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The Coaching Academy's Life Coaching Diploma stands as our flagship course, crafted and delivered by seasoned professional coaches via a live online platform. Our course has the independent endorsement of two internationally recognized and long-established accrediting bodies:
The Association for Coaching (AC)
The International Coaching Federation (ICF)
Our Life Coaching Diploma course is highly sought-after, equipping our graduates with the ability to work as professional life coaches in a diverse range of niches, either on a full-time or part-time basis.
Many of our graduates leverage their newly acquired coaching skills to compliment their current job performance. Others utilize these skills as a stepping stone to advance further in their careers or transition into new roles.
Our life coaching course paves the way for these opportunities, serving as the cornerstone of all our programmes.
Established in 1999, our life coaching course has consistently empowered students on the path to successful graduation. We offer a comprehensive Diploma qualification, brimming with the knowledge needed to emerge as an accredited, professional, and accomplished life coach. Our curriculum includes powerful questioning techniques, time-tested models, and strategic methods to aid you in unlocking your clients' potential and helping them achieve their goals.
As a student, you will join a supportive network of like-minded peers who are on the same journey as you. This mutual support and encouragement system is invaluable throughout your studies and remains a cornerstone of your coaching journey beyond graduation.
One of the unique benefits of studying with The Coaching Academy is our 'Business in a Box' platform. This resource has been thoughtfully designed to prepare you for your continuous development as a professional life coach.
Our goal is to nurture coaches who can blend compassion and business acumen, those who aspire to develop a 'coaching heart with a commercial mind'. Through our 'Business in a Box' platform, we guide our coaches in their initial steps towards establishing a prosperous coaching business. This platform is loaded with essential information, including a module dedicated to the fundamentals of setting up your coaching business, be it full-time or part-time.
Launch your life coaching business with minimal start-up costs and enjoy a low-risk investment with potential high returns. Let us show you how.
So, if you're ready to make a difference in your life and the lives of others while possibly earning a substantial income, enroll now. With a modest investment and a laptop, you can dramatically impact your life, your family's life, your clients' lives, and potentially improve your financial situation.
Setting up your own coaching business on a 1:1 or group coaching basis
Developing your skill set within your current career
Setting up a part-time coaching business that you run alongside your employment
Contracting or working in-house with companies or organisations to coach their employee
Enhancing all aspects of your life through setting and achieving goals
Upon enrollment in our life coaching course, you gain immediate access to our Online Learning Portal – your gateway to an enriching student experience. It's your one-stop platform for everything related to your studies with us, from scheduling training sessions to a plethora of resources such as instructional videos, sample documents, and record sheets. Our platform guides you through every stage of your diploma with us. In addition, we dispatch your complementary course materials, including insightful workbooks for each module, via courier within a few days of your enrollment.
Our robust core course is compartmentalized into diverse modules, each focusing on the fundamental aspects of life coaching. Each module is equipped with a dedicated workbook and a matching live online training session. The training sessions are scheduled flexibly on a variety of dates and times, ensuring you can seamlessly integrate them into your existing schedule.
We supplement these modules with additional training through coaching skills workshops and peer-to-peer workshops, five hands-on practical assessments, and a conclusive assessment paper. Recognizing the importance of practical experience, we encourage you to conduct your own coaching sessions in tandem with your learning journey. You're free to choose your coaching subjects – you can either coach fellow students or solicit your own clients, as per your convenience.
Our core Life Coaching Diploma contains six live online modules that will provide a deep understanding of the theories behind coaching and the benefits it will bring to your life and your clients' lives.
All our live online training sessions are run by one of our many expert trainers, who all own successful coaching businesses and speak from years of experience as well as theoretical knowledge. During the live sessions, you will have several opportunities to work in small groups with the other students to discuss your learning. There will also be opportunities to feed your discussions back to your trainer and ask questions as well.
The contents of the modules are explained in more detail below:
‘The strongest case for following the GROW sequence with powerful coaching questions is that it is simple, flexible, and it works.’ Sir John Whitmore, co-creator of the GROW model
The GROW model is one of the many tools we teach at The Coaching Academy and is the framework for your coaching sessions. It helps the coach structure the session, moving seamlessly between four stages, and enables the client to identify their goal and the necessary steps to achieving it.
Advanced GR includes six hours of live online training covering the first two stages of the model: Goal and Reality. This will be a chance for you to learn from the experts about goal setting and the first step of helping your clients achieve them.
The first part of the sessions will cover the essentials for helping your client set goals that are positively framed and challenging enough to be inspirational. Through asking questions, a skilled coach can shift a client’s attention towards setting positive, impactful goals.
The second part of the live online training will cover your client’s current situation and the lens through which they look at life, known as the Reality section of the GROW model. With your help, the client can objectively explore their strengths, any support they might have, and any obstacles they may face.
A workbook on the topic will support your learning on the live online training. These exercises help you assess your own life and the many goals you might want to achieve. As coaches, we must also set goals to move forward in our lives and inspire others to do the same. We will therefore introduce you to the ‘Be, Do, Have’ tool that allows you to identify all your potential goals and filter them down into the ones most important to you.
Advanced GROW 'GR' covers the following topics:
‘...options are evaluated, obstacles are removed and actions established which are specific, measurable and time-bound with supporters identified and a review scheduled.’ Graham Alexander, author of SuperCoaching
The last two stages in the GROW model are ‘OW’, which stands for Options and Way Forward. During six hours of live online training, you will discover the skills needed to help your client consider all the possible routes to achieving their goal and then narrow them down to specific actions they will take.
Now that your client has set a goal and is aware of their present situation, they must consider all the possible paths they could take to achieve that goal. Using purposeful and insightful questions, you will learn how to fire up your client’s imagination, enabling them to explore all possible avenues. Your trainer will then introduce the techniques used to rank and filter all these options, resulting in your client selecting the actions they will be motivated to take.
The workbook will enhance your learning in this module, where you will find out how to frame questions so they are open rather than closed and also the power of hypothetical and challenging questions. You will also be introduced to limiting beliefs and apply these to your own experiences.
These live online training sessions blend the creative, brainstorming side of coaching and the pragmatic, solutions-focused element. Combined, they will ensure your client is motivated to take action and ready to move to the next step on their journey.
Advanced GROW 'OW' covers the following topics:
‘Seek first to understand and then to be understood.’ Dr Stephen R. Covey, author of 7 Habits of Highly Effective People
The skills learnt in these six hours of live, online training support the framework of the GROW model. We cannot only have a structured coaching session – we also need additional skills to strengthen the relationship between our client and us. Your experienced trainer will help you explore the difference between empathy and sympathy, introduce you to ‘active listening’ and how to respond to clients in a truly non-judgemental manner.
During this training, you will also think about how to challenge a client’s assumptions, helping them to develop a greater awareness of themselves and their actions. You will also look at the technique of reframing – a vital tool that allows us to consider a whole new perspective. Emotional clients can be a significant challenge for even experienced coaches. As you coach clients through key life challenges, it is not surprising that emotions can be stirred – and dealing with this sensitively and with boundaries in place is crucial. Your trainer will teach you vital techniques for this and the importance of the coach retaining control of their coaching sessions.
Your learning will also be supported by the workbook on this topic, where you will explore how your choice of language can help you build rapport with your client. Through several exercises, you will consider the power of tempo and tone, the impact of sensory language and how listening is a skill we can all improve.
Empowering the Coaching Relationship covers the following topics:
‘The self-knowledge that results from DISC will have an immediate and profound impact on your ability to understand, communicate and work with others.’ Bev James, CEO of The Coaching Academy and author of ‘Do it! Or Ditch it.’
Would you like to be able to understand people in minutes rather than months? How much would your coaching improve if you understood your client’s perspective better? Would you like to know what drives you and why you react to situations in a certain way? All of this can be done with the help of DISC.
During your six hours of live online training, you will be introduced to the personality profiling tool known as DISC. Your experienced trainer will guide you through the four DISC personality types and provide you with a firm foundation in using it in all areas of your life. DISC profiling is also an invaluable coaching tool, enabling you to build rapport with your clients by understanding how best to communicate with them.
It is also beneficial to understand your own DISC profile when setting up your business or using your coaching skills in the workplace. Once we know what makes us feel comfortable and what challenges us, we can understand how best to utilise our innate skills and be alert to what we might need to work on.
The DISC workbook supports this understanding by enabling you to assess your own DISC profile and what this means about your personality traits, drivers, preferred communication style and strengths. This will help you personally, with friends and family, as well as professionally.
Introduction to DISC personality profiling covers the following topics:
‘Amateurs practise till they get it right. Professionals practise till they can’t get it wrong.’ Peter Thompson, business growth strategist
At The Coaching Academy, our belief is ‘coaching heart, commercial mind’. If you want to set up a successful coaching business, these six hours of live online training will help you take your first steps into the practical side of working as a coach. New coaches need the theory behind coaching, but they also require advice on engaging and securing clients.
Your trainer will have their own successful coaching business and will share tips on navigating the steps between enquiries and contracts. This will include explaining what coaching is so that clients will want to sign up with you straight away, how to deal with enquiries, and what information you should provide to potential clients and include in contracts.
We will also cover how to run a successful intake session, whether you should charge for it and how to ensure your client stays ‘on topic’ during this first session. Your experienced trainer will also cover what paperwork you need, how to structure several sessions and whether your client would benefit from completing exercises in between sessions.
Your learning will be supported by a workbook covering the qualities of a good coach and the exercises needed to assess your skills in these areas. There are also practical tips, tools for the intake session, and activities to help strengthen your focus during coaching sessions and remove all external and internal distractions.
The Practicalities of Getting Going as a Coach covers the following topics:
‘The most important opinion a person will ever hold is the one that they hold about themselves.’ Anthony Robbins, personal development expert
How important are our values when it comes to goal setting? How do our beliefs hold us back or help us to achieve our goals? Both of these questions need answering because at the core of every goal is a value, and inside every client are their beliefs.
During this module, you will have six hours of live, online training sessions that begin by defining values and beliefs and their significant role in forming a client’s mindset. Values are important as many people are unaware of their true values, and these must align with their goals, or they won’t be motivated to complete them. Beliefs are equally important because if we hold limiting beliefs about our capabilities, we won’t be confident that we can achieve our goals.
Your experienced trainer will explain the techniques needed to raise your client’s awareness of their values. Through our training, you will gain the confidence to challenge your client’s thinking, enabling them to turn their limiting beliefs into more empowering thoughts and behaviours. A crucial aspect of this module is growing confidence to deliver real change for yourself and those you are coaching.
Your learning will be supported by the module workbook, which contains all the necessary exercises to discover your driving values and how they impact your choices. Similarly, there are exercises to help you recognise which of your own beliefs might be holding you back. Identifying limiting beliefs is often one of the most powerful experiences for new coaches taking our Life Coaching diploma.
Values and Beliefs covers the following topics:
In expanding your knowledge and skills as a professional coach, it is important to be aware of a range of coaching models that can support you to structure a coaching session.
During this 6-hour live online training module you will be introduced to a selection of coaching models, and be allowed to develop your knowledge and understanding, as well as a space to practice their use.
In part 1, you will explore what we mean by ‘coaching models’, and how these can support effective engagement with your clients. Your trainer will introduce you to the GROW model and explain why this is The Coaching Academy’s key framework for assessment and model of excellence. Before delving deeper into other models of coaching, you will touch upon Motivation, and how this serves as a guiding force for all human behaviour. Understanding motivation can be a key component to successful coaching, allowing the coach to have an increased awareness of how and what helps clients feel motivated. As part of this session, you will be introduced to the Motivation Matrix, which can be a useful tool in framing your conversation with clients.Part 1 is also where you will learn about your first model of coaching (outside of GROW). Your trainer will guide you through Whittleworth & Gilbert’s 2002 OSCAR model of coaching, as you are taken on a journey through its background and history, as well as what this model can be used for. There will be plenty of time to put your new knowledge into practice, through small group exercises.
In part 2, you will learn about the CIGAR model of coaching, which, as a useful alternative to GROW, reflects how a session often begins; with the client bringing their reality first. Peter Hawkins’ CLEAR model is next up, as your trainer will help you to explore its origins. A predecessor of GROW, it is still considered a functional alternative for managers and coaches, placing a strong emphasis on the need for coaching and mentoring in today’s fast and competitive business environment to promote employee growth.
You will start to understand the subtle nuances and differences in each model, for example, unlike other coaching models where there is a structure to them, in CLEAR there are elements that could occur at any time, making it a more fluid way of coaching. You will once again have plenty of opportunities to put your learnings into action, as your trainer facilitates lots of interactive activities and practice coaching.
In the final session, Part 3, you will take a look at the STEPPA model, developed by world-renowned coach and instructor, Dr. Angus McLeod. This model is primarily utilised as a technique when there are difficult emotions in play which need to be overcome, acting as a framework to assist coaches both during coaching sessions and afterward to reflect upon coaching practice. You will develop an understanding of the areas where STEPPA can be most useful, as well as the types of questions that can be used within your coaching. As a group, you will look at the benefits and drawbacks of this model, as well as the time to put it into practice.
Your learning is supported by an accompanying module workbook, as well as an interactive handout. Your trainer will facilitate lots of interactive exercises, group discussions, and practice throughout, as well as share their own experiences and knowledge, to provide a well-rounded and informative module. By the end of this session, you will have a more rounded understanding and awareness of how using models can provide an effective framework for your coaching, as well as how subtle differences can be used within different coaching environments.
‘The strongest case for following the GROW sequence with powerful coaching questions is that it is simple, flexible, and it works.’ Sir John Whitmore, co-creator of the GROW model
The GROW model is one of the many tools we teach at The Coaching Academy and is the framework for your coaching sessions. It helps the coach structure the session, moving seamlessly between four stages, and enables the client to identify their goal and the necessary steps to achieving it.
Advanced GR includes six hours of live online training covering the first two stages of the model: Goal and Reality. This will be a chance for you to learn from the experts about goal setting and the first step of helping your clients achieve them.
The first part of the sessions will cover the essentials for helping your client set goals that are positively framed and challenging enough to be inspirational. Through asking questions, a skilled coach can shift a client’s attention towards setting positive, impactful goals.
The second part of the live online training will cover your client’s current situation and the lens through which they look at life, known as the Reality section of the GROW model. With your help, the client can objectively explore their strengths, any support they might have, and any obstacles they may face.
A workbook on the topic will support your learning on the live online training. These exercises help you assess your own life and the many goals you might want to achieve. As coaches, we must also set goals to move forward in our lives and inspire others to do the same. We will therefore introduce you to the ‘Be, Do, Have’ tool that allows you to identify all your potential goals and filter them down into the ones most important to you.
Advanced GROW 'GR' covers the following topics:
‘...options are evaluated, obstacles are removed and actions established which are specific, measurable and time-bound with supporters identified and a review scheduled.’ Graham Alexander, author of SuperCoaching
The last two stages in the GROW model are ‘OW’, which stands for Options and Way Forward. During six hours of live online training, you will discover the skills needed to help your client consider all the possible routes to achieving their goal and then narrow them down to specific actions they will take.
Now that your client has set a goal and is aware of their present situation, they must consider all the possible paths they could take to achieve that goal. Using purposeful and insightful questions, you will learn how to fire up your client’s imagination, enabling them to explore all possible avenues. Your trainer will then introduce the techniques used to rank and filter all these options, resulting in your client selecting the actions they will be motivated to take.
The workbook will enhance your learning in this module, where you will find out how to frame questions so they are open rather than closed and also the power of hypothetical and challenging questions. You will also be introduced to limiting beliefs and apply these to your own experiences.
These live online training sessions blend the creative, brainstorming side of coaching and the pragmatic, solutions-focused element. Combined, they will ensure your client is motivated to take action and ready to move to the next step on their journey.
Advanced GROW 'OW' covers the following topics:
‘Seek first to understand and then to be understood.’ Dr Stephen R. Covey, author of 7 Habits of Highly Effective People
The skills learnt in these six hours of live, online training support the framework of the GROW model. We cannot only have a structured coaching session – we also need additional skills to strengthen the relationship between our client and us. Your experienced trainer will help you explore the difference between empathy and sympathy, introduce you to ‘active listening’ and how to respond to clients in a truly non-judgemental manner.
During this training, you will also think about how to challenge a client’s assumptions, helping them to develop a greater awareness of themselves and their actions. You will also look at the technique of reframing – a vital tool that allows us to consider a whole new perspective. Emotional clients can be a significant challenge for even experienced coaches. As you coach clients through key life challenges, it is not surprising that emotions can be stirred – and dealing with this sensitively and with boundaries in place is crucial. Your trainer will teach you vital techniques for this and the importance of the coach retaining control of their coaching sessions.
Your learning will also be supported by the workbook on this topic, where you will explore how your choice of language can help you build rapport with your client. Through several exercises, you will consider the power of tempo and tone, the impact of sensory language and how listening is a skill we can all improve.
Empowering the Coaching Relationship covers the following topics:
‘The self-knowledge that results from DISC will have an immediate and profound impact on your ability to understand, communicate and work with others.’ Bev James, CEO of The Coaching Academy and author of ‘Do it! Or Ditch it.’
Would you like to be able to understand people in minutes rather than months? How much would your coaching improve if you understood your client’s perspective better? Would you like to know what drives you and why you react to situations in a certain way? All of this can be done with the help of DISC.
During your six hours of live online training, you will be introduced to the personality profiling tool known as DISC. Your experienced trainer will guide you through the four DISC personality types and provide you with a firm foundation in using it in all areas of your life. DISC profiling is also an invaluable coaching tool, enabling you to build rapport with your clients by understanding how best to communicate with them.
It is also beneficial to understand your own DISC profile when setting up your business or using your coaching skills in the workplace. Once we know what makes us feel comfortable and what challenges us, we can understand how best to utilise our innate skills and be alert to what we might need to work on.
The DISC workbook supports this understanding by enabling you to assess your own DISC profile and what this means about your personality traits, drivers, preferred communication style and strengths. This will help you personally, with friends and family, as well as professionally.
Introduction to DISC personality profiling covers the following topics:
‘Amateurs practise till they get it right. Professionals practise till they can’t get it wrong.’ Peter Thompson, business growth strategist
At The Coaching Academy, our belief is ‘coaching heart, commercial mind’. If you want to set up a successful coaching business, these six hours of live online training will help you take your first steps into the practical side of working as a coach. New coaches need the theory behind coaching, but they also require advice on engaging and securing clients.
Your trainer will have their own successful coaching business and will share tips on navigating the steps between enquiries and contracts. This will include explaining what coaching is so that clients will want to sign up with you straight away, how to deal with enquiries, and what information you should provide to potential clients and include in contracts.
We will also cover how to run a successful intake session, whether you should charge for it and how to ensure your client stays ‘on topic’ during this first session. Your experienced trainer will also cover what paperwork you need, how to structure several sessions and whether your client would benefit from completing exercises in between sessions.
Your learning will be supported by a workbook covering the qualities of a good coach and the exercises needed to assess your skills in these areas. There are also practical tips, tools for the intake session, and activities to help strengthen your focus during coaching sessions and remove all external and internal distractions.
The Practicalities of Getting Going as a Coach covers the following topics:
‘The most important opinion a person will ever hold is the one that they hold about themselves.’ Anthony Robbins, personal development expert
How important are our values when it comes to goal setting? How do our beliefs hold us back or help us to achieve our goals? Both of these questions need answering because at the core of every goal is a value, and inside every client are their beliefs.
During this module, you will have six hours of live, online training sessions that begin by defining values and beliefs and their significant role in forming a client’s mindset. Values are important as many people are unaware of their true values, and these must align with their goals, or they won’t be motivated to complete them. Beliefs are equally important because if we hold limiting beliefs about our capabilities, we won’t be confident that we can achieve our goals.
Your experienced trainer will explain the techniques needed to raise your client’s awareness of their values. Through our training, you will gain the confidence to challenge your client’s thinking, enabling them to turn their limiting beliefs into more empowering thoughts and behaviours. A crucial aspect of this module is growing confidence to deliver real change for yourself and those you are coaching.
Your learning will be supported by the module workbook, which contains all the necessary exercises to discover your driving values and how they impact your choices. Similarly, there are exercises to help you recognise which of your own beliefs might be holding you back. Identifying limiting beliefs is often one of the most powerful experiences for new coaches taking our Life Coaching diploma.
Values and Beliefs covers the following topics:
In expanding your knowledge and skills as a professional coach, it is important to be aware of a range of coaching models that can support you to structure a coaching session.
During this 6-hour live online training module you will be introduced to a selection of coaching models, and be allowed to develop your knowledge and understanding, as well as a space to practice their use.
In part 1, you will explore what we mean by ‘coaching models’, and how these can support effective engagement with your clients. Your trainer will introduce you to the GROW model and explain why this is The Coaching Academy’s key framework for assessment and model of excellence. Before delving deeper into other models of coaching, you will touch upon Motivation, and how this serves as a guiding force for all human behaviour. Understanding motivation can be a key component to successful coaching, allowing the coach to have an increased awareness of how and what helps clients feel motivated. As part of this session, you will be introduced to the Motivation Matrix, which can be a useful tool in framing your conversation with clients.Part 1 is also where you will learn about your first model of coaching (outside of GROW). Your trainer will guide you through Whittleworth & Gilbert’s 2002 OSCAR model of coaching, as you are taken on a journey through its background and history, as well as what this model can be used for. There will be plenty of time to put your new knowledge into practice, through small group exercises.
In part 2, you will learn about the CIGAR model of coaching, which, as a useful alternative to GROW, reflects how a session often begins; with the client bringing their reality first. Peter Hawkins’ CLEAR model is next up, as your trainer will help you to explore its origins. A predecessor of GROW, it is still considered a functional alternative for managers and coaches, placing a strong emphasis on the need for coaching and mentoring in today’s fast and competitive business environment to promote employee growth.
You will start to understand the subtle nuances and differences in each model, for example, unlike other coaching models where there is a structure to them, in CLEAR there are elements that could occur at any time, making it a more fluid way of coaching. You will once again have plenty of opportunities to put your learnings into action, as your trainer facilitates lots of interactive activities and practice coaching.
In the final session, Part 3, you will take a look at the STEPPA model, developed by world-renowned coach and instructor, Dr. Angus McLeod. This model is primarily utilised as a technique when there are difficult emotions in play which need to be overcome, acting as a framework to assist coaches both during coaching sessions and afterward to reflect upon coaching practice. You will develop an understanding of the areas where STEPPA can be most useful, as well as the types of questions that can be used within your coaching. As a group, you will look at the benefits and drawbacks of this model, as well as the time to put it into practice.
Your learning is supported by an accompanying module workbook, as well as an interactive handout. Your trainer will facilitate lots of interactive exercises, group discussions, and practice throughout, as well as share their own experiences and knowledge, to provide a well-rounded and informative module. By the end of this session, you will have a more rounded understanding and awareness of how using models can provide an effective framework for your coaching, as well as how subtle differences can be used within different coaching environments.
At The Coaching Academy we enable you to choose between two internationally recognised accrediting bodies. Both accreditation pathways include the core modules and training above but have additional individual elements.
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| Final Assessment Paper | |
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| Professional Development Journal | |
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| Final Performance Evaluation | |
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| Free One Year Membership with the Association for Coaching | |
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Association for Coaching Pathway
Choosing this pathway means you will be awarded an Accredited Certificate in Coach Training from the Association for Coaching (AC).
Established in 2002, the AC is a leading independent and not-for-profit professional body dedicated to promoting best practice and raising awareness and standards of coaching worldwide. Accreditation through the AC will gift you one year of their Introductory Associate membership. You will also be able to seek additional accreditations with them as part of their Coach Accreditation scheme.
All of the core programme requirements above will be included, plus all these additional elements:
This brand-new, bonus module will train you in alternative coaching models outside the GROW framework so that you have multiple ways to structure a coaching session.
Two coaching supervision sessions with one of our experienced supervisors. Each session will last around 45 minutes, during which you can discuss your client cases to gain a deeper understanding of the coaching process and how to approach it.
Six one-to-one or group (depending on your preference) mentoring sessions, lasting 30-60 minutes with one of our longstanding professional coaches in which all your coaching questions are answered.
Be part of the Association for Coaching’s community of coaching professionals from over 80 countries. Engage with the leading professional body dedicated to promoting best practice and standards for coaching worldwide. Access to member-only group supervision sessions, receive guidance and support to grow your business from industry experts along with full access to fellow members through the community plus much much more!
ICF Pathway
Established in 1995, the ICF is a leading independent nonprofit organisation for fellow coaches to support each other and grow the profession. Accreditation through the ICF means you will also be able to seek additional accreditations with them through their ICF Accreditation scheme.
The Coaching Academy’s Life Coaching Diploma is an ICF accredited Level 1 coaching education programme.
All of the core programme requirements above will be included, plus two additional elements:
Ten hours of mentoring with an ICF credentialled mentor where you will be coached on your coaching skills, with feedback against the ICF core competencies. These include:
- Two 90-minute one-to-one mentoring sessions where you provide a 30-minute recording of a coaching session on which you will receive feedback and will help you practice new skills
- Five 90-minute group mentoring sessions with nine other coaches. Participants will be required to carry out short coaching sessions with their peers either in the role of coach, coachee or observer. There will be feedback and discussion on this.
In addition to the practical assessments and final assessment paper required in the core course, you will also be required to complete a final performance evaluation at the end of your studies. This is a 30-45 minute recording of one of your coaching sessions that will be assessed by one of our ICF PCC markers and graded.
There is more than one accreditation pathway however, to enrol on our Life Coaching Diploma with a internationally recognised accreditation (AC pathway) the enrolment fee will be £3,997 + VAT.
Please note: The Coaching Academy offer a bursary for those who are self-funding (not funded by a large Organisation), and whilst the amount varies a little it generally reduces your fees to as little as £2,997+vat for exactly the same qualification.
For the core course, we ask that you attend a set number of live online training sessions, carry out a minimum number of coaching sessions and submit recordings of five of them for assessment. There is also a short, written assessment at the end of the core course. Each accreditation pathway will also have additional requirements, which are explained above.
You have 3 years from your enrolment date in which to qualify.
At The Coaching Academy, we understand how important it is for your studies to fit around you. Based upon our experience, 3 years allows you the flexibility to complete all of the programme requirements at a steady pace, as well as allowing a little extra for any of those unforeseen life circumstances.
This varies from student to student, depending on how much additional reading they wish to do around the modules and the time they have given themselves to complete the course. We recommend that all our students put aside three hours a week for their studies, but this is a suggestion rather than a requirement.
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