Introduction to the program
Are you tired of your life? Do you feel that you need some guidance to understand yourself and the people around you? If you find yourself stuck, lost, unhappy, or hopeless, this Life Coaching certification is for you to design your own life and change the lives of others.
This certification will allow you to become a life coach and provide you with strategies to aid your clients in improving their relationships, careers, and day-to-day lives.
Teaching Methodology: The course is taught entirely online and is supported by 20 hours of live teaching on-campus / online using zoom or related.
Entry Requirements
Admission into the Life Coaching program is open to students of all nationalities with respect to the submission of the following requirements:
- Complete Application form with 3 color passport – photographs
- Clear passport copy or other photo identity copy
- Students must have a good command of spoken English and own a laptop
Syllabus Outline
- Introduction to Life Coaching, what is life Coaching?
- Differences between Life Coaching & Therapy
- A brief history of Life Coaching.
- Qualifications to become a Life coach.
- What does a life coach do?
- The importance of identifying your core values
- Questions that help clients identify core values.
- Limiting beliefs and tips to Overcoming limiting beliefs.
- Conscious, subconscious, placebo effect.
- Common Limiting Beliefs
- Positive affirmations as a tool to overcome limiting beliefs.
- Brain Reward centers (ventral Striatum, Ventromedial prefrontal cortex)
- Different types of life coaching and what they involve.
- Business Coaching, Personal life coaching, group coaching, wellness coaching, relationship coaching, confidence coaching, career coaching, Neuro Linguistic Programming (NLP).
- What does it take to become a skilled life coach?
- What is NLP?
- History of NLP
- Neuro Linguistic Programming in Therapy
- Concerns and Limitations of NLP
- Communication skills for life coaching.
- Active listening skills, reflective listening, paraphrasing, and silence.
- Benefits of active listening
- Reflective listening and their benefits
- How to use paraphrasing techniques in coaching
- The power of silence in deepening communication in life coaching.
- Strategies to develop active listening
- Communication skills for life coaching.
- how listening skills are integral to life coaches success
- What is a belief?
- How do beliefs shape our reality?
- Different types of beliefs (psychological beliefs, global beliefs, convictions).
- The T-GROW model of life coaching basics.
- Grow model template
- Code of ethics and standards in Life coaching, as recommended by the ICF and Association for coaches
- The importance of being ethical
- The 5 sections under the code of ethics: Terminology, Working with clients, professional conduct, Excellent practices, signatories to the global code of ethics.
- Different types of questioning skills
- information-seeking questions, diagnostic, testing, hypothetical
- How to build a rapport and trust with clients.
- What is ICF accreditation and how to get certified.
- Requirements to become a life coach
- Benefits of goal setting.
- How to help your clients set goals (SMART).
- Categories of goals
- How to create an effective action plan
- How to get started as a life coach
- How to develop an effective business plan
- How to blog and use social media to attract clients
