Become a Certified Family Coach!

Teen Coaching!   Parent Coaching!  Family Coaching!

ALL-VIRTUAL ADVANCED COACHING COURSE - STUDY FROM HOME

The time is NOW to make a difference in YOUR community! With our desperate economic trials around the world, I am learning that well-trained, professional and certified coaches are thriving, as our coaching programs offer practical solutions, creative ideas, positive systems and much-needed hope to a troubled world.

This is a fertile time for coaching as our services are requested and appreciated all over the world. In addition, self-employment is what is holding up the economic base around the world. The new economics is that of the small business owner. There has never been a better time to become a Certified Family Coach! Opportunities are everywhere. When you fill out our inquiry form, we invite you to our twice weekly FREE INTERACTIVE AND TOPICAL FAMILY COACH TRAINING TELECLASSES: to sample the results of our work, our instructors and a passionate community of individuals who want to use coaching to help families worldwide.

You can now become a Certified Family Coach without having to travel. In January 2009, we will begin our ALL-VIRTUAL, comprehensive Advanced Coaching Course, fully delivered by Teleseminar. No high-tech web interface or online tools required. All you need is a telephone and email address.

The Academy for Family Coach Training's Advanced Coaching Course is a 10-month coach training program with seven layered learning tracks. It is a truly unique program that no other company can match because it consists of a series of proven techniques that condense over 30 years of collective coaching, business, education and training experience into a proven system for working professionally using teen coaching, young adult coaching, parent coaching and family coaching. Turn your passion for children and families into positive action and a profitable venture!

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WHO ATTENDS FAMILY COACH TRAINING?

We all care about the pain, suffering and despair in so many families around the world. And we can help through coaching.

Even if you have already graduated or completed another coaching course, you will find that the Basic Skills Coaching track, based on the 11 ICF Core Competencies, will amplify your existing power. It will also help you to carefully craft your own unique coaching voice, as well as prepare you for ICF Certification, if you choose.

I've been working as a contracted provider for the State of WA since June last year- using all of my coaching skills - working with families. Whew! It's amazing and interesting and has provided me with the income to transition out of my previous career!

Debi Bailey from Washington State, USA

ACCREDITATION & CERTIFICATION

We are the ONLY fully-comprehensive International Coach Federation Accredited Teen, Parent, and Family Coaching Training Program on earth! The Advanced Coaching Course is honored to have been awarded the ACSTH ICF Accreditation in 2008. In addition, The Advanced Coaching Course (ACC) is also Accredited as a Continuing Coaching Education Provider by the International Coach Federation. Please reference www.coachfederation.com for information on Accredited Coach Training Schools. For those who wish to apply the ACC to their ICF certification training hours, this course provides 99 instructor contact training hours as a portfolio applicant. Certified ICF Coaches: You may also use the Advanced Coaching Course for 99 CCE units, also accredited by the ICF.

We also are a certified CEU provider from Lewis and Clark College, Graduate Department of Education, offering either 5 Masters non-degree applicable graduate transcripted credit or 99 CEU’s. This is applicable for licensed educators and for those in the counseling fields requiring CEU's. Please contact us for more information if you are interested in applying this course to your bachelors or master's degree at a major university with the Lewis & Clark transcripted credit.

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This programme validated ME. It gave me the focus to move forward. I learned so much valuable material both personally and professionally. This is a total business model being offered without the franchise fees. Diana and her team are giving, honest professionals, which makes the whole experience unique."
Barbara Burnheim, Certified Family Coach from Sydney, Australia

ADVANCED COACHING COURSE 2009 SCHEDULE

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ADVANCED COACHING COURSE 2009 PROGRAM OVERVIEW

This course is designed as a comprehensive coach training experience, organized around each group of students progressing together as a learning cohort. The goal of the Advanced Coaching Course is to equip professionals with a powerful coaching skill set based on the book, Parent as Coach and the Seven Ways to Coach, together with the Core Competencies from the International Coach Federation, Advanced Coaching tools based in ontological philosophies, and uncommon business tools for bringing coaching to a new market. The Family Coach Training Coaching Approach can be utilized in a variety of settings, including coaching individuals and groups, leading workshops, teaching classes, and speaking at schools and community centers. And this is just the beginning- endless educational and workplace applications exist.

Each participant is required to participate fully and powerfully in growing his or her own coaching capabilities, supporting the other students, and staking a claim in the world for the advocacy of young people, parents, and families.

Learning Outcomes:

We offer several pillars of learning: 1) Foundation, 2) Using the Enneagram Assessment Tool, 3) Basic Coaching Skills, 4) The Advanced Tool Kit and 5) Application/Business. These sections make up the core learning for this course. The learning outcomes for all students include the following:

1. FOUNDATION: PHILOSOPHY AND BACKGROUND

You will feel solid in your core coaching foundation. Your current and past professional training will be interwoven with the Coaching Foundations in the following capacities:

Personal Capacity

• Learn to hear and use your own experience to create your "voice" of coaching
• Stretch yourself beyond where you are to be ready for the challenges of coaching teens and parents
• Expand compassion and love in everyday life
• Take your personal power to a new level and learn to walk your talk
• Obtain and maintain physical stamina and strength

Professional Capacity

• Connect—use your coaching to powerfully connect with others
• Expand your abilities to create self-sustaining momentum
• Present your signature story as a professional coach for amazing impact
• Help people see their own potential
• Create a user friendly philosophical base “from whence we coach”

2. USING ASSESSMENT TOOLS

A review of how to use the Enneagram as one of your most powerful assessment tools with clients.  Increase your understanding of people to enhance your coaching approach. An assessment tool is not the same as a diagnostic tool and we examine this distinction.  We reference the Enneagram Institute (www.enneagraminstitue.com) and provide a list of useful Enneagram books and resources for optional self-study. We will study the Enneagram over a 4 week period.

3. BASIC COACHING SKILLS

An in-depthreview of basic coaching skills, as outlined in the 11 Core Competencies of The International Coach Federation. Whether you are an experienced coach or just getting started, we require that your basic coaching skills and competencies are reviewed, studied, and practiced on a consistent basis. It will create a foundational backbone for your coaching skill-set. This track is fast paced over 11 weeks, and designed to facilitate the various levels of expertise and skill levels that all participants bring to the course.

4. ADVANCED TOOL KIT

You will be grounded in specific, proven coaching methodologies for families, parents, teens and young adults. You will acquire new tools and programs that you'll be able to use immediately:

• The Seven Ways to Coach, using The Parent as Coach Approach
• Coaching teens
• Coaching parents
• Outcome-based coaching methodology
• Powerful "starter" tools and templates
• Group coaching, workshops and seminars
• Combining coaching and teaching as compatible skills for high impact

5. APPLICATION AND BUSINESS

Your chosen application in the marketplace will be explored and you will begin to put into your business or job situation new skills and tools as they relate to coaching teens and parents. The primary objective is to help you feel competent and confident to be a working coach in the marketplace or workplace using these new tools and skills:

• Use a powerful coaching "pitch" to educate your market about coaching for high impact results
• Create a "Brand You" approach to your coaching work, pricing and product delivery
• Learn to implement potent and advanced business skills to attract income
• Design your business using the 13 Applications and Industries service business model
• Jump start your business while the course is still in progress!

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Program Logistics:

The all-virtual Advanced Coaching Course consists of multiple learning tracks encompassing ten months, all of which is directed via weekly teleclasses with the Lead Instructor.  We have prepared a diagram to give you an overview of these layered learning tracks - CLICK HERE TO VIEW THE PDF.  Your coaching manual, which you will receive approximately 2 weeks prior to your course start date, will have a week by week schedule with assignments and expectations.

1. Weekly Teleclass Track

The all-virtual course consists of 45 weekly teleclasses (each 90 minutes in length) beginning either Wednesday - January 28, 2009 OR Thursday - July 16, 2009.   Students may choose between two teleclass times each week:

11:00AM ET/NYC*    OR    9:00PM ET/NYC*

*Please note – all times and days are expressed in Eastern Time Zone/New York City/USA/North America.  Check www.timeanddate.com to convert to your time zone.

These teleclasses will be the backbone of the entire course and will cover the 5 learning outcomes detailed on page 4 & 5. There will be new information and homework each week that you will integrate into your life, your coaching and your business.

2. Self-Study Track: Downloads & CD’s

This track is used to give you CD’s and downloaded audio files for learning how to use the Parent as Coach Approach, one of your primary tools in Family Coach Training. This track will also be used to deliver samples of actual coaching sessions by Diana and/or her team that will clearly illuminate each core competency of coaching. 

3. Reading Track: Nine Required Texts

You will read nine required texts for professional and personal development. One text is provided with course materials (The Parent as Coach Approach by Diana Sterling).  The eight remaining required texts must be purchased separately by the student. A full bibliography will be presented with your Welcome Packet, once your application and deposit are received by Family Coach Training. Optional titles are provided and recommended, but are not mandatory reading. Two-page, double-spaced written reviews are required for each book.

4. Personal Coaching Track

This track begins with a 90-minute session/call with your assigned Personal Coach, followed by seven additional sessions/calls at 75-minutes each, once per month. The main objective is for you to experience the Outcome-Based Coaching model as the client so that you may integrate what you've learned into your own client case studies. The first coaching call may be up to one-and-a-half hours if needed, to review your top three outcomes and finalize the plan.

You will submit a one-page synopsis of the top three outcomes you want to manifest by the end of the ten month Advanced Coaching Course. This will become the backbone for your coaching program. You will email it to your Coach and share it with your partner so he or she will be in a strong position to support you.

5. Case Studies Track: Your First Clients

You will create three case studies with real clients, consisting of 2 individual programs and one group. The individual programs require 8 hours each, and templates are supplied to you for the group coaching case study, which may be a workshop, group coaching or classes.  Clients may be parents, couples, step-parents, caregivers, or guardians of teens or kids, families with teens of any age, young adults, or teens.

6. Supervised Mentor Coaching Track

Coaching supervision is a formal arrangement for coaches to discuss their work with an experienced and ICF credentialed coach. It provides a safe and challenging environment that concentrates on what the coach is doing effectively, and assisting them to do more of those things.  Each student will have 4 supervised coaching sessions. In each session, you and your buddy coach will coach each other for 20-25 minutes each.  Your mentor coach will then offer interactive feedback for the remaining time.  Each session will be conducted as a 3-way call with two students and one mentor coach. Calls are recorded for review and presentation to the International Coach Federation.

7. Peer Support Track

Partner/Peer Support is a VITAL component to your success as a practicing coach with these new materials. It will help create and sustain uncommon momentum and help you on a day-to-day basis with your personal development, with integration of new coaching skills, your personal stated outcomes in your coaching program, and with your business/career plan.

Successful Completion of Course Includes:

• Certified Family Coach designation: Certificate of Completion will be issued upon successful completion of all assignments and showing proof of being a competent and trained coach. Competency will be evaluated and assessed by instructors and your classmates, your clients and yourself. Certificate will also include the ASCSTH ICF designation.
• Use of term "Trained in the Parent as Coach Approach" or "Featuring Parent as Coach" in all print and electronic marketing materials as well as use of the term Certified Family Coach.
• Use of the tools and techniques in the Parent as Coach Approach products in your 1-1 coaching, workshops, and support groups. Does not include permission to copy or reprint the Parent as Coach Approach book, audio CD's, DVD, audio downloads, e-book, Action Cards or Grademaker, or any other copyrighted material.
• "Loving the Teen Years" 4-week Parent Workshop templates and Individual Coaching Manual Templates.
• Ongoing access to additional discounted Alumni training, coaching with ACC Coaches and future materials. Membership to our powerful community of Certified Family Coaches!
• Wholesale purchasing on all Parent as Coach Approach products.

• Licensing or Franchising Agreement of any kind of "Parent as Coach" or "The Parent as Coach Approach" name, or any related name or names associated with this program. However, our coaching and workshop programs templates are free for you to use, ongoing and at no charge.
• Use of "Family Coach Training", "Parent as Coach," "Diana Sterling," "The Seven Ways to Coach a Teen," or any combination of such names in branding with marketing materials. Parent as Coach is trademarked and is used solely by its owner.
• Permission to copy or reprint the Parent as Coach Approach book, audio CD's, DVD, audio downloads, e-book, Action Cards or Grademaker, or any other copyrighted material.
• A database of clients.
• A turn-key Franchise, Licensing Agreement, Business Plan or Marketing Plan for your business.
• Referrals of ready-made clients.
• Employment or sub-contractor agreement with Diana Sterling, and ACC Trainer or Staff of Academy for Family Coach Training, Parent as Coach, or New Generations International, Inc.
• Authorization to train other coaches/professionals in this coaching training methodology.

Here is Diana Sterling (far left) with six Awesome Australian Certified Family Coaches!

Requirements for Admission to the Program:

• Existing status/role as a professional coach, therapist, counselor, teacher, clergy, etc. In short, you must have an existing professional platform from which to base and integrate your learning.
• Two letters of recommendation by professional colleagues or personal contacts.
• Letter of intent/reason for wanting to become a Certified Family Coach in The Advanced Coaching Course.
• Resume or CV listing educational and professional experiences.
• Cost of Advanced Coaching Course for 2009: $5997.00 USD - with $500.00 USD deposit required at enrollment. Balance must be paid in full prior to course start date.(All 2009 courses are discounted for the all virtual training from previously published $8997.00 full price)
• Fee does not include long distance charges for Teleclasses or 7 required texts.
• All international payments are managed via bank to bank wiring or credit card. No international checks accepted.

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