Life Skills Coaching - Advanced

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Overview

Accreditation by Association for Coaching
25 units

Life Skills Coaching - Advanced

The Advanced Life Skills Coaching Diploma course is designed as a complete professional training package, incorporating a full range of therapeutical models in a complete holistic Life Skills Coaching programme.

About Life Skills Coaching

The student will gain competence in modalities including; Basic Counselling, Psychoanalysis, CBT, Coaching, Advanced Coaching, Basic NLP and Self Hypnosis. These are all combined with the knowledge of how to work with support networks and other professionals, a well as how to set up in professional practice.

Extensive use of case studies is combined with examination of specific application topics (such as stress, anger, smoking and emotional issues) so that the student will gain knowledge of how to apply skills to a range of typical client presentations and issues. The course is designed to enable the student to adhere to the existing National Occupational Standards for Counselling.

On completion of your course, you will receive two certificates:

Certificate 1 is issued by Stonebridge Associated Colleges: Life Skills Coaching - Advanced Diploma

Life Skills Coaching - Advanced Diploma issued by Stonebridge Associated Colleges, to view a sample of the college’s award, please click here.

Certificate 2 is issued by ABC Awards: Level 4 Life Skills Coaching - Advanced Certificate of Achievement

At the end of this course successful learners will receive a Certificate of Achievement by ABC Awards and a Learner Unit Summary (which lists the details of all the units you have completed as part of your course).

The course has been endorsed under the ABC Awards’ Quality Licence Scheme. This means that Stonebridge Associated Colleges have undergone an external quality check to ensure that the organisation and the courses it offers, meet certain quality criteria. The completion of this course alone does not lead to an Ofqual regulated qualification but may be used as evidence of knowledge and skills towards regulated qualifications in the future. The unit summary can be used as evidence towards Recognition of Prior Learning if you wish to progress your studies in this sector. To this end the learning outcomes of the course have been benchmarked at Level 4 against level descriptors published by Ofqual, to indicate the depth of study and level of difficulty involved in successful completion by the learner.

The course itself has been designed by Stonebridge Associated Colleges to meet specific learners’ or employers’ requirements. ABC Awards’ endorsement involves a robust and rigorous quality audit by external inspectors to ensure quality is consistently met. A regular review of courses is carried out as part of the endorsement process.

To view a sample of the ABC Certificate of Achievement, please click here.

To view a sample of the ABC Learner Unit Summary, please click here.

Requirements for Entry

There is no experience or previous qualifications required for enrolment on this course. It is available to all students, of all academic backgrounds.

Who are ABC

ABC Awards is a leading national Awarding Organisation, regulated by Ofqual, and the Welsh Government[1]. They have a comprehensive portfolio of over 650 Ofqual regulated qualifications on the national Qualifications and Credit framework (QCF). It has a long-established reputation for developing and awarding high quality vocational qualifications across a wide range of industries. As a registered charity, ABC Awards combines 180 years of examination and assessment expertise but also implements a responsive, flexible and innovative approach to the needs of our customers.

Renowned for excellent customer service, and quality standards, ABC Awards also offers over 600 Ofqual regulated qualifications for all ages and abilities post-14; all are developed with the support of relevant stakeholders to ensure that they meet the needs and standards of employers across the UK.

For more info on our awarding body, ABC awards, click here

Professional Membership

On completion of this course you will be eligible to join the following Professional Associations(s):

Association for Coaching

Stonebridge Associated Colleges is an Organisation Member of the Association for Coaching

The Association for Coaching is an independent non profit organisation with the goal to promote best practice, raise awareness and standards across the Coaching industry, while providing value added benefits to its members - whether they are professional Coaches or Organisations involved in Coaching.

Association for Coaching
66 Church Road
London W7 1LB
United Kingdom

Visit their website at www.associationforcoaching.com.

Qualifications Register

Anyone who is studying for or has completed a course endorsed by an Ofqual approved awarding body is eligible to join Qualifications Register. The Qualifications Register (QR) is an independent register that aims to serve both members of the public and those professionals who hold recognised qualifications.

QR's primary aim is to provide transparency to members of the public and employers. The QR is a searchable database that allows them to find a practitioner and view the relevant qualification and endorsements the practitioner holds. The member of the public is then able to make an informed decision in relation to the suitability of the practitioner. QR also tracks whether practitioners have insurance, again something that is useful for members of the public. QR can also help professionals gain insurance or find professional indemnity cover. Click here to find out more.

Members of the public can check an independent source with complete confidence that the practitioner has the qualification(s) they claim to have and that any additional CPD the practitioner has, is verified and quality assured to make sure that the CPD is being done on a regular basis. QR tracks a practitioners endorsed CPD (in unison with our CPD accreditation partner Lifetime Awarding) and other key signals to help members of the public and employers to come to a more informed decision about the professional they intend to use. This is an enormously valuable signal that's increasingly important as business becomes more deregulated and privatised.

For practitioners QR helps you market your skills, endorsements and feedback transparently to a wider audience. It also gives you access to a community to help make you more able to progress and succeed in your field of expertise. Click here to find out more.

Affiliation of Ethical & Professional Therapists (AEPT)

"The Affiliation of Ethical & Professional Therapists is dedicated in assisting you as a member, in the promotion and growth of your practice. Your profile will be entered onto our website and each month you will receive a free e-zine full of business tips and valuable information".

For further details please visit, www.aept.co.uk

What is Life Coaching

What to expect from the course
What is coaching
What are lifeskills
What elements of therapy are contained within life coaching

What do clients usually want from Life Coaching?

Typical presenting clients
Typical presented problems
Typical presented goals
Dealing with personal prejudices and opinions

Surface life coaching versus holistic life coaching?

Behavioural therapy approach and rapid intervention
Holistic theory and cycles of change
Clients with deeper issues wanting only surface change
Ethics of eliciting deeper change

Common misconceptions and errors

Errors made by practitioners
Mistaken beliefs about coaching
Examining the role of the life coach

Areas and levels of change

The different levels of life (looking at different models)
Expectations from areas of life
Imbalances in levels of life
Dissonance between surface needs and driving needs

Counselling Skills

What is counselling
National Occupational Standards for Counselling

Counselling Skills continued

Open questioning
Basic methods (reflection, reframing, summary, challenge)
Common errors
Balancing listening and assessment
Common models of counselling (Egan, Nelson etc.)

Basic Coaching Skills

Determining validity of goals
Determining ecology of goals
Three stages of goal setting
Working through the process
Case study

Advanced Coaching Skills

Specialised Coaching techniques

Coaching the client in relaxation techniques

Teaching basic relaxation methods, introduction
Is it meditation or self hypnosis?
Models of visualisation
Models of personal affirmations
Safety Precautions with teaching aids e.g. tapes

Coaching the client in altered states

Is it self hypnosis or NLP?
Eliciting different states of relaxation, concentration, elation
Choosing emotional states and ensuring ecology
Anchoring emotional and physical states at will
Performing exercises with the client
Ensuring the client can continue to adapt and expand
Training aids: Log book, handouts, tapes etc.
Recommended books and topics to read

Coaching the client in Behavioural change

Safety, fears, ecology and good practice
Image manipulation
Advanced use of anchoring
Affirmations in relaxed state
Affirmations in waking state)

Coaching the Client in advanced behavioural changes

Using principles of CBT
CBT principles with the client
CBT as homework
Self analysis using CBT

CBT continued (Part II: Toxic thoughts)

Basic Psychoanalysis theory and useful techniques

Analysis in coaching
Topic association method

Referral and working with other practitioners

Knowing when the case is too complex
Referral to other practitioners
Protecting yourself
Professional clients “the heart sick”
Cooperating with other practitioners
Cooperating with Medical Doctors

Emotional issues and case studies

Confidence
Self Esteem
Self Image
Behavioural versus holistic
Case study

Deeper emotional issues and case studies

Depression
Anxiety
Phobias and Fears
Ensuring appropriate advertising, referral and practice
Case study

Weight Loss and Control

Lifestyle issues
Assisting the client in choosing a diet plan
Assisting the client in choosing an exercise plan
Boundaries of the life coach in weight loss advice
Ensuring appropriate advertising and practice
Case study

Stop Smoking Coaching

Lifestyle issues
Positive versus negative methods
Visualisation methods
Motivational counselling methods
Self help techniques
Learning aids e.g. tapes and handouts
Case study

Performance Coaching

Common types of performance coaching
Sports performance coaching
Business performance coaching
Public speaking coaching
Boundaries of the life coach in performance coaching
Case study

Faith and Spiritual issues

Common types
What is spiritual and what is faith?
Grief and bereavement
Abuse
Religious imposition
Fear of the future
Supporting without converting
Working within existing faith models
Case study

Anger and Stress Management Coaching

Safety concerns, confidentiality and referral
Addressing lifestyle issues
Relaxation therapy
Nutrition issues
Relationship issues
Underlying causes
Behavioural change
Working with other professionals
Case study

Working with couples or groups

Typical presented issues
Initial meeting and planning response
Facilitating discussions
Homework and agreements
When to refer and working alongside other professionals

Non-Specific Issues

Common presentations
Feeling lost
Not happy despite having everything
The survivor with no time to live
The person in imbalance
Tracking the feelings and memories
Using advanced anchoring for changing remembered emotions
Combining anchoring with inner child methods
Working with service users (clients) of state agencies
Case study

Professional Practice and Responsibilities

Preparing for practice, what you need
Principles of informed consent and contracts / agreement
Providing information in appropriate formats for the learner
Dissemination of information from sources of authority
Creating your own learning materials
Advertising
Registration and Insurance
NOS National Occupational Standards
Confidentiality and ethics
What you may or may not call yourself
Importance of Ongoing Professional Development and supervision
Other topics of training to support your career
Looking after yourself and your loved ones

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What's Included

All study materials
Study Guide
Full Tutor and Admin support
The course fee includes the awarding body registration and certification fee (valued at up to £30.00).

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Life Skills Coaching - Advanced

About Life Skills Coaching

On completion of your course, you will receive two certificates:

Certificate 1 is issued by Stonebridge Associated Colleges: Life Skills Coaching - Advanced Diploma

Life Skills Coaching - Advanced Diploma issued by Stonebridge Associated Colleges, to view a sample of the college’s award, please click here.