Course Curricula

Building a Trust-Based Relationship with Clients

  • The Humanistic & Psychodynamic Approach to Coaching
  • Carl Rogers & The Core Elements of Person Centred Coaching
  • The Coaches Use of Self 
  • Live Supervision of Coaching Work

Contracting and Goal Setting

  • Two and Three Party Contracting
  • How to Establish Goals & Values
  • Difference Between Coaching, Psychotherapy, Organisational Consultancy, and Mentoring
  • Association for Coaching Code of Ethics & Practice

Communicating/ Coaching Skills

  • A Two Stage Model:
    1. Building Client Awareness & Understanding
    2. Moving & Supporting Client Action
  • Attending Skills
  • Permissions to Speak & Continuation Expressions
  • Summarising Skills
  • Challenging Skills
  • Brainstorming
  • Skills of Responding to the Client’s Internal Frame of Reference:
  • Reflective Responding (Empathic Understanding) & Advanced Empathy
  • Powerful Questioning
  • Skill of Using Metaphor
  • Skill of Reframing
  • Skill of Giving Feedback
  • The Coach as Facilitator rather than Advisor
  • Live Supervision of Coaching Work

Self –Awareness & the Coach

  • Internal Sabotage
  • Negative & Irrational Thinking
  • Cognitive Psychology
  • Self-Efficacy
  • The Psychology of Introjected Beliefs & Values
  • Projection in the Workplace and in Life
  • Transference & Counter Transference in Coaching
  • Live Supervision of Coaching Work

Emotional Intelligence, Leadership & Working with Organisations

  • Strategies to Develop Emotional Intelligence
  • An Emotional Intelligence Model
  • Levels of Organisational Behaviour & Development
  • Leadership Styles, Behaviours and their Impact on Outcomes
  • Coaching as an Organisational Change Intervention
  • Evaluating the Coaching Process
  • Feedback. Positive & Negative
  • Live Supervision of Coaching Work