Advanced Certificate in Meaning

Centered Coaching

Advanced Certificate in Meaning Centered Coaching

Become a professional coach with our accredited Advanced Certificate in Meaning Centered Coaching Programme.
In the programme, you can grow yourself through our unique and powerful coach learning experience into a skillful, robust, confident, highly effective professional coach.
We offer a unique curriculum that shows you how to work as a coach and integrate all the different aspects of being human that, in reality, human beings experience, and your clients do too.
You will be able to coach in almost every setting and deal appropriately and ethically with any coaching challenge.
You will be able to use your skills professionally, whether in a work context (internal) or as an independent (external) coach.

Our Next Training Commences in Autumn 2024.

Places are limited, so please contact us to reserve a space.

The Advanced Certificate in Meaning Centered Coaching is offered as both a completely virtual programme where all the of the programme is delivered virtually and as a mixed programme in the UK only in 2024. 

In the mixed programme, just under half of the programme is delivered in person, the remainder being virtual.

Generally, the programme is delivered in such a way so that the time demand on participants for both the in person or long group training sessions is manageable for busy working professionals.

The programme is also available in-house for organisations where it can be customised to meet the organisation's particular needs.

Please contact us HERE for more information.

This programme is accredited by the Association for Coaching [link + logo] at ACCT level.

Who is this programme for?

This programme is ideal for anyone wishing to become an accredited professional coach.

Coaching is one of the most fulfilling of the helping and change process professions. Helping individuals and groups of people fulfill their potential, reach their meaningful goals and thrive is highly rewarding for the coach both personally, socially and economically.

We have had people form a wide range of backgrounds, industries and organisations learn to become great, effective coaches with us.

So, whether you are a team leader, manager, aspiring or existing leader, run your own business or a third sector organisation or want a change of career direction, becoming a professional coach may well be for you.

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About the Advanced Certificate in Meaning Centered Coaching

The programme is unique in it’s approach to developing you as a professional, confident and highly effective coach.

The key principles of the programme which we propose coaches embrace are:

That almost everyone wishes to live lives and pursue careers that are meaningful to them. The Meaning Centered Coaching model provides a powerful way to place meaning and purpose at the center of coaching practice.

That all of a persons life, their experience, education, background, behaviour and choices affect how effectively they can pursue what is most important to them in their lives and that coaches must be able to work in this Whole Human way.

That the current context of a persons life and the forces that act upon them from society, culture and commerce shapes in some way their ability to find fulfillment and live lives of meaning.  

Our content includes many topics that are not included in mainstream coach training programmes in addition to our comprehensive range of coaching approaches, tools, models and techniques.

Programme aims

To develop highly competent, confident accredited coaches that:

  • Are able to work across multiple aspects of their client's lives from the first day of their graduation if not before.
  • Know how to work with challenging topics and help their clients navigate them.
  • Know how to coach across different domains and contexts.
  • Are respected professional coach practitioners within the professional field of coaching.
The programme approach and the curriculum rest on the following foundational principles about people you may coach.
  • They need you to be the coach they need.
  • That their whole life and experience is welcome in the coaching process.
  • That the context of their lives is vital to them and is understood by their coach.
  • That they want change and to fulfil what is possible for themselves and their community in their lives and are willing to courageously take action to bring that about.
Following this, the programmes approach and curriculum are focused on the following foundational principles about you, the coach.
  • That you are competent, skillful and courageous.
  • That your depth and range of skills are more important than your theoretical knowledge.
  • That, as a coach, you know and understand yourself as a human being and that this informs your coaching.
  • That you can maintain a successful stance of non-judgment with your clients.
  • That your effectiveness comes from your presence, compassion, courage, self-management, coaching skills, knowledge and professional ethics.
Accreditation and Coaching Hours

The programme provides 140 coach education hours, including 11.5 hours of mentoring and supervision.

On completion of the programme assessment and exams you will receive a certificate of completion from FRC Coach Academy and you will be able to immediately apply for accreditation from the Association for Coaching at the Coach designation.

Research has shown that for individuals, coaching promotes well-being, performance and thriving, enabling us to become more the versions of ourselves we want.

In workplace, organisational and third sector settings research has shown that, where skills are integrated and used they improve the effectiveness and ongoing development of employees and teams.

They also leverage ethical integration and can become crucial to organisational success.

How the programme benefits you

  • Gain a new set of lifelong tools and frameworks that you can use across all areas of your life.
  • Improve your self-awareness and communication abilities. Build better, stronger relationships and become highly skilled at supporting others.
  • Develop insight and understanding of how people work and thrive. Become skilled and help people realise their potential.
  • Learn how to recover from a life setback and build a pathway forward to wellbeing.
  • Gain an understanding of of how to work in an integrated whole person way with people to help them make changes in their habits and lives. 
  • Discover how to connect with meaning and purpose on an ongoing basis and to coach others to do this too.
  • Become clearer about your own strengths and how to leverage them for your clients and yourself.
  • Learn how to leverage listening to have better, more effective, conversations with everyone around you.
  • Discover what about yourself gets in the way. What your key limiting beliefs are and how they can be changed. Learn how to help others do this in the coaching context.
  • Learn strategies and tactics for motivating and empowering others to build better work and personal lives for themselves and those around them.
  • Dramatically improve relationships in your life and learn how to manage and resolve conflict.
  • Learn how to proactively manage your experience of the outside world and culture to manage stress and overwhelm.

Benefits for Others (community, organisation, key relationships)

  • Assist people to develop their  individual performance, resilience and anti-fragility.
  • Help foster a wellbeing and self directed approach to daily life and team managment.
  • Support individuals to recover from a life crisis (health, personal issue, bereavement, etc.) and reestablish life with their family, work life and community.
  • Coach people to develop resilience and anti fragility to improve their connection to teams and groups. 
  • Help teams and groups you interact with in whatever circumstance to clarify their goals and maximise their effectiveness.
  • Support others in developing their own skills and self directed learning.
  • Support the development of groups and teams.
  • Coach individuals to improve their leadership and management skills.
  • Understand the different approaches when coaching creative people.
  • Improve employee engagement and accountability.
What you will learn in this programme

Comprehensive wide ranging effective coaching skills

How to use these skills, when and why, and the theory that under pins them.

How to leverage and use your own unique life experience, self awareness and insights to clarify your own coaching signature style and strengths

How to become an accredited professional coach and work within the ethical and best practice boundaries of the coaching profession.

How to manage and integrate a wide range of practical current topics into your coaching practice so that you will be able to help your clients navigate the following topics.

How you Learn

The programme is built around four live 2 day learning modules held two months apart over approx. 7 months.

Integrated into these modules is a programme of a mix of online self directed content, regular group discussions, structured coaching practice, 1:1 mentoring and supervision.

You will also start practice coaching with at least two clients.

You will be primarily learning to coach by actually coaching, being coached and using feedback to understand the process and your progress. 

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. 


Who can take this programme?

Anyone who would like to......

  • Learn comprehensive coaching skills and how to apply them in their lives.
  • Learn what coaching is and how it differs from other helping disciplines.
  • Expand their existing coaching skills
  • Improve the relationships of all kinds they are involved in at work and in their private lives.
  • Improve their ability to manage people and teams and support productive enterprise.
  • Become more employable (yes, coaching skills are a plus on a CV for any job that involves working with and/or managing people and/or teams.)
The kinds of people who have taken our programmes

We have had people attend our programmes from a wide range of backgrounds, industries, and types of organisations, from the creative industries to healthcare and the third sector to entrepreneurs, management consultants, and businesses.

This has included:

  • Managers or team leaders in different domains.
  • Human resource and talent development professionals.
  • Human resource and talent development professionals.
  • CEO’s and other managers in leadership positions.
  • People in employment transition or returning to work.
  • Employees who have been requested to attend by their organisation.
  • Individuals looking to become a coach or add coaching skills to their own business.
  • Doctors, counsellors, psychotherapists and nurses.
  • People looking for a dynamic and fulfilling profession.
How much does the programme cost?

The current cost is £3,999.00 plus VAT @ 20%

Please contact us for group discounts.

We do have some bursary support for individuals and not-for-profit organisations. Please get in touch if you are interested is finding out more.

How do I apply?

You can apply by contacting us HERE. We will walk you through the process, answer any questions you have and ensure that this programme is a good fit for you.

If you would like to simply talk to someone and  find out more before applying, please do not hesitate to contact us HERE and we will be delighted to help you in any way we can.

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