PROGRAM & REGISTRATION OPTIONS

There are three options for you to choose from when registering:

Deep Coaching Intensive (DCI)

The Deep Coaching Intensive encompasses Foundation and Mastery components. Once you complete the DCI you receive certification as a Deep Transformational Coach.

Note: Certification as a Deep Coach from the Center for Transformational Coaching is not the same as receiving a coaching credential from the International Coach Federation, which is a separate application process.

DCI Portfolio Package

For those who desire to attain an ICF coach credential, the DCI Portfolio Package and the DCI Portfolio Mentored Package provide all the coach training hours needed to meet ICF requirements for the ACC application. These packages combine Life Coaching Basics with the

 Deep Coaching Intensive for a comprehensive transformational coach training program.

Note 1: To apply for an ICF credential, you need to fulfill a number of requirements. The DCI Portfolio Package fulfills your coach training requirement when you apply via ICF’s ACC Portfolio Path. Visit ICF’s website for details on application requirements for that path.

Note 2: It is not possible to ‘audit’ the DCI Portfolio Package, as ICF requires that for application purposes, 80% of the training must be synchronous learning (SL).

DCI Portfolio Mentoring Package

Another requirement for ICF’s ACC credential application is 10 hours of Mentor Coaching. We offer this service with a qualified Mentor Coach when you register for the DCI Portfolio Mentoring Package. Typically, these hours are used following completion of the DCI as you continue to develop your coaching skills and knowledge in preparation for your ACC credential application.

DEEP COACHING INTENSIVE COURSE STRUCTURE

There are two components to the Deep Coaching Intensive (21 weeks; 42 SL learning hours):

1: Foundation (12 weeks)

The first part of the DCI imparts all concepts and knowledge related to the Deep Coaching approach and integrates it with ICF competencies. Foundation also offers a peer coaching program to encourage practice of the Deep Coaching approach from the beginning of the course.

2: Mastery (9 weeks)

The second part is designed to deepen student’s understanding of Deep Coaching through direct experience. Participants observe and discuss a series of Deep Coaching sessions led by the learning leader which expand their understanding of how the approach works across a range of personalities, situations, and issues. Participants also engage in a number of practice sessions. This is akin to supervised mentor coaching, and through feedback from the learning leader, participants receive the direction and support needed to master Deep Coaching.

To successfully complete Mastery, participants submit two audio recordings to the learning leader for assessment and feedback. These recordings will demonstrate the participant’s capacity and progress with the DC approach. Upon successful completion of all DCI requirements, participants receive certification as a Deep Transformational Coach.

MAIN LEARNING OBJECTIVES

The DCI is designed to create three types of knowledge:

• Conceptual knowledge:  The key concepts here are understanding what transformational coaching is (as an approach), understanding the dynamics of human transformation, and how to create the conditions within a coaching space which optimize transformative change and enable deep shifts in awareness.

• Practical knowledge: Transformative models and Deep Coaching practices are introduced which help participants move beyond transactional coaching methods, dive deeper into a person’s psyche and ‘inner operating system’, and enhance the power of their personal presence.

• Self-knowledge: The most important dimension of all great transformational coaches, knowing — Who am I? What does my life and work stand for?

DCI PORTFOLIO PACKAGE STRUCTURE

For those who wish to attain their ICF ACC credential, the DCI Portfolio Package has been designed to meet all ICF requirements for the ACC Portfolio Path application by combining the Deep Coaching Intensive program with the Life Coaching Basics course.

Life Coaching Basics teaches you core coaching competencies and frameworks, including the ICF definition of coaching and Code of Ethics, and prepares you to be a knowledgeable coach who understands the profession’s unique approach to self-development. The DCI then builds on that foundational knowledge through advanced coaching practices.

Life Coaching Basics in the DCI Portfolio Package is a blend of self-study and support integration calls with your course instructor (both 1-1 and group calls). Visit our website for details.

Begin today. The earlier you get started with Life Coaching Basics, however, the more time you have to study and integrate the foundational knowledge before the DCI begins. Enrollment is ongoing, so you can begin at any time.

DCI CURRICULUM OUTLINE

PRE-COURSE:

Approximately two weeks prior to the start of the DCI you will receive the information needed to prepare for the course, including setting up your learnsite account and getting tele-class access information.

PART 1 – FOUNDATION

Below are the core concepts introduced each week during Foundation. Along with conceptual knowledge, each week will have an experiential Peer Coaching assignment so that you are putting the conceptual knowledge into practice.

WEEK 1: ORIENTATION – CONNECTING

• Learning leader and participant introductions
• Tutorials: how to use the conferencing service and forum features
• Peer coaching program: set up and how it works
• Course protocols and expectations
• Course completion requirements

WEEK 2: THE JOURNEY OF TRANSFORMATION

• The Coaching Continuum: moving from transactional to transformational
• Deep Coaching: an introduction to its core principles and tenets
• Transformational models: stages and patterns of human transformation
• What it means to hold space for transformation
• Deep Coaching Practice 1: Slow it all down

WEEK 3: LEVELS OF ENGAGEMENT

• The Four Levels of Engagement
  • Coaching at the level of ‘being’
  • Transformative Practice
  • The qualities and characteristics of a Deep Coaching space
  • Raising the vibrancy of your coaching presence
  • Deep Coaching Practice 2: Release your agendas; live your values

WEEK 4: THE SELF-CONCEPT

• Our self-concept: what it is and how it is structured
• Transformation and the evolution of our self-concept
• Core beliefs and limiting core beliefs: how they impact life experience
• Coaching approaches to working with the self-concept
• How Deep Coaching works to reconfigure or release limiting core beliefs

WEEK 5: TRANSFORMATION AND HEALING

• 5 key roles of the Deep Coach
• Images of healing
• The relationship between healing and personal transformation
• The role of spirit or spirituality in transformational processes
• Deep Coaching Practice 3: Nurture healing spaces

WEEK 6: DYNAMICS OF TRANSFORMATION

• The dynamics of transformation
• The ‘generative potential’: connecting with what is emerging
• Engines of transformation: 6 drivers that accelerate transformative growth
• Deep Coaching Practice 4: Working with silence

WEEK 7: DEEP COACHING IN ACTION

• Structuring a Deep Coaching session
• The Three Intelligences: tapping into multiple sources of information
• Accessing the heart’s intelligence
• Observe a Deep Coaching session (learning leader as coach)
• Deep Coaching Practice 5: Coaching more from the heart, less from the head

WEEK 8: ACCESSING THE DEEPER SELF

• The Four Levels of Listening: Shifting the inner place from where we operate
• Generative listening: beyond empathetic listening
• Deep Coaching practice 6: Attune to the deeper Self and let that lead
• Shifting ‘ways of being’: how Deep Coaches enable shifts in consciousness

WEEK 9: WORKING WITH EMOTION AND PAIN

• What ‘pain’ is and its relationship to transformational processes
• Levels of comfort (and discomfort) with the expression of pain in a session
• How Deep Coaches work with emotions and pain
• Deep Coaching Practice 7: Expanding your capacity to be with pain

WEEK 10: THE EMERGING POTENTIAL

• Presencing: seeing from our deepest source
• Attuning to the ‘emerging potential’ within ourselves and others
• Listening for the readiness: what is there a readiness for?
• Facilitating authentic Self experiences in a coaching session
• Deep Coaching Practice 8: Foster the emergence of what wants to happen (inside and out)

WEEK 11: CULTIVATING TRUST

• Co-sensing Activity – gathering deep data
• Coaching the emerging selfhood: experiencing more of the ‘I Am’ in a session
• Committing to your own transformational journey
• Deep Coaching Practice 9: Cultivating trust in the mystery and magic of the process
• Final assignments for completing Foundation

WEEK 12: CRYSTALIZING

• Wrapping up Foundation
• Crystalize key learnings
• Preparing for Mastery

PART 2 – MASTERY

WEEKS 13-16: DEEP COACHING SESSION OBSERVATION

• Each week for the four Session Observation classes, one participant will be coached by the learning leader. These live sessions compliment a series of four audio Deep Coaching sessions which are part of the weekly assignments.
  • The purpose of observing these sessions is to provide participants the experience of how Deep Coaching works across a range of situations, issues, and personalities.

• During these four weeks, the Peer Coaching program continues. Participants are required to coach at least once per week and make themselves available to receive coaching once per week. Participants are encouraged to continue applying the DC practices and related ICF competencies into their practice sessions to deepen their capacity with the approach.
  • Each of the four classes will also introduce an exercise that is related to a key aspect of Deep Coaching. These experiential activities continue to expand awareness of DC beyond the theoretical and into the practical and pragmatic.

WEEK 17-20: DEEP COACHING PRACTICE SESSIONS

• Each week for the four Practice Session classes, at least one participant will coach another participant.
  • During these four weeks, Peer Coaching continues. Participants are required to coach at least once per week and make themselves available to receive coaching once per week. Participants continue applying the Deep Coaching practices and related ICF competencies into their practice sessions to deepen their capacity with the coaching approach.
  • All sessions are observed by the learning leader, who provides support/guidance as needed during the sessions and feedback upon completion. Feedback covers the demonstration of the 9 Deep Coaching practices as well as ICF Coaching Competencies.
  • These practice sessions prepare participants for submission of two session recordings required for course completion and certification.

WEEK 21: WRAPPING UP

• A final class to wrap up the Deep Coaching Intensive—a time to reflect on and celebrate our learning journey.

DCI TIME COMMITMENT

Total Training Hours:

• Classroom Study (Synchronous Learning): 42 hours
• Self-Study (Asynchronous Learning): 40+ hours
• Peer Coaching: 16+ hours (8 hours as coach; 8 hours as client)

Weekly Breakdown:

• Classroom Study (Synchronous Learning): 2 hours
• Self-Study (Asynchronous Learning): 2 hours
• Peer Coaching: 1 hour