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Adarsh Nalam posted in the group Coaches and Mentors
Hello and happy holidays, everyone. I need your advice. I’m looking to start my coach certification process and wanted to understand if you know or recommend either of these providers:
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Hi Adarsh, I’m afraid I haven’t heard of these two so unfortunately can’t help with that – happy to share who I trained with who I wholeheartedly recommend if that would be helpful
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Hey Rebecca, thank you for replying. Yes, please. That’d be great.
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Sorry for delay Adarsh, I’m not very good at accessing these messages! I trained with Barefoot who I wholeheartedly recommend. Henley Postgrad course is also very good, and I also looked at AoEC – they are all slightly different. Happy to chat through further if that would help
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Like Rebecca, I haven’t heard of the ones you mentioned Adarsh Nalam. There are so many institutions though, as long as they have been accredited by the ICF – you should be fine. I trained through Goleman EI (now Beyond EI) as I specialised in Emotional Intelligence and I would recommend them if that’s the path you wanted to go down.
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Hi Adarsh, Emma de Pfeiffer-Key, Jack Jacobs, Mojisola Olurotimi , Sandra Cantu Bustamante, Darryl Godfrey, Sunil Kumar, Graham Dodds, Stuart Prestedge, Wayne Kruger, Mike Richardson, Stacey Gibson, rupert baddeley, Megan McCrory, Jonathan McGuinness might also be able to offer some advice!
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Hi Adarsh, I am training now and did a lot of research before choosing my provider. I came across iPEC but didn’t give me what I was looking for. I would suggest thinking about what you want out of a programme. For me it was a high level of practice and a recognised qualification as well as accreditation. Happy to chat further.
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Hey Stacey, that’s great to hear. All of what you mention and a grounding in some empirical research is what I am after. I’d love more details or a chat if you have the time.
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Hi Adarsh – as mentioned above – it depends on what you want; qualification / accreditation. Coaching industry is unregulated but I can see it fast becoming regulated. Internationally, the most recognised is ICF which means aligning to a set of ethics and practise for continuous development. If this is the route you want, suggest looking at ICF requirements and reverse engineer. Eg. I wanted ACC qualification with ICF within a year of starting – there are number of specific hours approved training / mentoring and number of coaching practise hours associated with this, I then evaluated providers based on this. Coaching (like engineering for me) is an applied profession so I wanted to ensure I had practise during the course. Of course if the intent to just understand fundamentals as you’re considering more mentoring offer and just need to understand basic principles of pure coaching there are other options. Eg. Coach training alliance provider’s basic certified program doesn’t contain enough accredited training hours for you to reach PCC level with ICF.
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Hi Janis, thank you. I’m looking at ICF-accredited programs, but the number of options has me confused. The training hours point is very useful, so I will use that as a filter. I would like a pathway to ACC certification.
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Hi Adarsh – I was too quick with my response, I forgot to explain my strategy! I meant PCC level accreditation for coach training alliance – if you can find a provider that provides sufficient accredited training to PCC level then all you need to focus on is aiming for practise hours, then apply ACC after 100 hrs coaching provision and PCC when you reach those hours of coaching provision. So instead of doing an intense qualification to only obtain the 60 hrs, I would aim for a comprehensive one that you obtain 125hrs of training in the same duration (usually 6-10 months) as you’ll probably have to pay several more thousand for another course within a year or so. ICF next year are introducing an additional tier of accredited courses aimed for Master level! It’s confusing but happy to chat.
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Hey Janis, thanks so much. There’s a lot to consider, and I’m grateful to have the community’s guidance. I’d love a chat when you’re free. I’ll message you to set one up.
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Hi Adarsh Nalam like many have said you want ICF. Most of them will have a pathway to that so it’s just a check. More importantly, is the style and the resonance you feel reading one from the other. Are there schools you can feel your values align with or do really like things on their website. You will come out of most of them a great coach and then develop in your own style, but with coach training I would say you are also buying an experience and a network of like minded people, so search on that basis. I trained with CTI (Co-Active) which is one of the most expensive and a bit woo woo in places but it was just perfect for me and I have wonderful friends from it. I have heard great things about Barefoot Coaching and Animas so check those out. Ultimately there is no perfect decision, you will be the coach you are because of YOU primarily 🙂
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Hey Laura Thomas, that’s really helpful, thank you. There are just so many choices, so I’m finding it a bit confusing. Your point about aligning with the values is an important filter, and I’ll use that when I’m looking at providers. I thought the CTI program was great too, but it might need more time than I can commit at the moment. I’ll check out Barefoot and Animas as well. Thanks a bunch.
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Hi Adarsh, happy holidays to you too! I’m sure our coaching community will have great suggestions – Janis Chan, Caroline Marsh, Skylar Haven, Rebecca Beck, Fiona Chorlton-Voong, Rob Wright, Kate Scammell-Anderson, Alexandra Levy, Paul David Mather, Jules Haughey, Rachel Liu, Laura Thomas, James McKerracher