Professional Coaching Course

• The PCC is organized around four virtual face-to-face modules that run from Tuesday to Friday.
• Days run from 09h00 to 19h00 SAST, with a 1½ hour afternoon break to eat lunch, do a short assignment, walk, and relax.
• In between modules, you read 10 books from the “Coach’s Bookshelf”, complete written assignments, coach clients, and undertake your own individual development programme, as you will also receive 1-on-1 coaching during and between modules.
• As you engage in these activities, you draw upon the support of small learning groups called Pods. Each Pod works together and is assigned a Pod Mentor. You also receive periodic coaching from the course faculty.

• Proudly South African. We are proud to be the first coach training organization in Africa to have been founded at the University of Cape Town in 2002 and one of the longer-standing coach training institutions worldwide, not only on the African continent. We have spent years understanding the complexities of our diverse nation, continent, and planet and how to weave this into how we teach and coach. We raise this as a continuing dialogue within the faculty and student body, encouraging profound openness and conversation. Over the years, we have been privileged to work with an enormously diverse array of students and graduate coaches, any of whom now grace our programmes as highly skilled faculty. Many international applicants come to us precisely because they seek a learning environment that is rich with diversity. Now, more than ever, this is being recognized across the globe as a truly critical aspect of any studies involving personal development and interacting with other human beings.
• Individual development programmes. The programme you receive from the course leader in Module 1 sets a tone and structure for the year. Being coached about something that matters to you provides a visceral experience of Integral Coaching from the coachee’s perspective. In addition, the practices you receive and undertake help you become the person who can create such relationships with others; so this is not only personally powerful, it is also efficient in enhancing your ability to coach.
• “Coach’s Bookshelf” and written assignments. You receive a “Coach’s Bookshelf” of ten books that span widely across different disciplines and knowledge bases. One month, you may read a book about the physiology of breathing; the next, a work of twentieth-century philosophy; and the next, a guide to being present and mindful amid life’s turbulence. The intent is to spark your curiosity by delving into subjects that are essential to coaching and outside your “normal” range of learning. In addition, you complete written assignments such as the application of the core models to a coaching case, essays about how everyday life informs your coaching, reflections on your readings, and the development of a vision of your future. These assignments further help you embody the “two tracks” of Integral Coaching.

Learning to coach is not something we can do alone. Throughout the year, you receive support from the staff at the Centre for Coaching, the PCC faculty and your classmates in several ways:

1. You work with a Mentor Coach who supports you in your personal and professional development through periodic private 1-on-1 virtual coaching sessions.
2. You receive written feedback from your Mentor Coach who listens to recordings of different coaching sessions that you conduct with your clients and who gives you insight as to how closely your own live coaching methodology is aligned with the integral coaching principles that you have been taught
3. You participate with your learning pod. This pod meets together virtually on a regular basis in between modules. The focus of pod meetings evolves during the year from students’ personal development to the models and practices of Integral Coaching to students’ experiences coaching clients. Each pod is assigned a Pod Guide, who is a PCC-certified coach and who is there to support you and the pod.
4. Individual participants often pair up with each other informally around particular issues of mutual interest. We encourage you to ‘buddy-up’ with a self-chosen partner. Sometimes this is done face-to-face, although these days it is primarily done virtually..

These fees include all Live-Virtual modules, books, materials, pod meetings, coaching sessions, and certification.

ZAR 145,950 ex VAT ( ZAR 167,842.50 incl VAT)

• A ZAR 21,000 non-refundable, non-transferable deposit is required no later than six weeks before the start of the course. If your application is not accepted, your deposit will be returned. If it is accepted and you cancel your booking, we will retain your deposit. Course fees are payable before the start of the course. Payment plans are available. Please email laura.troost@centreforcoaching.co.za for further details.

You are required to be present for all days of all modules to certify. Please make sure you are available for the full days and evenings for each of these modules, as there are assignments to do within each module. The work is intensive and requires your full attention. We use the Zoom platform, and you will need a reliable and high-speed internet connection.