Diploma Training: Overview of Key Themes and Topics

Unit One: Finding and Fulfilling Purpose and Potential (4 days)

• Fulfilling Purpose: the Journey and the Compass
• The Process of Unfolding: where our Story, Dream, Gifts, and Path meet in our Source
• Connecting Vision and Action – the Keys to Personal Mastery
• Deep Transformational Coaching – our philosophy and holistic approach
• Entering the coaching relationship: establishing the relational field
• Foundation skills for Deep Transformational Coaching:Listening from the Heart of Silence

Unit Two: Preparing the Field for Change (4 days)

• The Five Fundamentals of Change
• The Nature of Attention, its structure and function
• Attention and the senses: redirecting and enhancing the quality of attention
• Developing precise and accurate observation skills
• Listening and questioning to better understand and enter the client’s world
• How intention and attention impact realization of our goals
• Explicit and implicit intentions
• Identifying and integrating behavioural shifts in the client

Unit Three: Learning about Learning (6 days)

• Formal Coaching: identifying the client’s intention for the coaching and establishing the coaching contract
• The Compass and Coaching Matrix to orient where we are in the coaching relationship
• The learning process: from surface to deep learning
• Patterning, modelling, and applying in deep learning
• Coaching as deep learning: modelling key elements of the client’s world
• Thinking and working holistically as a coach with Unified Field Theory of development
• Multi-levelled thinking and multiple perspectives in patterning and modelling
• Opening out the client’s ‘Systemic Intention’ to identify key patterns of thinking sustaining the status quo in the client
• Beginning to work with the Hidden Assumptions that influence our thinking and behaviour

Unit Four: Touching the Heart of the Matter (6 days)

• The nature and influence of beliefs, values, and underlying assumptions
• Introduction to ‘Conversational Re•Patterrning’
• Patterning Questions to help the client spiral back into his or her underlying thinking
• Advanced questioning to open up the epistemological roots of the client’s thinking
• Identifying the organizing principles sustaining both ability and limitation
• Patterns of language and logic to engage and resolve unhelpful thinking and assumptions
• Working with metaphor and with energetic predispositions in the body
• Standard Deep Transformational Coaching with ‘Conversational Re•Patterning’
• Feedback, tasking, and follow-up
• Concluding the coaching relationship
• Continuing development and coaching practice, prior to certification

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