What is Whole Person Coaching®?

A Deep Dive into the Multi-Modality Method that Transforms Mind, Body, and Emotions for Lasting Change

Whole Person Coaching stands out for its multi-modality approach, seamlessly integrating diverse coaching tools and techniques to address the various facets of an individual’s experience. WPC acknowledges the complexity of individuals, recognizing the interconnected dimensions of the mental, emotional, physical, social and spiritual aspects of the “Whole Person.”

Let’s delve into how Whole Person Coaching encapsulates the essence of a multi-modality method:

1: NARRATIVE COACHING: FOCUSES ON STORIES AND BELIEFS

Narrative Psychology delves into the power of storytelling in shaping ourselves and our lives. This modality enhances a coach’s ability to uncover and work with the narratives that clients carry, facilitating a deeper understanding of experiences and supporting positive change.

As a coach, you use your client’s stories, both observed and shared, to help them to unpack and redefine behaviors and interactions with others. Common applications include working with belief systems or helping clients transcend outdated versions of their life or self.

2. Somatic Coaching: Incorporates the Body's Wisdom

Somatic coaching recognizes the importance of the body in the coaching process. This modality involves paying attention to physical sensations, emotions, and bodily responses to different situations and thought patterns.
As a coach, you guide your clients to understand and work with the body’s wisdom, especially in addressing issues related to fear, resistance, and stress.

3. Cognitive Coaching: Emphasizes Thinking Patterns & Mindset

Cognitive coaching focuses on cognitive processes, including thoughts, beliefs, strengths, and values. The way in which we make sense and meaning in our lives and what matters to us.

As a coach, Cognitive coaching can help your clients to identify their strengths, core values, and positive aspects of their thinking. It can also help them to link the relationship between their thoughts, actions and responses.The goal is to empower clients to align their actions with their values, maximizing their potential and leading a more purposeful and effective life.

4. Positive Psychology Coaching: Promotes Well-being and Flourishing

Positive psychology-based coaching centers on enhancing the well-being and personal growth of clients. It’s strengths and positivity approach focuses on what is working well and what is innately good.

As a coach, you may employ interventions that foster positive emotions, engagement, relationships, meaning, and accomplishments. This modality contributes to a generative approach to cultivating positive momentum, placing a powerful emphasis on strengths, traits, and other qualities that make both you and your clients truly remarkable.

Relationships Are the Core of Whole Person Coaching®

As a Whole Person Coach™, you co-create with your clients an empowering transformational learning process that elicits their very best. This unique partnership is what enables you to elicit the best from both of you. We call it a “co-evolutionary process” because it creates the optimal environment for envisioning the goals and sustainable momentum that are only possible through a supportive, non-judgmental relationship.

Benefits of Whole Person Coaching®

Our multi-modality Whole Person Coaching approach offers you a powerful toolkit to become a true instrument of change. Here’s why it provides a distinct advantage…

Comprehensive Understanding
Whole Person Coaching encompasses various aspects of human experience, including narrative, somatic, and cognitive dimensions. This comprehensive understanding allows coaches to gain deep insights into their clients’ lives.

Holistic Approach
By addressing the narrative, somatic, and cognitive aspects, coaches can consider the client as a whole being. This approach recognizes that our experiences, thoughts, and physical sensations are interconnected, and all play a role in personal transformation.

Unearthing Deep-Seated Beliefs
Narrative coaching digs into the stories we tell ourselves about who we are. These narratives often hold deeply ingrained beliefs and patterns. By exploring and reframing these narratives, coaches can facilitate profound shifts in mindset and behavior.

Enhanced Transformational Potential
When combined, these modalities create a synergistic effect. Clients benefit from a comprehensive approach that addresses mind, body, and narrative, amplifying the potential for profound, sustainable change.

Professional Differentiation
Coaches who embrace a multi-modality approach stand out in the field. They possess a diverse skill set that sets them apart, demonstrating a commitment to providing holistic and transformative coaching experiences.

Tailored Solutions
Different clients resonate with different modalities. Having a multi-modality approach allows coaches to tailor their methods to suit the unique needs and preferences of each client. This flexibility increases the likelihood of success in the coaching process.

Addressing Fear and Resistance
Somatic coaching is particularly effective in addressing fear and resistance. It helps clients understand how their body responds to different situations, especially those that trigger fearful thinking. This awareness empowers clients to navigate challenges with greater confidence.

Maximizing Strengths and Values
Cognitive coaching, focusing on strengths, values, and positive psychology, empowers clients to leverage their innate abilities and align their actions with their core values. This can lead to a more purposeful and fulfilling life.

Versatility in Coaching Scenarios
Different situations and challenges call for different approaches. Coaches with a multi-modality skill set can fluidly adapt their methods to suit various coaching scenarios, ensuring effectiveness across a wide range of client needs.

Empowering Clients for Long-Term Success
By integrating narrative, somatic, and cognitive coaching, coaches equip their clients with a powerful set of tools they can continue to use long after the coaching relationship ends. This empowers clients to sustain their progress and continue their personal growth journey independently.

Work holistically with all aspects of your client’s life to create total well-being: life fulfillment, vitality, balance and prosperity.

As a Whole Person Certified Coach (WPCC), your clients gain access to the depth and breadth of who they are at the core: mentally, emotionally, physically, socially and spiritually, they can easily and effectively draw upon their multiple intelligences to overcome any stopping blocks.

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Leverage the wisdom and best practices rooted in the art, science and psychology of coaching to evoke positive and sustainable change in others. You’ll not only know the “why” behind those seemingly impossible shifts, but be able to change any self-sabotaging thoughts, feelings and behaviors with confidence.

The Whole Person Coaching method and tools provide you with insight drawn from the wisdom and best practices of multiple disciplines. They embrace research, theory and best practices for creating self-initiated positive sustainable change from the following fields:

Interpersonal Neurobiology

An interdisciplinary field incorporating a range of practices, such as anthropology, biology, computer science, linguistics, psychiatry and sociology (among many others), to uncover commonalities in the human experience. Pioneered by Daniel J. Siegel, M.D., the primary focus of this discipline is on integration and how the different components of a system can be linked to promote overall health, flexibility, and an adaptive way of existing in the world.

Positive Psychology

The study of specific strengths and virtues that lead to success for individuals and organizations. Based on the work of Martin Seligman, it assumes people want to lead meaningful lives and works to enhance their experience by cultivating the best from that which is currently within them.

NeuroLinguistic Programing (NLP)

The study of human excellence through the development of an individual’s competence and adaptability. Originated by Richard Bandler and John Grinder, NLP uses self-discovery and the exploration of identity as a framework for human experience, extending beyond the individual to family as well as local and global communities.

Narrative Psychology

The branch of psychology dedicated to how we adapt to life’s experiences through story. Explored in depth by Theodore R. Sarbin, this discipline uses an individual’s observed stories, as well as those garnered from others, to make sense and change human behavior and interactions for the better.

Emotional Intelligence (EI)

The ability of an individual to leverage available emotional information to guide their thinking and subsequent behavior. Though not the first to coin the term, Emotional Intelligence is largely attributed to psychologist and author Daniel Goleman, whose 1995 book detailed the importance of an individual recognizing their feelings, as well as those of others, to adapt to specific situations and achieve goals more effectively.

Whole Person Learning

A form of transformative learning that enables an individual to incorporate all aspects of their persona (intellectual, social, emotional, physical, spiritual) by viewing them context with the world around them. In doing so, the ultimate goal is to facilitate improved relationships and functioning by focusing on the interconnected, interdependent nature of life.

Meta-Learning

The understanding of one’s own thought and learning processes. Originally proposed by Donald B. Maudsley, it’s dedicated to an increasing awareness of habits related to perception, inquiry, learning, and growth that an individual has internalized over the course of their life.

Somatic Psychology

A form of alternative medicine dedicated to somatic experience, or how we experience the physical world internally. Taking cues from yoga and even ballet and modern dance, somatic psychology is a holistic approach that centers on the mind/body interface and how this interaction influences our thoughts and actions.

Archetypal Psychology

The use of psychology to see, image, and envision what it means to be human by accessing the deepest patterns of self, often referred to as “soul.” First initiated by psychologist James Hillman, this branch attempts to recognize the fantasies and myths that influence our lives.

Expressive Arts

The use of personal creativity as a starting point for discovery, self-reflection, understanding and change. Expressive arts is a healing process widely used to elicit memories through imagination and intuition. It’s also highly effective at facilitating an in-depth examination of the body, feelings, emotions and an individual’s thought process.

Developmental Psychology

The branch of psychology concerned with how and why we change over the course of our lives. Initially concerned primarily with infants and children, the discipline has since expanded to encompass the full lifespan of the individual, tackling broad topics such as motor skills and executive functions as well as moral understanding and self-concept. By viewing the change in an individual over time, developmental psychology attempts to decode the influence of environments and relationships.

Adult Attachment Theory

Describes the impact of long- and short-term interpersonal relationships among adults, primarily centered on friendships, emotional affairs and romantic attachments. Originally developed by British psychoanalyst John Bowlby, the theory states that the same motivational system that solidifies the bond between parent and child also influences relationships among adults within emotionally intimate relationships. Therefore, the way in which we approach our relationships today is largely dependent upon the style of attachment developed early in life (secure, anxious–preoccupied, dismissive–avoidant, or fearful–avoidant).

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Discover You
Innovate From Here

Discover You is a 1-day live coaching program that assists you to distill your valuable skills, expertise, and life experience into your own self-defined niche as you become the go-to-coach leveraging your best.

With this course, you will:

Confidently transition into coaching: Get radically clear on what you really want and develop a step-by-step plan to achieve your goals.
Identify or clarify your ideal coaching niche: Customize your training experience and prepare to help your clients in a distinctive way.
Differentiate yourself as a coach: Incorporate your unique brilliance into the Whole Person Coaching method to become your own unique “kind” of coach.
Maximize all the resources available to you through Coach Training World – keeping you on track, focused and strategic in every step should you decide to train with us.
Discover the science, psychology and philosophy behind Whole Person Coaching so you understand (and can explain to others) how it works to produce holistic, sustainable change.
Receive coaching and start coaching immediately for a felt sense of the working with others using this holistic method.

By the end of this introductory program, you will be radically clear on your next steps, confidently able to infuse your brilliance into coaching, and ready to start practicing with your first clients.

Innovate: Holistic Change Mastery

(3-Day Intensive – Available Online, In-Person & Recorded)

Explore the domains of coaching excellence as you deepen your skills as a professional coach trusting in yourself, the process and your client’s innate wholeness. This advanced Whole Person Coach training invites you to become highly creative and spontaneous. You'll learn how to draw upon your best toward creating coaching sessions that are truly reflective of your experience and innate wisdom. You will also sharpen your ability to course correct in-session to provide quality service and extraordinary results.

With this course, you will:

Lead highly effective coaching sessions through meta-learning as you witness the whole of the client-coach exchange. Stealthily adapt your process to maximize your impact and influence on others.
Enrich your client-coach connection by co-evolving the conversation through authenticity and direct communication.
Increase your comfort level and capacity to work with the whole person as you seamlessly align your efforts with your client’s needs to produce extraordinary results with others.
Prepare to transition into your coaching career or business with clarity and confidence in your next steps.
Embody and leverage your strengths as a professional coach and establish your signature coaching style.

This course invites you fully integrate yourself into the coaching process and to spontaneously draw upon your own wisdom and skills to elegantly facilitate coaching sessions with a wide variety of individuals. While new tools are introduced, the focus in this course is on you mastering Whole Person Coaching and building the confidence you need to step into your wholeness as a professional coach.

PREREQUISITE: Prior coach training or instructor approval
ATTEND: In-Person (Portland, OR) -or- Virtually via Zoom Conference (Recording Available)
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Integrate: Tools for Change

(3-Day Intensive – Available Online, In-Person & Recorded)

Step into the arena as a transformational change maker and evoke real and lasting change in others. In this advanced course, you will learn how to address the embedded and often unconscious factors that prevent your clients from being highly effective, fulfilled and leveraging their greatest resources. INTEGRATE reveals the highly personal, individualized emergence process. This is where you empower your clients to successfully reclaim their wholeness and step into their highest and most effective self.

With this course, you will:

Advance your change mastery capacity as you employ best practices rooted in Narrative and Archetypal Psychology, Expressive Arts and Somatic processes.
Incorporate both right and left brain-coaching tools to unlock your client’s capacity for: creativity, intuition, visioning, decision-making, organization and strategy.
Work with archetypes, story and somatic tools to awaken your client’s fullest potential and invite their whole and embodied self into life.
Use a holistic lens to view and shift clients out of mono-focused or polarized points as you resolve inner conflict caused by competing needs and beliefs.
Move your coaching sessions beyond surface symptoms that “appear” to be the cause of your client’s setbacks and struggle, into the terrain where change is real and lasting.

Emerge from this training confident in your skills and capacity to effect transformational change in others. From supporting your client to navigate challenging life circumstances to leveling up into their best game; you’ll be able to assist them to create a thriving, sustainable life, rich in who they are, as a whole person.

Although this training is directed at working with others, it’s not uncommon for coaches-in-training to rediscover and reclaim their own deepest and often forgotten potential and to emerge into their greatest potential through the work.

PREREQUISITE: Prior coach training or instructor approval
ATTEND: In-Person (Portland, OR) -or- Virtually via Zoom conference (Recording Available)
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Integral: Science & Psychology of Whole Person Coaching

(2-Day Intensive – Available Online, In-Person & Recorded)

INTEGRAL provides you with a scientific and psychological backbone to better understand the numerous factors that affect your client’s capacity to make change in their lives. Through Integral, you’ll feel confident that your coaching approach is highly effective at meeting your client’s true needs and that you’ll be able to help them to become more resilient and adaptive in their transitions.

With this course, you will:

Explore the underpinnings of Whole Person Coaching, including its roots in: Interpersonal Neurobiology, Positive, Narrative, Archetypal, Energy and Somatic Psychology.
Learn the Transformational Journey model influenced by Joseph Campbell’s Hero’s Journey so you can easily recognize your client’s inner and outer journey and the web of influences that factor into their ability to make positive changes.
Add somatic processes, visualizations and other mindfulness practices to assist your clients to manage their mental and emotional states and step into their most innate resourcefulness.
Understand the deep impact your presence has on your client’s capacity to elicit change - and how to leverage the power of the coach-client relationship to create a positive voice within your client’s busy and often self-critical mind.

Through this course you’ll leave with a clear perspective on the power of Whole Person Coaching and the value of a multi-disciplinary approach to creating sustainable, transformational change in others. Additionally, you’ll gain powerful scientific talking points that will lend credibility to your work as a professional coach in your marketing and enrollment processes.

PREREQUISITE: Recommended Coaching Experience
ATTEND: In-Person (Portland, OR) -or- Virtually via Zoom conference (Recording Available)
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Ignite: Catalytic Communication

(3-Day Intensive – Available Online, In-Person & Recorded)

Catalytic Communication is the core engine that you’ll use to produce game changing and often life-changing conversations that catapult your client’s capacity to achieve their dreams. It’s a unique form of invitational communication that employs powerful questions and reflective techniques that engage the whole person.

With this course, you will:

Employ techniques based in Motivational Interviewing, NLP, Positive and Somatic Psychology to generate positive momentum in others working with the whole person.
Become responsive in the moment, guided by both your intuition and proven techniques to ask the right questions to broaden and shift your client’s thinking, beliefs and actions.
Develop the core holistic coaching communication skills of observing, listening, powerful inquiry, appreciative feedback and advanced reflection techniques to create awareness, learning, action and accountability in others.
Catalyze fresh perspectives, pave the way to new approaches, deepen self-trust, and cultivate an unparalleled sense of self-understanding and knowing.
Gently “give the work” back to the client, igniting their capacity to be self-innovating and operating at their very best.

Catalytic Communication gives you a noticeable edge, both in terms of the results you can help your clients achieve, as well as your personal positioning as an influencer in any arena.

Past participants have shared that Catalytic Communication revolutionized their role as an influencer both personally and professionally. Popular applications range from the conference room to the stage and from business transactions to your children and loved ones.

PREREQUISITE: INSIGHT: Whole Person Coaching Starter Kit
ATTEND: In-Person (Portland, OR) -or- Virtually via Zoom conference (Recording Available)
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Impact: Revolutionary Relationships

(3-Day Intensive – Available Online, In-Person & Recorded)

Relationships are everything. The relationship you hold with yourself, others and the world as a whole shape the way in which you see, feel, hear and behave in the world. Impact is about being your best self in service to others.

With this course, you will:

Tap into Relational Neurobiology, Interpersonal Mindfulness and Adult Attachment Theory to understand the effects of relationships on brain development, decision-making and habits. Learn the science behind effect change strategies.
Understand how to create and nurture an empowering partnership, one rich in trust and authentic connection, with those you serve.
Discover the five-core relationship building skills of attending, believing, confidentiality, reflecting and empathy to support your clients to overcome their own self-doubt and fear.
Move beyond emotional triggers and remain present and highly effective working with others regardless of what arises during the session.
Explore the 4 ways of “knowing” and learn how to tap into the multiple intelligences of the whole person.

Change is hard. Changing others can be even more challenging. Without the proper levels of trust and rapport and the capacity to work with the whole person, that’s usually how it ends up. This course is designed specifically to help you maximize the impact you make on the lives of others through the power of your presence and an empowering relationship you co-create with others.

Most participants have shared that the learning and tools they take away from IMPACT have single-handedly transformed their personal and professional relationships. This training has made it possible for them to be ‘openly authentic’ as well as ‘heard, seen and trusted by others’.

PREREQUISITE: INSIGHT: Whole Person Coaching Starter Kit
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Insight: Whole Person Coaching® Starter Kit

INSIGHT is an on-demand, 10-module digital coach training that gives you the tools and skills you need to start coaching others. This training includes sample coaching sessions and our customizable “Coaching Starter Toolkit,” getting you up and running immediately.

With this course, you will:

Add a rich suite of resources into your coaching toolkit including: coaching contracts, coaching plans, values cards, archetypal identity tools, self-assessments and more are included.
Be able to identify your client’s unique learning and informational processing styles, and sculpt your coaching process accordingly.
Use our FootSteps coaching intervention to generate positive momentum and sustainable change with your ideal audience.
Clearly articulate the value and benefits you offer your prospective clients so you spend less time selling yourself, and more time helping others.
Customize your coaching toolkit, tailoring it to your unique offerings and personality.

The key to change mastery lies in a strong foundation from which to elicit change. The Self-Discovery Process is essential to both coach- and client-success. Your clients will become confident in you as their guide. More importantly, you’ll be well equipped to serve them at your best by knowing: who they are, what truly matters most to them, and how to elicit their very best. It’s worth noting that many people begin charging for their services at this point and start earning back their initial training investment. NO PREREQUISITE AVAILABLE: On Demand

What is Whole Person Coaching®?

A Deep Dive into the Multi-Modality Method that Transforms Mind, Body, and Emotions for Lasting Change

1: NARRATIVE COACHING: FOCUSES ON STORIES AND BELIEFS

2. Somatic Coaching: Incorporates the Body's Wisdom

3. Cognitive Coaching: Emphasizes Thinking Patterns & Mindset

4. Positive Psychology Coaching: Promotes Well-being and Flourishing

Relationships Are the Core of Whole Person Coaching®

Benefits of Whole Person Coaching®

Want to know more about our roots?

Interpersonal Neurobiology

Positive Psychology

NeuroLinguistic Programing (NLP)

Narrative Psychology

Emotional Intelligence (EI)

Whole Person Learning

Meta-Learning

Somatic Psychology

Archetypal Psychology

Expressive Arts

Developmental Psychology

Adult Attachment Theory

Bring Your Whole Self to Life

Engaging the Whole Mind through Holistic Transformational Coaching

Be Exponentially You (Overcoming the Fear of Speaking)

Shifting Gears from Doubt & Fear into Freedom Through Coaching

Leading the Way with Whole Person Coaching Communication

See how our difference can help you to make yours...

Discover YouInnovate From Here

With this course, you will:

Innovate: Holistic Change Mastery

(3-Day Intensive – Available Online, In-Person & Recorded)

With this course, you will:

Integrate: Tools for Change

(3-Day Intensive – Available Online, In-Person & Recorded)

With this course, you will:

Integral: Science & Psychology of Whole Person Coaching

(2-Day Intensive – Available Online, In-Person & Recorded)

With this course, you will:

Ignite: Catalytic Communication

(3-Day Intensive – Available Online, In-Person & Recorded)

With this course, you will:

Impact: Revolutionary Relationships

(3-Day Intensive – Available Online, In-Person & Recorded)

With this course, you will:

Insight: Whole Person Coaching® Starter Kit

With this course, you will:

Discover You
Innovate From Here