Courses - Accelerated Certificate in life coaching

Approximate completion time: 3 to 6 months depending on background, experience and time available.   Mode - distance learning (correspondence/email)

Cost:   GBP (Pounds Sterling) 550.00 (see end of document for payment and enrolment instructions) Cost of textbooks extra.   Students outside the United Kingdom please add GBP 50.00 (total GBP 600.00)

The accelerated University Certificate in Life and Personal Coaching – Cert.LPC(CIU) is intended primarily for those who have professional qualifications in clinical psychology, psychotherapy, hypnotherapy, NLP, stress management or counselling OR who have a CIU BA or MA in counselling psychology, personal development, change agent studies, stress management, organisational spirituality, transpersonal or depth psychology, or an equivalent degree. Other suitable qualifications will be considered subject to the approval of the course tutor.

This course is for self-motivated, well-organised students who are used to learning new techniques as part of their professional or personal development.

The accelerated programme is taught in 5 modules covering two major coaching models and introducing a variety of coaching techniques. As well as these five modules, an extended integrative essay of 3,500 words is required. The focus of this essay will be how coaching relates to, or can be integrated with, your current work or practice.

This CIU certificate course is by distance learning only and is delivered by correspondence. Academic credit and a tuition fee discount will be given to students who wish to proceed to a degree course later on. 15 academic credits will be given to successful students towards a Calamus degree programme. The tuition fee discount will depend on the degree applied for, the bursary allowed and the tuition fees current at time of application.

No face-to-face or email coaching is provided as part of the course. Some students will already have experience of coaching and just wish to study in order to be certificated. Others may wish to arrange coaching and we can help to find a suitable coach. Students are responsible for paying any fees for coaching direct to their coach.

This course is not ICF accredited.

This syllabus and other course details are subject to change at any time.

Syllabus

1.         The Spectrum of Coaching Knowledge

Key text:  Hudson, Frederic M., The Handbook of Coaching, San Francisco, Jossey-Bass Publishers, 1999.

This unit gives a comprehensive overview of the history of coaching, what coaches do, the types of coaching process, the coach-client relationship, stages of coaching, business and ethical guidelines, types of psychological theory which have influenced coaching, coaching through life transitions, coaching for basic values, coaching for high performance, coaching through the adult life cycle. Plenty of suggested resources are listed for those who want to follow up particular coaching areas in depth to develop expertise in a niche area of coaching.

2.         Attracting What You Want in Life

Key text: Leonard, Thomas J., The Portable Coach: 28 Surefire Strategies for Business and Personal Success. New York: Scribner, 1998.

As well as being  a major inspirational figure in the coaching world, Thomas Leonard (deceased - see www.thomasleonard.com) is famed for his model of “attraction” coaching. This unit provides the opportunity to study how this model works and how the concept of attraction can be applied in all areas of life to achieve success. Learn how to discover your vision and purpose, organise yourself, deal with procrastination, make life fulfilling, be constructive and be yourself. The highly condensed strategies presented in the key text may be adapted as a toolkit to help a wide range of coaching clients.

3.         The Invisible Coach

Key text:  Whitworth, Laura, et al., Co-Active Coaching. Palo Alto, California: Davies-Black Publishing, 1998.

This unit offers a superb collection of practical deep coaching skills within a holistic framework, and as well as providing a stand-alone coaching model, it is ideal for students bridging the gap between their other helping practice and the skills of coaching.  After discussion of the coaching relationship and context, the student proceeds to learn the coaching skills of listening, intuition, curiosity, the action-learning feedback loop, and self-management. Even if you think you have most of these skills already, the coaching perspective will add a new dimension to your existing techniques. Three client-centred topics, balance, fulfilment and process, are covered, and a troubleshooting section helps you perfect your coaching. A comprehensive set of technique tools is provided which can inspire you to create your own coaching tools in conjunction with your existing expertise. Practical exercises are given which may be carried out on friends, colleagues or clients.

4.         Self-Coaching

Key texts:

Miedaner, Talane. Coach Yourself to Success. Chicago, Contemporary Books, 2000.

Harrold, Fiona. Be Your Own Life Coach. London, Hodder and Stoughton, 2001.

These texts present a host of practical strategies and sound ideas for transformation of all levels of life. Rather than insisting that you follow the authors’ plans in a step-by-step fashion, this course encourages you to regard self-coaching books as cookbooks, and to take from them whichever techniques you need for yourself or for others, integrating them with your existing knowledge and helping repertoire.

5.         Brief Solutions

Key text: Belf, Teri-E and Ward, Charlotte. Simply Live it Up: Brief Solutions. Bethesda, Maryland: Purposeful Press, 1997.

This unit presents a smorgasbord of  techniques for enhancement of life, work and learning, condensed from material developed for a host of self-development and educational programmes. Tools are included for learning, discovering your purpose and living it, progressing towards your goals, aligning your attitude with your aims in life, having a positive relationship with time, mental and spatial de-cluttering, letting go of unsupportive people, making work fun, rapid reading and information scanning, using the wisdom of your dreams, self-enquiry, and accessing child-like curiosity.

6.         Integrated essay of 3,500 words on “The Integration of Coaching into my Current Work or Practice”. 

A handout will be provided giving possible ways of approaching the essay, taking into account the nature of your current occupation. Full-time parents/carers may tackle the topic from their perspective.

Note: The unit titles may be similar to titles of units of Calamus International University degree courses. However, the amount of work required per unit for this course is less than the amount required for the equivalent unit of a degree. The total degree credit allowed for completion of the accelerated certificate in life and personal coaching is 15 units towards a degree.

Assessment

Instruction sheets for each unit will be provided, setting study tasks and questions. Written answers to assignments may be returned to the college by post (to London) address or by email. This is purely a correspondence-based course but students are expected to apply their knowledge of coaching to themselves and in interaction with other people, and how the student has done this should be reflected in the assignment answers. The tutor will give written feedback on assignments. Each assignment will be marked on a pass/fail basis. A “fail” simply means that the student requires clearer understanding of a topic, and the tutor may recommend revision or additional reading in order to repeat the required assignments.

Because this course is aimed at persons with proven capability to study helping techniques, we are confident that the overwhelming majority of students will easily progress through the course.

Most assignments are not of the type requiring only one right answer. There are many approaches within coaching and it is acceptable for you to bring existing skills into your coaching style. Therefore, you may have your own unique way of approaching some of the set questions. Your own individuality and insight will be honoured – this course does not attempt to mould you into one coaching system.

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How to apply

Please complete the Calamus application form (click here for download) and return it with your payment to:

Calamus Extension College Ltd.
27 Old Gloucester Street
London WC1N 3XX, UK

The full fee for the course is due at time of enrolment. Payment for the course fee of GBP 550.00 (550 British pounds/pounds sterling) or GBP 600.00 if living outside the UK, should be made payable to “CALAMUS EXTENSION COLLEGE LIMITED”. Students residing in the UK may pay by personal cheque. Students residing outside the UK should contact us re suitable payment methods.

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