Continue your Learning Journey with

The Foundations of Coaching

Grace Minton

This is how this course can support you

to start having coaching conversations

Recognised

Training Hours

This qualification is the first module in the larger qualification, the ‘Professional Coaching Certificate’. Taken as a stand-alone course you will receive a Certificate with the ICF ACSTH logo recognising 16.5 hours (or 20.5 hours if you have participated in the live calls on this Introduction to Coaching Program).

100% Live & Interactive

We meet live on Zoom in a 6 hour day, with 2 x 30 min breaks. We work as a large group and also break into break-out rooms for practice in pairs and triads.

Individual Feedback from

your Trainer

Following the workshops, you will have 3 meet-ups with another student to form a pair and practice with your Trainer as an Observer, offering you individual feedback to support you to integrate the skills you are learning.

Live Demonstrations of Coaching Conversations

You will see demonstrations before you practice all of the following core skills:

contracting with your coachee
setting the agenda for the session
A Performance Coaching Conversation
An Inner Game Coaching Conversation

WEEK 1:

Discover Foundation Skills

Definitions of Coaching, including differences between Coaching and Consulting, Mentoring, Therapy and Managing
Deep listening and reflective listening that will transform your communication
Core concepts that are key to empowering others
Outside of the Workshop Time - Observation and Feedback Meeting 1:

practice clarifying the agenda and reflective listening with expert feedback

WEEK 2:

Ethics, Boundaries and a Full Coaching Converation

The ICF Coach Competencies, the world standard for defining what it is that Coaches actually do
Ethics and boundaries in the coaching relationship
Contracting, including contracting with Sponsors
Setting and Clarifying the Agenda
The structure of a coaching conversation – the performance coaching structure - GROW model
The structure of a coaching conversation – the inner game coaching structure - Present to Desired State model.
Outside of Workshop Time - Observation and Feedback Meeting 2:

practice the GROW Model Performance Coaching with expert feedback

WEEK 3:

Practice, Feedback & Consolidate

Observation and Feedback Meeting 3:

practice the 'Present to Desired State' Structure for Inner Game Coaching

Consolidate your Learning with final opportunity for Q&A
An opportunity to set goals for using your skills and explore pathways to continue practice via Peer Coaching and our Mentoring Group

Common Questions

Is this a recognised Qualification?

The live contact hours are recognised as part of a full qualification. The minimum number of hours to receive recognition as a Coach by the ICF is 60 hours. This allows you to join the largest independent professional association for coaches as a member.

This course will provide a certificate that you can build on, so all the hours can be recognised if you choose to continue to a full qualification as a Coach.

What is the time commitment required?

The course involves 2 full days of workshops online: 7 hours each, with breaks. Outside of the workshop time, there are then 3 x 1-hour meetings with yourself and another participant, and a Trainer for live practice, with feedback. Finally, there is a whole group close-out to reflect on learning and 'where to from here'. In total there are 16.5 hours of contact time required. As an online program, we ask that people intend to complete it in 4 weeks, in time for the whole of group close-out.

If I can't attend live, can I still graduate?

The program (with the ICF recognised hours) requires live attendance. If you were to miss a day due to illness, you could access the recordings and still complete the course with the rest of your group, however, we would ask that you attend the next live class for that day to participate in the exercises that are so key to learning. We are able to issue a certificate for the hours that you did attend live, if you do not wish to attend a workshop in the future to make up the time.

What support is available?

You can join a Facebook Group specifically for this program where you can ask questions and discuss learning between workshops and also stay in contact. After you graduate, you are welcome to attend the monthly Group Mentoring meeting that all graduates of the Neuro Coaching Academy are able to attend for free. Students use this group to practice, to share knowledge, to ask questions of a Coach Trainer that are based on integrating their skills in the real world.

2 weeks

Lessons recorded for your review

PDF Course Manual

Facebook Group

Excellent Support

WHAT OUR GRADUATES SAY

Bobby

My reasons for attending the program were -

To continue my learning journey in the realm of coaching and people development.

I was challenged, stretched and enlightened.

Maria

I learnt so much from the group and from Grace.

I developed belief in my abilities, conviction in my decisions & direction.

Sonia

Because students get to practice a lot on each other during the course, it is also a tremendous self-development experience and an essential step for a coach to really understand what the clients go through...I had already attended a few courses by Grace Minton – one of the best trainer and coaches one could have. I absolutely recommend this course and having her as a coach, a trainer, a supervisor and a mentor coach.

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BONUS E-learning

that you can start immediately

The Mindset Map to Success

This program is an amazing opportunity if you intend to be a self-employed Coach, now or in the future. You can start this online program from the moment we receive your registration.

You will take a 20-minute survey and receive a report with individualised results (scores) against 48 different thinking, attitude, and motivational patterns.

You will then be able to work your way through 16 lessons on self-paced e-learning with state-of-the-art design that allows you to type in your result and understand how your thinking patterns compare to people who were successful in business, vs people who were bankrupted by their business venture.

This program is based on a real profiling tool and research with incredibly successful entrepreneurs that between them owned over 300 businesses. The research was conducted at a gold standard level (as an MA thesis) that is worlds away from the 'millionaire mindset' blogs, and biographies that you could spend years reading, without ever really knowing how they apply to you.

And, if you are concerned that this program could tell you something you don’t want to know, think again. This is a profiling tool that measures thinking patterns that are based on Neuro-Linguistic Programming and NOT personality theory. Everything it measures IS changeable. AND, the most important patterns for your success are made crystal clear in the Mindset Map - 13 patterns that matter the most are identified for you to focus on.

Entrepreneurs have paid over $1,000 to discover their results in the past. This is included for free in this program because, if you are thinking about becoming a Coach, it is never too early to start learning about the internal resources you already have to support you, and where you need to get out of your own way.

Next Program Dates:

Live Classes Online:

Full Training Days Online take place at the following times

10:00 am - 5:00 pm AEST

Full-Day on 28 June, followed by a 1-hour meeting over the next week

Full-Day on 29 June, followed by a 1-hour meeting over the next week

Between 30 June - 11 July: 1 x 1-hour meeting only

On 12 July, meeting for 1.5 hours to close out your learning, from 10 am AEST

You should expect to complete the program over 2 weeks

Full-Day Trainings take place 10:00 am - 5:00 pm AEST

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Graham

During the program… I learnt different techniques that I had not heard before.

As a result, I am much more confident in myself and what I want to do.

Anonymous

During the program, I was able to focus on what I want for the first time in 2 years! I was able to reconnect with myself and focus entirely on ME!! And realize I can create a future for myself and get excited without being dependent on someone else’s wants/needs. My heart is swelling with anticipation, confidence and joy..

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