Do you want to become a Life Coach? Do you want to experience incredible personal growth? Do you want to find more meaning in your life?
Title of the program
Balance Life Coach Course: Full time and Online.
Introduction
Nico Liebenberg, MA (Psychology), a Life- & Executive Coach and creator of the on-line Balance4Coaches coaching system presents a coaching training program for anyone who wants to become an accredited Balance Life Coach.
This life-transforming training is suited for people who want to master the basics of Life Coaching and start a full-time coaching practice as an accredited Balance Life Coach.
Program vision and goals
The ultimate vision of the Balance Life Coach training is to equip people with fundamental knowledge to become Balance Life Coaches.
Many people do this training, not to become Balance Life Coaches, but for self-development.
Who can benefit from this training?
- Psychologists, Social Workers, Therapists, Counselors and Practitioners in the people helping industry who want to become Balance Life Coaches.
- HR and Training people who want to increase their people development skills.
- Corporate and Business Leaders who want to develop coaching skills to assist them in their mentoring relationships.
- Clergy who do coaching at their churches.
- Health Care Workers who wants to expand their range of skills in working with people.
- Teachers and lecturers who consider a career in coaching.
- People in their 40’s and older who are transitioning from being successful to being significant.
- People who want to pursue a career in Life Coaching.
- People who want to develop themselves or release more potential.
- Adventurous people who intuitively know they should do this training.
This training program consist of the following.
For full time students
The full time course is presented in the East of Pretoria, South Africa, and consist of 6 different engagements, i.e.
- Classroom training.
- Workshops.
- Socials.
- Mentoring.
- Life Coaching, and
- Access to the digital manual with teaching videos of all the Master Classes.
1. Classroom training sessions
In total there are 30 training sessions on Wednesdays 18h00-20h00
2. Workshops
In total there are 11 workshops on Saturdays 8h00-11h00.
3. Socials
In total there are 4 socials, the last day of every term.
4. Mentoring
In total there are 5 mentoring sessions with Nico Liebenberg, 1-hour/session.
5. Life Coaching
In total there are 5 life coaching sessions with Koos Franck at his office in Catherine Road, Shere, 1-hour/session.
6. Access to the digital manual
Students have full access to the digital manual. The digital manual is packed with coaching articles and training videos.
- None of these above mentioned engagements happen during school holidays.
- All engagements are compulsory.
- Debbie Jones schedules mentoring and coaching sessions for students.
- Mentoring and coaching sessions should be completed by the end of 2018. They are not transferable to 2019.
For online students
The online course is presented online and consist of the following 3 engagements, i.e.
- Classroom training via Zoom (similar app like Skype.)
- Access to the digital manual with teaching videos of all the Master Classes.
- Mentoring via Zoom.
1. Classroom training sessions via Zoom
In total there are 30 training sessions on Wednesdays 18h00-20h00. Online students join the class via Zoom.
2. Access to the digital manual
Online students have full access to the digital manual. The digital manual is packed with coaching articles and training videos.
3. Mentoring
In total there are 5 mentoring sessions with Nico Liebenberg, 1-hour/session.
- None of these above mentioned engagements happen during school holidays.
- All engagements are compulsory.
- Debbie Jones schedules mentoring sessions for students.
- Mentoring sessions should be completed by the end of 2018. They are not transferable to 2019.
Assessments
Both full time and online students do assessments after their assignments.
Dates of training
This is a one-year course.
- To see the dates for the first term, click HERE
- To see the dates for the second term, click HERE
- To see the dates for the third term, click HERE
- To see the dates for the fourth term, click HERE
To download all the dates, click HERE
Graduation ceremony
The graduation ceremony of the full time students takes place one week after the last training session.
The training modules
Section 1: Coaching introduction
- Introduction to become a Balance Life Coach
- Prescribed book for the course: Tattoos on the heart: The power of boundless compassion – Gregory Boyle
- Your life is not an experiment
- How NOT to do coaching?
- How coaching works?
- When the student is ready the teacher will appear
- Three levels of knowledge
- A coach’s focus
- Retrospective
Section 2: What is coaching?
- What is coaching?
- Types of coaching
- The coaching industry
- Seeing your coaching clients
- Retrospective
Section 3: Definitions of coaching
- Definitions of coaching 1
- Definitions of coaching 2
- Definitions of coaching 3
- Coaching is a mutually chosen helping relationship
- Coaching is a meaningful conversation
- Retrospective
Section 4: Coaching And Other People Helping Efforts
- Coaching and other people helping efforts
- Coaching and counseling
- Coaching and therapy
- Coaching and consulting
- Coaching and mentoring
- Living in the now
- Retrospective
Section 5: Coaching, change, and paradigms
- Coaching, change, and paradigms
- The map and the territory
- The givenness in life
- Paradigm shifts
- Retrospective
Section 6: Coaching and who man is?
- Man in context
- The mind draws distinctions
- The essence of life is love
- Retrospective
Section 7: Coaching and the Johari’s window
- Coaching and Johari’s Window
- Dealing with feedback
- Feedback, self-disclosure, and revelation
- Retrospective
Section 8: Coaching and the two trees
- The paradigm of the two trees
- Man’s soul and spirit
- Man in 4 quadrants
- Life comes from spirit
- Retrospective
Section 9: Nico Liebenberg’s definition of coaching
- Nico’s definition of coaching
- Mutually chosen helping relationships
- Our process of becoming
- Meaningful conversations
- Coaching tools
- Retrospective
Section 10: Relationship
- Relationship
- Love makes us blossom
- Carl Rogers in 10 minutes
- The 3 elements of relationship
- Relationship as a way of being
- The posture of a great coach
- Empathy
- Congruence
- Brené Brown on empathy
- Retrospective
Section 11: The helping relationship
- Discerning the spirit
- Empathy is cognition, more than emotion
- Let the butterfly wrestle
- Learn compassion from the horse whisperer
- We suffer one another
- Congruence balances unconditional positive regard
- Helping relationships grow people
- Self-compassion is embracing all of you
- Retrospective
Section 12: How to use balance4coaches
- How to sign up for balance4coaches?
- How to personalize balance4coaches?
- How to add a client to balance4coaches?
- How to send a message in balance4coaches?
- How to take notes during coaching with balance4coaches?
- How to set up an agreement in balance4coaches?
- How to add coaching tools to balance4coaches?
- How to design a coaching process in balance4coaches?
Section 13: Coaching and meaningful conversations
- Your purpose is given to serve a certain group of people
- The elements of a meaningful conversation
- Body language and bracketing in meaningful conversations
- ‘Reading’ your client
- Retrospective
Section 14: Coaching and the reflective space
- The comfort zone
- The coach as mirror
- The reflective space in a meaningful conversation
- We need to think about our own thinking
- The reflective space is a love space
- Conviction vs condemnation
- The reflective space is an expectant space
- The reflective space is a pregnant space
- The reflective space is a discovery space
- People need love more than knowledge
- Make it easy for your client to enter the reflective space
- The reflective space facilitates our process of becoming
- Retrospective
Section 15: Being present in coaching
- Being present: Introduction
- The past, present, and future
- Coaching focuses us on the here and now
- Knowledge of the truth
- Balancing paradoxes in our minds
- What is truth? Or, who is it?
- Knowledge of the truth sets us free
- How to still our minds to be present?
- Contemplation and meditation to still our minds
- Bracketing helps us be present
- Don’t be afraid to wrestle with God
- Retrospective
Section 16: Coaching and listening
- The context to really listen
- The context for coaching
- Listening intentionally
- Theories that explain human behavior
- Layers to listen to
- Listening to the deeper layers
- Listening to silence
- To whom do we listen in coaching?
- Retrospective
Section 17: Coaching and asking questions
- Asking questions: Introduction
- Setting hypotheses for asking questions
- Types of questions we ask in coaching
- Linear and circular thinking
- The circular paradigm
- The cloak of humility
- Humility, our true self, and false self
- The miracle is in the process
- Retrospective
Section 18: Reflections on the essence of coaching
- Living yourself is the best life to live
- Coaches facilitate the process of becoming
- Love helps us grow
- Space in our togetherness
- Stepping into the moment of another
- Retrospective
Section 19: Coaching and identity
- You have to know who you are
- Your purpose is God-designed
- Discovering your personal purpose is a process
- Potential on an inter-personal level
- Potential on a personal level
- The theory of identity
- The gift of the helping relationship
- Why identity is fundamental?
- Retrospective
Section 20: Coaching and purpose in life
- Coaching clients want to know their purpose in life
- The act of creation starts with purpose
- Being, doing, and having
- Your purpose is universal and unique
- Purpose is beingness
- Let it go
- You are worthy to earn this life of yours
- Love people to wholeness
- The purpose of mothers and fathers
- Retrospective
Section 21: Coaching and thinking frameworks
- Thinking frameworks live in a reflective space
- Johari’s window as a thinking framework
- Transactional analysis as a thinking framework
- Cycles of addiction as a thinking framework
- The 5 love languages a a thinking framework
- Appreciative inquiry as a thinking framework
- The coach as mirror
- Retrospective
Section 22: What makes coaching effective?
- The coach’s ability to develop relationship
- The client’s readiness to change
- The coach’s ability to ask great questions
- Challenging acceptance
- 360 degree feedback
- The client’s support system
- Retrospective
Requirements for registration
- There are no formal requirements for registration.
- Informal requirements are:
- It will definitely help if you have a passion to help people grow.
- Love for yourself and other people.
- Willingness to engage with this personal journey of transformation.
- Commitment to the process of your becoming.
External registration
Students can register with COMENSA – Coaches and Mentors of SA as Student Members.
Language
The medium of instruction is English.
Venue
This training is presented at Opikopi Guest House and Conference Venue, in Constantia Park, in the East of Pretoria.
Cost of the program
Full time
- R 22,350 per person, if 10 students register.
- R 21,360 per person, if 11 students register.
- R 20,040 per person, if 12 students register.
- R 18,830 per person, if 13 students register.
- R 16,620 per person, if 14 students register.
- R 15,740 per person, if 15 students register.
- R 14,860 per person, if 16 or more students register.
Online
- R 14,860 per person.
Terms and conditions
- A 10% deposit is payable at registration.
- The balance is paid in 11 monthly instalments.
- Students who withdraw from the program after they have paid their deposit will forfeit their deposit.
- Students receive an invoice the last Friday of every month.
- Invoices are paid the end of every month.
The Balance Life Coach Community
Students will join the Balance Life Coach community on Facebook.
Introducing the lecturer, Nico Liebenberg
Nico introducing the learning process
A video where Nico speaks on the fundamental importance of identity
To watch more of Nico’s videos click HERE
Want to register?
Contact Debbie Jones at +27 (0)82 522 1841 or complete the contact form below and we will contact you.
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