The Professional Coaching Certificate
Graduates of this program have gone on to work as Executive Coaches, Internal Coaches and Personal/Life Coaches that work with people online. The Professional Coaching Certificate enables you to master the skills, tools and essence of Coaching and apply these core skills in any coaching market.
The program includes: equivalent of 9 days training available either completely on-line, or blended with in-person workshops (in Perth). This program includes demonstrations and practice, and a massive amount of observation and feedback.
This program is unique in Perth, by providing sufficient ACSTH ICF hours to become a member of the International Coach Federation, and provides the training hours and mentoring required to proceed to ACC level recognition.
What does this program include?
- 6 x in-person workshop days
- 5 x 1 hour observed coaching sessions, with the trainer as observer providing feedback
- 10 hours of Mentoring (Group and Individual) with written feedback on your coaching over 3 months
- 1 x 20 minute Practical Assessment
For the iWAM Profile Accreditation:
- Approximately 15 hours of self-paced elearning
- 7 hours of online group workshops
Recognition of this Training
Our Coaching Qualifications are ICF Accredited and issued by The Performance Solution, UK.
This program is delivered under alliance. On the ICF Training Register search for The Performance Solution, 'Professional Coaching Skills' Qualification.
This program is delivered in Australia under alliance with The Performance Solution, as part of a larger Level 2 Program. Graduates receive a Certificate for 62 hours of Coach Specific Training (ACSTH) as part of the Level 2 program registered with the ICF. Graduates will receive the 10 hours of Mentoring required to use for an Level 1 application with the ICF.
What will you learn?
- Definitions of Coaching, including differences between Coaching and Consulting, Mentoring and Therapy.
- The ICF Coach Competencies are the core of the program. Students receive written and verbal feedback against these competencies from the Trainer across 8 Observation and events.
- Ethics, contracting and boundaries, including complex contracting within organisations
- Powerful Questioning, Listening and Challenging skills
- The core concept of accountability
- Coaching models and structure, including and going beyond the GROW model.
- Presence and the non-verbal elements of establishing trust and rapport with your clients
- Masterful use of language, including the Clean Language Model
- Creative Coaching Techniques for creative problem solving and transformational coaching, that also develop presence and intuition in Coaches
- Designing and delivering Group Coaching, including an experience of Group Coaching
- Introduction to group dynamics, and maintaining a ‘holding space’ for psychological safety in groups
- 48 motivational and thinking patterns based in cognitive science. You will be able to recognise these in the language patterns of your clients, their descriptions of the challenges they face and changes they want to create and measure them precisely using the iWAM Profile.
Register your interest in this program and receive our information pack by email. Leave your contact details if you would like to speak to the program Trainer.
This qualification includes a Profiling Tool for your Coaching Toolkit:
The iWAM Consultant Accreditation
You will receive an additional certificate: 'iWAM Consultant' that is also recognised globally.
An accreditation in this profiling instrument normally retails at $1,995 and is included into the cost of this course.
- Learn the 48 patterns that make your unique motivational fingerprint
- Understand what will create passion and energy in your work
- Gain insight into how you are creating your current results
- Understand what key development areas will bring breakthroughs in your results
- Practical exercises to help recognise and validate the meta-programs in language patterns
- iWAM Test Design: Statistics, Standard Groups, and Culture
- Introduction and experience in using the iWAM Reports: Individual, Paired and Team Reports
- Skill building exercises in interpreting and delivering individual debriefs using the iWAM instrument.
The iWAM measures 48 thinking styles or meta programs in the context of work. It is an online, easy to use and administer questionnaire that provides an objective way to measure an Individual’s or team’s motivational patterns, evidenced in specific attitudes and behaviours in the workplace. The iWAM does not ‘box’ or categorise people, and as a result is incredibly accurate. Based in Cognitive Science, rather than Personality Theory, the iWAM offers a framework that is ‘coachable’ - that is, clients are able to create change if their current Attitudes and Motivational Patterns are not working for them.
This instrument is used internationally in coaching, team building, talent management, recruitment, outplacement, or leadership development. The Inventory for Work Attitude & Motivation (iWAM) is a groundbreaking instrument, rigorously tested through academic research and corporate settings and found to offer a high level of reliability and validity (r= 0.89).
Unlike other instruments the results are 'context specific'. With the 'context setter' functionality, you will be able to get precise results for your clients, specific to your niche.
About the Trainer
Grace Minton is a PCC level Coach, with a Postgraduate qualification in Coaching. Grace has an ICF Accredited Diploma of Coach Supervision and is a Faculty Member of the University of Wales Academy for Professional Practice and Applied Research MA Neuro Science.
Grace has coached professionally in both the leadership/corporate and personal development spaces and is the owner of The Neuro Coaching Academy. Grace has worked as a professional coach in both the personal and organisational markets for 16 years.
Grace has tertiary qualifications in Communication Studies and HR Development and has experienced working in HR and OD Consulting.
Grace is an NLP Trainer, mBIT Trainer, and Master Trainer of both the Extended DISC and iWAM Psychometric Profiling instruments.
Course Developer
Dr Sally Vanson is a PCC level Coach, with a Doctorate in Coaching.
Sally is highly involved in the ICF, as a global assessor. She has developed a Masters Program (MA Neuro Coaching) with a UK university that will be delivered and recognised Globally.
Sally works in the field of Coaching and Organisational Development, delivering throughout Europe and in the Middle East.
Sally has provided leadership in the field of Coaching Supervision, developing one of the first ICF recognised qualifications in this area.
The Neuro Coaching Academy will be the only provider of the units of Practical Training for the MA Neuro Coaching in Australia. In order to do so, Grace Minton has studied directly with, and been supervised by, Dr Sally Vanson.
Register your interest in this program and receive our information pack by email. Leave your contact details if you would like to speak to the program Trainer.
Program Dates & Times
In-Person Workshops in Perth
We are working on the next dates for the In-Person Workshops in Perth.
If you are would like to be part of the waitlist, please register your interest by
requesting for the course information.
Times
In-Person workshops start at 8:30am and finish at 5:30pm.
Live iWAM online meetings are 3 x 2 hours.
Observation Learning and Feedback
Live online practice with feedback will happen online in
pairs in 5 x 1 hour sessions exchanging practice with
another student.
An experienced Coach will observe you and provide
feedback each time. These online sessions are organised flexibly with pairs.
Students will have achieved a 62 hour ACSTH
qualification based on the above.
Coach Mentoring
An additional 10 hours of mentoring are delivered online.
Mentoring commences following completion of workshops and counts towards the
10 hours required by the ICF for you to apply for ACC level recognition following the completion of the course.
Students have 3 months to complete the mentoring component and can still graduate the course without it. That is, it is not a requirement, however it is incredibly valuable for your confidence and skill levels.
How are we different?
- Our training is both ICF accredited and recognised at a post-graduate university level
- The Observer for your feedback is also a qualified Trainer with over 10 years experience
- In all demonstrations and in your practice all students discuss real issues, there is no role-play
- You receive your ICF Mentoring early (during the course) and not as an additional cost after graduating
- Our qualification includes a Profiling Instrument accreditation for your toolkit normally priced at $2K
- We offer free support for your ICF ACC application after graduation. Once you achieve 100 hours of coaching experience, we will provide the help you need to understand and succeed in your application and complete the 10 hour requirement.
- Our graduates can stay connected with us for free in a monthly online practice group each month
- For people becoming self-employed Coaches, we offer an e-learning, your Entrepreneur Profile and mentoring session to support you at no additional cost. If you would like more support beyond this, you can choose to join our Business Start-up Bootcamp intensive program (an additional cost).
Regarding In-Person Training & Isolating
Should you need to isolate, the program will be audio recorded, with demonstrations video recorded. The Trainer and program Assistant will work with you to catch-up on key processes to practice. All students who miss attending live are always welcome to attend the same days with the next course group at no cost. In the unlikely event of future 'lockdowns’ the course would simply be rescheduled, with all participants consulted on future dates.
Investment
$5,500 ex GST
$6,050 incl GST
We have a maximum of 14 people per Program
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Support after you Graduate!
Support to apply for your ICF Credential
You will need to add a further 1.5 hour individual mentoring session to your log and submit to the ICF a recording of you coaching, with a transcript. We offer a FREE service to graduates to provide this additional mentoring session on the recording you intend to submit.
We are also happy to provide a 'pre-flight check' to the materials you need to upload as evidence.
The Online Coaching Practice Group
Many people find it hard to ever see a demonstration of coaching again after graduating from their Coaching course. In the first year of professional practice, it is particularly useful to also have practice that reinforces your learnings, and a place to workshop solutions to challenges.
We offer Graduates a FREE ONGOING ACCESS to an Online Coaching Practice Group that meets quarterly on a weekday evening. You are able to have ongoing contact with your Trainer to ask the questions that arise once you are 'out there' putting what you have learnt into practice. We do demonstrations, exchange peer coaching in break-out rooms and discuss topics by request from group members.
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This program sells separately for $597 and is included in the Certificate for FREE
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