Holistic Coaching

The Certificate in Holistic Coaching is a short course that runs over three two-day modules. It is aimed at those who already work with people and who want to add coaching, with a holistic focus, to their toolkit.

The course is experiential, dynamic and adapts to the learning needs of the participants while being in line with the core competencies of the International Coach Federation.

It is important that participants have had a certain amount of experience in counseling, coaching, pscyhotherapy or similar modalities. They will need to have a suitable level of interpersonal skills to get the most out of the course. To assess this, an application procedure is in place. There is some coaching practice that is required between modules two and three.

Participants are offered an opportunity to expand their current understanding of and practice of coaching, exploring how to work with clients holistically. Coaching practice with peers is an integral part of the course, and the program makes use of group exercises and peer learning. Each person's knowledge, skills and experience is shared with other participants during the course, in order to expand coaching skills and techniques.

The focus is on teaching participants to assist their clients to articulate and reach their goals, in a balanced and holistic way, and to free them to be the best they can be.

The 2011 course is being run in Sydney for the first time.

Please feel free to contact the facilitator, Rosemary Shapiro-Liu, for further information at 0405 392827.

Course sessions cover:

• An introduction to Holistic Coaching (with a special emphasis on comparing modalities)
• Exploring clients and client needs
• Coaching Skills, Tools and Techniques within a Holistic mileu (a coaching "toolkit", with an emphasis on powerful questions)
• Ethics of Coaching, suitable boundaries and the concept of "clarity"
• Preparation for incorporation of the course content into the present or future practice or participants.

Participants are encouraged to put in place the lessons of the previous module and report back at the next session. This is based on Action Learning theory.

By the end of the course participants will

• understand the difference between coaching and other one-to-one work with clients (for example psychotherapy, mentoring, supervising, counseling, healing)
• have the skills to work with the present and the future with their clients
• be able to assist clients to achieve mutually agreed-upon goals, empowering their clients to take ownership of their growth and development
• have learnt from one another and the facilitator
• have put in place a plan for their own practice.

Participants will have a “toolkit” of skills and tools and will know how to take their learning further after the course.  Participants will work on freeing people to be the best they can be, and will be encouraged to enjoy their practice and work with their own strengths.

Dates

2011 dates :

Where to from here?

• Apply online
• Download Application Form
• Enquire about course