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)

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)

INTEGRAL: Science & Psychology of Whole Person Coaching

(6-week course -or self-study option) – 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:

Understand and apply Interpersonal Neurobiology & Brain Development
Learn how the brain develops and functions through relationships, and how attachment styles influence behavior. Apply this understanding to create more effective, attuned coaching relationships.
Explore the principles of Integration with a focus on perception and the fear-stress response
Understand the interplay between right and left hemisphere brain functions and how they work together in learning, perception, and relationships. Explore the foundations of the fear/stress response and techniques to help clients increase their capacity to be resourceful and resilient.
Integrate Somatic Psychology techniques
Develop somatic awareness and learn how the body stores and processes emotional and psychological experiences. Use body-based practices to support clients in healing, self-regulation, and growth.
Apply Jungian Psychology insights
Explore the unconscious mind, archetypes, and personal shadow. Learn how to guide clients toward self-discovery and integration of all parts of their psyche for holistic growth.

Incorporate Positive Psychology principle:
Understand the science of well-being, strengths, and resilience. Apply evidence-based techniques that focus on enhancing positive emotions, engagement, meaning, and personal strengths in coaching.
Utilize Narrative Psychology for transformation
Understand how clients construct meaning and identity through stories. Learn techniques to help clients rewrite limiting narratives and create new, empowering life stories.
Cultivate the ‘inner witness’ within yourself and clients
Engage in practices that develop your inner observer, enhancing self-awareness and reflection. This will improve your ability to stay present, adaptive, and responsive in coaching sessions.
Embellish your coaching toolkit
Equip yourself with a broad set of tools, processes, and techniques from each psychological lens. Learn how to apply them effectively in a variety of coaching scenarios to support diverse client needs.

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)

IGNITE: Catalytic Communication

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

Whole Person Coaching is based on the premise that when you come to know, embrace, and express all aspects of your whole self, you are positioned to thrive in any aspect of life. You become rich in resources, grounded in yourself, and at peace within. Can you imagine a more empowering state from which to initiate and navigate change? (Neither can we.)

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)

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
ATTEND: In-Person (Portland, OR) -or- Virtually via Zoom conference (Recording Available)

INSIGHT: Whole Person Coaching Starter Kit

INSIGHT gives you the tools and skills you need to immediately start coaching others.

This training includes sample coaching sessions and our customizable “Coaching Starter Toolkit,” getting you up and running immediatel with a suite of coaching tools and assessments.

With this course you will:

Enhance your coaching toolkit with a comprehensive set of resources, including coaching contracts, coaching plans, values cards, archetype self-assessments, and more.
Identify your client’s unique learning and informational processing styles, and adapt your coaching process to match.
Utilize our FootSteps coaching intervention to create positive momentum and sustainable change with your ideal audience.
Effectively communicate the value and benefits you offer prospective clients, so you spend less time selling yourself and more time making an impact.
Personalize your coaching toolkit to reflect your unique offerings and personality.

Get Started with INSIGHT!

Mastering change starts with a solid foundation that enables effective transformation.
The Self-Discovery Process is crucial for both coach and client success.

By using this process, your clients will gain confidence in you as their guide. More importantly, you’ll be equipped to serve them at your best by understanding who they are, what truly matters to them, and how to bring out their very best. Many people begin charging for their services at this stage, often earning back their initial training investment.

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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

(6-week course -or self-study option) – 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:

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