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Life Skills Coaching - Advanced
Key Points
- Learn about the life coaching profession
- Develop a range of skills to support your clients
- Get the skills to start your own life coaching business
- Study entirely online
- Launch a rewarding new career
- Get qualified within weeks
About Your Course
A career in life skills coaching will allow you to spend your days helping your clients in a number of different areas of their life.
You will learn a range of therapeutic models as part of a complete life skills coaching programme so you can support your clients effectively. This includes: basic counselling, psychoanalysis, CBT, coaching, advanced coaching, basic NLP and self-hypnosis.
This course will give you a comprehensive understanding of how to assess your client’s needs and build a support plan around them and their identified goals.
It is designed as a complete professional training package, including how to develop a support network and set up your own life skills coaching practice.
Extensive use of case studies is combined with examination of specific application topics (such as stress, anger, smoking and emotional issues) so you will gain knowledge of how to apply skills to a range of typical client presentations and issues. The course is designed to enable you to adhere to the existing National Occupational Standards for Counselling.
This life coach certification also brings practical benefits to those looking to become a life coach. Aside from learning how to help others, you’ll learn how to reflect on areas of your own life.
This will give you the opportunity to develop a self-development plan be it emotional, professional or health related. This, in turn, will help you to be a better life coach as you are proof that the process works.
Getting Started
You do not need any prior experience to enrol on to this advanced life skills coaching distance learning course. All that is required is your motivation to successfully complete this qualification and a means to access the study materials.
The advanced life skills coaching course will provide you with highly developed skills in listening and questioning. You will gain the ability to inspire and motivate along with the right tools to enable the success of your clients.
There are other complementary courses available once you have completed this life coaching course. These will help you develop in specific areas such as business coaching, performance management, career counselling, and holistic therapies for mind and body therapy advice.
Other than working in a consultant type of role, you could be either in the public or private sector, and you could sell your services as a package. Life coaches can work as self-employed either from home or at the client’s house.
Stonebridge Associated Colleges is one of the UK’s leading distance learning providers. Our online offering allows you to learn from anywhere. All you need is a computer and an internet connection.
The online learning portal will give you access to all your course materials, whenever you want to study them. You will also get the benefit of a dedicated tutor to feedback on your assignments and answer any questions you have.
Qualification: Life Skills Coaching - Advanced
On successful completion of your course, you will receive a Stonebridge Associated Colleges Certificate of Completion.
Your course certificate will also state the number of CPD points/hours the course is eligible for.
There is no experience or previous qualifications required for enrolment on this course. It is available to all students, of all academic backgrounds.
All course fees, inclusive of all payment plans including our Premium Credit Limited option, must be settled before certification can be ordered.
*You will have access to the course for 24 months.
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).
Life Skills Coaching - Advanced
Key Points
- Learn about the life coaching profession
- Develop a range of skills to support your clients
- Get the skills to start your own life coaching business
- Study entirely online
- Launch a rewarding new career
- Get qualified within weeks
About Your Course
A career in life skills coaching will allow you to spend your days helping your clients in a number of different areas of their life.
You will learn a range of therapeutic models as part of a complete life skills coaching programme so you can support your clients effectively. This includes: basic counselling, psychoanalysis, CBT, coaching, advanced coaching, basic NLP and self-hypnosis.
This course will give you a comprehensive understanding of how to assess your client’s needs and build a support plan around them and their identified goals.
It is designed as a complete professional training package, including how to develop a support network and set up your own life skills coaching practice.
Extensive use of case studies is combined with examination of specific application topics (such as stress, anger, smoking and emotional issues) so you will gain knowledge of how to apply skills to a range of typical client presentations and issues. The course is designed to enable you to adhere to the existing National Occupational Standards for Counselling.
This life coach certification also brings practical benefits to those looking to become a life coach. Aside from learning how to help others, you’ll learn how to reflect on areas of your own life.
This will give you the opportunity to develop a self-development plan be it emotional, professional or health related. This, in turn, will help you to be a better life coach as you are proof that the process works.
Getting Started
You do not need any prior experience to enrol on to this advanced life skills coaching distance learning course. All that is required is your motivation to successfully complete this qualification and a means to access the study materials.
The advanced life skills coaching course will provide you with highly developed skills in listening and questioning. You will gain the ability to inspire and motivate along with the right tools to enable the success of your clients.
There are other complementary courses available once you have completed this life coaching course. These will help you develop in specific areas such as business coaching, performance management, career counselling, and holistic therapies for mind and body therapy advice.
Other than working in a consultant type of role, you could be either in the public or private sector, and you could sell your services as a package. Life coaches can work as self-employed either from home or at the client’s house.
Stonebridge Associated Colleges is one of the UK’s leading distance learning providers. Our online offering allows you to learn from anywhere. All you need is a computer and an internet connection.
The online learning portal will give you access to all your course materials, whenever you want to study them. You will also get the benefit of a dedicated tutor to feedback on your assignments and answer any questions you have.
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 Quality Licence Scheme: Level 4 Life Skills Coaching - Advanced Certificate of Achievement
At the end of this course successful learners will be given the option to receive a Certificate of Achievement from the Quality Licence Scheme 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 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 Stonebridge Associated Colleges to meet specific learners’ and/or employers’ requirements which cannot be satisfied through current regulated qualifications. The Quality Licence Scheme 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.
The Quality Licence Scheme is part of the Skills and Education Group, a charitable organisation that unites education and skills-orientated organisations that share similar values and objectives. With more than 100 years of collective experience, the Skills and Education Group’s strategic partnerships create opportunities to inform, influence and represent the wider education and skills sector.
The Skills and Education Group also includes two nationally recognised awarding organisations; Skills and Education Group Awards and Skills and Education Group Access. Through our awarding organisations we have developed a reputation for providing high-quality qualifications and assessments for the education and skills sector. We are committed to helping employers, organisations and learners cultivate the relevant skills for learning, skills for employment, and skills for life.
Our knowledge and experience of working within the awarding sector enables us to work with training providers, through the Quality Licence Scheme, to help them develop high-quality courses and/or training programmes for the non-regulated market.
*Regulated qualification refers to those qualifications that are regulated by Ofqual / CCEA / Qualification Wales
To view a sample of the Certificate of Achievement, please click here.
Professional Membership
On completion of this course you will be eligible to join the following Professional Associations(s):
On successful completion of your course your qualification is awarded. You will receive an attractively presented Diploma or Certificate issued by Stonebridge Associated Colleges, this will also allow you to use the letters SAC. Dip. or SAC. Cert. after your name.
Stonebridge Associated Colleges is one of the leading (and biggest) distance education colleges in the U.K and internationally. We have many thousands of students studying with us at any one time from locations all over the world. Our diplomas will always count towards your future, and will improve your prospects of future employment or higher level study etc. by proving that you have studied to a certain level, that you have proficiency in your chosen subjects and that you are interested in your field of choice. Education is always an investment in your future and you will find this to be the case with our qualifications in your jurisdiction.
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).
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