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What is the purpose of the course?

We designed this course to provide you with practical skills and knowledge to fully equip you to set up your own mentoring and coaching practice or work as a mentor and coach. Some of the skills and knowledge you will gain include: Life Coaching Coach Training Courses in Australia.

Identify and explore, in partnership with a client, what the client wants for themselves or the situation, drilling down to uncover the essence of what the client is searching for.
Powerful questioning and effective listening skills, enhanced communication skills, the ability to remain present and hold a safe space for the client to explore within, expanding their thinking and allowing them to move into the truth of what they feel.
People skills to enable the future mentor and coach to assist the client to feel comfortable enough to open up and get in touch with who they want to be and what they wish to create for themselves.
Identify and deal with strengths and weaknesses, triggers and issues within the self in order to best serve clients as a clear mirror and remain non-reactive and non-judgemental no matter what the client brings up.
Develop a range of strategies and tools for dealing with client situations and for remaining in a space of unconditional positive regard for self and for the client.
Develop sound business strategies, practices and habits of excellence for the purpose of building a successful life coaching practice within a frame of ecology and integrity.
Enable the student to develop presentation and public speaking skills for the purpose of teaching, presenting, and motivational speaking for the purpose of serving the community, serving the life coaching and mentoring practice and serving potential clients.

What will I learn?

The units of this course are clustered into 3 main areas of study:

1. Mentoring/Coaching Skills, Communication Skills and People Skills including:

Models Of Coaching and Mentoring including how to create a client agreement and how to conduct a session
Communicate effectively – listen deeply, powerful questioning, build rapport and develop meaningful relationships to get quickly to the heart of what your client is asking for
How to work with individuals and groups and how to share your skill sets with them in a manner to suit their individual learning styles
Facilitating workshops and small group training programs and initiatives to best leverage your time and the number of people you can reach effectively
Who Am I? Who Are You? – learn what makes people tick so you can effectively lead and manage them; understand yourself more deeply in order to hold a strong, clear space for your client to explore without your own ‘stuff’ getting in the way

2. Marketing and Presenting Skills

Creating strategies, campaigns and promotional materials for you to market yourself, your product and your services ethically and authentically from your heart
Learn how to create an effective presentation or workshop with our ‘Essential Presenting Skills’ 3 day in-house intensive

3. Business Skills

Working within a legal and ethical framework – ensuring you adhere to international industry standards as well as local, state and territory laws while being aware of Occupational Health and Safety and Equal Opportunity requirements
How to create a business that works on the ground through learning how to plan, strategize and set up your business in a framework that works for your needs

In addition to these, you will also learn introspection techniques to help you better understand yourself and what makes you tick.

What limits me and what sets me free and what to do about it
How to “Real-ise" my full potential
Practicing discernment and presentness
How to remain calm and centred in a changing world

How long is the course?

The course runs for one year. There are 2 intakes per year commencing in February and July each year.

How is the course taught?

The course is a blended style of learning to give students a mix of practical learning, formal learning, reading, research and practice as they gain the new skills and knowledge.

This is achieved through 2 x 3 days face-to-face intensives (one at the beginning of the course and the second one six months later); fortnightly, interactive teleconference/webinar classes; tutorials with small groups; practical exercises with supervision and peer mentoring; forums; case studies; demonstrations; personal mentoring sessions; group mentoring sessions; and online training materials.

I want to know more about how it's taught.

A mix of theory and practical skills taught in an interactive way to cover the varying and different learning styles of everyone.

Notes and resources are available on the website to download and work with regularly.

The teleconference/webinar classes are fortnightly on Wednesday evenings (from 6 to 7 or 7.30pm Perth time).

Additionally there will be other teleclasses as we bring different experts in their fields to come and share their wisdom with us. The teleclasses are an important part of the training and your accreditation, and also count towards your portfolio accreditation process for international accreditation with the International Coach Federation if you choose to go down that path.

Study buddies and practice groups are allocated for you to practice the new skills in a safe, supportive and nurturing environment.

You will receive 3 mini tutorials with groups of just three students as you practice coaching and mentoring. You will have 3 different mentors who will sit in on 3 of your practice sessions and give you great ideas of what you are doing well and how you can stretch yourself and improve even more.

The 2 x three day face-to-face intensives are at the commencement of each semester. This is an important (and highly FUN) part of the training. You get to meet the facilitators, the other students and immerse yourself in each part of the journey as well as practice mentoring and coaching right away and kick start your potential. Flights, food and accommodation are up to the student to provide but we provide the training and the venue plus snacks in between.

How will I be assessed?

In line with the professional standards associated with being a nationally accredited course, there are assessments for each of the units you study. There are 10 units in total.

The assessment methods vary for each of the sections depending on the type of learning within that section – such as whether it’s more theory based or practical skills based.

In a nutshell these are:

Practical skills assessments – you practice the skills and demonstrate them to your assessors in regular formal and informal ongoing sessions.
Formal written assessments – to be completed at the conclusion of each of the sections.
Ongoing short summaries and reports of practices and skills with a short essay of the overall learnings at the conclusion of the section.
Portfolio of your work – documents you will prepare and hand in at the conclusion of a section.

I want to know more about the assessments.

Evidence is gathered throughout the course through tutorials, practical exercises, group work, demonstrations, simulations and mentoring sessions for your practical skills development. This is logged and monitored and becomes part of a portfolio of evidence to prove your competency in the practical aspects of the course.

The formal written assignments have been carefully designed to be as relevant as possible for your success in becoming a mentor and coach in the 'real' world. They are designed to assist you to discover, through study and research, how you create a business that is an expression of your authentic self. If you choose to really engage with all the assignments, it is envisaged that when you graduate you have already done all the work and your business is ideally already up and running.

These written assessments will demonstrate to you and to us that you now have all the necessary underpinning knowledge to be competent in each unit of study.

The units build together to create a wholistic program to step you through the learning of skills and knowledge, layering each skill in a tried and tested formula to assist you to integrate and demonstrate your competency as a mentor and coach.

You will have 3 months from the completion of your formal studies to complete and hand in all assignments and work. (Please see our extension policy in the handbook for information on what happens if you can't get your work finished in time.)

How many hours do I have to set aside each week to complete the course?

We recommend about an hour to an hour-a-half per day would be perfect – that means around 12 hours per week which includes your coaching practice in your groups of three.

How flexible is the course?

You can study from home or anywhere in the world as long as you have internet and phone access – even while travelling. This means you can keep working or bringing up your family while you study.

The fortnightly calls can be accessed either via your computer or by phone, so wherever you have access to good internet or a phone, you can join the course.

If, for some reason, you are unable to make one of the classes, the calls are recorded. You can purchase the recording for a small cost. The recordings are also a great resource for you to listen to the call over and over to really learn and integrate the material.

What does it cost?

The cost of the Certificate IV in Mentoring and Coaching is $5750.

We have an interest free payment plan where you pay an initial investment of $1250 which covers the non-refundable enrolment fee plus Insight Foundation membership (total $365) and your first 3 months of tuition.

Then there are 9 payments of $500 per month due on the 1st of each month. We use Ezi-debit, an accredited financial institution who will directly debit your account on the first of each month, as a secure method for protecting your fees.

What others costs will there be?

We work to keep costs to a minimum for you. Some of the additional costs include:

Text books – for example, “Undertake Business Planning” from the WA chamber of commerce - $25;
"The Answer" by Lindsey Tighe - $24.95 available from the Global Coaching Academy;
You will receive a recommended reading list at the commencement of your course. Some of the books on the list include “The E-Myth Revisited” by Michael E Gerber, “Instant Cash Flow” by Brad Sugars, “The Road Less Travelled” by M. Scott Peck and a range of others as the need dictates which can often be found in second hand bookstores or online at reasonable prices.
MP3 recordings of live classes and coaching demonstrations as a resource for ongoing learning or if you miss an occasional class - $20.00 plus postage for edited CDs or $10 plus postage for unedited CDs.
Transport, accommodation and meals during the 2 intensives.
Calling cards or telephone costs for teleclasses.

Do I have to want to become a coach or mentor to take this course?

No. Many individuals from a wide variety of careers and industry or members of various organizations areas take part in our training for their own interest, personal and professional development. They find it increases productivity and assists with communication and conflict resolution in both the workplace as well as their personal life. Other benefits include self awareness, creativity and the ability to deal with the issues of daily life with more grace and ease.

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