Coaching for Development Course

Coaching for Development (CfD) is a six-month online programme in the study and application of Integral Coaching. It is an intensive coach training and apprenticeship programme designed for participants to emerge as coach practitioners, able to see the world through someone else’s eyes, and at the same time able to skillfully coach them to improved performance in any aspect of their lives. This course is ideal for those who are interested in evoking excellence in others while also being open to receiving coaching themselves so they too can bring forward excellence in their own endeavours.

CfD is taught in English, the course materials are in English, and assignments are required to be submitted in English. We do, however, have a faculty team that can support those whose home language is French.   

Participants meet as a group for three modules. Learning takes place in many different ways:

• Group sessions — flow and philosophy of coaching; exploration of coaching models.
• Individually — reflections, assignments, your own development as a coach.
• In small groups called learning pods — supported by a Pod Mentor Coach

The balance of work between modules is self-paced, including readings, written assignments, and three detailed case-study applications of this coaching method with clients.

Each delegate receives written feedback on each of their assignments – a rich source of learning and reflection.

There is on-going support provided by the Centre for Coaching faculty over the six months.

Making the decision to become a coach can be life-changing. Not only for yourself but for those you care about and interact with.

1. Becoming a coach you can offer so much to others and make the world better from a place of wisdom, maturity, and experience.
2. You can fulfill your aim to help others as a coach to build confidence and capabilities, to grow personally, and improve people’s performance.
3. You will evoke excellence in yourself and in others. Your outlook will change, and you will be able to see this world through someone else’s eyes.
4. Becoming a qualified coach, you will also have the opportunity of building a coaching practice, coaching people when and where you want to.
5. You will learn to bring your whole self to life through the power of Integral Coaching. The integral approach explores all the constitutive elements of being human: spiritual, cognitive, emotional, relational, and somatic. It allows everyone to uncover their ability to continuously awaken and deepen so that life flourishes and is saturated with meaning, belonging, and contribution.