We started when life coaching was a relatively new phenomenon and were one of the first in the UK to provide fully accredited life coaching qualifications. Now we find ourselves at the forefront of coach training and are chosen by more people looking to be a professional life coach than any other UK training provider.
