Foundational Course, UK

The Foundational Course, UK is the Foundational Course (40 hours) offered by the ILCT in the United States. It is an ICF Accredited Coach Training Program designed specifically for practitioners in the "helping professions" such as occupational therapists, psychotherapists, counselors, nurses, teachers and others. It facilitates and assists those individuals who wish to move from their current profession into coaching and those who wish to add coaching to their current practice.

Because the Foundational Course, UK is taught live, it is divided into two courses of 20 hours each. The first course,"Foundational Coach Training, Part I" consists of 20 hours of classroom instruction with each component of learning anchored in the ICF Core Competencies. Continuing practice in small groups with mentoring will occur following the Course via the telephone.

This First Course is divided into four modules, with the first class providing an orientation to the Course and to each other.

Module 1: Introduction to Coaching covers the most recent definitions of coaching, distinctions between therapy, consulting, mentoring and coaching, and Listening as a Coach.

Module 2: Coaching Basics defines the coaching alliance and explains how you might design one, what elements are necessary for the first coaching conversation, introduces and explains the basic coaching model, discusses powerful questions and purposeful inquiry, how to design the action, and what someone does with what they already know. This section also examines Coaching as a Developmental Change Process.

Module 3: The Coaches Tool Box provides specific skills and tools for use within the coaching process. These include Skills for Empowering, Skills for Stretching the Client, Skills for Creating Momentum and Learning and Skills for Forwarding the Action. Additionally, students will learn when and how to use these skills within the coaching conversation.

Module 4: Marketing Your Practice provides concepts for building your coaching practice. Distinctions are made between selling and marketing, so that marketing can become useful and fun. Marketing concepts include: insight into marketing effectively, creating a full and fulfilling practice, the importance of credibility, visibility, and contact and practice building tips.

Embedded throughout the Course will be Coaching Labs to give time to practice what is being learned so that the skills and tools become part of one’s own unique style and coaching repertoire.

Looking Forward:
The second twenty-hour course, being planned for later in the year, is the final 20 hours of the regular foundational course taught in the US. This course entitled, "Foundational Coach Training, Part II," focuses on life design and personal fulfillment. This is a personal journey in designing your own life and utilizes skills and techniques you will use as you work with clients who want to consciously and thoughtfully design their lives.

Students will explore and articulate their life purpose, what is important to them, what values they hold deeply, what needs they have that have become obstacles to personal and professional fulfillment, and how to utilize life-work balance concepts to focus effectively on work and other life components.

The course instructor will draw on and present research and resources from a variety of areas including Positive Psychology and other theories to reinforce how coaches can apply the methods taught to assist clients in creating long-lasting and meaningful change within their personal or professional lives.

Foundational Coach Training, Part I (Registration open now through January 1, 2008)

Tuition: $2050 USD (£1010 GBP*, €1400 EUR*, covers two nights lodging and all meals)
Early Bird Discount, through Jan 1, 2008: $1850 USD (£910 GBP*, €1263 EUR*)
Deposit Plan: $375 USD (£180 GBP*, €250 EUR* by Jan 1st, 2008; balance due Feb. 1, 2008)
Payment Plan: $2145 (monthly installments of $715 each, completed before start date).
Hours: 20
Location: Gregynog Hall - University of Wales Conference Centre
Participants: limited to 24
Instructors: Lynn Meinke - Lynn@lifecoachtraining.com,
Susie Brisco - susiebriscoe@acercoachingassociates.co.uk
Catherine Hadrill - catherine@coachyourselfbetter.co.uk

* Estimated, paid in USD and converted to prevailing exchange rates at time of purchase. Wire transfer payment is available, please contact Edwina at Edwina@lifecoachtraining.com for instructions.

Instructor Bio - Lynn Meinke, PCC
Lynn is a Professional Certified Life Coach with over twenty-five years experience in the human development business as a nurse, psychotherapist and life coach. She is a graduate of the inaugural class of the Institute for Life Coach Training and now loves to teach others the art and science of life coaching. As Director of Education for ILCT, Lynn also develops and teaches advanced classes that focus on honing coaching skills. Lynn has an abiding belief in the magnificence of the human spirit and is in awe of each person’s unique brilliance. Her private clients include coaches, psychotherapists, gifted adults, executives, individuals who want to focus on their spiritual journey and adults experiencing various life transitions. Lynn teaches and gives presentations and workshops nationally and internationally. She is currently a member of the Accreditation and Certification Committee for the International Coach Federation.

Instructor Bio - Susie Brisco, MAC; MCMI; FRSA
Susie qualified as a Coach with the UKCLC, now Coaching & Mentoring International, and went on to qualify as a Mentor and Supervisor; she is fully committed to CPD (Continued Professional Development) and it’s requirement to keep up with cutting edge advances in the field. As well as being a member of the Association for Coaching, a founding member of the International Association for Coaching, and an associate member of the Chartered Institute for Personnel Development, she is leader of the Guildford Coaching Exchange.

Susie combines running her own business, working with associates, and working alongside clients referred from a GP’s practice, with remaining an active Board member of: The Battersea Dogs’ & Cats’ Home, Church Housing Trust and the charity she founded: Acer Foundation for Global Education & Welfare.

Instructor Bio - Catherine Hadrill
Catherine Hadrill qualified as an OT in 1989 from St Loye's School of Occupational Therapy, Exeter, UK. For most of her career she has worked within the mental health field as both a clinician and a manager. Catherine felt so burnt out and frustrated with her work as an OT that she decided to train as a life coach with the UK College of Life Coaching. This training and by working with her own coach she has turned her job around to one that she enjoys and since receiving her Diploma in Coaching Practice in February 2006 she has continued to work for the NHS whilst setting up her part time coaching practice. In 2006 Catherine presented a facilitated poster “Occupational Therapy and Life Coaching – what can they learn from each other?” at the Annual College of Occupational Therapists Conference. Her story has been reported in Therapy Weekly (17-8-2006) and OTNews (Nov 2006).

Required Reading (Purchase from Amazon.co.uk by clicking on the links below).

Therapist as Life Coach: an Introduction for Counselors and Other Helping Professionals (Revised and Expanded Edition) by Dr. Patrick Williams and Deborah C. Davis A book for mental health professionals considering a transition into the new and dynamic field of life coaching! Therapist as Life Coach explores life coaching as a profession, examines the relationship between life coaching and therapy, and details the variety of options for professionals considering either a transition into coaching or expanding their practices to include coaching. Every chapter in this second edition has been revised, reflecting the growth of the coaching field and its increasing appeal to therapists and all helping professionals. New material includes an overview of recent coaching developments, updated liability concerns, new business opportunities, and a new section on the research about coaching.

Becoming a Professional Life Coach: Lessons from the Institute for Life Coach Training by Dr. Patrick Williams & Dr. Diane S. Menendez With his bestselling Therapist as Life Coach, Pat Williams introduced the therapeutic community to the career of life coaching. Now, Williams, founder of the Institute for Life Coach Training (ILCT), and Menendez, senior trainer at ILCT reveal all the basic principles and crucial strategies that they have taught to thousands of coaches over the years. Beginning with a brief history of the foundations of coaching and its future trajectory, Becoming a Professional Life Coach takes readers step-by-step through the coaching process, covering all the crucial ideas and strategies for being an effective, successful life coach