Become an Accredited and Certified Coach Program

Become a Certified Coach Program (60 hour tele-class or self study.)

This program is for you if:

  • You want to help people who are confused, lost, sad or just want to better their lives
  • People have always found it easy to talk with you
  • You feel you have been do this forever
  • You want to learn how to effectively empower, inspire and motivate people to achieve greatness
  • Helping people is your passion

Why Should I Become Certified?

For 2 very simple reasons:

  1. Your clients want to know that you are trained and certified. Being able to tell them you are certified helps them trust you and feel confident in your abilities.
  2. A coach needs to know how the human mind functions. Including what stops people who are motivated from attaining their goals and how to make life change easier and permanent. This has to be learned.

Program Highlights

  • Earn your life coach certification plus become certified in three other specialized areas of your choice.
  • You will also automatically earn your Associate Certified Coach (ACC) accreditation from the International Coaching Bureau (coachinginternationally.org).
  • You will be assigned a mentor coach to personally answer any questions you have about coaching and opening your own coaching business.
  • You will learn how to open a successful coaching business right out of your home.
  • You will learn how to help people in almost facet of their life

Program Accrediting and Approval

We are approved through the International Coach Federation (ICF) and through the International Coaching Bureau (ICB.)

Live tele-class students only: Earn 60 coach-specific hours for use with ICF accrediting. You can use this to apply for your ACC, PCC or MCC status. You will also be paired with another coach to practice your coaching skills and earn coaching practice hours.

Program Start Date

The self study version is available now.

The live tele-class version starts Starts in a few weeks! Register and choose your time! This program is accessible via conference call and is held every Monday for 18 weeks. If you are unable to attend classes are recorded for download to your computer, BlackBerry, iPhone or any MP3 player.

Current start date: Wednesday, August 4th at 10:30 AM EST.

We are also starting an evening class in August as well. Contact us for possible start times.

Would you like the speed of completing the home study but the hours needed for ICF accrediting? All students who register for the live version receive the home study version free. This means you are able to become certified faster and yet still attend classes to earn your ICF hours.

Class Information

This program runs for 18 weeks and is held on the same day/ time each week. On your scheduled day your simply call in to be connected to your class. Your weekly class notes and all the accompanying materials are down-loadable (so you can easily print them off and use them with clients.)

Class will be approx. 1-2 hours and will be held the same time each week. CLASSES WILL BE RECORDED IF YOU ARE  UNABLE TO ATTEND.

Self study students work at their pacethrough the lessons that are down-loadable and have accompanying audio(there are more then 14 lessons). You would have two years to complete this program. The average student can graduate in under 8 weeks (and you still have access to the materials after you graduate).

Mentor Coaching and Buddy-Coaching

With both the live and home study version, immediately upon registering you are paired with a mentor coach.

This coach is already a professional, well respected coach who is here to answer any questions you want.

With the live tele-class version you have phone and unlimited email access to your mentor coach. Just connect with them anytime you have questions- before and after you graduate.

With the self study you have unlimited email access. Just connect with them anytime you have questions- before and after you graduate. (Of course, anytime you have an important situation you are welcome to phone.)

With the tele-class version you will be paired with another coach in the program to practice your new skills with, gain experience and earn coaching hours. We call this “buddy-coaching”.

Program Training

Your training includes:

Life Coach Training

  • Increasing successful habits in your clients
  • Breaking bad habits for good
  • Learn the steps for identifying and creating the life your client wants
  • Using the life coach wheel
  • Teaching your clients how to live and work in their passion and with their passion
  • Identifying and changing incorrect belief systems that cause low self-esteem
  • How to use over 25 life changing assessments and tools with clients

“I am so excited to put this info to work on myself first and everyone else after I can represent the effects of these tools!” Professional Coach Denise King

Career Coach Training

  • Finding your client’s ideal career (based on strengths, opportunities and passion)
  • Identifying your client’s passion (tools and assessments provided) and helping them live it
  • Working with your client to increase their income
  • Working with clients during career transitions
  • Common career tests and assessments

Health and Wellness Coach Training

  • How sick people get well
  • Stress identification and reduction assessment and tools
  • The lifestyle differences between healthy people and sick people
  • The 8 health and wellness areas to test your clients in (assessment provided)
  • How to use the wellness wheel
  • Learn the 5 step process for coaching your client’s to better health

“…They will be great to use in my business…The calcium chart is wonderful. Love the references. I can see using the action plan from the Ideal Self Tools with health and wellness too. Thanks a bunch for all the tools you are giving us!!!” Nurse and Professional Coach Karen Roberts

Christian Coach Training

  • Helping clients trust God
  • Helping clients become closer to God
  • How to use Christian tools and assessments (provided, including the Spiritual gifts test)

Relationship Coach Training

  • The difference between functional and dysfunctional relationships
  • Understanding and resolving disputes
  • How to get out of inappropriate and damaging relationships
  • Ensuring your clients are moving toward the same goals
  • Pre-marriage coaching (includes questions both parties should have answers to before marriage and getting over the first year “bumps”)
  • Marriage coaching (including increasing the love and passion, understanding why people have affairs, getting back “on track” afterwards, how to fight fair, how to trust, how to forgive, how men and women to show love differently, the number 1 reason couples argue)
  • Recovery after divorce

Coaching From a Spiritual Perspective

  • Getting in touch with your inner power and strength
  • Christian verse Spiritual coaching (the differences, the similarities)

Wealth Increase Coach Training

  • The system of the wealthy (what to save, what to invest, what to spend)
  • How to use income tracking tools (provided)
  • How to build a nest egg from seemingly nothing

Success and Goal Attainment Coach Training

  • Achievement of seemingly impossible goals
  • Goal identification and attainment- the success coaching process
  • The successful mindset your clients need to have
  • How to motivate your clients to get them to the next level in their life

Weight Loss Coach Training

  • Why your clients overeat
  • How to motivate your clients
  • Why clients will have in the past and often do fail to attain their goals (and the #1 way to prevent this)
  • Learn which diet and exercise plan is the right one for your clients
  • Learn and understand why people who have coaches are 90% more likely to get to their weight-loss goals

“I really like these tools. They are really clear and easy to explain to a client. Thank you!”Professional Coach Kimberly Pettiford

Certifications

Your certifications are valid in the following countries and territories:

  • United States (all 51 states)
  • Canada
  • Mexico
  • Australia
  • France
  • Germany
  • Malaysia
  • Romania
  • Russia
  • United Kingdom (UK)

Upon graduation you will have enough hours to apply for ICF accrediting and receive the following certifications/ designations:

  • Life Coach Certification (designation CLC)
  • Associate Certified Coach (designation ACC from the International Coaching Bureau)

Plus choose 3 other coaching niche certificates of your choice. The * symbol indicates we provide training for you through this program (alphabetical).

  • Christian Coaching Areas
      • Certified Christian Coach (designation CCC) *
      • Certified Bible Based Coach (designation CBBC) *
      • Certified Parish Coach (designation CPC) *
  • Career Coaching Areas
      • Certified Career Coach (designation CCC) *
      • Certified Career Passion Coach (designation CCPC) *
      • Certified Career Planning Coach (designation CCPC) *
      • Certified Career Transition Coach (designation CTC) *
  • Health and Wellness Areas
      • Certified Diet Coach (designation CDC) *
      • Certified Health and Wellness Coach (designation CHWC) *
      • Certified Health Coach (designation CHC) *
      • Certified Health Recovery Coach (designation CRC) *
      • Certified Nutrition Coach (designation CNC) *
      • Certified Weight Loss Coach (designation CWLC) *
  • Life Coaching Areas
      • Certified Divorce Recovery Coach (designation CDC) *
      • Certified Life Planning Coach (designation CLPC) *
  • Psychological Coaching Areas
      • Certified Neuro Linguistic Programming (NLP) Coach (designation CNLPC) *
      • Certified Psycho-Therapy Coach (designation CPTC) *
      • Certified Psychological Coach (designation CPC)
      • Certified Therapy Coach (designation CTC) *
      • Certified Sports Psychologist Coach
      • Certified Domestic Abuse/ Violence Coach
  • Relationship Coaching Areas
      • Certified New Marriage Coach (designation CNMC) *
      • Certified Marriage Coach (designation CMC) *
      • Certified Pre-Engagement Coach (designation CPMC) *
      • Certified Prosperity Coach (designation CPC) *
      • Certified Relationship Coach (designation CRC) *
      • Certified Relationship Repair Coach (designation CRRC) *
  • Success Coaching Areas
      • Certified Emotional Intelligence Coach (designation CEIC) *
      • Certified Empowerment Coach (designation CEC) *
      • Certified Goal Attainment Coach (designation CGAC) *
      • Certified Laser Coach (designation CLC) *
      • Certified Motivational Coach (designation CMC) *
      • Certified Self Talk Coach (designation CSTC) *
      • Certified Success Coach (designation CSC) *
      • Certified Transformational Coach (designation CTC) *
  • Wealth Coaching Areas
      • Certified Abundance Coach (designation CAC) *
      • Certified Debt Management Coach (designation CDMC) *
      • Certified Financial Recovery Coach (designation CFC) *
      • Certified Prosperity Coach (designation CPC) *
      • Certified Wealth Coach (designation CWC) *
  • Other areas you must have experience in:
      • Certified Addictions Coach (designation CAC)
      • Certified Blended Family Coach (designation CBFC)
      • Certified Co-Dependency Coach (designation CCDC)
      • Certified Spiritual Coach (designation CSC)
      • Certified Empty Nest Coach (designation CENC)
      • Certified Family Coach (designation CFC)
      • Certified IVF Coach (designation CIVFC)
      • Certified Mystic Coach (designation CMC)
      • Certified Parenting Coach (designation CPC)
      • Certified Pregnancy Coach (designation CPC)
      • Certified Retirement Coach (designation CRC)

Program Objectives

To understand the human mind in the following areas, from a coaching perspective:

  • Creating lasting change where the client has been unable to before
  • “Breaking” (replacing) bad habits with good, functional habits and understanding where the need for the bad habit originated from
  • Empowering the client to make wise and productive decisions that results in personal positive growth
  • Learning to identify what motivates the client and how this impacts them in a negative or positive way
  • Understanding the basic psychological make-up of certain client types and how this can hinder or help them in their life
  • How to strategize with your client with the goal of helping them grow spiritually, emotionally, physically and financially
  • Understanding the impact of positive and negative interpersonal relationships- from childhood through to present day

Your success-proven training covers both the coaching aspect of becoming a coach and the business aspect.

  • Making the transition to a full time professional coach from your current job
  • Coaching your clients through forgiveness, guilt, childhood traumas
  • How to avoid the mistakes new coaches make
  • The coaching techniques the professionals and seasoned coaches use
  • Coaching tools and handouts (both novice and advanced techniques that you can use with your clients)
  • How to break habits permanently (If you do not know this simple technique the dysfunctional habit will not end!)
  • The psychology of success and successful life change (Change can be easier when you know this proven process.)
  • Client typing: How to question, motivate and understand different client types (the mom, the student, the manager, the professional, the artist…)
  • The 5 best questions in coaching
  • What every coaching website must have
  • BONUS: Earn testimonials from your mentor, instructor and other coaches!
  • Assessments and tests for you to use with your clients (finding their passion, identifying strengths and values, uncovering what makes them happy, personality profiling, Myers-Briggs and more)
  • Marketing how to and assistance, plus free online marketing and articles listings for your business
  • How to name your business (there are important tips and you will want to avoid the number 1 mistake coaches make when naming their business)
  • All the goal attainment secrets the pros use
  • Niche instruction (Christian coaching how to, relationship coaching how to, weight loss coaching how to, career coaching how to and so on.)
  • How to begin, lead and end every coaching session
  • Raising self worth dramatically in 30 days
  • Why every coach should write a book (and how to)
  • How to write professional and compelling articles
  • BONUS: Get free resources for your website
  • How to set your fees and collect money (if you specialize in a niche- included in your tuition- you are able to charge higher then the normal rate)
  • Understanding how to identify your client’s purpose
  • How to have a website like this one (under $3/ month!)
  • How to email coach, phone coach and in person coach
  • How to run a seminar or workshop (how to ensure people to show up!)
  • The biggest errors new coaches make (and how to prevent them).
  • How to have a practice that allows you to travel abroad
  • BONUS: Public speaking course available to all students and graduates
  • NLP coaching, laser coaching, transformational coaching, emotional intelligence coaching, ontological coaching and more.
  • How to choose your coaching niche (which area needs the most assistance, which area is the most popular right now, how much to charge per niche etc.)
  • Coaching models: Vision to Goals coaching model, DVGS Coaching model, 8 Steps to Success Comprehensive Coaching model, Grow coaching model, SWAT coaching Model, Christian Coaching model, Weight Loss Coaching model
  • Mind mapping, brainstorming, life planning
  • Coaching with affirmations
  • Self talk coaching
  • BONUS: Quick-flip reference guides to use when talking with clients on various topics such as step by step coaching session breakdown and goal setting steps
  • How to run a mastermind group or a coaching group

Materials List

Although we have hundreds of pages of materials that you have access too upon registering, here are a few of our favorites (some are niche focused):

  • New Coaches “Get Started and Become a Coach Now!” Toolbox
  • Coach’s Success Checklist
  • How to Increase a Client’s Happiness Level
  • How to Motivate Anyone
  • Start-up Budget Breakdown For Coaches (Under $500.00 to Open Your Practice)
  • Success Coaching Made Affordable (a resource for your clients)
  • Step by Step Coaching “How-to” Chart to Use as a Reference During Sessions
  • Turning Your Life Around- A Christian Perspective (Christian coaching resource)
  • 2 Most Important Rules of Change
  • 6 Items Every Coach Has
  • The 6 Jobs of a Relationship Coach (relationship coaching resource)
  • What the Healthiest People in the World Know (health and wellness coaching resource)
  • How to Talk to Non-Christians (Christian coaching resource)
  • How to Create a and Sell Your Book (includes topic ideas)
  • Creating a Blog- Step by Step Directions
  • Creating a Professional Website For $5/ Month (a “how to” for the novice)
  • 5 Questions Guaranteed to Increase and Incite Motivation
  • How to Market Online and Offline- 60 Ways (most of which cost nothing)
  • How to Take Your Income and Practice to the Next Level
  • Thinking of Becoming a Life Coach manual
  • Professional Coach Checklist
  • Questions Every Coach Needs to Answer
  • Setting Up Your Own Coaching Practice guide
  • Your First Session With a New Client timetable and graph
  • Coaching Relationship timeline (what topics to cover during your coaching relationship)
  • Session Formula guide (what to talk about and when)

Frequently Asked Questions

Is mentor coaching included in both programs?

Yes. Immediately upon registering you are assigned to a professional coach who will mentor you as you make the transition to becoming a professional coach.

I want to be a Christian coach (for example), how do I go about this?

The first step is to register for this program. And at no additional cost we will certify you as a Christian coach. You will receive some helpful information on the topic.

How long does the program last?

The live tele class program is 18 weeks. Classes are held once a week (excluding holidays) and range from 1 to 3 hours per class.  Classes are held by phone.

Outside of class time expect1-3 hours of study, coaching practice or business building per week.

The self study program is 8 weeks, based on the completion of 2 lessons per week. (You are able to work at your own pace.)

How is my final exam conducted?

The final exam is downloadable as well and is open book short essay questions. Your mentor or instructor are here if you have any questions regarding it.

How long after I complete the course work will I have to wait for my certifications?

If your work is completed and your account is paid off within a few days of submission you will have your certifications and paperwork. If you have a good payment history with us you are welcome to graduate, receive your certifications and continue to make your monthly payments.

Current Bonus Materials For Registering With Us

BONUS #1: YOUR COACH / CLIENT CONTRACT

The contract you need to have every client sign prior to beginning your coaching relationship with them. This contract has been reviewed extensively by contract attorneys and is good to be modified to include your business information.

BONUS #2: THE NUMBER 1 WAY TO HAVE HAPPY, SATISFIED CLIENTS

This method has been tested and proven time and time again.

BONUS #3: THE ONLY 2 THINGS YOU NEED TO BE SUCCESSFUL

Evidence has shown that success occurs when armed with these two “tools”.

BONUS #4: THE #1 SECRET TO WEALTH

Over 400 of the wealthiest people in America were interviewed by Forbes and asked to name the number 1 secret to their wealth.

BONUS #5: OPENING YOUR PRACTICE FOR UNDER $200.00

You need a professional business start up plan and we have it for you.

BONUS #6: THE STEP-BY-STEP GUIDE TO USE WHEN COACHING CLIENTS

You will know where to begin with every client you coach. You will learn what questions to ask and when and how to proceed from the first session through to goal attainment.

BONUS #7: THE #1 WAY PEOPLE SABOTAGE THEMSELVES IN WEALTH, HEALTH, AND RELATIONSHIPS.

How the Program Works

Almost immediately after you register your personal mentor coach will send you an email welcoming you to the program.

Every week you will call into the class time that works best with your schedule and make notes on the module materials you have printed out before hand.

Whether you are on a payment plan or not you will have immediate access to your student center.

Located in the student center are your notes and various coaching and self help materials.

Tuition

YOU ARE ABLE TO DESIGN TO YOUR PAYMENT PLANS- one payment made every 30 days until your account is paid off. (No interest and no penalty for paying your account off early.)

We offer an IRONCLAD 100% money- back guarantee for the live tele-class version.

All we ask is that you do your part:

  • Attend all the tele-classes.
  • Make your payments on time.
  • Complete the work.

If you do not feel that you have learned live changing information we will refund 100% of your tuition.

Live tele-class 16 week version:

100% money-back guarantee live tele-class version: $4299.00 USD

Currently on sale for a limited time for $2899.00. Payment options located below. (UNTIL MONDAY: $2199.00 USD)

Self study version: $1647.00

Fees subject to rise at anytime. But if you register at this price the fee will not rise on you. Choose a payment below to register and begin today.

We do accept grants and often companies will pay for this training as well.