Accredited Diploma in Transformational Coaching

The Accredited Diploma in Transformational Coaching is delivered through five modules of in-person training along with experiential client practice, personal coach mentoring, a rich library of course materials and reflective learning.

Each in-person module takes place over two days from 9.30 until 5.30 and takes place on weekends or weekdays as you choose.

Module 1 : Foundations

Foundations is where your journey to become a coach starts. The module introduces you to the key principles of coaching, gets you practising your new skills and prepares you to start coaching clients outside of the training room.

On this module, you will learn how to:

• Build collaborative partnerships with your clients

• Develop deep listening

• Ask powerful questions

• Use clarification and reflection to deepen understanding

• Set the outcomes and goals of coaching

• Use the GROW Model to start coaching – this is your starter model

• Use TOOLKIT, the Animas core model

• Draw on the qualities of coaching from the Animas 6Cs of Coaching

• Establish the coaching relationship

• Find and work with clients to build practical experience

Module 2 : Cognition

Cognition explores the theory and practice of Cognitive Behavioural Coaching, to enable you to help the client understand and change the thinking patterns which may be driving how they behave and the results they are getting.

On this module, you will learn how to:

• The theory and principles of Cognitive Behavioural Coaching

• Coaching with the STAR model to change repeating patterns of ineffective behaviour

• Using the A-F model in coaching to explore and replace limiting beliefs

• Working with the SPACE model to help a client explore the full range of their experience

• Coaching around values and value clashes

• Using creative visualisation in coaching

Module 3 : Presence

Presence encourages you to slow down in coaching and become more aware and tuned into the quality of the relationship and space. Drawing from person-centred theory and practice, you will explore how to work more fully with what emerges in the coaching space.

On this module, you will learn how to:

• Developing and maintaining a deep presence

• Managing obstacles to presence

• Bringing your reflective self in coaching

• Working with the here and now experience

• Allowing and working with silence and space

• Remaining committed but unattached

Module 4 : Transactions

Transactions explores how individuals relate both to themselves and to others in ways which can both empower or disempower. Using concepts from Transactional Analysis, you will learn to apply these ideas and models to your coaching.

On this module, you will learn how to:

• Identifying and working with Ego States and Transaction Types

• Coaching through Life Scripts and Script Processes

• Identifying and changing Life Positions

• Noticing and challenge discounting behaviours that keep clients stuck

• Recognising Games and how to interrupt them

• Working with Karpman’s Drama Triangle

Module 5 : Paradigms

Paradigms is your final module and, as well as synthesising your learning to date, it introduces you to new ways to explore an individual’s personal paradigm through the stories, language and metaphors they use.

On this module, you will learn how to:

• Surfacing with the client’s paradigm

• Narrative coaching principles

• Re-authoring and Re-membering

• Multiple perspectives

• Reframing questions and approaches

• Clean Language

• Your next professional steps