Coaching Resistance:

Meet for 4 consecutive weeks for 2-hour group webinar sessions with 4 additional hours of asynchronous activity, for a total of 12 hours of learning.

Weekly topics include:

• ICF Focus: Competencies #1, #2, and #5. Counterintuitive perspectives on resistance … identify your own concerns about resistance … understand how rigidity begets more resistance … and more.
• ICF Focus: Competencies #3 and #4 … Six questions/observations to comfortably co-create agreements around exploring resistance … relating from I/THOU (versus I/IT) … reciprocity cues … and more.
• ICF Focus: Competencies #6 and #7 … Learn how “content-less” language reduces resistance … FBI hostage negotiation techniques and resistance … permission phrases … and more.
• ICF Focus: Competencies #7 and #8 … Cognitive dissonance, and the way out … perceived threats that keep people from changing their minds … brain-friendly approach to experimenting with new thinking … and more.

Neuroscience: We’ve been training coaches for 20+ years, and we’ve spent the better part of our last 10 years gobbling up the latest research on neuroscience. Translating neuroscience findings into easy-to-implement coaching techniques is our passion. When you marry coaching techniques with mind-body biology, you have a much better chance of supporting your clients to make lasting change (they’ll thank you for it)!

Mission: We’re on a mission to “Change Minds, For Good” (starting with our own)! We believe respectful relationships and authentic conversations are the incubator for insight, action, and lasting change. We believe that every brain is wired for growth and capable of choosing well. We stand for growing our individual and collective capacity to feel good, think good, encounter good, and create good. If this resonates with you, you’re in the right place.

More on the brain: Our certification programs are intentionally structured to extend over several months’ time. That’s because new skills cannot be mastered in a weekend format (have you ever come back to your office after being at a great conference, only to forget half of what you’ve learned or be too busy to implement the other half?) Nor can coaching be mastered entirely by embarking on self-directed study or reading books (much the same as taking a course on music appreciation does not equip one to play Beethoven’s Moonlight Sonata).

To learn effectively, the brain needs good “P.R.”—Positivity and Routinization:

• We make learning fun (you’ll remember more),
• We pride ourselves on creating psychologically safe learning environments (you’ll feel confident to take more risks), and
• We create opportunities to practice coaching over time (you’ll build “muscle memory” that lasts).

We “meet” from the comfort of home/office via webinar for 4 weeks, for 2 hours each time. The remaining learning time is via our online learning environment where you’ll interact with fellow classmates to deepen your learning (see “Outside of Class” paragraph below). Total credit hours approved by the ICF are 12.

The beauty of the consecutive weekly program allows you the time and framework to assimilate, practice and execute the new systems, strategies, and communication styles learned. It also allows you to connect with your instructors and cluster-mates.

Outside of Class: How much time will you spend in addition to class-time hours? You will spend at least 1 hour each week completing follow up work from the previous class.

See our calendar or contact Brittany HERE for upcoming dates and times.

If you wish to create a private cohort, the program sessions will be scheduled at a mutually convenient time.

Open Cluster Format: A group of experienced coaches; pricing and registration details please click HERE.

Private Cohort: pricing and registration details please contact Brittany Macdonald HERE or at 559.547.8202.

Note: Contact Brittany at (559) 547-8202 or HERE for more information and additional pricing options if you are registering two or more participants.