Coach Training Opportunities

LifeCare Coach Training is fully accredited by the Association for Coaching (AC), a global organization with members from over 70 countries including professional coaches, training and coaching service providers, internal coaches, and organizations building coaching cultures.

All three of our training options below come with the LifeCare self-guided study and the LifeCare training manual – over 500 pages of learning content in total!

Not sure which training is right for you?  Click HERE to schedule a free 20-minute discovery call with the course instructor.

Option 1: LifeCare Coaching Ministry Certificate Course

  • This virtual, on-demand course is accessible 24/7 online.
  • Perfect for those who want to learn at their own pace and gain tools they can begin using right away in a life, business or ministry context.
  • After this course you will never be left wondering how to respond to those you’re leading or ministering to when presented with a challenging situation!
  • You will learn:
    • Person centered-coaching skills
    • Cognitive behavioral coaching
    • Motivational Interviewing for coaches
    • Goal setting for life or business
    • So much more! 
  • Over 11 hours of video content
  • Access to a private LifeCare Coaching group page where you can network with other current or past graduates of any of our courses
  • Includes recorded real-life coaching sessions so you can see the tools in action
  • Same teaching content as in the accredited course, which meets industry standards for professional coach accreditation
  • Over 500 pages of reference material included in the course that will be mailed right to your door!
  • This material has been taught to individuals and church groups all over the US, Europe and beyond

PLUS:

  • Those who complete this course and live locally in the Austin TX area become eligible to volunteer to join The Forward Foundation’s coaching ministry to the formerly homeless at the Community First! village.
  • If you do not live locally and want to start a similar ministry in your area, we’d love to partner with you in an advisory capacity to help you develop your coaching outreach ministry.

Book Now   Course fee: $150.00 USD

Option 2: Accredited LifeCare Coach Training

This is a 16 module, Professionally Accredited Coaching course that satisfies the requirements to become a Foundation Coach/Executive Coach, Coach/Executive Coach, or Professional Coach/Executive Coach with the Association for Coaching.

This course is 100% asynchronous. That means you can JOIN AT ANY TIME and COMPLETE IT ON YOUR OWN SCHEDULE.

How it works:

There are 16 modules in the course, 4 books to read, and several hours of video lessons explain the concepts of each module. You will also be assigned a coach from The Forward Foundation who will be your training partner for the course.

You will complete the reading and writing and watch the recorded sessions for the module that you’re working through.  After that, you will book one coaching session with your coach at a time that is convenient.  The session will take place via Telehealth, so you can be anywhere that has an internet connection.

In each module’s coaching session, your coach will demonstrate the skill from the module you are currently studying while you play the role of client.  This gives you the opportunity to see what the skill looks like in action from the client’s perspective. The session will enhance your learning as a coach, but also, you will receive 16 coaching sessions (one per module) as part of the course, so make use of them! Work on something that you feel called to work on in your personal development – whether it’s a growth goal or working through a challenge.

Remember, coaching is present and future oriented, so focus your coaching sessions on what you can do now, and how you can plan for the future. Even if problems are rooted in the past, coaching will focus on what you can do now, and in the future, to make things better.

You will also practice each module’s skill in the role of Coach. Ideally, you will be able to find someone to coach. This could be someone from a ministry you’re in, a small group, someone you’re discipling – someone you minister to, but who’s not so close that a dual relationship issue/conflict could arise.

Hopefully there’s someone you know who would like to help you learn your new skills while also benefiting from the free coaching! However, if you need help finding someone to coach, The Forward Foundation can help connect you with someone willing to serve as your client. Clients will need to complete client intake forms, which will include a waiver giving you permission to record the sessions for educational purposes. Sessions can take place live, or via Telehealth.

You will review the recording of your session with your client – watching yourself coach others is an effective way to sharpen your coaching skills.  You will notice what you did right, but also the areas where you can improve. After you’ve reviewed the session, you will write a short critique of how you did with the new coaching skill.  Don’t worry – this is about learning and growing, not about a pass/fail. In some ways, making mistakes is the best way to grow!

After critiquing your session, you will pick a ten minute section of the session to share with your coach, along with your self-critique. Your coach will observe the 10 minute excerpt of your taped session, read your self-critique, and give you some additional feedback.

You can watch/read the modules at your own pace, and schedule your coaching sessions whenever it works for you, your “client” and your assigned coach.  You can work through the modules one at a time, completely on your own schedule. You can meet with your “client” or coach in person, or virtually – whatever works best.

Regular group check-ins will be offered twice per month to answer questions for students as they work through the modules.

Option 2 also includes:

  • 2 group supervision sessions with a coach supervisor after the modules are completed, as you accumulate the 20 additional coaching hours required for graduation
  • Ongoing accreditation support with our accreditation support team as you complete the remaining requirements for accreditation (essays, coaching hours, etc.)
  • Ability to apply to join The Forward Foundation’s team of coaches, which includes:
    • Team environment of Licensed Mental Health Therapists, and Professionally Trained and Accredited Life and Business Coaches
    • Inclusion in our coach directory
    • Practice management software and professional email
    • Social media promotion of you and your practice
    • Paid opportunities to teach individual and group marriage enrichment courses and retreats
    • Paid opportunities to provide coaching to staff members at Forward Foundation partner churches
    • Paid opportunities to model coaching skills for the next generation of coaches we’re training

Book Now     Course fee: $1995.00 –  Pay at once, or in 12 monthly installments

(SAVE $384 BY PURCHASING THE WHOLE COURSE ALL AT ONCE – YOU CAN STIL COMPLETE IT ON YOUR OWN SCHEDULE)

Click HERE for the course syllabus.

Option 3: Ala Carte LifeCare Coach Training

This is the same accredited training content as Option 2, with all the same resources and practice sessions, but is for people who want to pick and choose particular modules and skill sets to learn and practice.  If you want to just learn cognitive behavioral coaching, or just learn certain skills like how to help people emotionally regulate, or work through a breach in relationship, then this is the option for you!

Live, virtual practice sessions for each module will work the same as described above for Option 2.

Please note: Modules 1-3 are pre-requisites for modules 4 and above.  This is because modules 1-3 are required to understanding the basics of a working coaching relationship, how change works, and how to establish trust with a client.  After module 3, you are free to take any course in any order you choose.

Module 1

Course fee: $149.00

Includes:

  • 1 session of coaching with a LifeCare Coach to be scheduled virtually
  • Coach review and feedback on 10 minute video segment of your coaching

Learning goals:

  • Become familiar with the Global Code of Ethics for Coaching
  • Discussion of and greater familiarity with sample client contract
  • Commitment to a positive promotion and representation of the coaching profession
  • Understanding liability insurance requirements
  • Understanding the importance of Client Confidentiality
  • Boundaries with clients
  • Differences between coaching and other helping professions
  • How to use referrals to encourage appropriate levels of client care and support
  • Record keeping procedures
  • Data protection laws and obligations
  • Person-centered Coach attributes of empathy, unconditional positive regard, congruence, the importance of building trust and rapport, and theological correlates

Module 2

Course fee: $149.00

Includes:

  • 1 session of coaching with a LifeCare Coach to be scheduled virtually
  • Coach review and feedback on 10 minute video segment of your coaching

Learning goals:

LifeCare Coaching Framework: PROPER IV

  • Process comments
  • Reflections
  • Open questions
  • Prayer (when ethical and appropriate)
  • Encouragement
  • Requests
  • Information
  • Validation

Using PROPER IV to explore choices while protecting rapport

Module 3

Course fee: $149.00

Includes:

  • 1 session of coaching with a LifeCare Coach to be scheduled virtually
  • Coach review and feedback on 10 minute video segment of your coaching

Learning goals:

  • Using PROPER IV to increase client motivation and build rapport
  • Working with client motivation
  • Intrinsic vs extrinsic motivation
  • Understanding resistance to change
  • ‘Rolling with’ client resistance to change
  • Spiritual perspective on change for coaches working with clients who want spirituality to be a part of their coaching experience
  • Reframing pain, failure or struggle to increase client motivation to change
  • Heightening discrepancy between current behavior and values/long term goals
  • Change as process
  • Tailor coaching to meet client at their current stage in change process
  • Maintaining core conditions of coaching throughout change process

Module 4

Course fee: $149.00

Includes:

  • 1 session of coaching with a LifeCare Coach to be scheduled virtually
  • Coach review and feedback on 10 minute video segment of your coaching

Learning goals:

  • Develop ability to lead a client through a reflect on personal history and deepen self-insight in a conversational way
  • Further develop ability to maintain empathy, positive regard and congruence
  • Further develop ability to use the PROPER IV tool to build rapport, motivation and help client develop insight
  • Develop an intuitive sense of when to probe and when to let an issue lie
  • Further develop ability to help a client create COSMIC goals
  • Demonstrate ability to refrain from fixing and advice giving
  • Demonstrate sensitivity to client’s preference regarding the role of spirituality or personal beliefs in their coaching experience

Module 5

Course fee: $149.00

Includes:

  • 1 session of coaching with a LifeCare Coach to be scheduled virtually
  • Coach review and feedback on 10 minute video segment of your coaching

Learning goals:

  • Understand relationship between cognitions, emotions and behaviors
  • Understand how to use the ‘Functional Thoughts and Beliefs’ worksheet to help clients identify and modify problematic thoughts, beliefs and behaviors leading to a reduction in emotional distress.
  • Help clients create a measurable plan for behavioral change.
  • Further develop ability to lead a client through an exercise in a conversational way.
  • Further develop ability to maintain empathy, positive regard and congruence.
  • Further develop ability to use the PROPER IV tool to build rapport, motivation and help client develop insight.
  • Further develop ability to help a client create goals.
  • Demonstrate ability to refrain from fixing and advice giving.

Module 6

Course fee: $149.00

Includes:

  • 1 session of coaching with a LifeCare Coach to be scheduled virtually
  • Coach review and feedback on 10 minute video segment of your coaching

Learning goals:

  • Further develop your understanding of the difference between amends, forgiveness and reconciliation.
  • Further develop ability to understand and build client insight about the dynamics of a present relationship
  • Further develop ability to lead a client through an exercise in a conversational way.
  • Further develop ability to maintain empathy, positive regard and congruence.
  • Further develop ability to use the PROPER IV tool to build rapport, motivation and help client develop insight.
  • Demonstrate ability to refrain from fixing and advice giving.

Module 7

Course fee: $149.00

Includes:

  • 1 session of coaching with a LifeCare Coach to be scheduled virtually
  • Coach review and feedback on 10 minute video segment of your coaching

Learning goals:

  • Demonstrate ability to move a client all the way through the problem-solving strategy using PROPER IV.
  • Demonstrate ability to help client create measurable goals using COSMIC method (Controllable, Observable, Simple, Measurable, Immediate, Consistent)
  • Further develop ability to lead a client through an exercise in a conversational way.
  • Further develop ability to maintain empathy, positive regard and congruence.
  • Further develop ability to use the PROPER IV tool to build rapport, motivation and help client develop insight.
  • Demonstrate ability to refrain from fixing and advice giving.

Module 8

Course fee: $149.00

Includes:

  • 1 session of coaching with a LifeCare Coach to be scheduled virtually
  • Coach review and feedback on 10 minute video segment of your coaching

Learning goals:

  • Demonstrate ability to help the client discern what ac5on to take when they feel an emotional impulse to do something that contradicts their goals and values
  • Demonstrate ability to help client create a plan for what they will do the next 5me they feel the troublesome emotion.
  • Further develop ability to lead a client through an exercise in a conversational way.
  • Further develop ability to maintain empathy, positive regard and congruence.
  • Further develop ability to use the PROPER IV tool to build rapport, motivation and help client develop insight.
  • Demonstrate ability to refrain from fixing and advice giving.

Module 9

Course fee: $149.00

Includes:

  • 1 session of coaching with a LifeCare Coach to be scheduled virtually
  • Coach review and feedback on 10 minute video segment of your coaching

Learning goals:

  • Demonstrate ability to help the client create a skillful communication strategy using IPA WIN (Issue, Perspective, Assert, demonstrate how this will be a Win-Win solution) or LEG (Listen, Endorse, Goal) while using PROPER IV
  • Further develop ability to lead a client through an exercise in a conversational way.
  • Further develop ability to maintain empathy, positive regard and congruence.
  • Further develop ability to use the PROPER IV tool to build rapport, motivation and help client develop insight.
  • Demonstrate ability to refrain from fixing and advice giving.

Module 10

Course fee: $149.00

Includes:

  • 1 session of coaching with a LifeCare Coach to be scheduled virtually
  • Coach review and feedback on 10 minute video segment of your coaching

Learning goals:

  • Develop familiarity with HEARTS positive activities options (Hobbies, Exercise, Affection, Rest, Time for yourself, Spiritual activities) and other community resources.
  • Demonstrate ability to help client create a COSMIC goal (see Mod. 7 above)
  • Further develop ability to lead a client through an exercise in a conversational way.
  • Further develop ability to maintain empathy, positive regard and congruence.
  • Further develop ability to use the PROPER IV tool to build rapport, motivation and help client develop insight.
  • Demonstrate ability to refrain from fixing and advice giving.

Module 11

Course fee: $149.00

Includes:

  • 1 session of coaching with a LifeCare Coach to be scheduled virtually
  • Coach review and feedback on 10 minute video segment of your coaching

Learning goals:

  • Further develop familiarity with the COSMIC goal setting strategy, and in using PROPER IV to help a client set goals, boundaries and limits.
  • Further develop ability to lead a client through an exercise in a conversational way.
  • Further develop ability to maintain empathy, positive regard and congruence.
  • Further develop ability to use the PROPER IV tool to build rapport, motivation and help client develop insight.
  • Demonstrate ability to refrain from fixing and advice giving.

Module 12

Course fee: $149.00

Includes:

  • 1 session of coaching with a LifeCare Coach to be scheduled virtually
  • Coach review and feedback on 10 minute video segment of your coaching

Learning goals:

  • Demonstrate ability to help the client plan ahead to act against predictably reoccurring unhelpful emotions.
  • Demonstrate ability to help the client develop a plan to implement positive resources into their day to day life.
  • Further develop ability to lead a client through an exercise in a conversational way.
  • Further develop ability to maintain empathy, positive regard and congruence.
  • Further develop ability to use the PROPER IV tool to build rapport, motivation and help client develop insight.
  • Demonstrate ability to refrain from fixing and advice giving.

Module 13

Course fee: $149.00

Includes:

  • 1 session of coaching with a LifeCare Coach to be scheduled virtually
  • Coach review and feedback on 10 minute video segment of your coaching

Learning goals:

  • Consolidate personal learning and growth gained through the completion of the LifeCare book and LifeCare Coach Training by creating a vision for implementation of coaching skills.
  • Assemble the building blocks necessary to communicate that vision to others who can help.
  • Create a behavioral plan for implementation of vision.
  • Learn a process by which future clients might also discover a sense of purpose or life direction and begin to implement.
  • Further develop ability to lead a client through an exercise in a conversational way.
  • Further develop ability to maintain empathy, positive regard and congruence.
  • Further develop ability to use the PROPER IV tool to build rapport, motivation and help client develop insight.
  • Demonstrate ability to refrain from fixing and advice giving.

Module 14

Course fee: $149.00

Includes:

  • 1 session of coaching with a LifeCare Coach to be scheduled virtually
  • Coach review and feedback on 10 minute video segment of your coaching

Learning goals:

  • Get new coaching client
  • Contract with new client
  • Begin working with client based on client goals
  • Conceptualize coaching client and, now having learned all the LifeCare coaching tools, select the best tool(s) to help them achieve their goals

Module 15

Course fee: $149.00

Includes:

  • 1 session of coaching with a LifeCare Coach to be scheduled virtually
  • Coach review and feedback on 10 minute video segment of your coaching

Learning goals:

  • Continue working with client based on client goals
  • Conceptualize coaching client and, now having learned all the LifeCare coaching tools, select the best tool(s) to help them achieve their goals

Module 16

Course fee: $149.00

Includes:

  • 1 session of coaching with a LifeCare Coach to be scheduled virtually
  • Coach review and feedback on 10 minute video segment of your coaching

Learning goals:

  • Continue working with client based on client goals
  • Conceptualize coaching client and, now having learned all the LifeCare coaching tools, select the best tool(s) to help them achieve their goals

 

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Still not sure which training is right for you? Click HERE to schedule a free 20-minute discovery call with the course instructor.

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