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The Modern Fear Response: Stress & Anxiety

What holds you back from your dreams? Our fears encompass everything from acceptance and belonging to safety and financial security. We worry about what others think and feel about us. We worry about how others perceive our opinions and beliefs. We worry about how our...

Should you become a coach or therapist?

In this short 9-minute video you'll gain a greater understanding on the differences between coaching, therapy and advising. I'll also speak about how Whole Person Coaching is the perfect modality for those who are seeking to add up all of their life skills,...

What is Whole Person Coaching?

In this short 5-minute video you'll learn how a Whole Person Coach works with their clients to bring their whole self to life to accomplish their dreams and goals. As a Whole Person Coach you support your clients to come to deeply know their whole self. In doing so...

Does what other people think, feel or say about you count?

In previous posts we saw how easily and universally fear affects us and our clients. Yes, it serves a purpose by offering protection from potential dangers. But our days of fleeing prehistoric lions and global pandemics are over. Nevertheless, in today’s society, our...

The Gift of Fear

What I’m about to say is definitely not going to earn me the popular vote. But here I go: it’s time we stand up and fully embrace our deepest fears for the tremendous gift they have given us. In fact, if it wasn’t for our drive toward self-preservation (one ingrained...

Is there such a thing as fearless living?

If you’re wondering why I’m bringing up the topic of fear, you’re in good company. After all, doesn’t everyone have a solution for it already? In fact, there are almost as many solutions to fear as fears themselves. The answer is simple: fear is contagious. Until we...

Creating Marketing Content: From Meditation to Manifestation

In today's episode, you'll meet Kourtney Gay from Riverside, CA On the fast track to starting her own coaching business, spiritual coach Kourtney dives into the creative process to create her own marketing content. Listen in to the step-by-step process we co-create...

Marketing Lingo: Showing Value for Nature Based Therapy & Soul Care

In today's episode, you'll meet Kathy Lundborg from Butte, Montana. www.kathylundborg.com She is the creator of Tree Speak and Soul Care: Guidance System. Her work with nature-based therapies and her plant-based guidance system has caught the attention of healers,...

Money Talk: Finding Your Ideal Clients

Meet financial coach Emily Shutt who supports women to become smart and savvy about their financial well being. She loves helping women to become unapologetic about money regardless of their situation. In this episode, you’ll get an insider’s look at how a financial...

Coach, Teach & Speak: finding balance in your new business

Meet author, coach, educator and speaker Claire Yeung who transitioned from being an attorney into a robust business where she wears many hats. In this episode, you’ll get an insider’s look at the how a multi-talented and multi-passionate coach self-discovers a way to...

Letting Go of a Business that No Longer Serves You

Meet Aaron Reibe of Aaron's Errands, who after a terminal cancer diagnosis decided to start his own business. Now, 6 years later he is asking the tough question – what’s next? Caught in his own mental and emotional crossroads, Aaron has come to recognize the business...

Letting Go of the Outdated Version of Old Self & Life

PART 3: Jump as if your life depends on it, because it does - Part III Change has come, and with it, Tina Woosley’s personal breaking point. No longer content to stay put or look back, she receives strength from a very specific desire – one highly common among those...

Fearless Career Transition into Coaching

PART 2: Finding the strength and courage - a leap of faith toward life fulfillment Life Coach Tina Woosley overcomes her fear of transition through an approach that can be applied by anyone looking to shift into more meaningful work. Tina Woosley decided to hold onto...

Meet Tina Woosley, a life coach who received a very distinct call to service

PART 1: Transitioning into the world of coaching from a day job she’d held for nearly three decades. https://youtu.be/smqM7jsBVw0 Life can be like a river, moving slow and deep. We dive in and, even if the current isn’t strong, over time it carries us far from where...

Bring Your Whole Self to Life

B.C. Nelson, DDS – Dentist, Author, Visionary B.C. Nelson had a dream. But like so many of us, he unintentionally buried that dream for decades. As a highly respected dentist with his own successful practice in Stayton, OR, he got lost in the day-to-day pressures of...

Introducing Teresa Rodden, Wholly Sober Coach

“After becoming a certified professional coach, I had the freedom to explore my unconventional process of living sober without struggle.” Teresa is a true warrior. She has fought major battles throughout her life… and won them all. Her story is unique in that she...

Introducing Justin Cassens, Life Coach

“I was pointed toward life coaching when I told someone my ideal job would be working as a professional friend.” Justin emerged from college ready to take on the world. But like so many college students today, he couldn’t find work that aligned with his skills and...

Introducing Jonathan Crews, Vedic Astrologer, Professional Coach

“We, are on the spiritual path, often try to “transcend” with our spiritual practices the more painful aspects of our emotional life." Inspired by his early exposure to the Vedic wisdom of India, Jonathan has dedicated his life to pursing personal and collective...

Introducing Sharon Roemmel, Purpose and Well Life Coach

“The training I received at Coach Training World enables me to blend the skills I’ve honed over my career and combine them with new skills to empower women to live their richest, most joyful lives. “The training I received at Coach Training World enables me to blend...

Introducing Yvonne Chang, Leadership & Empowerment Coach

Radiance is about bringing your inner light out into the world. It suggests a confident energy that draws people in as it shines outward with warmth and vibrancy. Starting over is never easy. It’s especially hard when you’re recovering physically from an accident, and...

Introducing Claire Yeung, Success Coach

“Becoming a coach has allowed me to find my purpose in life: to help others live their best lives! It has also given me my life back and made me a kinder, less judgmental, more peaceful person. I can now strive to live my life with grace, which I couldn't do before...

Introducing Nikól Peterman, Empowerment Coach

Coaching has given me the opportunity to give back to the community I have spent 20 years of my life in, and empower creatives to success. Today I leverage my experience, expertise and what I've learned in the business to help others! Nikól is very much at home on...

Introducing Elysia Hartzell, Spiritual Coach and Healer

“This is something I never imagined. The reality of what has happened in my business is so much greater than anything I ever envisioned for myself! I have complete freedom! In fact, I’m about to embark on a four-month, cross-country journey with my partner and...

Introducing Michelle Wirta, The Soul Translator

“Becoming a coach gave me the freedom to work in a way that feels right for the type of clientele I work with. I am now able to support them with my signature intuitive style while bolstering insights through coach-like inquiry, the power of accountability, and...

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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.

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Integral: Science & Psychology of Whole Person Coaching

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

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Explore the underpinnings of Whole Person Coaching, including its roots in: Interpersonal Neurobiology, Positive, Narrative, Archetypal, Energy and Somatic Psychology.
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PREREQUISITE: Recommended Coaching Experience
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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.
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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.

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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.
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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.

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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.

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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.
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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

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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

(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