Continuing Professional Development (CPD) for Coaches Programme

Neuroscience and Coaching

Neuroscience, the scientific study of the nervous system, is an area of science that is uncovering important findings year on year. Given how our brains and nervous system directly affect thoughts, feelings and behaviour, coaches benefit a good understanding of some key elements of neuroscience to improve their effectiveness.

This session will provide coaches with an overview of what neuroscience is and will share some useful insights and tools. Learn how knowledge and understanding of the relevant elements of neuroscience, when combined with a coaching approach, can have a positive impact on motivation, goal setting and action planning

• A greater understanding of Neuroscience
• Knowledge and understanding of relevant neuroscientific theory
• Awareness of how to maximise your impact as a coach
• Greater understanding of brain structure
• Knowledge of Neuroplasticity and its relevance to coaching
• Understanding the value of Neuroscience in coaching both for the coach and client
• Practical tools from neuroscience to use with your coaching clients
• A head full of learning and a smile on your face having had a lot of fun

This session is part of our Continual Professional Development (CPD) for Coaches Programme. This training is aimed towards those wishing to advance their coaching knowledge and therefore you will need to have previously engaged in foundational coach training.

Sales and Marketing Fundamentals

A practical and empowering session to help you to market, promote and grow your coaching business. This course will help you attract clients; boost your visibility, profile and profitability on a minimal, modest and manageable budget.

The session will help you gain a greater understanding of the fundamentals of marketing and your market-place, review, improve or fine-tune your current marketing and will help you develop a strategy a plan of action that's right for you.

This programme content includes: the essential 4Ps of marketing; understanding your potential clients needs; using your unique selling point/proposition; clear communication techniques and messaging; networking effectively; harnessing social media; and harnessing your contacts and clients for opportunities, referrals, testimonials and introductions. It will also help you explore other ways of raising your profile online, at events, speaking, writing and in person.

You will leave the session with:

• More clarity of effective marketing / sales for coaches
• Tips to boost your coaching business and attract and retain clients
• Raised awareness of a clear, crisp, client-focused and compelling marketing
• Insight into the mix of marketing activity that will help your business flourish
• Able to review, improve, introduce your website, leaflets and business card
• More focused of your personal / business brand and unique selling points
• More targeted with your marketing activities and actions
• With strategic plan of how to use your marketing materials and activities
• More confidence and clarity around using social media
• More skilled at networking effectively, nerve-free and strategically
• With enhanced skills influencing and motivating contacts and potential clients
• With tips and ideas for reaching and influencing your target audience
• A plan of action for your marketing and business development.

This session is part of our Continual Professional Development (CPD) for Coaches Programme. This training is aimed towards those wishing to advance their coaching knowledge and therefore you will need to have previously engaged in foundational coach training.

Coaching Effective Work Life Balance

As our lives become increasingly demanding and our priorities constantly challenged, the need for effective time management skills is key to developing and maintaining a balance between work and your home life.

With overwhelm, anxiety and burnout on the increase, this CPD training can help you gain control of your working life, free yourself from your to-do list, reduce procrastination and empower you to create a balance which truly aligns your life priorities.

This interactive training is designed for those looking to improve their own work-life balance, manage their time effectively and to coach others to do the same.

You will leave the session with:

• A visualisation of your ideal working life
• Clear boundaries of where your work fits in with your wider life priorities
• Tools for how you can manage overwhelm and reduce the risk of burnout
• Skills to tackle and reduce procrastination
• An understanding of how you can delegate and outsource to fuel growth
• Practical tools to help you plan your time more effectively and work more productively
• Ways to integrate this into your own coaching to support your clients do the same

This session is part of our Continual Professional Development (CPD) for Coaches Programme. This training is aimed towards those wishing to advance their coaching knowledge and therefore you will need to have previously engaged in foundational coach training.

Mindfulness and Coaching

There are many benefits to the practice of mindfulness such as improved well-being, work performance and state of mind. The most prominent is that it can help to reduce stress, problem solve and increase cognitive ability.

Researchers suggest that integrative body-mind training, a form of mindfulness meditation, can actually promote a change in the brain and help us to subconsciously regulate our emotions and attention, increasing our self-awareness.

“An Invitation to mindful life, being and inner peace”

This course is designed both for those who are new to mindfulness, meditation and conscious living, and for those who have experience of mindfulness and who are wanting to integrate it further in their life, personal practice or their coaching.

You will leave the Mindfulness CPD course with:

• A sound understanding of mindfulness, meditation and conscious living
• A clear sense of self-awareness, inner peace and connection
• How mindfulness can enhance coaching
• Techniques to ease stress
• Using mindfulness to accept & flow with life challenges/ change
• Learn how to arrive 'back’ clear, calm and with a quiet mind
• Mindfully reconnect with the moment, body and mind
• Skills to embrace mindfulness in your life, work and coaching
• Action and techniques to help you embrace your own mindfulness practice

This session is part of our Continual Professional Development (CPD) for Coaches Programme. This training is aimed towards those wishing to advance their coaching knowledge and therefore you will need to have previously engaged in foundational coach training.

Positive Psychology Coaching

This session is part of our Continuing Professional Development (CPD) for Coaches Programme. This training is aimed towards those wishing to advance their coaching knowledge and therefore you will need to have previously engaged in foundational coach training.

Positive psychology is the scientific study of the strengths that enable individuals and communities to flourish and thrive. In a VUCA world, there is an increasing demand for coaches using a positive psychology approach to help their clients set and pursue goals related to well-being and positive change in their lives, relationships, or work.

Research suggests that positive psychology coaching facilitates personal and professional growth and enhances life satisfaction, self-efficacy, self-confidence, performance, or productivity, helping clients overcome challenges while pursuing their goals.

Among other inspiring topics, positive psychology offers approaches to integrate character strengths, growth, resilience, meaning and purpose, gratitude, kindness, positive emotions, values, achievement, or relationship in our coaching conversations.

If you are curious about positive psychology and you want to integrate it into your coaching practice using an evidence-based approach, this CPD training is for you. A positive psychology perspective will enhance your effectiveness as a coach, independently of your area of expertise – career coach, executive coach, life coach or other.

You will leave the Positive Psychology Coaching CPD course with:

• A greater understanding of the main positive psychology theories and interventions
• Awareness of how positive psychology can enhance coaching.
• Ideas for integrating positive psychology into your existing coaching approach and to positively transform your life and the lives of others
• An understanding of the role of positive psychology interventions in coaching
• Awareness of your strengths and ideas to help you and your clients to understand, use and develop character strengths
• Practical tools to use with your clients
• Lots of learning and a smile after three inspiring and fun sessions

This session is part of our Continual Professional Development (CPD) for Coaches Programme. This training is aimed towards those wishing to advance their coaching knowledge and therefore you will need to have previously engaged in foundational coach training.

This session is part of our Continual Professional Development (CPD) for Coaches Programme. This training is aimed towards those wishing to advance their coaching knowledge and therefore you will need to have previously engaged in foundational coach training.

Mental Health and Coaching

Mental health and coaching are intrinsically linked - everyone we coach has mental health. As such, coaches have the privileged position of gaining an insight into the mental health continuum of a coachee as we are invited into their past, present and future.

With this privilege comes a responsibility around the boundaries of coaching and how we ensure these are clearly conveyed. This sounds simple in theory, but in practice getting it right can feel like a world of testing decisions and blurry lines.

The truth is that there is no ‘one-size-fits-all’ when it comes to staying mentally healthy and therefore coaching can play a huge part in wellbeing as it supports people to find ‘what works’. A sound knowledge of the positive links between mental health and coaching can enable a coach to help an individual or a community to implement tools and cultures that have a profound impact on long-term wellbeing.

However, at other times, a coachee may be walking the thin line between mental health and mental illness leading a coach to have to make big ethical decisions about the appropriateness of the relationship.

This CPD session will provide a safe space to explore both the empirical research and our own beliefs around mental health and coaching by covering:

• A brief history of mental health: its impact on society; mental health statistics; common misconceptions; mental health versus mental illness; the impact of the pandemic
• Our boundaries as a coach with regard to mental ill health and what to do in a crisis
• Some common mental health illnesses – supporting a coachee with finding the right help
• Coaching as a non-clinical mode of intervention - unconditional positive regard, global listening and other coaching tools that support wellness
• Relationships between goal setting, values and mental health outcomes
• Mental health in the workplace – cultural and organisational patterns; coaching for equality and links with mental health; stigma and its impact
• Coaching approaches – e.g. Mental Fitness Coaching or the Five Ways to Wellbeing
• Looking after yourself as a coach: contracting, mentoring and supervision
• Coachee case studies

This session is part of our Continual Professional Development (CPD) for Coaches Programme. This training is aimed towards those wishing to advance their coaching knowledge and therefore you will need to have previously engaged in foundational coach training.

Trauma Awareness and Coaching

According to the National Center for PTSD, about 6 of every 10 men (or 60%) and 5 of every 10 women (or 50%) experience at least one trauma in their lives. Some people may recover within a few months after the event, but for others, it may take years or may even begin long after the events occur. Coaching is not a therapeutic intervention to treat Trauma, but it can be a modality that best supports clients by being Trauma-Aware. A coach with an awareness of Trauma can aim to provide their clients a safe and inclusive space.

This starts with information: What is trauma? Where does it come from? How does it impact the brain, body and behaviour? For a coach, understanding these questions and working with awareness gives valuable insight into stress, burnout, self-limiting talk, and self-sabotaging behaviours.

New data and research acknowledge that as leading Trauma specialist Dr. Gabor Maté says "Trauma is not what happens to you. Trauma is what happens inside you due to what happens to you." This includes generational, community, historical experiences, and shock event Traumas. When talking about trauma, we are talking about dysregulation within the nervous system – trauma for some representing chronic stress as well as many other physical, mental, or behavioural challenges.

Using The Missouri Model: A Developmental Framework for Trauma-Informed Approaches as a guide and the 6 key SAMHSA principles: safety, trustworthiness & transparency, peer support, collaboration & mutuality, empowerment, voice, and choice and cultural, historical and gender issues. The first step for an individual to becoming Trauma-Informed is to become Trauma-Aware ie. “Have become aware of how prevalent trauma is and have begun to consider that it might impact their clientele and their staff”.

One of the skills of being a coach is understanding scope of practice. What falls out of the coaching remit would be attempting to heal past wounds by doing trauma-specific processing. However, understanding trauma and how it impacts individuals’ neurobiology, mind-set, and behaviour in order to build rapport, contract and support them are important for any coach. Developing Trauma Awareness is a superpower both for you as a coach and for your clients.

In this CPD session, we will cover:

• Bridging our understanding on what trauma is and where it comes from.
• Trauma, Mental Health, and Adaptive Coping Behaviours.
• The Survival States – Fight, Flight, Fawn, and Freeze – how they manifest in the body, mind and behaviour.
• Polyvagal Theory and the autonomic nervous system in Trauma Awareness.
• Understanding the principals of Trauma-Informed Care.
• Neurobiology of Stress and tools to support clients.
• Looking after yourself as a coach: contracting, mentoring and supervision.
• Feeling confident in your scope of practice. When to refer.
• Developing a Trauma-Aware strategy in your business.

This session is part of our Continuing Professional Development (CPD) for Coaches Programme. This training is aimed towards those wishing to advance their coaching knowledge and therefore you will need to have previously engaged in foundational coach training.