Academy of Coaching and NLP
Our ICF Accredited Coach Certification Training Program
Currently being offered:
San Francisco Bay Area begins Spring 2008
San Francisco Bay Area Summer Intensive Summer 2008
China • Mexico
Approved by the International Coach Federation (ICF)
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If you're searching for a "sure-fire" way to improve your life or business coaching skills...
If you want to use your NLP training to help the people around you access the internal qualities they need to solve their problems.
If you want to simplify the process of building a thriving life or business coaching practice, even if you're starting from scratch.
If you want to find a Coach School that really meets your needs.
You've found it: The NLP and Coaching Institute of California's Academy for Coaching and NLP ... a 120 hour life coaching certification training program for professional life coaches, business coaches, executives, managers, consultants and others who interact with, influence and help people achieve their goals.
The mission of this life coach certification training program is to provide you with the finest and most practical life and business coaching skills possible. Participating in it offers you multi-level life coaching tools that will tremendously enhance your ability to assist others. You will learn to help clients to gain clarity in their lives, and give them a deeper understanding of "what makes them tick." You'll know how to help them. Access the internal qualities they need to solve their problems and to develop the competency to fulfill their dreams. These skills are highly sought after and are definitely rewarding.
This life coach certification program combines traditional coaching practices with the clear how-to's of NLP. It includes some of the latest innovations in the field of life coaching and personal consulting that take you well beyond the procedural methods offered in most life coaching certification training schools. You will gain skills necessary to build a professional coaching or a life coaching practice or enhance your current coaching practice.
A small sample of the specific life coaching certification for life coaches, business coaches, professional coaches, executive coaches, and the like topics:
- A complete model for the life or business coaching process
- Life coaching and executive coaching ( or business coaching) approaches
- Accountability and life coaching
- Creating the coach - client relationship
- Leadership skills in coaching
- Questioning to promote discovery, acknowledgement and permission
- Belief change processes in coaching
- Coaching on conflict resolution and avoidance
- Coaching for internal conflict integration and decision making
- Helping the client to maintain motivation
- Help the client to deal with difficult people and situations
- Coaching to help client avoid burn out
- Helping clients get aligned with values
- Contracting as a coaching method
- "Intent" and the creation of success
- Communication skills for life coaching
- Assessment processes and instruments for coaching and how to access them
- Practice opportunities through peer coaching
- Coaching concepts: challenging, requesting, challenging and dancing in the moment
- Outcome frames for coaching
- Team and group coaching processes
- Know what questions lead to client success
- Model high performance client states and strategies so the client will know his/her own "best practices"
- How to build a practice-telecoaching and in-person coaching
- Optional tele-seminars for follow-up
- Coach as sponsor
A Program for Coaches of Every Kind--Life Coaches, Business, Executive, or Professional Coaches:
The coaching profession is quickly growing, because the business world has finally discovered what athletes have known for decades: coaches can help you have, be, and do your best.
That's why so many people want to enter the coaching profession. And why, even if you're not or don't want to become a professional life coach, you're still expected to be one!
Managers no longer give directions; they're expected to coach. Parents no longer take do-it-because-I-said-so-and-don't-ask-questions approaches; they're expected to coach. Good friends no longer just provide a shoulder to lean on; they're expected to coach.
Our Coach Training can help you become an extraordinary life coach - regardless of who or how you'll be coaching - by going beyond the skills taught in traditional life coaching certification training schools.
- As a life coach, you'll be well-equipped to help your clients:
- Discover and consistently achieve the best state of mind to make progress
Pinpoint exactly what they want from life—and then tap the power of their mind to most easily and predictably achieve their dreams.
NLP is the science of studying patterns of excellence in the world's most successful people—identifying the processes that produced such amazing results—and then "re–programming" the software of the human mind to replicate these successes. Without NLP, your coaching effectiveness will be limited by what our society believes is possible. With this life coach training, though, you'll instinctively coach your "players" to success, regardless of whether they are your clients, your colleagues, your children, or your best friends.
*This 20 day Life Coaching Certification Training Program has been accredited as 120 hours of Approved Coach Specific Training Hours ("ASCTH") by the International Coach Federation(ICF). The Approved Coach Specific Hours designation is awarded to programs that meet professional standards for the coach training programs established by the ICF. Graduation from an ASCTH program will meet the ICF's requirements for individual coach certification for student contact learning hours for the number of hours of the program. ASCTH Approval does not warrant or guarantee the effectiveness of the training or the student's ability to build a successful coaching practice. The individual applicant must take the ICF's portfolio exam to obtain their credential.
* The combination of life coach trainers at each coach training program is different.
The results of the ICF Global Coaching Study are out. In case you haven't seen them, below are the survey highlights. The ICF will also be releasing more information about this survey throughout the year.
- The approximate annual worldwide revenue produced by life coaching is $1.5 billion (USD).
- Life Coaches earn an average of $50,510 (USD) per year.
- 69% percent of life coaches are female.
- The average life coach is 46-55 years old, has coached for 5-10 years, and 53 percent of coaches have acquired an advanced level of education (i.e., Master's Degree or Ph.D.).
- The majority of coaches maintain 11 active coaching clients at any given time.
- Life coaching clients tend to be 56 percent female/44 percent male, and between 38 and 45 years of age.
Note: We reserve the right to deny entry into this life coach certification training program. We also reserve the right to dismiss any participant who disrupts the educational flow of the training program.