Life Coaching Certificate Course (Beginner to Intermediate)

This Life Coaching Certification Programme (Beginner to Advanced) is more than just an online course. It is an interactive learning experience, through which you will find essential life principles for living your life in a more authentic way. You'll also be provided with a broad range of time-honoured lessons that you can use with your future coaching clients.

In this video, we explore the various approaches you can take to studying this course and presents three levels of impact that you can make upon completion of the course: 1) Personal Impact and Transformation (Impact your current quality of life); 2) Impacting Others One-to-One (Setting up a coaching practice); 3) Cultural, National and Global Impact (Social enterprises or Initiatives).

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”We can know all of the greatest life coaching processes in the world, but if we cannot earn the trust of our clients, we have nothing.” In this video, we explore the 'Beautiful Attitudes of Effective Life Coaching', thirteen attitudes that we can adopt if we want to develop and strengthen trust in the relationships we have with our clients and the other people in our lives. This video is part one of two.

”We can know all of the greatest life coaching processes in the world, but if we cannot earn the trust of our clients, we have nothing.” In this video, we explore the 'Beautiful Attitudes of Effective Life Coaching', thirteen attitudes that we can adopt if we want to develop and strengthen trust in the relationships we have with our clients and the other people in our lives. This video is part two of two.

In this video, we explore the purpose of life coaching, firstly giving reference to what life coaching is not: advice giving, teaching, lecturing, professional consulting, counselling or therapy. He also further unpacks the purpose of life coaching by giving reference to a very simple coaching process that we can take people through.

In this video, we explore a very simple coaching session where he asks Karen a series of questions to help her establish a meaningful goal that she can begin working towards.

In this video we further unpack the purpose of life coaching. He highlights how essential it is when coaching that the client works towards a positive motivation, not a negative one.

There are many things that get in the way of active listening (and learning). It's important to be aware of these barriers (many of which are just bad habits) in order to become a more effective listener:

1) We have preconceived ideas, expectations or bias

2) We are more interested in being 'right' than learning

3) We are listening to reply instead of listening to learn

4) We find the communicator attractive/unattractive

5) Having a closed mind

6) Other external distractions

In this video, we explore a standard to implement in our coaching practice for being effective, and share examples of working with clients who are not open, receptive or appreciative. Healthy questions we can ask to gauge where our clients are at:

1) Is your client open to hearing new ideas and are they ready to change?

2) Is your client receptive and willing to apply what they're learning?

3) Is your client appreciative of your time, energy, insights and efforts?

If a client continues to come back each week and over time you can see that they are not changing, we must ask them the question as to why they're coming for coaching.

In this video, we explore a simple exercise we can use to begin improving our listening skills. Ask a partner, friend, family member if you can practise on them and take them through this simple questioning technique which explores their past, present and future.

In this video Kain has a conversation with Karen, taking her through a series of questions that encourage her to reflect on her past, consider her main learnings, look at where she currently is in present life and visualise who she wants to be in the future. The questions from this demonstration can be found in the additional downloads section.

In this video, we explore various different learning styles. It's important that we develop an understanding of how people learn so that we can meet the needs of our clients in the most effective way. We must ask the questions - are we engaging and communicating with clients in a way that's not right for them? Are they engaged in sessions?

We all bring our personal bias into every situation. Our perception is rarely the truth. As coaches, the most effective role we can play is that of an 'investigator' - helping to identify the truth of our client's situations and circumstances. In this video, we explore how incorrect our perception can be at times.

We draw meaning from everything we experience every day, interpreting and interpreting our experiences in order to make sense of them. In this video Kain highlights a series of words and asks us to consider what meaning each of these words has for us.

Our perception is simply the lens through which we view life. Our role as coaches is not to have an opinion about our client's circumstances or situations but instead to look to see things as they do. It's only through doing this that we actually learn to understand people.

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In this video Kain has a conversation about the meaning of life. Every moment of our lives is infused with meaning. Using our own interpretations of events and experiences, we each determine what our lives mean. How can we understand the meaning of life? We can ask a more relevant question instead - what is your life's purpose?

It is not possible to coach someone through a stage of life that we have not yet passed. However, it is also true that we only need to be one or two steps ahead of someone to be able to help them. This video tells the story of someone who is 'in the hole'...so to speak, when they have hit rock bottom in their lives.

When clients come to us, they will always be struggling with confidence in one or more areas of their lives. A person will only ever grow in confidence as they recognise how their intrinsic value can have a positive impact in the lives of others. In this video, Kain explores this idea whilst unpacking the terms 'self concept', 'self worth' and 'self esteem'.

The 'Victim' drama triangle is made up of three different people, playing three different roles. The Rescuer, The Persecutor and The Victim - in this video Kain demonstrates each of these roles and how they can each play out in a coaching relationship.

Personal growth is a process of learning to overcome limiting beliefs we developed about ourselves in our youth. In this video, we compare the 7 levels of conscious growth we can achieve in life: 1) Victim, 2) Conflict, 3) Responsibility, 4) Concern, 5) Reconciliation, 6) Synthesis and 7) Absolute Passion.

In this video, we explore how self-awareness impacts our social effectiveness:

1. Self-awareness: Conscious knowledge of one's own character and feelings. Our level of self-awareness hugely impacts the quality of our lives.

2. Self Management: taking ownership for our behaviour and well-being. If we're not aware of how we're directing our efforts into one thing, this can come at the cost of something else.

3. Social Awareness: the ability to respond well to the needs of others. If we're not able to manage ourselves effectively, we'll never be able to positively influence others to better manage themselves.

4. Social Management: the ability to influence positive social change and/or societal change. The level of which we mature and apply principles in our own lives will go on to determine the level of impact we make in the world.

Kain shares his own experience with this video. He shares how the way in which he interpreted his various life events led to his own identity crisis, where he tried to define himself on the basis of the judgements and assumptions/responses he received from other people.

As part of this video, Kain and Karen discuss some of Karen's early life experiences and how these influenced her thinking and the development of some of the limiting beliefs that have held her back in the past.

As Kain shares a story, it sheds light on the origins of our limiting beliefs and the benefits we can gain from reassessing them. He offers a really easy exercise that we can do to better understand how our emotions are most commonly first triggered by our thoughts.

The purpose of this video is to explore the idea of emotional time travel and how our emotions are affected by where we choose to focus our attention, thus highlighting that the way we relate to the past will impact how we relate to the future.

As with a shift in perspective, a breakthrough is all about finding a better way forward. When we take a client through a breakthrough session we're helping them to consider their life circumstances and situations from a different perspective from the lens through which they're currently viewing life.

As part of this video, Kain leads Karen through a breakthrough session in which together they realize the true reason behind a personal problem that Karen is struggling with.

This is the Breakthrough Session Demonstration Deconstruction. Kain and Karen have a conversation in this video to talk about the breakthrough session, and Karen shares her main learnings from it and how she feels about the experience.

The purpose of this video is to explore choices of maturity and character, exploring helpful and unhelpful attitudes that we can think about and recognize in our own lives and in the lives of our clients. This is the first part of a two-part video.

The purpose of this video is to explore choices of maturity and character, exploring helpful and unhelpful attitudes that we can think about and recognize in our own lives and in the lives of our clients. This is the second part of a two-part video.

The majority of the problems that people face are not even 'real' problems. Reality is less important than perception when it comes to how most people react towards life . People often spend a lot of time imagining the worst case scenario. In this video, we examine the difference between living life based on facts, feelings, and faith.

In this video Kain talks through a case study example unpacking how he would differentiate between the facts, faith based expectations and feelings that a client brings when sharing their problems. Taking this approach allows us as coaches to look at people's stories from an objective perspective.

By understanding how our body, spirit, and soul are different from one another, we can make informed, wise decisions. We are going to explore the difference between the three in this video, and examine how every aspect of life can be viewed as spiritual growth.

In this video, we explore a model that allows us to differentiate between the five different levels on which we experience life: Physical, Emotional, Rational, Volitional and Spiritual. This is a model that we can use in our coaching to help look at the various different elements of an individual's problem.

Coaches who support clients to create profound sustainable change will work with the 'whole' person, or as we say, at the five levels of human experience. This is with the belief our mind, body, heart and soul are all connected. In this video we demonstrate the model outlined in the last lecture (Demonstration between Kain and Karen).

In this video Kain deconstructs the demonstration with Karen, bringing to light key parts of the coaching process and the main learnings that she benefited from throughout.

If we want other people to trust us we must operate from a place of non-judgementalism and seek to understand them. In this video, we explore the three different levels of perception and how these can impact the way we see other people.

The meaning we assign onto our events determines how we experience those events. Whilst we cannot control situations and circumstances in our outside world, we can choose how we respond to these events. In this video, we explore the connection between our thoughts, our feelings, our actions and our outcomes.

In this fascinating video we will explore the various cognitive distortions that people experience. He goes on to highlight how cognitive restructuring and socratic questioning can help our clients to review and evaluate the quality of their thoughts. It's our questioning techniques that can become our greatest ally when coaching clients.

In this demonstration Kain takes Karen through a series of 'socratic' questions which unpacks an unhelpful thought that Karen has been subscribing to for a number of years.

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In this video, we explore the Academy of Modern Applied Psychology Emotional IQ Model and unpack the natural order of emotions we experience when in pursuit of our goals in life.

Our current state is where we see ourselves as being today (self-esteem). Our ideal state is the future version of ourselves that we want to be, we feel we should be or ought to be (self-concept). Focusing on improving our self-esteem, keeps us going round in circles, solely committed to feeling better within ourselves. In order to find fulfillment in life, we must commit to being the best version of ourselves, one that makes a positive impact on others.

Just in case you didn't join our excellent 'Principles Into Practice' Community Group (back in Lecture Two), we wanted to give you another opportunity to do so.

Our community has been going strong since June 2017 and now has over 56,000 active members who regularly ask questions, and discuss the insights they're gaining from the course. This gives you opportunity to connect with other learners, discuss what you're learning, ask questions to aid your own understanding and benefit from the perspectives of countless others.

Inside of the group, we have many NLP initiatives for you to get involved in, such as;

• Course discussion

• Facebook Live Video's

• Member posted content

• and much, much more .....

Join us in the PIP Community Today, and we'll look forward to interacting with you on the inside!

Video shows the difference between opinion, thinking, feelings, beliefs, and truth. Beliefs operate indirectly and subconsciously. As a result, our beliefs act like a chain around our necks, impairing us from realizing our potential. This idea is explored as well as how our beliefs are formed.

As a result of Morris Massey's theory, we will explore the three major periods in which our beliefs/values are formed, the Imprint Period, The Modelling Period, and The Socialization Period; the video will guide viewers through these three periods.

Albert Ellis is regarded as the founder of Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy. The greatest prisons that exist are not those built of stone, but in fact the prisons of the limiting beliefs that we subscribe to in life. In this video, we explore Albert Ellis' thirteen unhelpful beliefs that people operate out of in life. This video is part 1 of 2.

Albert Ellis is regarded as the founder of Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy. The greatest prisons that exist are not those built of stone, but in fact the prisons of the limiting beliefs that we subscribe to in life. In this video, we explore Albert Ellis' thirteen unhelpful beliefs that people operate out of in life. This video is part 2 of 2.

The purpose of this video is to provide Karen with some questions that can assist her in identifying unhelpful beliefs that hold her back. The two talk about the consequences of having operated from these beliefs, and determine what must change in order for Karen to start getting more of what she wants.

The video includes Kain's story of being introduced to the idea of "Operation Hearts and Minds" during his military service. In order to build a strong coaching relationship on a foundation of trust, this is a fundamental principle we need to keep in mind.

In this video, we examine the external and internal locus of control. A locus of control which emphasizes external control often leads to victim mentality, where the focus is generally upon 'feeling better' within. The goal of coaching is to inspire clients to take responsibility for their thoughts, feelings, behaviours, and outcomes instead of seeing themselves as a victim.

Coaching is about helping people to take a greater degree of responsibility for that which is true. In this video, we explore an exercise detailing seven statements that we can consider to start getting really honest about what's actually true for us.

Changing your beliefs requires that you be as honest as possible about what they are in the first place. Being able to catch your thoughts is the key to this. In this video, we explore the belief modification process, a way to help clients clarify their vision of who they can become.

Throughout this video, Kain guides Karen through the belief modification process model in order to help her develop an image of who she can be by visualising it.

In this video we explore and deconstruct a helpful framework of focus that highlights several different areas on which people can build their confidence. Only our core identity can provide us with a solid foundation for building and establishing a successful life.

In times of transition and crisis, identity challenges are common; for example, when a company rebrands or changes direction, or when a great manager is made a director. In order to become grounded within ourselves, we need a unique reference point. As Kain explains in this video, the Core Identity Coaching Model assists us in establishing this.

In psychology, identity is the qualities, beliefs, personality, looks and/or expressions that make a person (self-identity) or group (cultural identity). The process of identity can be creative or destructive. In this video Kain takes us through a personal reflection exercise: a series of questions that allows us to define who we are at the core.

In this video Kain introduces the 'Core Beliefs Workbook' - a resource of thought provoking questions that challenges a person to consider where they're at in life. This is a resource we can use to develop our own self-awareness or with potential coaching clients to help them establish a starting point for coaching.

Here, Kain shares a story about one of his coaching clients who came to him because he felt like he'd reached a brick wall. Coaching revealed the underlying reasons were inadequacy and feeling not enough. As we explore the principle of 'good enough' in this video, we observe the impact it has on our everyday lives.

Our beliefs cannot be used as a foundation on which to build our lives because they have a tendency to change (often and sometimes even to extremes). In this video Kain introduces the 'Kuhn Cycle', a model we can use to better understand the process of paradigm change.

In this video Kain shares a story to wrap up this section on core beliefs and summarises what we've covered throughout the course so far.

We acknowledge what we value in life by defining our values. For some people, a particular value is paramount, whereas for others it has no meaning at all. As with a company's values, a person's core values determine their behavior and choices. Human values are the virtues that guide us to take into account the human element when we interact with other people.

A theory of human motivation, titled "A theory of human motivation," was first proposed by Abraham Maslow in 1943 in Psychology Review. Maslow later extended the idea to include human curiosity as well. In this video, we explore Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs, a model we can use to better understand the core motives/values that drive all of us.

Although your core values may differ from those of everyone else, this does not mean they are wrong or incorrect - they are just different. Your core values also help you manage your time and money wisely. With this video, Kain explains some of the life choices that we have, showing us why sometimes we fail to do the things that we really desire.

The common practice of many life coaches is to jump straight into setting goals. We explore a different approach we can take in this video, and we introduce a model that we can use to help us understand how we can hold our coaching clients accountable to their core values.

Throughout this video, Kain explores core values. Coaches can better serve their clients by understanding how they make decisions and the factors that influence their decisions. The stories and life lessons presented here describe how people prioritize their values in order for us to better appreciate and realize the importance of our own core values. Part 1 of 3.

Throughout this video, Kain explores core values. Coaches can better serve their clients by understanding how they make decisions and the factors that influence their decisions. The stories and life lessons presented here describe how people prioritize their values in order for us to better appreciate and realize the importance of our own core values. Part 2 of 3.

Throughout this video, Kain explores core values. Coaches can better serve their clients by understanding how they make decisions and the factors that influence their decisions. The stories and life lessons presented here describe how people prioritize their values in order for us to better appreciate and realize the importance of our own core values. Part 3 of 3.

This video concludes this part of the course and introduces us to the 'Core Values Workbook', which helps us to consider our own values and prioritize them. In the course's additional resources section, you can download this document.

The purpose of this video is to highlight that communication skills are not just how we speak to each other every day, but also how we listen to each other. Kain takes an in-depth look at Carl Rogers' core concepts and how they can be used as a basis for a coaching practice.

'Attendance' is the act of demonstrating a sense of being 'with' someone, both physically, psychologically, and emotionally in a manner that communicates this. Here, we explore the core communication skill of being immediate, and how it can be incorporated into your everyday communications.

The purpose of this video is to explore Thomas Gordon's 12 roadblocks to healthy and mature communication. Kain explores the idea that allowing these roadblocks into coaching practice puts us at risk of damaging the trust in the relationship. Part 1 of a two-part video.

In this video, Kain discusses Thomas Gordon's 12 roadblocks to healthy and mature commmunications, exploring the idea that as a coach allowing any of these roadblocks into our coaching practice, will put us at risk of seriously damaging the trust in the relationship.

This video is Part 1 of 2.

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The purpose of this video is to explore Thomas Gordon's 12 roadblocks to healthy and mature communication. Kain explores the idea that allowing these roadblocks into coaching practice puts us at risk of damaging the trust in the relationship. Part 2 of a two-part video.

The purpose of this video is to introduce the four stages of communications, which offer explanations for why communications can go awry at times; an extremely important lesson for coaches (or anyone who’s interested in connecting meaningfully with people).

In our communication, most people desire healthy connection, but if we don't choose connection consciously, we'll unconsciously choose disconnection. We discuss the communication spectrum and the difference between monologue and dialogue in this video.

In this video, we explore several core communication skills that are essential for us to build into our coaching practice: active listening, immediacy, attending, appropriate silence, non-directed questions, reflecting back, and positive outcome focused.

As Kain walks Karen through a coaching session, he demonstrates a variety of fundamental communication skills as they discuss a life goal she has and what she is currently working toward.

The first coaching skill any prospective coach or manager needs to learn is listening. Throughout this video, we examine three types of listening: internal, focused, and global. In order to truly understand where our clients are at, we must set aside all distractions so that we can listen actively and with our ears open.

Silence is a powerful coaching tool. The process of becoming comfortable with and mastering this skill may take a while. We often assume that silence means we have run out of questions or have made our coachee uncomfortable. We can increase our level of silence by watching Kain's video and asking some questions about the importance of silence.

It's crucial that our coaching conversations with clients have a specific purpose, helping clients shift their focus from what they don't want to what they actually want. Throughout this video, we examine the six step method we can use in every coaching conversation.

This video explores two conversational techniques: chunking up and chunking down (also known as the hierarchy of ideas). When we communicate with our clients (or others in our day-to-day interactions), 'chunking up' means moving to more general or abstract information. Adding detail to the information means chunking it down.

By chunking up, information is moved to a larger, abstract level. The idea behind chunking down is to move from a general to a specific level of information. By chunking laterally, you look for examples with the same level of information. In this video, Kain demonstrates how 'Chunking Up' and 'Chunking Down' can be used in our everyday interactions with others.

Kain introduces the Communication Skills Workbook - a tool that unpacks some of the core communication skills that we are required to develop as life coaches, along with some self-reflection activities that will help you evaluate your own communication quality. Access the resource in the course's extra materials section.

Kain introduces this section by sharing a couple of stories from his past and unpacking some relationship principles that will assist you in organizing your thoughts as to how you can relate to your coaching clients effectively.

The only sustainable and robust way to build up your life is to have strong foundations. A lot of people aren't aware of how to build strong, robust relationships. We need to learn to distinguish between people's behavior and their identity as life coaches. The video explains 7 pillars of healthy relationships that must exist for you to maintain and build trust.

Credibility, reliability, and intimacy are all divided by the degree of self-orientation, and these attributes determine a person's trustworthiness. Through the addressing of these underlying trust factors, individuals can develop their trustworthiness. The trust equation explains the components needed to make relationships work effectively, and how to put them in place.

In this video, we describe the stages of relationship development, in order to provide insight into why so many relationships fail to progress to intimacy. Understanding this in a coaching context can help you manage your expectations about what it takes for an individual to achieve this level of intimacy and trust with you.

Perceptual positions help us to develop a new way of experiencing relationships, becoming able to see, hear, and feel the connection from someone else's eyes, ears, and emotions. Here, we explore these ideas further and discuss how you can use perceptual positions to analyze problems or situations in a relationship that you would like to improve.

Taking another view from your usual perspective is taking on a perception position. It may be helpful to take the position of the other person in a conflict in order to change how you perceive them. Karen explores a relationship that she would like to improve in this video as Kain guides her through an exploration of different perceptual positions.

With this video, we look at the four stages of the coaching relationship that must be worked through in order to establish and maintain trust with clients. It's important to manage client expectations as they embark on (and progress through) the coaching process so that trust can be maintained and sustained throughout.

As helpers, it's crucial to help our clients overcome damaging beliefs and thinking patterns before they can move onto setting goals. The purpose of this section is to explain how we set goals and how we develop an action plan to achieve these goals. We explore four different types of goals in this video.