Senior Coach - Coach Training World

Find Your Ideal Senior Coach

Maximize your learning journey while working on your own life and career with a senior coach.

What is a Senior Coach?

A senior/graduate coach is a student who has navigated the learning journey and is now completing their coaching experience hours for ICF and CTW certifications. They aren’t instructors or ICF mentor coaches but serve as your personal success coach to guide you through firsthand experiences in coaching.

What is the difference between a Senior Coach and an ICF Mentor Coach?

Unlike an ICF mentor coach who supports you to develop your coaching skills along the ICF’s Core Competencies and and prepare for your ICF performance and certifications exams, your senior coach is your personal coach. They are devoted to helping you with your personal life and/or professional transition into coaching.

Ways in which to engage your Senior Coach

Your senior coach is a coach. While they may offer insights or advice, their primary role is to coach you on what matters most to you.
Here are suggestions on how to work with a senior coach:

Have your senior coach guide you through the various self-discovery tools from the INSIGHT: WPC Starter Kit course.
Receive coaching on important decisions related to coaching, your future, or personal life.
Ask for help in developing somatic awareness, becoming more aware of how your body participates in experiences.
Bring a challenging topic related to confidence, clarity, or transitioning into coaching.
Receive coaching on an area of your life that doesn’t get much attention.
Work on aspects of being a coach that are challenging to you. For example, moving from providing advice to coaching your clients.

Remember, your senior coach is your coach, not an instructor or mentor. Please allow them to coach you.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do I find the best Senior Coach for me?
The best way to find your ideal Senior Coach is to interview them. While their profiles may speak to the kind of coaching they are offering their clients, we often find that our community connects in other meaningful ways.
How many senior coaches can I interview?
We suggest interviewing 3-5 coaches. If needed, you can interview more. This gives coaches a chance to develop marketing skills, even in a pro bono engagement.
Can I work with more than one Senior Coach?
Yes, but we ask that you work with only one coach at a time.
What if during an interview with a Senior Coach they ask to be paid?
Please be informed that all Senior Coaches are expected to offer 5 hours of pro bono coaching. Subsequently, the compensation arrangement is at the discretion of both parties, and it’s encouraged to mutually agree on fair terms.
How many hours and for how long can I work with a Senior Coach?
We ask that CTW Community members volunteering as Senior Coaches provide a minimum of 5 free hours, and the duration is flexible based on mutual agreement.
What if I want to continue working with my Senior Coach beyond the 5 pro bono hours?
Discuss this with your senior coach. Many coaches may continue the coaching relationship for a minimal fee or by trading coaching hours with you. Both you and your senior coach need coaching experience hours, especially for ICF credentialing.
What if I want to discontinue working with my Senior Coach?
Please let your Senior Coach know that you wish to discontinue working with them. Please do not ghost a fellow CTW community members.

The CTW learning community provides numerous opportunities for coaching and being coached by various individuals as a newer or seasoned coach. The Senior Coach relationship aims to help you enter the program with the wisdom and support of someone who has walked the path before you.

We want this relationship to be win-win. Sound familiar? It should: it’s the same thing we strive for when working with clients outside our learning community – we want the best fit possible. The more trust and rapport, the more successful the coaching relationship.

With this goal in mind, please know that things sometimes happen as part of everyday life: scheduling conflicts, time-zone differences, and the occasional need to find an even better fit for either the coach or client. And of late, emails ending up in spam filters or not being delivered at all.

So if the partnership doesn’t work out – for any reason – you can always work with another coach!

Get Started!

Go Here: coachtrainingworld.com/find-a-coach-directory/
Scroll down and select the * Senior Coach for New Students option to view all available senior coaches.
Click the “view” button to look at each coach’s profile.
Use the form at the bottom of the coach’s profile to contact them. Or go directly to their website if they have one
Alternatively, you can post inside the CTW Private Coach & Transform Facebook page for a senior coach. Of course if you need help, please contact us.

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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.
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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 Senior Coach

What is a Senior Coach?

What is the difference between a Senior Coach and an ICF Mentor Coach?

Ways in which to engage your Senior Coach

Frequently Asked Questions

Get Started!

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