Find Your Ideal Coach

Choosing the right relationships for you and your desired outcome.

When it’s time to find a coach, most people naturally gravitate toward someone they are comfortable with and feel they can trust. Finding the best possible coach for YOU to work with may take some time and effort but can make all the difference in the world. Selecting the coach most suited to your needs and personality will greatly increase your level of success and satisfaction. Coach Training World is prepared to assist you with this process.

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Decide what type of coaching would best help you meet your goals.
There are many different arenas of coaching to fulfill the various needs of its recipients – life, wellness, business, communications or life transitions, and more. The coaches at Coach Training World are trained in Whole Person Coaching enabling them to assist a diverse clientele with fulfilling their desired outcomes.

Determine what traits are important to you in a coach.
These can be anything from gender and age to professional/life experiences and fee structure. Coaches listed with (WPCC) after their name have attended our full mastery level coach training program and are specialized in the advanced techniques of Whole Person Coaching. In addition, those who are ICF Credentialed as an Associated Certified Coach (ACC), Professional Certified Coach (PCC) or Master Certified Coach (MCC) are also indicated.

Get referrals.
Request recommendations from your prospective coach. Ask coaches that you interview for names of others who may better meet your criteria if it isn’t a good fit. At Baraka Institute (CTW) it is our desire to meet your needs and we all agree that the right fit means the right relationship.

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Cathi L. Gross

Pronouns:

She/Her

Company Name:

Open Pathways Whole Life Coaching

Website:

https://youropenpathways.com/

Phone:

805-228-2714

Location:

Ventura, CA, USA

Coaching Bio:

As a certified Trauma Informed Whole Life Coach, I am passionate about guiding individuals toward healing, growth, and transformation. My approach is rooted in compassion, empathy, and empowerment and my ongoing professional development ensures that I stay at the forefront of coaching practices.

As a Certified Whole life Coach with specialized training in Trauma-Informed Coaching, I hold several valuable certifications:
* CPC - Certified Professional Coach
* WPCC - Whole Person Certified Coach
* TIC - Trauma-Informed Certified Coach, Level 1
* CGC - Certified Genesis Coach

Each of these different certifications provide me with a unique experience to support individuals who find themselves stuck one way or another. Together, we will unravel patterns that no longer serve you, fostering positive change, while prioritizing safety, trust, understanding, and empowerment, meeting clients where they are and providing a supportive space for exploration and healing. My gentle coaching presence and non-judgmental attitude create an environment where clients feel heard and valued. I believe in the resilience of the human spirit and the capacity for transformation. Previous clients have praised my ability to help them navigate trauma, build resilience, and achieve their goals.

Here are a few of their Testimonials:
“Cathi is competent, caring, and an active listener creating a safe place, that's non-judgmental and always compassionate for me. I can be open and vulnerable with Cathi which has helped me to use my values and strengths to empower me. Thank you, from Frances, Somis, CA.”

"Cathi has a gift of asking questions that help me to dig deeper, identify root causes and discover action plans for me that address issues in a healthier way. I'm very pleased with my growth and I'm continuing to gain awareness with Cathi's support, Thank you from, Charlene, Hanford, CA"

"Cathi is a very insightful and encouraging life coach. She listens empathetically to my concerns/needs and supports me to statically develops a plan for my personal growth. We've built a strong bond in our time together, cultivating trust and honesty to achieve my goals. Thank you, Kayla, Ventura, CA"

As a trauma survivor myself, I bring personal understanding and empathy to my coaching. My lived experience allows me to connect deeply with clients who have faced similar challenges. This authenticity fosters trust and openness in my coaching relationships. Additionally, my certification and education demonstrate my commitment to professional growth and competence. If you're ready to embark on a transformative journey, reach out to me—I am here to support you.

Type of Coaching:

* Senior Coach for New Students, Communications & Conflict, Life Coaching, Relationship Coaching, Sliding Scale, Spiritual Coaching, Student Rate (probono or reduced cost), Trauma Informed

Not seeing what you are looking for?

Give us a call @ 888-660-5588 and we’ll introduce you to the many coaches not listed in our online directory.

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

Find Your Ideal Coach

Choosing the right relationships for you and your desired outcome.

Tips on selecting the best coach for your needs and desired outcome