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Coach Development


Why Attend?

Coaching becomes self-regulated from 2012 and to be sure of compliance, anyone offering coaching services must have a minimum of 60 coach specific training hours. We understand that many great coaches have not done this, or bring learning from related fields so we are offer this opportunity for you to reflect on and tune up your practice, audit your achievements against the ICF core competencies and code of ethics, and fill any development gaps that you may discover. We will mentor you to gain the full ICF ACTP qualification. This course also contributes towards the MA in Applied Coaching that we run in partnership with the University of Derby Corporate.


Entry Criteria

The ideal delegate is a practicing coach/therapist with a range of professional experience, a commitment to competent and ethical practice and to sharing their learning with others in order to develop the field and emergent profession of Coaching. This delegate will be working towards a Professional Certified Coach qualification and be committed to achieving 750 logged coaching hours in order to support their ICF PCC application.


Course Schedule:

The course is run over 2 x 3 day modules and includes:

  • Continuous assessment against the ICF competences
  • 1 hr formal practical coaching assessment
  • Written exam
  • Psychometric assessment.

    • A certain level of knowledge is assumed and this includes; contracting and boundaries, transactional analysis, the GROW model, basic question technique, Meta and Milton model.

    Course content includes and is not limited to;

  • Introduction to coaching, the ICF Core competences and code of ethics
  • Coaching and therapy; similarities and difference, return on investment.
  • Coaching teams and groups
  • Accreditation to use the iWAM psychometric tool
  • CLEAN Language and clean cards
  • Creative coaching including sandplay, story cubes and more
  • Current research in coaching
  • Continuous development for coaches

    • Once we have closed the group attendance we will finalise the agenda according to the needs of the majority of the group.

    The fee for the whole course including your coaching and your psychometric assessments is £1995 plus VAT, this includes all materials, refreshments including lunch, and three practice psychometric questionnaires as well as your own report.


    During the programme delegates will:

  • Be continually observed and assessed whilst coaching by peers and experienced coaches using the
    ICF competences.
  • Observe and assess peers in their coaching and use coaching to aid the planning and development of a personal learning programme.
  • clear standards and criteria as defined by the Association for Coaching & ICF.
  • Achieve the training accreditation necessary to progress to full accreditation with the AC
  • All delegates receive a copy of The Virtual Coach CD Rom as part of their course materials
  • Be provided with a comprehensive resource pack and full versions of psychometric questionnaires for practice with clients.


    • For more information you can download a PDF using the link below. If you have any questions or wish to discuss your eligibility for the programme please feel free to contact us.

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