The Essentials program provides all the core skills you need to lead professional coaching sessions and build strong client relationships. This 5-week immersive certification program is intensive but rewarding and serves as your gateway to earning ICF credentials at PCC Level 2 or ACC Level 1.

Take Essentials on its own to master the core coaching competencies or as part of our broader certification pathway. Either way, you’ll experience expert instruction, hands-on practice, and live coaching demonstrations.

Who Should Enroll?

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

The Program Includes:

• Live Classes: Four 2-hour Zoom sessions (recordings available).
• Intensive Workshop: A virtual weekend of hands-on training (6 hours/day).
• Practice Sessions: Four peer coaching sessions to integrate skills.
• Mentor Feedback: Submit a coaching session for expert feedback.
• Learning Platform: Access videos, readings, recordings, and resources.
• Community Access: Connect with peers to share and organize.
• Office Hours: Access further informal opportunities with experienced faculty throughout the program.

Complete attendance, practice, and assignments to earn a Certificate of Partial Completion and 28 units towards full ICF certification.

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

The Integration program takes approximately 8 weeks to complete and prepares you to excel in leadership coaching, life coaching, and beyond.

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 capabilities, and confidently deliver far more impactful coaching sessions.

Program Overview

Module 1: Coaching at Depth

• Balancing structure and process for effective coaching.
• Developing deeper listening, empathic resonance, and 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 Implicit Intelligence

• Explore theories of embodied mind and cognition.
• Coach three key processing pathways:
  • Analytic: Problem-solving and decision-making.
  • Fast Intuitive: Gut instincts and rapid assessments.
  • Slow Intuitive: Reflective decision-making for complex challenges.
• Systems coaching with Scharmer’s Theory U.
• Leverage somatic practices for managing complexity.

Module 3: Coaching the Adaptive Unconscious

• Use a range of cues and tools (eg. image, drawing, posture and environmental cues) for generating in-session creative thinking and insights.
• Learn to activate brain regions that enhance big-picture thinking and problem-solving.
• Introduction to working with metaphor, simile etc. in coaching.

Module 4: Language, Metaphor & Narrative in Coaching

• Use of narrative & story for meaning and problem solviing.
• Introducing figurative language to enhance implicit intelligence.
• Begin working with parts & selves in coaching sessions.

Module 5: Archetype, Parts & Myth

• Using myth and mythic themes and interventions within coaching.
• Archetypes & parts work for catalyzing deeper insight and embodied change.
• Introducing figurative language to interact with implicit intelligence.

Module 6: Coaching Self, Selves & Parts

• Deepen the learning of coaching parts & selves
• Explore the constructed self and theories of multiplicity.
• Transform client narratives and overcome psychological blocks by working with parts and selves.

Module 7: Integrating the Developmental Relationship

• Apply adult development theory and the Rites of Passage model.
• Sustain developmental coaching relationships for measurable 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.
• Certification: Earn 24 units and integrate advanced techniques for mastery.

Ready to Elevate Your Coaching?

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

Launched by Prof. Eugene Gendlin, Focusing is a transformative approach rooted in the insights from groundbreaking research conducted with Carl Rogers at Chicago University, that 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 connect with their inner felt experience.

Focusing is the process that Gendlin developed out of these insights. This is the first coaching program of its type to integrate it into the coaching process.

Focusing-Oriented Coaching (FOC) teaches you how to seamlessly employ Focusing in your sessions to foster profound insights and change, empowering both coach and client to address core issues with clarity and depth. Perfect for coaches aiming to master the art of inner alignment, this skill transforms your coaching practice into a powerful catalyst for growth.

Program Overview

Duration: 16 weeks (26 units)
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

• Understanding parts and how to help a client separate them out.
• Identify and separate conflicting parts for resolution.
• Engage parts in dialogue to 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 address challenges at the core. 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 transformative five-day immersive program designed to help participants embody their capacities as Emergent Coaches, deepen their listening and conversational skills, and align with their deepest sense of purpose.

Set in an extraordinary wilderness environment, this retreat offers opportunities to radically enhance coaching abilities through experiential group and individual activities. Participants engage in:

• Deep listening and mindfulness practices
• Somatic learning and nature-based experiences
• Conversations with the wild
• Competency-based coaching skills

The retreat balances profound learning with time for connection, fun, and play. Evenings feature council gatherings, storytelling, songs, laughter, and shared moments by the fire.

Program Overview

Includes:

• Two live Zoom classes.
• Supplemental learning content.
• Certificate of Partial Completion (eligible for re-credentialing).

Duration: 4 weeks (30 units).

Reconnecting with yourself, others, and the natural world, the Empowerment Retreat is an incredible experience that will transform your coaching practice and personal growth journey.

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