Accredited Diploma in Transformative Coaching
£5,995
9 - 12 Months
Max 15 Per Group
Live Virtual Classes
An Overview of our Coaching Course
It is ideal for those who want to become a life coach, executive coach or internal coach.
The course is delivered through six modules of live virtual training in small groups and supported by one-to-one mentoring, coaching supervision and observed practice and real-life client work to ensure you become a highly-skilled coach.
With qualification taking around 9-12 months, you’ll become a confident, competent coach able to work with a range of coaching approaches and with a wide variety of clients.
The course is accredited by the International Coach Federation, the European Mentoring & Coaching Council, and the Association for Coaching and is recognised across the world for its rigour and standards.
In a Nutshell
- 6 Modules of 2-day Live Virtual Training
- Introduction to Theory and Principles Video Series
- Private ICF Mentor Coaching
- Group Supervision Sessions
- Live Practice Coaching Pods
- Assessment and Certification
- Private Online Community
Download Course Guide
Book a Call with an Animas Coach Consultant to Explore the Course and Becoming a Coach
Course Elements
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6 Modules of 2-day Live Training
At the core of our coaching course are 6 two-day live training modules.
Each session takes place online in a group of around 12-15 participants.
The sessions are highly-experiential and interactive and cover theory, practice, discussion, observed coaching and group mentoring.
Led by one of our training faculty, all of whom are PCC level coaches, you will go on a developmental journey with your cohort and trainer together ensuring you get what you need and that we can help identify your strengths and address areas of development.
Download the Course Guide above to read what each module covers in more detail.
Module 1: Core Coaching Skills
Laying the Foundations for Transformative Practice
This foundational module is where your journey into transformative coaching truly begins. Focused on establishing the essential building blocks of coaching practice, Core Coaching Skills introduces the principles, structures, and techniques that underpin effective coaching conversations. You’ll explore what coaching is (and what it isn’t), discover how to hold space for meaningful dialogue, and develop the competencies required to work with clients in a professional and ethically grounded way.
During this module, you’ll become fluent in the fundamental skills of active listening, powerful questioning, contracting, and structuring sessions. You’ll learn how to support your clients to explore their thoughts and goals, articulate their challenges, and create pathways for purposeful action. Tools like the GROW model are introduced not as rigid scripts, but as flexible scaffolds that support deeper inquiry and flow.
This is also where you begin to develop your unique coaching presence—the way you show up in conversation, the quality of attention you bring, and your ability to build trust and rapport. By the end of this module, you’ll have a confident grounding in coaching essentials and a clear sense of how these skills lay the foundation for the deeper, transformative work to come.
Module 2: Thinking and Beliefs
Exploring the Inner Architecture of Change
In this module, you’ll delve into the psychological patterns that shape how people interpret their world, make decisions, and relate to themselves and others. Drawing on the powerful principles of Cognitive Behavioural Coaching (CBC), this module equips you to work with clients at the level of thoughts, beliefs, values, and internal narratives—those often-unseen frameworks that either enable or inhibit meaningful change.
You’ll explore how clients’ belief systems can be both empowering and limiting, and you’ll learn to recognise the subtle assumptions and thinking patterns that often lie beneath the surface of their language and behaviour. Through practical tools and structured frameworks, you’ll gain the skills to help clients challenge unhelpful beliefs, reframe limiting narratives, and move towards more constructive and flexible ways of thinking.
This module also introduces the role of values in coaching—how they inform decisions, create alignment, and offer a compass for authentic action. You’ll learn how to surface and clarify values in conversation, and how to support clients in navigating internal conflicts between beliefs, values, and goals.
As you integrate these approaches, you’ll begin to coach with greater psychological depth and confidence, enabling transformative insight that starts with how your clients think—and leads to how they live.
Module 3: Transformative Presence
Deepening the Relational Field of Coaching
In this module, we step beyond tools and techniques to focus on one of the most powerful and subtle forces in coaching: your presence. Transformative Presence invites you to explore who you are as a coach, how you relate to your clients, and how the quality of your being shapes the coaching space itself.
Rooted in humanistic and relational philosophies, this module draws on the work of thinkers like Carl Rogers and Nancy Kline to explore what it means to be truly present, empathic, and attuned. You’ll examine the impact of silence, attention, congruence, and intuition—not as passive qualities, but as active catalysts for insight and change. Coaching becomes less about directing and more about holding; less about fixing and more about witnessing.
You’ll also explore the relational dynamics at play in the coaching conversation. What does it mean to be in a co-created space of mutual exploration? How can you foster psychological safety while also inviting challenge and depth?
By developing a grounded and spacious presence, you begin to work not only with what is said but also with what is felt, sensed, and emerging. This module helps you cultivate the depth of presence that transforms coaching from a helpful conversation into a truly generative encounter.
Module 4: Narrative Transformation
Rewriting the Stories That Shape Us
In this module, you’ll explore the profound role that story plays in shaping identity, meaning, and possibility. Narrative Transformation brings into focus how clients make sense of their lives through the stories they tell—about themselves, others, and the world—and how these stories can both liberate and limit.
Drawing on the insights of Narrative Coaching and Transactional Analysis, this module invites you to work with your clients’ personal narratives as dynamic, living texts. You’ll learn to recognise the scripts, roles, and patterns that clients unconsciously inhabit, often rooted in early life experiences and reinforced through habitual self-talk and relational dynamics. Models such as the Drama Triangle and ego states offer powerful ways to explore these inner narratives and bring awareness to how they play out in daily life.
Rather than “fixing” the story, you’ll support clients to re-author it—to step into new perspectives, create alternative meanings, and reclaim authorship over their lives. This is about helping clients see that their story is not fixed but fluid; not imposed, but co-created.
Through reflective practice and real-time dialogue, you’ll begin to coach not just around goals or problems, but around the very frameworks of identity. This opens the door to transformation that is deep, creative, and lasting.
Module 5: Transformative Presence
Module 6: Ethics and Professional Practice
Integrating Learning, Honouring Responsibility, and Embodying the Coach Role
The final module of the Accredited Diploma draws your learning journey into a mature, integrated whole. Ethics and Professional Practice is both a reflective and forward-facing space, helping you step confidently into your role as a professional coach with clarity, integrity, and purpose.
At this stage, you’ll revisit and refine your understanding of the ethical foundations of coaching—examining real-world dilemmas, exploring boundaries and responsibilities, and clarifying the distinction between coaching and adjacent practices such as therapy, mentoring, and consulting. The aim is not simply compliance with codes of ethics but the cultivation of ethical sensitivity and discernment as an ongoing way of being.
You’ll also engage in a deeper inquiry into your professional identity: What kind of coach are you becoming? What values and principles guide your work? How will you navigate power, difference, and uncertainty in the coaching relationship?
This module provides practical guidance around establishing your practice, engaging in supervision, and committing to lifelong development. But just as importantly, it invites you to reflect on the inner dimensions of your coaching presence—how you hold responsibility, how you show up in service of others, and how you continue evolving as both a person and a practitioner.
- Module 1: Core Coaching Skills
- Module 2: Thinking and Beliefs
- Module 3: Transformative Presence
- Module 4: Narrative Transformations
- Module 5: Transforming Paradigms
- Module 6: Ethics and Professional Practice
Laying the Foundations for Transformative Practice
This foundational module is where your journey into transformative coaching truly begins. Focused on establishing the essential building blocks of coaching practice, Core Coaching Skills introduces the principles, structures, and techniques that underpin effective coaching conversations. You’ll explore what coaching is (and what it isn’t), discover how to hold space for meaningful dialogue, and develop the competencies required to work with clients in a professional and ethically grounded way.
During this module, you’ll become fluent in the fundamental skills of active listening, powerful questioning, contracting, and structuring sessions. You’ll learn how to support your clients to explore their thoughts and goals, articulate their challenges, and create pathways for purposeful action. Tools like the GROW model are introduced not as rigid scripts, but as flexible scaffolds that support deeper inquiry and flow.
This is also where you begin to develop your unique coaching presence—the way you show up in conversation, the quality of attention you bring, and your ability to build trust and rapport. By the end of this module, you’ll have a confident grounding in coaching essentials and a clear sense of how these skills lay the foundation for the deeper, transformative work to come.
Theory & Principles of Coaching Video Course
Lay the intellectual and philosophical groundwork for your transformative coaching journey.
Before you step into live training, you’ll gain immediate access to a comprehensive 20-part video course exploring the theoretical foundations, evolution, and core principles of transformative coaching. This on-demand course provides a rich and immersive learning experience, giving you the grounding needed to make the most of every live interaction.
Through this expertly structured series, you’ll:
Explore the origins and evolution of coaching — from behavioural models to humanistic and transformative paradigms.
Dive deep into the philosophical and psychological underpinnings that distinguish transformative coaching from surface-level models.
Clarify the distinctions between coaching and other helping professions, setting the stage for ethical, professional practice.
Engage with the material at your own pace, allowing for reflection, integration, and self-inquiry ahead of the practical modules.
By front-loading this learning, your live sessions become practice-rich, experiential spaces where theory meets action — not passive listening. It’s the beginning of your transformation as a coach who leads with insight, depth, and integrity.
Private ICF Accredited Mentor Coaching
Refine your coaching voice through expert guidance, reflection, and transformative feedback.
Our one-to-one ICF-accredited mentor coaching is not just a tick-box requirement — it’s a deeply developmental space where your coaching evolves through reflective feedback and focused guidance. Working closely with a dedicated Mentor Coach, you’ll review recordings of your real coaching sessions to gain insight into your strengths, uncover areas for growth, and bring your practice into deeper alignment with the ICF Core Competencies.
This tailored mentoring process allows you to:
Sharpen your coaching presence and deepen your ability to hold space with confidence and curiosity.
Receive nuanced, constructive feedback on real sessions that helps you refine both technique and mindset.
Identify and embody your unique coaching style, rather than imitate others.
Fulfil the ICF’s 10-hour mentor coaching requirement for ACC or PCC credentials, with both individual and group mentoring built in.
Accelerate your coaching development with personal insight, accountability, and growth that wouldn’t be possible in isolation.
This is where the craft of coaching meets the art of self-awareness — a crucial stage in your evolution from competent to confident coach.
The Coaching Clinic: Group Supervision
Where challenges become insights, and community fuels your growth.
The Coaching Clinic is a facilitated group supervision space where you’ll bring real coaching challenges, questions, and experiences into reflective dialogue with fellow students and an experienced Coaching Supervisor.
More than just problem-solving, this is a space for deep professional inquiry — exploring the nuances of coaching practice, your internal responses as a coach, and the ethical or relational dynamics that arise in sessions.
Through group supervision, you will:
Unpack real coaching scenarios to gain perspective, clarity, and direction.
Engage in shared learning by witnessing the reflections and challenges of your peers.
Develop coaching maturity by exploring what lies beneath techniques — including mindset, presence, and professional boundaries.
Build resilience and confidence through honest conversation in a supportive, non-judgemental space.
Strengthen your reflective practice, a hallmark of transformative coaching.
Held regularly throughout the course, The Coaching Clinic supports your ongoing evolution — ensuring you don’t just learn coaching, but become a coach.
The Practice Cafe: Live Practice Coaching
Experiment. Practise. Evolve – all within a supportive learning community.
The Practice Cafe is your dedicated space to hone your craft in real time, coaching fellow students in a safe, encouraging environment that blends practice with constructive feedback.
These live coaching pods are not just rehearsal spaces — they’re powerful incubators for insight, experimentation, and confidence-building. Whether you’re testing a new technique, refining your presence, or deepening your ability to listen and respond, The Practice Cafe offers a low-pressure setting to stretch and grow.
Inside the Practice Cafe, you’ll:
Coach and be coached in structured sessions with peers who understand your learning journey.
Receive immediate feedback that sharpens your skills and raises your self-awareness.
Observe others coaching to expand your perspective and spot new approaches.
Build confidence through repetition and reflection, not just theory.
Experience diverse coaching styles, gaining insight into your own evolving voice.
Whether you’re fine-tuning foundational skills or stepping into more complex conversations, The Practice Cafe keeps your learning grounded in live, embodied experience — where real transformation begins.
Coaching Competency Conversations
From theory to practice: decode the ICF competencies in real coaching contexts.
These monthly discussion groups are your chance to go beyond abstract checklists and live into the International Coaching Federation’s Core Competencies. Together with fellow coaches and experienced facilitators, you’ll explore one competency at a time — not just in theory, but in how it shows up in real coaching moments.
This is where the competencies stop being rules and start becoming resources to help you deepen your practice, solve coaching challenges, and reflect on your development with clarity and purpose.
In these sessions, you will:
Demystify the ICF framework by unpacking one competency per session.
Explore how each competency shows up in real-life scenarios, dilemmas, and sessions.
Share challenges and insights, drawing on peer learning and group wisdom.
Strengthen your ability to self-assess and align with ICF standards.
Develop a more embodied, confident understanding of ethical and effective coaching.
Whether you’re working toward ICF accreditation or simply refining your craft, Coaching Competency Conversations help you connect the dots between principle and practice — one thoughtful conversation at a time.
Coaches Uncaged: The Business Community
Where the craft of coaching meets the courage to build your practice.
Coaches Uncaged is Animas’ dedicated online community for the business side of coaching — created to help you move from qualification to client acquisition with confidence, clarity, and creativity.
Whether you’re launching your first coaching offer or refining your niche, this community gives you the tools, support, and mindset shifts you need to build a purposeful and sustainable coaching business.
Inside Coaches Uncaged, you’ll get:
Access to free, practical workshops led by coaches who’ve successfully built thriving businesses.
A copy of Kickstart Your Coaching Business, the highly actionable book by Animas founder Nick Bolton.
An ever-growing content library of interviews, tutorials, and business deep-dives on pricing, positioning, marketing, and more.
A community of like-minded coaches committed to turning vision into momentum — without hype, fluff, or shortcuts.
This is where the business of coaching becomes less overwhelming and more doable. With guidance from those who’ve walked the path before you, Coaches Uncaged helps you move from intention to income, one brave step at a time.
Assessment & Certification
The course is fully accredited by the ICF, EMCC and AC, the three leading professional coaching associations and ensures you gain worldwide recognition for your coaching qualification.
FREE Online Introduction to Transformative Coaching
Attend a live, interactive training session in a small group to get all your questions answered.
Course Fee & Payment Plans
The course fee is £5,995 (or equivalent in $ or €) and does not incur VAT
This includes all training, mentoring, supervision and practice groups, assessment and certification as well as the additional support such as Coaches Uncaged.
Payment can be made in full or in 9 equal interest-free instalments. A place on the course is secured with a deposit of £995 (or $/€)
Peace of mind guarantee:
If you change your mind within 14 days of enrolling you will get a full refund.
How to Enrol
It all starts with a call...
In order to maintain the integrity of the course and the learning cohorts, enrolment on this programme starts with a consultation call.
This call allows you to ask any questions you have to ensure you are clear on how the course works and what it means for you.
It also enables us to be sure that it’s the right course for you and that you understand what it will need from you to qualify.
How to book your call…
To book a call with one of our Coach Consultants simply select the correct timezone, click the green Continue button to choose your preferred time. You’ll then be sent an email with all the details you need.
How to Enrol
It all starts with a call...
In order to maintain the integrity of the course and the learning cohorts, enrolment on this programme starts with a consultation call.
This call allows you to ask any questions you have to ensure you are clear on how the course works and what it means for you.
It also enables us to be sure that it’s the right course for you and that you understand what it will need from you to qualify.
How to book your call…
To book a Zoom call with one of our Coach Consultants simply choose your preferred date and time. You’ll then be sent an email with all the details you need.
Our Coach Training Faculty
Our faculty are highly-experienced PCC-level coaches with their own independent coaching practices. They have trained through Animas over and embody our philosophy and approach to transformative coaching whilst bringing their own unique skills and personalities.
Trainers
Mentors and Supervisors
