Life Coaching Advanced Diploma
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Train for a new career as a coach, or develop professional-level coaching skills for use in the workplace!
- Accredited training with one-to-one tutor support.
- Study at home in your own time.
- Comprehensive 12 module course designed to give you the knowledge and skills you need to work as a professional Life Coach.
- FREE course books – NLP: The Technology of Achievement and Life Coaching: a cognitive-behavioural approach. (With printed course only.)
- Free life-time listing on Lifecoach-uk.com on successful completion of the course.
A life coach works with individuals to help them reassess their current lifestyle and make changes, identify life goals, and move towards greater fulfillment at work and in their personal life. Coaches may also work with groups and organisations.
There are no set class times, so you can fit study into your life in a way that suits you. You’ll benefit from one-to-one support from an expert personal tutor who you can contact by email or telephone at any time.
Qualification
- Advanced Diploma in Life Coaching
Our certificates are accredited and recognised by employers.
Course Outline
Study topics include: building an effective coach-client relationship, identifying problems and strengths, motivating clients, understanding the past, goal-setting, changing belief systems, achieving life change, supporting the client, running your own life coaching business, lessons from high achievers. The course involves approximately 240 hours of study. Students have up to 12 months to complete this course, allowing them to work through the modules at their own pace. On average, however, it takes students around 10 months to complete the course, based on 3 – 4 hours study time per week. Students can also purchase an extra 12 months of tutor support for just £20 if required.
Course books – Life Coaching, Neenan and Dryden; NLP: The Technology of Achievement, Andreas and Faulkner. (Online course includes alternative reading material delivered by PDF, not course books.)
Module 1: What does a life coach do? Setting study goals. Where are you starting from? Introduction to some key theories.
Module 2: The Life Coach. Is this the right career for you? Personal traits. Developing as a Life Coach. Introduction to key counselling skills. Looking into yourself. The role of the Life Coach. The relationship with the client.
Module 3: Identifying client needs. Analysing the client’s lifestyle and personality. Devising an individual plan of action for each client. Relationships. Energy. Financial management. Well-being. Defining goals, values and mission statement. Client involvement.
Module 4: Looking at the past. The role of the client’s past in their current lifestyle, reactions and responses. New ways of thinking. Tackling resistance to change.
Module 5: Attitude and understanding. Further work on attitude and ways of thinking. Indepth look at key counselling skills. The role of these skills in life coaching.
Module 6: Here and now. Ways of relating. Relationships as systems. Family work. Motivating clients. Identifying individual motivating factors.
Module 7: Lifestyle changes. diet, weight issues, work. Identifying sources of stress. Problem-solving techniques.
Module 8: Time management as a tool. Organisation and planning. Developing individual time management tools for clients.
Module 9: Working with clients 1. The first meeting. Creating the right conditions. Establishing a working relationship. Defining boundaries.
Module 10: Working with clients 2. Ethics and legal considerations. Confidentiality. Keeping records. Endings.
Module 11: Running a Life Coach practice. Practical considerations. Finding premises/working from home. Accounts.
Module 12: Finding clients. Advertising. Working with corporate and public sector clients. Continuing professional development.
Payment Options
You can also enrol by telephone or we can invoice your workplace – please call an adviser on 01896 860661 for more information.
Why Choose Us?
Our tutorial support is second-to-none. You’ll be assigned a personal tutor as soon as you enrol who will work with you all the way through. You can contact your tutor directly at any time if you have any questions or problems, or if you would just like a chat about how the course is going. Tutorial support is by e-mail and/or telephone.
* When you enrol by instalments you will only be charged the £55 deposit when you enrol. We’ll send a Standing Order form that you can complete to pay your remaining instalments. If you prefer to pay the deposit and instalments by standing order, you can download and complete a form here. We’ll send out your first batch of course material as soon as we receive your first payment.
Payment Alternatives
You can also enrol by telephone or we can invoice your workplace – please call an adviser on 01896 860661 for more information.
Online Study Option Now Available
This course is also available online. Our online courses are delivered as pdfs direct to your email inbox. Our online courses are exactly the same as the postal version, but include a range of supporting study material instead of textbooks.
Borders Connect is one of the UK’s leading distance learning providers. All of our home study courses include study material, which is sent out in an attractive, hardwearing folder, essential course books and full tutorial support. We are accredited by the Open and Distance Learning Quality Council, registered with the Online Learning Council, and listed on the National Register of Learning Providers.
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