Life Coaching diploma

1. Pre-workshop Study
Includes guided reading to prepare you for the models and strategies used during life coaching. Completing your goal plan on how to introduce life coaching into your life with maximum results and minimum disruption. Keeping your life in balance whilst growing your practice.
2. Membership of the Achievement Specialists’ Achievers Club. The focal point of the Achievers Club is the Discussion Forum. This is where ideas are shared, corporate coaching contracts are posted, requests for life coaches are made, and wide-ranging questions are asked and answered.
3. Accelerated 2 Day Workshop
This intensive workshop includes Life Coaching demonstrations and rehearsals of Achievement Specialists' unique and copyright Life Coaching Models, exclusive training and coaching presentations from Curly Martin, author of the number one bestselling (every year from 2003) The Life Coaching Handbook, and bespoke Life Coaching rehearsals/demonstrations. The workshop is highly experiential, you will be practising coaching in a safe environment, before lunchtime on day one. You will learn how to market and build a business within the following market sectors, life/personal coaching, small & medium business coaching, executive coaching, corporate coaching, coaching in the public sector, etc, We show you how to harness your experience, skills, competencies and knowledge to fast track your coaching business. Please take time to view the course content as this will give you the details of the extensive topics covered on the workshop part of the course.
‘After completing 12 days NLP course somewhere else, I started to appreciate Curly's workshop weekend even more. In just two days with Curly - you get it all: Transfer of knowledge, practical exercises, set of tools that you can use while coaching and your own personal heaven - coaching circle to support you for life, if needed! With Curly there is no small hidden print, she is outstanding trainer and her generosity to share her knowledge and experience is one time fix! You are able to walk and even sooner run on your own! Therefore, highly recommended!!!’
Top qualities: Expert, Good Value, High Integrity Natasa Mihajlovic 2011
4. Self study modules. Once you have attended the workshop you are given your Life Coaching manual/workbook. The manual contains 9 fully accredited, comprehensive self study modules. The course is enhanced with conference coaching clinics, master classes (live delegate participation and recorded - 24 hour access), E-group and E-mail assistance. The complete manual, thesis, practical coaching sessions and final assessment paper are all fully supported by E-mentors. You have access to the E-mentors 24 hours per day.
5. Total study time maximum 300-350 hours including pre-course study, workshop attendance, workbook completion, marketing materials and strategy, start-up of your life coaching practice, coaching log and final assessment.
6. Additional Life Coaching practice sessions, together with your own Life Coach, are arranged for post workshop skills enhancement and to build your coaching confidence. This will be added to your coaching hours for qualifying purposes.
7. Ultimate training workshop. Optional final event of your LCH diploma programme (optional extra training). You can choose to attend this workshop, only after all your work has been submitted and marked. The workshop includes supervised practical coaching sessions, full diploma course overview, final assessment paper, master class business projection planning and graduation.
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8. We organise a support group working with study buddies after the workshop which gives you extra practice and understandings from sharing experiences of your peers.
9. Unlimited conference coaching clinics. The clinics are provided monthly to give you easy access and extra opportunity to request help, support or further training on any topic or client issue during and after qualification. Video clinics are available. (cost of telephone call not included)
10. Your individual niche marketing strategy. This will enable you to focus your marketing efforts and target specific prospects for your life coaching practice. Thus, accelerating your marketing responses and coaching clients. You will be shown marketing strategies, including social network marketing, with the added extra, how to use QR codes in your marketing to increase your website traffic and profile.
11. Unlimited recorded telephone master classes. Over 70 hours of recorded master classes are available for you to listen to 24/7 with topics ranging from :- Recordings of Curly Martin coaching one of her own personal clients (not a life coach); Presenting Life Coaching to businesses parts 1 & 2, Insight Profiling for Coaching, 8 of the current coaching models and how to use them, 30 ways to produce press releases that work, spiral coaching model and much, much more. (cost of telephone call not included)
12. Unlimited live telephone master classes. Master classes are held each month and you can participate in all the live master classes if you wish. The topics are notified in advance in your achievers area. (cost of telephone call not included)
13. Unlimited mentor Email Support & mentored E-Group Support.
14. Full L.C.H. Diploma qualification.
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15. You will learn how to promote and grow a Life Coaching practice through exceptional networking, referrals and presentation systems, covering all basic business and marketing principles.
16. The main business options, self employed, limited liability company (Ltd.), limited liability partnership (LLP) or ordinary partnerships, will be explored and the advantages and disadvantages will be made clear. Business insurance, data protection, contractual agreements, etc. will be explained. You will know where to go and what to do, for setting up your coaching practice.
17. A full Life Coaching Starter Kit - (includes enrolment/registration forms, client contracts, coaching model forms, selling scripts and strategy forms, client preparation forms, client agreement letters, etc..). Forms which are needed to instantly set up a Life Coaching practice.
18. A personally signed copy of The Life Coaching Handbook
19. Your entry in the Coaches Page of our website. Your picture and biography will be displayed on the Our Coaches page of the Achievement Specialists website.
20. Client lead generation opportunity becomes activated from the moment you put your entry onto the Coaches section of our website. These leads are prospective paying clients looking for a coach. We consistently advertise our website and traffic comes to the website because of the outstanding reputation of Curly Martin this means you benefit from two very powerful lead generating systems.
21. Discounted professional indemnity and public liability insurance has been arranged for you to take advantage of once you become one of our coaches.
22. Training delivered by the expert pioneer of Life Coaching, Curly Martin. Curly delivers the workshop and is supported by a fully qualified team of coaches and experts, who will supervise your practical coaching from the beginning to ensure your coaching techniques and methods are world class from the very start. Curly will answer your questions personally and ensure you have competence and confidence when you leave the workshop part of the course. Remember that Curly Martin’s book ‘The Life Coaching Handbook’ was the first book published worldwide on the subject. Give yourself the best chance of success as a life coach and train with the world leading expert.
23. Free membership to the Achievers Club which is an online coach resource area and a lively coach community.
‘I think the Achievers' Club is great (I love the name, too!). I visit the Members Area every few days, I get involved in the forum and get emails posted to my Inbox relating to the different topic strands. I've found the site to be incredibly useful for getting clients, picking up useful quotes about coaching, finding out info on the Master classes/coaching clinics and for all-round networking with other coaches. Anyone starting off will do well to become involved & for us "older hands" it's a great way to network, contribute info and offer recommendations - it's well worth signing up for. - Nikki Keogh - Performance & Results Coach - London
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24. Access to our Mentor Helpline which is manned by fully qualified, experienced and working life coaches.
25. Your own Professional Development Manual (Provides a continuous record of your coaching development). A safeguard mechanism for future changes in the profession, this maintained document will provide you with evidence to apply for a license should this ever be required by the government.
26. Eligibility for membership to the International Coaching Institute. Achievement Specialists has negotiated a rate for our coaches to this professional accreditation body. We have negotiated the right for our coaches to use the International Coaching Institute's logo on marketing materials (IIC members only). This is a hugely valuable benefit and a very low cost. Imagine your business cards with your logo and the logo of this prestigious coaching organisation what will this impact have on your prospective clients.
27. Discounted life time membership to the Find a Coach Directory. (independent website portal)