Hi Paul, Rebecca Beck, Ilaria Vilkelis, Janis Chan, Volker Ballueder , Nikki Eve Wallis, Mike Richardson, Saori Okada, Amanda Green, Allan Kelly, Stuart Prestedge, Anthony Donataccio, @leonardo-zangrando, James McKerracher might be able to offer some assistance

There are a few, Barefoot Coaching has a good reputation but also depends on what you want to do moving forward. I have a Master Practitioner in NLP and Strength Coaching certificate and various other qualifications. Eyed up this one to do maybe later this year: https://www.cmit-elearning.co.uk/cmit-distance-learning-courses/offers-cmit-distance-learning/

As others have already suggested, you need to be clear on what you want and then decide how to get there. I am a Certified NLP Coach (2002) and Executive Coach (2004) and have more certifications than I can count. Ultimately it depends on what you expect and who is your ideal coaches. Today, I would still look at NLP courses like NLP School in London, ITS that has now moved into Neuroscience. That’s the future.

Hi Paul, I support what others have said about what type of coaching and how you want to use it. I trained with Barefoot; it takes a whole person approach (both exec and personal coaching), included a number of methodologies ( TA, CBT, NLP for example), and also accredited with the ICF. But, I knew I was making a career out of it and wanted something pretty heavyweight but if that’s not your intention it’s about choosing the solution that is appropriate for you. I’d coached for many years through my career in terms of having coaching conversations and it may be that you simply want to hone those skills? Or you may be looking for something more robust and in depth and come away with a bouquet of tools, techniques and methodologies?

Questions to think of: Do you want an accredition? Do you you want to specialise in a particular area/ methodology/ client base? Paid, or part of an existing role? What is important to you vis-a-vis style of learning? Remote/ on-line/ F2F, also the ‘foundation’ of the course can be different for eg Barefoot has strong roots in psychology and neuroscience, Henley similarly but evidence-based is much more important.

Happy to chat further if that would be helpful.

Hi Paul,

As others have already commented, I would invite you to first explore for yourself what type of coaching you’re looking to do, and then investigate the coaching school options from there. Even as far as asking to speak directly with teachers/trainers from the providers to get a feel for things for yourself. Unfortunately, the quality benchmark of the industry has been diluted in recent years, thus why it’s important to not buy into clever marketing or social biases toward a specific school. I still frequently come across coaching school graduates that paid thousands to do a course, only to hate what they do and they’ve been ”told” to do things. Happy to jump on a call with you sometime if you’d like to get some ideas and perspectives.

Cheers.

Hi Paul

I echo what others have said about it depends what you’re looking to do with the coaching. I did my qualification with Animas initially and keen to move towards ICF accreditation in future.

I think another important factor is what your potential client base would want from you. I would recommend focusing on that (and if that isn’t clear to you yet, potentially putting more time and effort into working that out rather than which coaching qualification to do).

Some groups of people/organisations will view qualifications and those from different bodies and schools differently. It’s worth knowing how potential clients think and what they really want from a coach (it might be particular skills & experience or knowledge rather than coaching qualification) if you’re doing it as a business.

my context is I mainly with startup founders and employees. Very happy to talk more if helpful!