This Personal and Professional Coaching training is a 140-hour program that leads to a Certification as a Professional Coach. It will help you develop a successful life coaching practice-imparting the skills and tools to create lasting, effective change in yourself and others. Utilizing a holistic approach, life coaches create an awareness of body, mind and spirit that gives clients access to their inner wisdom, unleashes their creativity, and empowers their ability to take action and meet goals. Coaching for Transformation is an International Coach Federation, ICF, Accredited School.
Course Overview
If you are committed to catalyzing positive change in business, government, the arena of social responsibility and people's individual lives, this training will deepen your effectiveness. You will discover how to leverage your strengths and develop your distinctive coaching voice. After graduating you will continue to draw from a community of coaches committed to mutual support. The 9-month training includes:
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14 classroom training sessions (Saturdays and Sundays)
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24 1½-hour tele-classes
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16 hours of peer coaching
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9 hours of mentor coaching
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Coaching competencies demonstration and final evaluation
Whether you’re a coach, teacher, consultant, social worker, nurse, manager, or any other leader, you can use this program to help people create a better future. Therapists, in particular, increasingly find coaching tools a valuable complement to their practice. This program is also for those who want to enhance and compliment their effectiveness in their current business or practice.
What Makes Coaching for Transformation Unique
Coaching for Transformation is an exciting adventure in experiential learning in which you will face the cutting edges of your own growth, as well as:
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Develop a community of peers for support and learning
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Receive mentoring with rigorous feedback on your coaching skills
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Focus on transformation for the client and the coach
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Expand awareness of emotions and needs
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Learn how to get started and build your coaching business
Course Curriculum Includes
Welcome to Coaching: Creating Conscious Community, Exploring Core Principles and Coaching Model, Self-focused, Client-centered, and Transformational Listening, Opening to Curiosity and Awareness, Asking Empowering Questions, Creating Trust
Coaching Skills: Core Coaching Skills, Acknowledging, Championing, Celebrating and Appreciating, Making Powerful Requests, Giving Honest, Inspirational Feedback, Working with Limiting Beliefs and the Inner Critic, Surfacing the Presenting, Deeper and Transformational Agenda
Alignment with Self: Connecting with Meaning, Passion and Purpose, Identifying Universal Needs, Expanding Emotional Intelligence, Differentiating Between Needs and Strategies, Clarifying Personal Values, Opening to Possibilities
Expanding the View: Identifying your Client’s Viewpoint, Expanding Viewpoint of What is Possible Using Inner and Outer Resources, Making what no Longer Serves the Client Conscious, Deepening Fulfillment and Accountability, Choosing Self Care for the Coach, Referring Clients to Other Helping Professionals
Experiencing the Moment: Staying Present in the Moment, Deepening Awareness of Body, Mind, and Spirit, Accessing Inner Wisdom through Body Awareness, Deepening Emotional Awareness, Practicing Self-Management and Suspending judgment, Identifying Natural Openings
Vision and Strategy: Expanding the Vision, Using the Right Brain, Establishing Smart Goals, Moving into Action, Creating Empowering Accountability Structures, Developing Supports Systems
Embracing the Shadow: Working with the Loyal Soldier, Embracing Polarities, Transforming Distress into Light, Visualizing the Future, Harnessing Fear and Power
Calling out the Client’s Power: Taking the Coach’s Stand, Identifying Your Unique Strengths as a Coach, Develop Your Personal Approach, Exploring Your own Delivery Systems, Using Provocative Coaching, Coaching Across Differences
The Business of Coaching: Creating from Values and Vision, Integrating Coaching into Existing Life and Work, Structuring your Coaching Business, Creating and Implementing your Plan, Expanding your Network and Generating Sustainability
Soul and Spirit: Coaching Outside the Box, Working with the Natural World, Accessing Your Core Self, Personal Expression, and Contribution in The World, Using Earth-Based and Eastern Models to Inform Your Coaching of Soul and Spirit
Celebration and Completion: Integrating Coaching Skills, Launching into the Unknown
Your Total Investment of $6,330 includes: Tuition: $4,985; Books: $145; Mentor Coaching: $1,200 Tuition payment plan option available (deposit, plus four automatic credit card payments).
Register at: www.opencenter.org
More Information: 570.297.2270 or 413.528.6805
Classroom Training Sessions: Sep 11-12, Oct 16-17, Nov 13-14, Dec 12, 2010, Jan 9, Feb 12-13, Mar 12-13, Apr 10, May 15, 2011 Teleclasses held between classroom training sessions.
Want to know more? Join us for a FREE Intro Session at the New York Open Center on Friday, March 12 or Monday, May 17, 7-9 PM; or join a FREE Teleclass on April 7, 2010, 8-9 PM EST
Richard Michaels, MCC, CPCC, is a Master Certified Coach, Gestalt therapist and artist. A founding partner of Coaching That Works, he has been leading workshops on personal, professional and spiritual development for over 30 years. His holistic approach provides an in depth process for clients to increase self-awareness, creativity, fulfillment, and performance at work and in life. He was a founding member, teacher and trustee at the Kripalu Center for Yoga & Health in Lenox, MA.
Martha Lasley, MBA, an executive coach who facilitates training and coaching programs to develop passionate leaders and learning organizations. She coaches visionary leaders and social change activists to help them maximize their contribution. She has written two books, Courageous Visions and Facilitating with Heart. As co-founder of Coaching That Works and Leadership That Works, she facilitates human development and social change. She is a certified trainer with the Center for Nonviolent Communication and teaches coaching and diversity courses for Capella University's MBA program.
Want to listen to Richard and Martha talk about the program on the radio? coachingthatworks.com/rec/CFT.mp3
