The best life coaches understand people and know how to coach very well.
This course gives you the toolkit to become an outstanding life coach.
An ILM accreditation gives you and your clients a guarantee of quality.
And our free grow your coaching business programme – The sustainable coach – will give you the extra resources to turn your skills into a successful business, for you.
Key features
- Small groups – maximum of 8 people for our online courses
- Highly practical and participative approach
- Written and verbal feedback on your coaching sessions
- Thriving alumni community of life coaches, to continue your learning
Course outcomes
On completion of this programme, you will be able to
- Engage individuals in a comprehensive life coaching programme
- Access all the coaching skills for coaching individuals, at various stages in their life
- Balance the times when coaching is needed to when mentoring and guidance is needed
- Access a comprehensive toolkit of resources that are highly valuable for life coaches
Syllabus
Our life coaching programme is broken down into three core elements:
- Standard and life coaching skills
- Structuring life coaching conversations and programmes
- Using personal reflective tools
PLUS, BONUS MATERIAL FOR COURSE GRADUATES:
- Working on your own coaching business
The training webinars focus in turn on each of these elements, to give you the skills and knowledge to be able to coach people successfully. Sample content includes:
- Distinguishing life coaching from other coaching models.
- The nature of advice in life coaching, and how to balance it with non-directive coaching
- General coaching skills training, practice, assessment
- Life coaching skills training, practice, assessment
- Structuring individual coaching sessions
- Structuring a full life coaching programme
- Specifics for supporting individuals at different stages of their life and different challenges, including:
- goals and aspirations
- beliefs and motivation
- personality and behaviours
- relationships
- wellbeing
- career
- life obstacles
Life coaching toolkit
The toolkit is your one-stop shop for everything needed to support your client. As well as your coaching skills, it includes:
- Templates and questionnaires for planning and reflection
- Exercises and activities for all the life stages and life challenges
Our approach
There are two elements to become a skilled life coach
- Learn how to coach very well
- Have access to, and be able to use a toolkit very well
Our approach is that we practice the skills in the webinar environment and use the toolkit outside of the training environment.
This makes the webinar sessions highly focussed, active and practical, with opportunities to coach, be coached, receive feedback and work on coaching skills.
At the same time, we ensure that all toolkit items are well studied, explained and applied, so that coaches can use them with clients.
Support
In order to develop well as a life coach, it is important to spend time learning and practicing the coaching skills, with life coaching clients.
We support you throughout the process, including::
- Feedback on your development as a coach
- Guidance on selection of people to work with
- Mentoring support whilst working with your first client
- Detailed feedback on your coaching practice
- Unlimited tutorial support and mentoring through the process
Tutor team
The lead trainer for the life coaching programme is Charlie Warshawski. He has been coaching since 2007 and has coached many people in both professional and personal coaching sessions, supporting them with the topics that are most important to them.
Since 2010 he has been supporting fellow coaches to develop their coaching skills, and their coaching business. He co-wrote the sustainable coach – a one-stop shop for growing your coaching life, which he makes available to all coaches.
Charlie says “it takes time, energy, focus and skills to establish a successful coaching business. The skills come first, then coaches can start working on their business.”
