The Seasons of Change: Bringing Hope to Clients in Transition
Prerequisite: minimum of 30 hours of coach training
Tuition: $440.00
Materials: $125.00 (2 books, 4 audios and training materials)
Licensing and Marketing: $260.00 (includes unlimited use of five questionnaires, 6 diagrams and the creation of your own personalized Seasons of Change web page)
Sessions: Eight, 90 minutes each; 12 hours of credit
Instructor: Carol McClelland, Ph.D.
E-mail: Carol@lifecoachtraining.com

Do you coach clients in transition? Whether your clients have entered their transition by choice or by force, whether their transition was anticipated or came as a complete surprise, you meet them where they are. It's likely no one else is accepting what they feel deep within. Feeling heard and honored by you is a profound experience that deepens their trust in themselves, in you, and in the transition journey.

The Seasons of Change is a rich, multi-faceted nature-based metaphor that gives you and your clients a gentle, accessible way to talk and think about transitions as a natural part of life. Thoroughly understanding nature's responses to the ever-changing seasons provides you with a deep foundation of knowledge and inspirational metaphors to share with those in transition.

Within The Seasons of Change, each season (or phase) of the transition process has its own signs, actions, and detours.  Together this information gives you a map you can share with your clients to show them where they've been, where they are, and where they are going. This knowledge helps them transform a time of unknowns and confusion into hope and a sense of direction. The visually memorable nature metaphors associated with each season give clients empowering images that remind them of where they are in The Seasons of Change journey and what strategy they can use to move onward.

By the end of the course, you:

• Feel comfortable describing The Seasons of Change to clients in transition.
• Understand the purpose, tasks, signs and detours associated with each season.
• Are able to facilitate and interpret The Seasons of Change Questionnaire.
• Can recognize common patterns clients exhibit during times of transition.
• Recognize and articulate cultural myths associated with each season.

Although The Seasons of Change model appears simple at first glance, the more exposure you have to the seasons metaphor, the more evident the embedded layers and intricacies become. As part of the course, you describe The Seasons of Change model to clients and/or friends in transition. The experience of sharing the model with others helps you solidify your new knowledge and become comfortable integrating aspects of the model seamlessly into your sessions.

Upon completing this course, you receive unlimited access to five client-friendly tools that serve as catalysts for accurate assessments, rich conversations, and deep discoveries.

Bio: Carol McClelland, Ph.D. began working with clients in career and life transitions in 1991. Since then she's written several books, including The Seasons of Change, Nature's Wisdom Deck, Changing Careers For Dummies, and the Career Clarity Program. She now makes her time-tested programs and materials available to coaches and therapists who work with clients in career change and life transitions.