Board Certifed Coach (BCC) Coach Training Programs

Elevate Your Practice ~ Quickly, Easily and Affordably

As an experienced professional, you possess an extensive range of knowledge, skills and capabilities. You can build upon your years of academic and work experience without costly, time-consuming post-degree trainings with our Board Certified Coach Trainings. Plus you can attend these programs via self-paced or live (online or in-person) creating a schedule that works for you.

The Board Certified Coach (BCC) is the only coaching credential that incorporates your verified education, professional training and work experience. Depending on the degree you hold you can attend either our 30-hour Board Certified Coach training or our 60-Hour Board Certified Coach training.

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Offered in conjunction with the Center for Credentialing and Education (CCE), an affiliate of the National Board for Certified Counselors (NBCC) – our Board Certified Credential (BCC) Certifications are the fastest way to improve the profile, quality and effectiveness of your professional services.

Why earn a Board Certified Coaching (BCC) credential?

When you add a Board Certified Coach (BCC) credential to your professional toolkit, you gain fresh, innovative and holistic ways to work with those you’ve dedicated your life to. Becoming certified as a coach is one of the fastest ways to broaden your services and appeal to a new client base.

Coach training greatly enhances the impact you have on the lives of your clients. It also increases positive word-of-mouth about you and your services. These self-innovative tools have strong appeal to the growing number of individuals who seek a more collaborative, holistic connection with their providers.

And as an additional bonus, graduates of our BCC programs can apply their coursework toward earning an International Coach Federation (ICF) credential.

Want a few more details on the Board Certified Coach? Read our blog post about how to become a Board Certified Coach.

“Coaching has changed what I do so completely, it’s hard to even remember how I used to practice. I see myself as a healer now, capable of reaching out and helping somebody make a true difference in their life, as opposed to simply making their teeth look nicer.

Dr. Kim Kutsch

Four steps to earn your Board Certified Coach (BCC) credential

Step 1: Coach Training Program – Depending on your level of education and experience, you’ll attend either our 30- or 60-hour BCC coach training program.

Step 2: Coaching Experience Hours – To earn your credential you must coach others outside the coach training program. But if you’re like other BCC candidates, you may not have time to find these clients on your own. So at Coach Training World, we’ve developed a network through which we can help you find the clients you’ll need to satisfy this requirement.

Step 3: BCC Application – Application requirements are a little different for each field. Here’s an overview of what to expect based on your current level of experience: Board-Certified-Coach-Requirements

Again, we know you’re busy. So we’re happy to help navigate you through this portion of the credentialing process by gathering forms that typically include:

BCC application form
Verification of experience form
Professional endorsement form
Designation experience forms
Designation endorsement forms

Step 4: BCC Exam (BCCE) – The exam is an independent verification of your coaching knowledge and proficiency. It is administered via computer-based testing at centers throughout the world. But don’t worry: we’re here to help you prep for this final stage of your certification.

The exam covers the following topics:

Screening and orientation in coaching
Fundamental coaching skills
Assessments in coaching
Coaching approaches for individuals
Coaching approaches for business and organizations
Ethical and professional practice in coaching

“Coming to Coach Training World was one of the best decisions I ever made. My former coach training left me woefully unprepared for real world coaching. I am certain that I can be a successful coach and I have the tools necessary! I would and have recommended your Whole Person Coach program not only to future coaches, but to anyone who wants to go along the path of self discovery and personal transformation.“

Monica Wheeler - Whole Person Certified Coach

Benefits of a Board Certified Coach (BCC) Credential

Why earn a advanced degrees. This program takes into account your current coach-related education and training to fast track you through the credentialing process.

A BCC credential also offers three significant benefits to you as practitioner, as well as your patients. These include:

Provider/patient partnerships that create sustainable outcomes
Coaching has been shown to increase the success of its clients and foster more successful self-management through markedly improved engagement. Unlike the standard approach of many personal services in which practitioners “tell” their clients what to do, these improved communication skills “invite” active participation to create the best plan for the client’s future.
Additional marketing opportunities
The CCE now offers four specialty designations. This voluntary add-on enables you to further market your services to a new or extended client base through independently verified professional credentials and endorsements. It’s another feather in your cap for a business card, website and social media accounts.
The four areas of expertise include:
- Executive / Corporate / Business / Leadership Coach
- Health and Wellness Coach
- Career Coach
- Personal / Life Coach

Liability Insurance for Board Certified Coaches (BCCs)
Board Certified Coaches can obtain liability insurance covering up to $1,000,000 per claim and $3,000,000 total through Lockton Risk Services, Inc.
This is currently made available to BCC credential holders in the following fields:
- Executive Coach
- Health / Wellness Coach
- Career Coach
- Life Coach
- Personal Coach

Choosing Your Board Certified Coach Training Track

Requirements for this training:

National Certified Counselors (NCCs) or Fully State-Licensed Counselors
Master’s or Ph.D. in Counseling
Doctoral degree in social or behavioral science (social work, education, health, business)
2,500 hours of experience over a period of at least five years and a bachelor’s degree or higher in any field

30-Hour BCC Program Details

Requirements for this training:

Master’s degree or higher in social or behavioral science (social work, education, health, business)
Recognized coaching credential and a bachelor’s degree or higher in any field

60-Hour BCC Program Details

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Introducing Empowerment Coach Nikol Peterman

“My confidence has soared, and I feel much clearer about my purpose and message. I am connecting to so many more inspiring entrepreneurs and artists, and stepping into the collaborations I have wanted to cultivate my whole life. In turn, my clients are stepping into their inner resources and recognizing they are capable of their dreams!”

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Introducing Wellness Coach Sharon Roemmel

“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.”

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Introducing Life Coach Justin Cassens

“I believe freely sharing appreciation with the people around us will help make the world a better place, and I can’t get enough of people who share that point of view. I can’t imagine anything better than working to help people realize their full potential.”

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Introducing Chief Empowerment Officer Yvonne Chang

“Coaching has enabled me to help individuals find in themselves the kind of value, meaning and grounding that it took me years to find in myself. Through coaching, I can consolidate my experiences and studies into a personalized plan and approach matched to each client’s needs and aspirations.”

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Introducing Success Coach Claire Yeung

“Coaching has allowed me to become an entrepreneur doing what I love. Prior to becoming a coach, I never in my wildest dreams thought I would be able to build a business doing something I was passionate about.”

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Introducing Wholly Sober Coach Teresa Rodden

“After becoming a certified professional coach, I had the freedom to explore my unconventional process of living sober without struggle.”

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

Board Certifed Coach (BCC) Coach Training Programs

Elevate Your Practice ~ Quickly, Easily and Affordably

Why earn a Board Certified Coaching (BCC) credential?

“Coaching has changed what I do so completely, it’s hard to even remember how I used to practice. I see myself as a healer now, capable of reaching out and helping somebody make a true difference in their life, as opposed to simply making their teeth look nicer.

Four steps to earn your Board Certified Coach (BCC) credential

Benefits of a Board Certified Coach (BCC) Credential

Choosing Your Board Certified Coach Training Track

Still wondering if Coach Training World and Whole Person Coaching is right for you?

Introducing Empowerment Coach Nikol Peterman

Introducing Wellness Coach Sharon Roemmel

Introducing Life Coach Justin Cassens

Introducing Chief Empowerment Officer Yvonne Chang

Introducing Success Coach Claire Yeung

Introducing Wholly Sober Coach Teresa Rodden

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