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Posted on June 29, 2009 - by Jus

Course Curriculum

Course Curriculum

My Life Coaching study is being done with the International Coach Academy, who are based right here in Melbourne but conduct an internationally accredited course for students all over the world.

As I’ll be talking a lot about this course on this blog, I thought it would be pertinent to give you a little summary of the subjects I’ll be studying and the insights I hope to draw from each topic.

The curriculum I am studying can be summarised as:

Foundation Coach
This will be a basic understanding of Life Coaching and some of the core skills such as powerful listening and giving effective feedback.

Power Tools
The Power Tools subject is just that – powerful tools I can use to move my clients forward.  This is one that I most excited about as it is as much about me learning this skills for my own self development as using them in my career ahead.

Advanced Coach Part I
This will provide me with an excellent grounding in coaching techniques and tools.   This subject will introduce me to the Coaching Process and to the Peer Coaching Program (where I am coached by a fellow student and in turn I coach other students and friends).

Adavanced Coach Part II
This is designed to extend my knowledge and skills in coaching techniques and tools with greater depth and rigour.  By the time I am into this part of the course I will have developed considerable coaching experience from the Peer Coaching Program and will be regularly asked to evaluate the application of theory to practice (and journalling that right here on this blog!).  I will also be developing my own Coaching Process and Coaching Model.

Business Building
This subject is run as a facilitated group session with other students from all over the global, so as such it focuses on cross cultural communication skills and international issues in coaching. I will also develop a business and marketing plan through this subject.

Coaching Practicum
This subject focuses on intense coaching practice and feedback.  Specifically:

  • Ability to demonstrate International Coaching Federation competencies in a live coaching scenario
  • Ability to articulate the coaching skill used in my coaching
  • Ability to demonstrate an understanding of the coaching skills used
  • Ability to analyse my coaching session
  • Ability to identify and outline my coaching process
  • Ability to define my strengths and weakness as a coach and where to develop my learning
  • Ability to demonstrate my evaluation model for coaching

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    And after all of that, I will be taking a Supervised Coaching subject which is about giving me feedback and to listen to other students participating in live coaching.

    I am so excited to get stuck into it and reach my goal of graduating in June 2010.  Stap yourself in and enjoy the ride!