Life Coach Training and Coaching Supervision Services
Self-Paced, Self-Study and Live Certfication Options
We offer self-paced, self-study options for parents, teachers, and other supportive adults of tweens, teens, and emerging adults. We also offer full professional coach training and certification paths accredited by the International Coaching Federation and the Center for Credentialing and Education.
ICF Mentor Coaching
Individual and group mentor coaching for certified coaches pursuing the International Coach Federation’s Associate Certified Coach credential.
Continuing Education for Certified Coaches
Live and self-study coach continuing education options for certified coaches interested in developing evidence-based knowledge relevant to coaching youth.
Our Rise and Thrive Model
Our coaches are trained to guide clients through an intake assessment process to understand the client’s needs and goals.
From there, the coach tailors the coaching plan to the client incorporating relevant focus areas from the four domains below.
These domains integrate research-based resilience building initiatives for optimal performance and enhanced well-being through achievement.
Coaching clients through resource optimization involves helping the client identify and leverage the internal and external tools presently available to them to begin moving toward their goals. We facilitate self-awareness around concepts like identity, strengths, interests, values, and desires to enhance self-mastery.
Coaching clients through personal development involves helping clients enhance their sense of agency to choose goals, act toward chosen goals, and succeed. We support clients as they prioritize self-regulation and tap into self-determined motivation, meaning, and purpose on their way to achievement.
Coaching clients through social development involves facilitating social and emotional learning and related competency building. Through this focus, clients become more aware of the functional role of social interactions and relationships to success and well-being.
Coaching clients through structural support development involves facilitating goal-orientation for fit in education, job paths, and prosocial groups conducive to goals. We coach clients through the research and considerations necessary to begin to establish self-determined life direction, related planning, and action steps around long-term goals.
Training and Curriculum Offerings
Language: All training programs, curriculum packages, and services are offered in English only at this time.
Location: All live training programs are offered online via Zoom meetings and learning management systems.
Self-paced, Self-study Options
Basic Coaching Skills
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For parents, teachers, supervisors, or other supportive adults of tweens, teens, or emerging adults
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Learn the nondirective coaching approach to improve communication and relationships with the adolescents in your life
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Learn the science of the adolescent stage of development
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Not a certification path
Coaching Adolescents
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For certified coaches who want to add a youth specialization to coach tweens, teens, and young adults
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Learn the science of the adolescent stage of development
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Learn the science of resilience building
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Trainees earn a completion certificate and 14 coach continuing education hours
Certified Academic Resilience Coach / Certified Career Discovery Coach
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For certified coaches who want to add academic and career coaching services for teens and young adults to their services
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Learn to empower adolescent clients to enhance their academic life by fostering resilience and optimizing learning
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Learn to empower adolescent clients through a strategic career discovery process to support tailored decision-making related to work paths and/or higher education
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Trainees earn the Certified Academic Resilience Coach and Certified Career Discovery Coach designations
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FREE BONUS: Use of our Resilience Coaching Program Academic Edition Curriculum Package ($350 value) at no cost to you
Live, Virtual Coach Training Programs
Certified Youth Well-being Coach
Stages 1-2-
For youth serving adults who want to add the coaching skillset to do deeper well-being work 1:1 or in groups
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Learn basic coaching skills,
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the science of the adolescent stage of development,
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and the science of resilience building.
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50 hours of training, including practicum and supervision, over 14 weeks
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Trainees earn the Certified Youth Well-being Coach designation
Certified Youth Resilience Coach
Stages 1-4-
FOUR FREE BONUSES UPON COMPLETION NEW FOR 2023*
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International Coaching Federation Level 1 Accredited Program (80 hours for 2023. Will change to 68 hours beginning 2024 cohorts)
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Center for Credentialing and Education Board Certified Coach Approved Training Program (60 hours)
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Professional coach path for adults who want to pursue a career in coaching, those who lead coaching staff, or those interested in establishing a private coaching client base or business
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Learn basic coaching skills,
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the science of the adolescent stage of development,
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the science of resilience building,
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and business building for new coaches.
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80 hours of training, including practicum, supervision, and ICF mentor coaching hours over 25 weeks
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Trainees earn the Certified Youth Well-being Coach and Certified Youth Resilience Coach designation
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*FREE BONUS 1 after earning your CYRC ($350 value): Self-Study CE Certified Academic Resilience Coach / Certified Career Discovery Coach program to earn your academic and career coaching specializations
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*FREE BONUSES 2 & 3 after earning your CYRC ($600 Value): TWO of our Resilience Coaching Program Curriculum packages (General and Academic Edition) for use with your clients
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*FREE BONUS 4 after earning your CYRC: Join our community of practice for new coaches who can use ongoing support getting started
ICF Group Mentor Coaching for ACC
Stage 4 Only-
For coaches who have completed their first 60 hours of ICF approved training
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10 ICF mentor coaching hours with a qualified mentor coach over a 3-month period
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Preparing ICF ACC applicants for the ICF Coach Knowledge Assessment and performance evaluation or ACC credential holders for renewal*
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7 hours in group format and three 1:1 hours
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Not a certification path
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Payment plans available
Coaching Supervision Group
for Certified Coaches in Practice-
For certified coaches actively engaged in coaching clients without a direct coaching supervisor
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10 coaching supervision hours with a qualified coach supervisor over a 5-month period
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Led by an ICF-credentialed coach supervisor who facilitates a safe space for ongoing professional development for coaches in practice.
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10 hours in group format
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Not a certification path
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Payment plan available
Coaching Program Curriculum Packages
Our coaching program curriculum packages are designed to foster resilience and thriving for youth and emerging adults in life, school, and work. Each is designed for delivery as a combination of group and 1:1 coaching. Group workshops include micro-learnings in behavioral science relevant to enhancing mental and emotional health, social and emotional learning, well-being, life, academic, and/or job skills. Coaches support participants through applying weekly concepts directly to their lives during follow-up 1:1 coaching sessions. Programs are designed to be delivered over 10-12 weeks and may be implemented into schools, higher education institutions, juvenile detention centers, churches, community serving organizations, and/or any other setting where you serve.
- Resilience Coaching Program Curriculum - General Edition $300 USD
This is a packaged coaching program for professionals, agencies, schools, or organizations committed to empowering teens or emerging adults to thrive in life, school, and work. The package includes 10 PowerPoints with speaker's notes for weekly group coaching, a group participant guide, a coach's guide for 10 weeks of 1:1 coaching sessions, coaching activities, and the program agenda. 3. Coaches and facilitator enhance participants understanding of how to a. Leverage internal and external resources to begin moving toward self-determined goals, b. leverage personal strengths, traits, and skills conducive to goal pursuit, c. identify life direction and set and pursue goals in line with that direction, d. align themselves with people, places, and spaces conducive to goal pursuit, e. develop the skills and make behavior modifications necessary to enhance resilience and chances of success through goal striving.
- Resilience Coaching Program Curriculum - Academic Edition $300 USD
This is a packaged coaching program for professionals, agencies, schools, or organizations committed to empowering teens or emerging adults to thrive in school. The package includes 11 PowerPoints with speaker's notes for weekly group coaching, a group participant guide, a coach's guide for 11 weeks of 1:1 coaching sessions, coaching activities, and the program agenda. Includes general edition curriculum objectives as well as an introduction to how learning works and academic skills for success.
- Resilience Coaching Program Curriculum - Desistance & Positive Reform Edition - Juvenile Diversion through Evidence-Based Coaching $300 USD
This is a packaged coaching program for professionals, agencies, schools, or organizations supporting offenders through transitions away from crime. The package includes 12 PowerPoints with speaker's notes for weekly group coaching, a group participant guide, a coach's guide for 12 weeks of 1:1 coaching sessions, coaching activities, and the program agenda. It's designed for teens or young adults with a history of delinquency or criminality who are committed to positive behavior change. The program is grounded in Dr. Leah Mazzola's desistance research and intended to be delivered by certified coaches.
Coachee Content Considerations
Life coaching is a forum where clients discuss real-life experiences to enhance awareness and set and pursue goals that matter to enhancing their lives in some way. This may include welcome and unwelcome experiences. While coaching is not therapy, nor a substitute for therapy, life coaches do and will encounter supporting clients through difficult conversations and emotions at times. You will be trained to recognize indications that clients may need a referral to therapy, as not everyone is ready, willing, or able to engage in the coaching experience. Embarking in the coach training journey is committing to holding space for clients in a safe and supportive way. A core factor of coach training is also being coached – experiencing sitting in the client seat. Since coaching clients are ready, willing, and able to engage in the coaching process, it’s also important for coach trainees to meet this criteria.
Virtual Practicum-Based Experience Considerations
Energy and Capacity Demand
Learning to coach well is often a process of habit formation and change related to the way we interact with others. Coaches behave, engage, and communicate with coachees in very specific ways. That means, trainee coaches must have the capacity and space to attend to that habit change as they develop their skills. If you are already overstretched, overworked, and/or overwhelmed, it may not be feasible to engage in this training experience until you’re able to lighten your load enough to manage the additional challenges inherent in this training process.
Participation Expectations
Practice coaching sessions in class are designed to give the coach a chance to practice their skills while under supervision in the training environment. A number of those sessions are observed and evaluated for feedback and scoring. Trainees must pass a particular number of those evaluations based on their training path.
When serving as a practice coach,
remaining on track with the self-study content is vital to ensure you’re well-equipped to coach your coachee well and do no harm,
Joining the session from a private location is imperative to 1) protect the practice client’s privacy and confidentiality; and 2) remove all distractions to focus on mindfully attending to your coachee.
When serving as a practice client,
Trainees need to be able to attend the session from a private location where they are free from distractions.
Being focused and settled while sitting in the coachee seat are imperative to a meaningful coaching session.