In the end of the course, basing on theoretical and practical evaluation, the student receives the title of «Transformational Coach-Practitioner ICTA» and could join the ICTA in the Associate Coach level.
Transformational Coach-Practitioner: - Shows understanding of different coaching and psychotherapeutical approaches to working with client;
- Demonstrates basic skills for working with multi-level requests in the field of professional and creative self-fulfillment, interpersonal relationships, well-being, emotional state, financial income, etc.
- Uses transformational linguistics and is able to create and maintain deep rapport (contact, coaching alliance) with the client;
- Demonstrates skills to elicit and transform core limiting believes and imprints;
- Combines and creatively adapts basic coaching technics for the benefit of the client;
- Is able to work short- and long-term.
Required hours: Minimum of 200 hours of training in the basics of Coaching taught by Professional ICTA Trainer or Master-Trainer of coaching. Including at least 10 hours of individual coaching\therapy as a client with a certified coach\therapist, at least 5 hours of professional supervision, at least 5 hours of coaching sessions with a client.
Theory and practice: Certified students on the course should consistently demonstrate understanding and practical application of the following concepts and skills:
- History of coaching.
- Principles, limitations and ethical boundaries in coaching. Coaching contract.
- Rapport, coaching state, establishing and maintaining.
- Basic structure of a coaching session.
- Linguistics – coaching questions, non-directive speech.
- Model for working with life choices, future clarification.
- Well-formed outcome, ecology check.
- The concept of limiting beliefs. Elicitation and changing of beliefs.
- The concept of personality parts, working with part, parts conflict.
- The model of clarification\resolving interpersonal tension, difficult relationships.
- Levels of experience, use on coaching (basing on neuro-logical levels by R. Dilts).
- Association\Dissociation.
- Developed skills of emotional competence – the ability to recognize, name own emotional state, determine the need (value) behind it, the ability to recognize and contain the emotional state of the client.
- Work with inner state – ability to help the client recognize and name own emotional state, determine the need (value) behind it.
- Basic skills on working in the contact boundary (ability to give emotional feedback to the client in the service of the client).
- Direct ecological communication skills.
- Models for changing inner state, resource access.
- Model for transformation of the past experiences.
- Skills to distinguish healthy and dysfunctional relationships, basic skills in working with dysfunctional relationships.
- Basic skills to analyze transference and countertransference in middle- and long-term work.
- Ability to create middle- and long-term strategy for the client.
- Working with trans-personal experiences*.
- Basic of family-system approach in coaching*.
- Working with existential topics*.
- Demonstration of flexibility on the behaviour level..
Points 22-24 could be unfolded in the course in different proportions and also could be replaced by other approaches for transformational work, that are recognized and applied in coaching.