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 from ABC Awards and Certa Awards and a Learner Unit Summary (which lists the components the learner has completed as part of the course).
The course has been endorsed under the ABC Awards and Certa Awards Quality Licence Scheme. This means that Stonebridge Associated Colleges has undergone an external quality check to ensure that the organisation and the courses it offers, meet defined quality criteria. The completion of this course alone does not lead to a regulated qualification* but may be used as evidence of knowledge and skills gained. The Learner Unit Summary may be used as evidence towards Recognition of Prior Learning if you wish to progress your studies in this subject. 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 demand/complexity involved in successful completion by the learner.
The course itself has been designed by Stonebridge Associated Colleges to meet specific learners’ and/or employers’ requirements which cannot be satisfied through current regulated qualifications. ABC Awards & Certa Awards endorsement involves robust and rigorous quality audits by external auditors to ensure quality is continually met. A review of courses is carried out as part of the endorsement process.
*Regulated qualification refers to those qualifications that are regulated by Ofqual / CCEA / Qualification Wales
To view a sample of the ABC Certificate of Achievement, 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 Awards and Certa Awards
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ABC Awards and Certa Awards have long-established reputations for providing high quality vocational qualifications across a wide range of industries. ABC Awards and Certa Awards combine over 180 years of expertise combined with a responsive, flexible and innovative approach to the needs of our customers.
Renowned for excellent customer service, and quality standards, ABC Awards and Certa Awards also offer 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.
Professional Membership
On completion of this course you will be eligible to join the following Professional Associations(s):
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.
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.
"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
For a more detailed syllabus on this course, click here
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).
