The Emergent Coach Training^® 

The Essentials program provides all the core skills you need to lead professional coaching sessions and client relationships. This 5-week immersive certification program is undoubtedly intensive, but you will learn a phenomenal range of skills. It also serves as your gateway to our full Practitioner and Professional certification.

You can take Essentials on its own simply to master the core competencies and skills of professional coaching, or as part of our broader certification pathway—and all participants of our full Level 1 and Level 2 tracks must begin here. Either way, you’ll learn through industry expert instruction and mentoring, hands-on live practice, plus through observing live coaching demonstrations all alongside the many other resources you'll receive.

Who Should Enroll?

Essentials is a terrific way for professionals such as therapists, counselors, social workers, managers or leaders to quickly upgrade their resume and skillsets. Having these skills onboard will give you a powerful new edge, make you a more attractive hire and offers significant leverage for enhancing your earning potential.

The Program Includes:

• Live Classes: Four 2-hour Zoom sessions (recordings available).
• An Intensive Workshop: A virtual Zoom weekend of hands-on training (6 hours/day).
• Buddy Practice Sessions: Minimum of four peer coaching sessions to help integrate your new skills.
• Expert Mentor Feedback: You'll submit a recorded coaching session for expert written feedback.
• Learning Platform: Access and incredible range of videos, ebooks, session recordings, and tons of other resources.
• Community Access: Connect with peers on our private social network (not Facebook!) to share, connect and organize.
• Office Hours: Access these informal opportunities with our experienced faculty to ask your questions.

Full live attendance, and completion of the practice sessions and assignments are essential*, and will earn a Certificate of Partial Completion.

Finish Essentials in just five weeks and take the first step toward coaching mastery. Download the guide or click here to learn more.

*There are some possibilities for making up a limit of one missed session.

The Integration program takes approximately 8 weeks to complete and prepares you to excel as a professional coach.

Pathways is a 13-week advanced coaching program designed to deepen your skills and mastery as an Emergent Coach. Through 7 live, 2-hour teacher-led classes and biweekly Buddy Group practice sessions, participants learn to integrate several advanced techniques for working with a client's deeper cognitive aspects, and to expand their coaching capabilities, and confidently deliver far more impactful coaching sessions.

Program Overview

Module 1: Coaching at Depth

• Balancing the Structure/Process model for optimal coaching impact.
• Developing deep listening mastery, empathic resonance, and embodied attunement.
• Engaging the body as a coaching resource.
• Coaching, embodiment and trauma—what look out for and how to respond.
• Experiential learning with the modes of 'Thinking, Feeling, Sensing' through the system concepts of 'field', 'resonance' and 'attunement'.

Module 2: The Science of Embodied Intelligence

• Explore current theories of embodied mind and cognition.
• The Seven Avenues of Embodied Coaching
• Systems coaching including Scharmer’s Theory U approach.
• Leveraging somatic practices for managing complexity.

Module 3: Coaching the Adaptive Unconscious

• Intuitive coaching via three key pathways:
  • Analytic: Conventional problem-solving and decision-making.
  • Fast Intuitive: Gut instincts and rapid assessments.
  • Slow Intuitive: Deeper reflective decision-making for more complex challenges.
• Use a range of cues and tools (eg. image, drawing, posture and environmental cues) for generating in-session creative thinking and insights.
• Learn science-based, cognitive linguistics tools and methods for activating brain regions to enhance big-picture thinking and creative problem-solving.
• Introduction to working with image and visualization in coaching.

Module 4: Language, Metaphor & Narrative in Coaching

• Employing metaphor mastery in coaching.
• Using narrative & story in sessions for more creative thinking, meaning-making and problem solving.
• Here we begin working with parts & selves in coaching sessions.

Module 5: Archetype, Parts & Myth

• How to use myth, mythic themes and interventions within coaching.
• Introducing archetypes as figurative containers for transformational coaching.
• Deepening the parts work as ways to help clients catalyze deeper insights, shift perspectives and embody change.

Module 6: Coaching Self, Selves & Parts

• Exploring theories of constructed self and multiplicity in practical ways in order to deepen coaching impact and support developmental shifts.
• We further the learning on coaching parts & selves, focusing on transforming inner client narratives and overcoming psychological blocks.

Module 7: Integrating the Developmental Relationship

• Applying adult development theory and our Rites of Passage model within coaching.
• Employing a developmental coaching approach to support more sustainable client growth.

Program Details

• Duration: 13 weeks
• Live Sessions: Seven 2-hour Zoom calls with recordings available.
• Practice Groups: Biweekly Buddy Group sessions to apply and refine skills.

Ready to Elevate Your Coaching?

For more details, download the guide or click here to explore the program further.

Developed by Prof. Eugene Gendlin, Focusing is a transformative conversational approach rooted in the insights from groundbreaking and award-winning research he conducted with Carl Rogers at Chicago University. In the largest outcomes study of its type, they set out to uncover why some clients changed and were successful in therapeutic conversations while others weren’t. The key insight? Success entirely depended on how clients connected with and related to their inner felt experience.

Focusing is the simple process-model that Gendlin developed out of these insights. Focusing-Oriented Therapy was developed as a facilitated conversational process for supporting therapeutic clients to change and heal through insight. The Emergent Coach Training is the first ICF-Accredited coaching program to formally integrate this approach into their curriculum as Focusing-Oriented Coaching (FOC).

The Focusing-Oriented Coaching module teaches you how to seamlessly employ a Focusing approach in your sessions. This fosters astonishingly profound insights to emerge naturally, and empowers both coach and client to be able to address the deeper core issues with ease, clarity and depth.

It's perfect for coaches who want to powerfully enhance their existing coaching skillset (particularly embodiment coaches!) and become an authentically effective catalyst for supporting greater creativity, deep growth and embodied change in their clients.

Program Overview

Duration: 16 weeks
Format: Eight 2-hour live classes (biweekly) and seven 1-hour Buddy calls for skill practice, supplemented with online learning resources.

Key Modules

Module 1: Introduction to Focusing-Oriented Coaching™

• Understand the core research and what differentiates Focusing Oriented Coaching (FOC) from Focusing Oriented Therapy (FOT).
• Explore the six steps of Focusing: Clearing, Contacting, Handling, Resonating, Asking, and Receiving.
• Learn to identify and reflect the client’s felt sense for deeper insights.

Module 2: Resonant Reflection

• Practice resonant listening and reflection to fine-tune client insights.
• Develop the skill of finding “handles” to articulate inner experiences.

Module 3: Making a “Something”

• Help clients create distance from inner challenges for fresh perspectives.
• Mastering appropriate resonant words, questions and invitations to explore.
• Distinguish emotions, thoughts, and the felt sense to clarify issues.

Module 4: Making Contact

• Work skillfully with critical voices and the Inner Critic.
• Use metaphor, archetype, and rich language to deepen client experiences.
• The 12 avenues (Physical, Emotional; Location/Shape, Sound, Posture/movement, Relevance from past, Metaphor/Simile, Imagery, Internal Dialogue, Felt sense, Internal conflict)

Module 5: Deepening Contact

• Guide clients to uncover intricate layers of their felt sense.
• Facilitate shifts in perspective for new insights and self-awareness.

Module 6: Shift Questions

• Master powerful shift questions to create transformational breakthroughs.
• Recognize when clients are stuck and how to catalyze forward movement.
• Knowing what to do once a question has “landed” & created a shift.

Module 7: Working with Parts

• Learn the Focusing approach to parts.
• How to identify and separate conflicting parts for resolution.
• Engaging parts dialogue to easefully overcome blocks and create solutions.

Module 8: Integrating Focusing-Oriented Coaching™

• Seamlessly incorporate the Focusing-Oriented Coaching approach into your sessions.

Why Learn Focusing-Oriented Coaching™?

This program equips you with an empirically-backed approach to unlock client potential and get to the heart of a clients thinking and motivations. Whether your focus is life coaching, executive coaching, or leadership coaching, Focusing will elevate your practice to new levels of depth and impact.

Focusing takes 16 weeks to complete and offers up to 26 units.

For more details on the content please download the guide from above or go here to view.

Stand still.
The trees ahead and the bushes beside you Are not lost.

Wherever you are is called Here,
And you must treat it as a powerful stranger,
Must ask permission to know it and be known.
The forest breathes. Listen. It answers.

The Empowerment Retreat is a transformational, five-day, residential, nature-based professional coach training program designed to help participants more deeply embody their capacities as coaches, radically deepen their listening and conversational skills, and emerge more aligned with their deepest sense of purpose. Grounded in the deep principles of ecopsychology and traditional wisdom this program is unlike many other coach trainings you may have taken.

Set in an extraordinary wilderness environment, this retreat offers incredible opportunities to radically enhance coaching abilities through experiential group and individual activities within the breathtakingly beautiful wilderness setting of Elohee in North Georgie, USA.

Some of the work participants engage in are:

• Deep listening and mindfulness practices
• Somatic learning and nature-based experiences
• Conversations with the wild
• Art-based learning skills
• Somatic and embodiment practices
• All of the deep work is also integrated with competency-based coaching skills

The retreat balances deep, embodied learning with plenty of time for connection, fun, and play. Evenings feature community gathering, storytelling, song, laughter, and connection by the fire.

Program Overview

Includes:

• Two live Zoom sessions.
• A small amount of supplemental learning content.
• You can gain a certificate of Partial Completion (which is eligible for re-credentialing if you need core units).

Duration: 5 days (30 ICF core units).

As a way to reconnect with yourself, others, and the natural world, the Empowerment Retreat offers an incredible and unique opportunity to transform your coaching practice and totally change your way in the world.

For more details on the content please download the guide from above or go here to view.