If you are thinking about the next steps in your life, looking for a new pathway and are thinking about coaching as a career, this is the place to start.

What you will learn in this programme

What coaching is and how it specifically works with people to support them in improving and changing their lives.

Clarification on how it differs from similar processes such as counselling, mentoring, psychotherapy, consulting and other kinds of coaching.

How it is applied in different settings, from the home to the workplace.

Core coaching skills

You will learn the core coaching skills of listening at three levels: questioning, creating and designing the coaching relationship, reflecting, paraphrasing, self-management, championing and accountability.

We will explore the principles behind these skills and how they work to forward the coaching process.

The Coaching ‘Arc’ and structure of a coaching session

You will learn how to start a coaching session, proceed through it, build rapport, manage expectations, create goals and end it.

You will learn how to create accountability, why it is important and how it supports the coaching process.

Introduction to coaching models (and the MCC coaching model)

How to base your coaching on a coaching model and the Meaning Centered Coaching Model specifically to unlock energy, goals and resonance in the coaching process.

Learn how to use it in everyday situations to improve interpersonal connection, develop potential and direction.

Ethics and Best Practice

You will learn how coaching practice sits within ethical and best frameworks and why this supports and helps you use your coaching skills.

The Learning Process

The learning is divided into theory, i.e. what you need to know at a fundamental level and the ‘how’ to implement and apply coaching skills. 

We introduce the models and frameworks and then show they can be implemented. As a group learning we explore why and when these approaches and skills work. And why they might not.

In this foundational course the emphasis is slightly focused on learning how to do it so that, by the end of the course, you will be able to apply coaching skills to the relationships and the environment around you.

You will be start coaching on the first day of the programme and will continue coaching to the end.

You will work as a group in changing small pairs, or three’s. You will be guided through learning exercises, usually fun, and will have the opportunity to be coach, client and observer in the active coaching sessions.

Coaching skills will be demonstrated by your expert facilitators who will give you close and specific feedback as you practice yours so that you can develop quickly.

Safe, Confidential and Non Judgmental

Our facilitators take great care to build with participants a safe, confidential and experimental, non judgmental learning environment.

We invite all our trainee coaches to lean into the learning and self development that the course offers in order that they will quickly and, we hope, profoundly, understand the feeling, power and benefits of coaching.

The programme is designed to be highly experiential and you will be able to gain your own personal development from the process as you will receive coaching during the course. 

Accreditation

The Certificate in Meaning Centered Coaching Skills programme is the first step in becoming a professional Advanced Certified Meaning Centered Coach and provides 15 hours of coach education.

On completion you will receive obtain a certificate from FRC Coach Academy and credits that you can apply towards becoming a professional advanced certified Meaning Centered Coach which is Accredited by the Association for Coaching at ACCT level.