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Provided by: Calamus Extension College Ltd Certificate in Life and Personal Coaching - distance learningPersonal Performance |
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Certificate Program
Provided by Calamus Extension College Ltd
The Accelerated University Certificate in Life and Personal Coaching is a conversion course for those who have professional qualifications in clinical psychology, psychotherapy, hypnotherapy, NLP, stress management or counselling OR who have a CIU B. A. or M. A. in counselling psychology, personal development, change agent studies, stress management, organisational spirituality, transpersonal or depth psychology, or an equivalent degree.
Entry to the course is at any time of year.
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 is required.
This CIU coaching programme is by distance learning only and is delivered by correspondence (there are no teleclasses). textbooks are used and written assignments are emailed for assessment. Academic credit and a tuition fee discount will be given to students who wish to proceed to a CIU degree course later on.
Related Awards, Degrees or Certifications: A certificate is awarded. Entry to a US professional association is possible leading to accreditation by further distance study
Related Jobs or Careers: Private practice as a life and personal coach.
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Certificate in Life and Personal Coaching - distance learning
Become a life coach and join one of the fastest growing professions
The accelerated University Certificate in Life and Personal Coaching Cert. LPC(CIU) is intended primarily for therapists who wish to make the transition to coaching as an additional or new profession. The course is also available to others with suitable backgrounds or for personal interest.
Entry to the course is at any time of year.
Approximate completion time: 3 to 6 months depending on background, experience and time available. Mode - distance learning (correspondence/ email)
Tuition fees now reduced
Cost: GBP (Pounds Sterling) 350. 00 Cost of textbooks extra.
Studying this course will also be beneficial for those who work with people but who might not call themselves coaches, such as human resources managers, general managers, counsellors, therapists, complementary medicine practitioners, NLP practitioners, mediators, mentors, New Age and metaphysical practitioners and others, including CEOs of small businesses who wish to inspire and coach their colleagues towards success.
This version of the course has been revamped to bring it up to date and also to make it more accessible to people who do not have degrees in counselling psychology or related fields. However the key differences between therapy and counselling are an important part of the course. Study of these principles will help coaches with liaison and cross-referral with therapists. In many locations there are strict rules against practising counselling or therapy without an appropriate licence, and learning the fine distinctions between those arts and coaching will help you avoid overstepping professional boundaries.
Many people are realizing that their current professional activities already involve coaching, or want to change from working with people with deep problems to working with normal people who wish to change their lives positively. Such professionals wish to have certification without committing too much time, energy and travel. This course meets such needs and helps you leverage your existing knowledge and training.
The accelerated programme is taught in 5 modules covering one key skills model and drawing from four coaching models (Attraction, Co-active, NLP and Coaching with Spirit), introducing a wide 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.
Textbooks are required and CIU reserves the right to change the course content at any time if a book is no longer available. Students will need to purchase or acquire their own textbooks.
Syllabus
1. The Coaching Transformation
Key text: Skibbins, David. Becoming a Life Coach: A Complete Workbook for Therapists. Oakland, CA: New Harbinger Publications Ltd., 2007.
Working through this unit s textbook will provide practical skills and knowhow for the therapist or other helping professional who wishes to become a life coach. A crucial part of this unit will be learning the distinctions between working as a therapist and working as a coach, and interacting with clients on the basis of their ability rather than their need for help.
2. Attracting What You Want in Life
Key text: Leonard, Thomas J., The 28 Laws of Attraction: Stop Chasing Success and Let It Chase You. New York: Scribner, 2008.
Thomas Leonard (1955-2003), the founder of life coaching as a distinct profession, developed the model of attraction coaching. His book was originally called The Portable Coach: 28 Surefire Strategies for Business and Personal Success. The current edition, which is eagerly sought by the self-help market as well as by coaches, is called. The 28 Laws of Attraction: Stop Chasing Success and Let It Chase You. 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, or may be cherry-picked as required.
3. The Invisible Coach
Key text: Whitworth, Laura, et al., Co-Active Coaching. Palo Alto, California: Davies-Black Publishing, 2nd edition, 2007. (includes CD of coaching materials)
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. The NLP Coach
Key text: McDermott, Ian and Jago, Wendy. The NLP Coach: A Comprehensive Guide to Personal Well-Being and Professional Success. London: Piatkus, 2002.
In this unit, the two modern helping approaches of Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP) and Life and Personal Coaching are brought together. The student will learn the basic principles, strategies and tools of up-to-date NLP and how they fit into the framework of personal coaching. This integrated framework of NLP and coaching is then applied towards self-coaching success in different areas of life, from a balanced perspective valuing personal harmony, self-esteem, relationships, enhanced brainpower, health, wealth, happiness, rewarding work and spirituality.
5. The Spirit of Coaching
Key text: Belf, Teri-E. Coaching with Spirit. Jossey-Bass/ Pfeiffer, 2002..
This unit is about the relationship between life coaching and spirituality. Spirituality does not necessarily mean religion, and people use the term in different ways. However, essential to all views of spirituality is the sense of connection to a greater reality than oneself. Coaching with spirit rests on three grounded principles : connection with self, connection with the client and connection with the Whole. These principles inform the art of coaching in various ways, producing a holistic view of coaching whether one is doing personal coaching, business coaching, marketing one s coaching services, or training.
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.
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.
Many students will already have the capability to study and apply helping techniques, but the core techniques of coaching are easy to learn if you are a reasonable communicator. We are confident that the overwhelming majority of students will easily progress through the course.
Overseas and British awards
You have a choice of two awarding bodies for the course:
Calamus International University (this is a non-UK university registered in the Republic of Vanuatu)
or
Calamus Extension College Ltd. a company registered in England and Wales.
The choice is therefore between an overseas qualification and a private British qualification. We suggest that people in the UK choose the private British award.
It is also possible to have both awards simultaneously and receive two certifications for an additional fee of GBP 50.
Obtaining textbooks
The approximate cost of all the textbooks is GBP 100 and prices of individual books may vary from time to time.
The syllabus and other details may change at any time and we reserve the right to introduce new textbooks and units if any of the existing ones are unobtainable.
The accelerated University Certificate in Life and Personal Coaching Cert. LPC(CIU) is intended primarily for therapists who wish to make the transition to coaching as an additional or new profession. The course is also available to others with suitable backgrounds or for personal interest.
Entry to the course is at any time of year.
Approximate completion time: 3 to 6 months depending on background, experience and time available. Mode - distance learning (correspondence/ email)
Tuition fees now reduced
Cost: GBP (Pounds Sterling) 350. 00 Cost of textbooks extra.
Studying this course will also be beneficial for those who work with people but who might not call themselves coaches, such as human resources managers, general managers, counsellors, therapists, complementary medicine practitioners, NLP practitioners, mediators, mentors, New Age and metaphysical practitioners and others, including CEOs of small businesses who wish to inspire and coach their colleagues towards success.
This version of the course has been revamped to bring it up to date and also to make it more accessible to people who do not have degrees in counselling psychology or related fields. However the key differences between therapy and counselling are an important part of the course. Study of these principles will help coaches with liaison and cross-referral with therapists. In many locations there are strict rules against practising counselling or therapy without an appropriate licence, and learning the fine distinctions between those arts and coaching will help you avoid overstepping professional boundaries.
Many people are realizing that their current professional activities already involve coaching, or want to change from working with people with deep problems to working with normal people who wish to change their lives positively. Such professionals wish to have certification without committing too much time, energy and travel. This course meets such needs and helps you leverage your existing knowledge and training.
The accelerated programme is taught in 5 modules covering one key skills model and drawing from four coaching models (Attraction, Co-active, NLP and Coaching with Spirit), introducing a wide 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.
Textbooks are required and CIU reserves the right to change the course content at any time if a book is no longer available. Students will need to purchase or acquire their own textbooks.
Syllabus
1. The Coaching Transformation
Key text: Skibbins, David. Becoming a Life Coach: A Complete Workbook for Therapists. Oakland, CA: New Harbinger Publications Ltd., 2007.
Working through this unit s textbook will provide practical skills and knowhow for the therapist or other helping professional who wishes to become a life coach. A crucial part of this unit will be learning the distinctions between working as a therapist and working as a coach, and interacting with clients on the basis of their ability rather than their need for help.
2. Attracting What You Want in Life
Key text: Leonard, Thomas J., The 28 Laws of Attraction: Stop Chasing Success and Let It Chase You. New York: Scribner, 2008.
Thomas Leonard (1955-2003), the founder of life coaching as a distinct profession, developed the model of attraction coaching. His book was originally called The Portable Coach: 28 Surefire Strategies for Business and Personal Success. The current edition, which is eagerly sought by the self-help market as well as by coaches, is called. The 28 Laws of Attraction: Stop Chasing Success and Let It Chase You. 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, or may be cherry-picked as required.
3. The Invisible Coach
Key text: Whitworth, Laura, et al., Co-Active Coaching. Palo Alto, California: Davies-Black Publishing, 2nd edition, 2007. (includes CD of coaching materials)
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. The NLP Coach
Key text: McDermott, Ian and Jago, Wendy. The NLP Coach: A Comprehensive Guide to Personal Well-Being and Professional Success. London: Piatkus, 2002.
In this unit, the two modern helping approaches of Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP) and Life and Personal Coaching are brought together. The student will learn the basic principles, strategies and tools of up-to-date NLP and how they fit into the framework of personal coaching. This integrated framework of NLP and coaching is then applied towards self-coaching success in different areas of life, from a balanced perspective valuing personal harmony, self-esteem, relationships, enhanced brainpower, health, wealth, happiness, rewarding work and spirituality.
5. The Spirit of Coaching
Key text: Belf, Teri-E. Coaching with Spirit. Jossey-Bass/ Pfeiffer, 2002..
This unit is about the relationship between life coaching and spirituality. Spirituality does not necessarily mean religion, and people use the term in different ways. However, essential to all views of spirituality is the sense of connection to a greater reality than oneself. Coaching with spirit rests on three grounded principles : connection with self, connection with the client and connection with the Whole. These principles inform the art of coaching in various ways, producing a holistic view of coaching whether one is doing personal coaching, business coaching, marketing one s coaching services, or training.
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.
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.
Many students will already have the capability to study and apply helping techniques, but the core techniques of coaching are easy to learn if you are a reasonable communicator. We are confident that the overwhelming majority of students will easily progress through the course.
Overseas and British awards
You have a choice of two awarding bodies for the course:
Calamus International University (this is a non-UK university registered in the Republic of Vanuatu)
or
Calamus Extension College Ltd. a company registered in England and Wales.
The choice is therefore between an overseas qualification and a private British qualification. We suggest that people in the UK choose the private British award.
It is also possible to have both awards simultaneously and receive two certifications for an additional fee of GBP 50.
Obtaining textbooks
The approximate cost of all the textbooks is GBP 100 and prices of individual books may vary from time to time.
The syllabus and other details may change at any time and we reserve the right to introduce new textbooks and units if any of the existing ones are unobtainable.
About The Training Provider: Calamus Extension College Ltd
Calamus Extension College Ltd - Calamus Extension College Ltd. is a UK-based educational company which specialises in distance learning courses and programmes leading to bachelor's, master's and doctoral degrees of Calamus International University. Calamus International University is a non-traditional, private, global university organised as a network of affiliated schools and educators in various countries. The University is...
