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Meet just a few of our graduates!

Inside here you’ll find interviews with a few graduates from Baraka Institute: Coach Training World who are out in the world making their difference. Enjoy!

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Meet Whole Person Empowerment & Leadership Coach Alexis Mobley, WPCC

With over 15 years of experience in corporate America, including stops along the way at Capital One, IBM, J.P. Morgan Chase, and Transunion, Alexis recognizes the power of leveraging both coaching and consulting as a way of helping her high-achieving black women clients to soar!

Alexis’s self-defined niche consists of high-achieving women leaders and entrepreneurs who seek to achieve clarity amid chaos. Working with Alexis these super women discover their authentic selves and live a more empowered life.

Alexis believes that everyone deserves to feel the power that resides within and to step courageously and authentically into the person they want to be.

Meet Business & Leadership Coach Carol Morgan-Wirth, WPCC, ACC

Carol took a leap of faith and let go of a decades long career as a top-tier company leader to focus on doing what she loves most: helping others. As a Whole Person Business & Leadership Coach she wholeheartedly recognizes the importance of working with the whole person, both personally and professionally.

Her strengths-based approach to coaching allows her client’s to self-identify their deepest needs and uncover the necessary tools and techniques to authentically align to their best. While her focus is on leadership and business acumen, her clients often lean into her coaching to be personally more effective in all areas of their life.

Her mission is to help people to know themselves so they can grow themselves into their best self.
And that she does!

Meet Whole Person Leadership & Purpose Coach Linda Rhoads, WPCC, ACC
Linda knew she was meant for more, even while at the top of her game as a senior leader and advisor in academia. With decades of self-development work and a certification in another coach training program, Linda wanted a sound platform and the structure needed to “go big” with her coaching business.

While she is well-known for her love of helping people overcome imposter syndrome, Linda also brings a wealth of experience and a deep heart-centric ear to her coaching, allowing her clients to feel safe and heard – and motivated to step into their next career – authentically and courageously.

Meet Whole Person Life Coach Katie Kasambala, WPCC, ACC

Currently based in South Africa, Life Coach Katie Kasambala is a coach for those who don’t like to settle. With her vast experience in multiple professions, Katie deeply understands her fellow multi-talented and multi-passionate people.

Drawing upon her experience as an attorney, banker, property developer, culinary school owner, restaurateur and consultant, Katie helps her clients discover where they want to be in their life, career or business.

According to Katie… “It takes a multi-talented person to truly understand the needs of someone who isn’t interested in doing just one thing! Why not bring all of who you are into your work and the world!?!” We couldn’t agree more!

Meet Whole Person Certified Coach Evdoxia Stoupi, WPCC, PCC
With decades of experience in various healing modalities, Evdoxia leveraged Whole Person Coaching as a way to build her own signature coaching & healing approach, i-Ki Coaching.

A former attorney, it was Evdoxia’s own healing journey that made her realize that despite all that she had accomplished, she wanted to help people in new and meaningful ways.

Evdoxia works with individuals who strive to become deeply self-aware while at the same time liberating themselves from the past events and relationships that have held them back. She incorporates Hypnotherapy, Reiki, Channeling and the Enneagram to promote healing and well-being for her global client base so they can accept and realize their full potential.

Meet Whole Person Certified Coach Sheila Murray, WPCC, PCC
Drawing upon her background in yoga and mindfulness, Sheila partners with busy professionals to help them step back and create the lives they truly want to live.

Sheila specializes in a primarily somatic approach to coaching employing the mind-body connection to help her client’s shift from feeling frantic, overwhelmed and exhausted to calm and purpose-led.

Meet Whole Person Certified Business Coach Carmer Reed Gilkison, WPCC

Whole Person Business Coach Carmen Reed-Gilkison propels her client’s to success by addressing the real barriers the prevent them from generating the revenue they desire.

Her client’s benefit long-term from her support because they learn how to become highly effective as a business owner in their marketing and in their life!

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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

Meet just a few of our graduates!