Coaching Diploma

The Coaching Diploma is the ultimate coach training. We created this course to teach our own coaches everything they needed to be a great coach.

This course is ACTP (highest rank) accredited by the International Coaching Federation (ICF) and goes beyond this to hand you the tools and systems we use on a daily basis to help our coachees.

This course is also ideal for those wanting to enhance leadership skills and highly effective communication skills.

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Inspiring, flexible learning

✓ 1-to-1 coaching and mentoring from day 1
✓ Cohort based with peer-to-peer coaching
✓ 100% online and accessible
✓ Evidence-based techniques and practice
✓ Lifetime access to all modules.
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jouw Flow reis

1
Flow
Certificate
Leer hoe je flow kunt vinden om je prestaties te verbeteren en jouw ervaring te verrijken
Introductie
2
Flow
Diploma
Ontdek jouw individuele voorkeuren naar flow en benut jouw volledige potentieel.
Leer alles over flow
3
Master Coach
Flow in Sports
Leer op systematische wijze flow te creëren bij jezelf, anderen en in teams.
Word een Master Coach

What you will Learn

This course delivers everything you need to work as a professional coach. You will complete many hours of coaching practice (starting on Day 1) and understand the fundamental theories of human behaviour and communication.

Science
Cutting-edge scientific knowledge on human behaviour
A complete understanding of the science behind coaching
Learn fundamental models that coaches and psychologists have used for decades
practice
Real-life coaching from Day 1 and throughout the course. On completion, you will be ready to coach
Dedicated breakout sessions to practice and integrate the coaching skills into your practice
Our small group sizes allow personalised feedback on recorded and live coaching sessions throughout the course
Benefits
Join a community of coaches and benefit from supervision and coach-to-coach learning
Boost your credibility with a valued coaching qualification from the Flow Centre and International Coaching Federation (ICF)
Fully comprehensive course. No matter your domain, you will be customer-ready when passing the course

Curriculum & Details

The Coaching Diploma consists of over 115 hours of face-to-face sessions and 28+ hours of self-paced learning. It includes everything you need to know and all the experience you need to be a competent coach. The course is typically delivered over 24 sessions within 4 months (6 five-hour sessions per month).

The course meets the International Coaching Federation (ICF) ACTP training accreditation requirements for 143 hours of coach training. This is enough for your PCC qualification with the ICF (also see https://coachingfederation.org/credentials-and-standards).

This course is delivered in English. There are no prerequisite requirements or qualifications for course entry.

The Coaching Diploma is facilitated by our training director and guest speakers who are experts in their field. This course includes content from postgraduate coaching, psychology, NLP, counselling, and neuroscience courses.

You will also get constant practical feedback in almost every session. You will be coaching others from Day 1, practicing what you are learning and embedding your new-found skills.  

Invest in your future with over 50 modules of exceptional content. The course runs at certain times each year, so contact us to find out when the next course starts. 

Course modules: 
below is an overview and the precise information may change on the live course.

Coaching as a Practice

In this section, we outline what is ‘coaching’ and how it differs from other disciplines. We examine coaching ethics and widely accepted codes of conduct surrounding coaching practice. We look at how to professionalise your coaching activities into a career and how to work with others in a professional capacity.

Coaching Foundations

We go through what ICF coaching looks like and how to meet professional ICF standards. We examine coaching attitudes and best practices, and how our approach to coaching affects our communication when interacting.

Listening Methodologies

We will delve into active listening skills and unpack a variety of ways to listen to both the content and the deeper meanings people portray with their words. We outline how non-verbal communication is a central aspect to effective listening. You will practice a variety of listening methods and also learn how it feels as a coachee.

Questioning Practices

Powerful questioning is a real artform that requires several skills. We examine how questioning may differ in different contexts and how we can be challenging, supportive, explorative, leading, and insightful through questioning. You will be able to trial different questioning techniques and refine your questioning skills.

The Coaching Relationship

Managing the coaching relationship is essential no matter whether we are using coaching skills as a leader, manager, or coach; we outline what this means and the principles that underpin a successful coaching relationship. We study how to build trust and competence in the relationship to create safe and impactful interactions. We cover several aspects such as group coaching, true learning, absorbing and giving feedback.

Brain & Behaviour

We examine some of the neuroscience and psychology surrounding the brain and behaviour. We highlight how to work with interventions and methodologies that target both our brain and body simultaneously. We uncover how to encompass embodied cognition in your practice and how to utilise fundamental understandings of how we are wired to act and behave.

Working with Needs, Values & Motivation

In this section, we will examine key motivational theories, established human needs, and how values drive much of what we do. Furthermore, we look at how to work with this information in a coaching session. We examine how we can help people become more aligned, more motivated, and fulfil their own needs. Based on these principles, we learn how to use anchors to prioritise personal leadership and own their mindset.

Professional Coaching

Using coaching professionally comes with certain responsibilities. We detail all the main professional processes you will need to become a coach such as: rapport, mentoring, supervision, managing session times, conducting sessions, contracting, note taking, how to start and end the coaching relationship, and how to manage and be accountable for coaching authority.

Coaching & Stress

The course covers how humans deal and react to stress. We will look at what this means for coaching, how to help people out of embedded reactions, and how to conduct a session out of ‘survival’ mode. We delve into stress theories, stressor interventions, and a variety of practical coaching tools.

Managing Thoughts within the Coaching Session

In this section, we cover topics on mindfulness, meditation, ACT, REBT, CBT, and other thought management techniques. We examine how to coach people through thought detachment, thought identity and thought diffusion. We also look at what this means for us as coaches and how to ensure our thoughts are not biasing the session.

Positive Psychology Applications for Coaching

In this section, we give a comprehensive background of positive psychology and associated practices towards coaching. We cover key concepts such as flow, humanistic approaches, and many others. We will practice a range of interventions to help people change through positive psychological techniques. We delve into coaching self-determination theory, goal setting, empowering the client, reframing through questioning, and much more.

Raising Awareness of Underlying Patterns

Successful coaching helps people understand the underlying meaning behind their rhetoric, and the patterns of thinking and behaviour that lead to their actions and felt reality. We therefore spend a lot of time on coaching awareness, identifying beliefs, removing limiting beliefs, creating new beliefs, coaching at different psychological levels, and helping the client become aware of why they do what they do.

Written Expanded Learning

Alongside the live training you will be asked to produce a piece of written content in an area of your choosing. It is a chance to expand your learning, build a specialist niche, and explore in depth an area that can help your future.

Group Feedback

Over the course you will receive hours of group feedback to help you grow and develop. You will also be trained on how to give and receive feedback to ensure feedback effectiveness.

Mentoring Feedback

Throughout the course you will receive both verbal and written feedback on your practice as a coach. This is an opportunity to be challenged, grow, clear up ambiguities, and refine your skills in a safe and explorative manner.

Emotions & Coaching Change

Throughout the course we will be working with how to resolve and manage emotions. We will delve into the RULER approach and other techniques to improve emotional intelligence and competence.

Coaching Patterns of Resistance

In this section, we look at the usual generic hurdles that limit people to change and grow such as adapted egos, ego states, scripts, discounting, anxiety, depression, primal wounds, trauma, personalities and archetypes, codependency, and so on. We will examine what to do when these scenarios present themselves and how to differentiate between them.

Coaching Boundaries & Interventions

Coaching boundaries is an important aspect to assist self-leadership, safe growth, and empowerment. We examine what emotional and mental boundaries entail, when to use them, how to use them, and how we can intervene to help the client. We also go into Heron Categories, Motivational Interviewing, Identifying Obstacles, and many other forms of interventions.

Practicing Coaching Interventions

In the course we will dedicate time to practice facilitating interventions. You will learn to identify multi-dimensional reactions during interventions and practice coaching multi-dimensionally to facilitate powerful interventions. You will learn to facilitate interventions such as: integration of parts, many minds, timeline coaching, imposter syndrome interventions, Gestalt coaching practices, and much more. You will become competent in picking which intervention is best suited for certain presenting issues and receive a suggestive go-to framework of what to use when, to help you in the early days.

Coaching Types

We will examine a variety of coaching domains and how to function within them, including and not limited to, coaching towards wholeness, life coaching, team coaching, facilitation, organisational coaching, and leadership coaching.

We will also examine and refine what style and type of coach you want to become. We will work to build your vision towards your future coaching, or how you intend to use your newfound coaching skills.

Practicing Creativity in Coaching

Time will be dedicated to practicing creative coaching techniques. Often impactful coaching sessions rely on creative interventions and processes to help clients see a different perspective, process their thoughts, or find insights into the situation. We will practice and examine how to develop creative processes in coaching.

Ongoing Competencies and Requirements in Coaching

We will look ahead to your reality as a professional coach and what you need to do to stay current,what continued professional development looks like, what supervisory involvement is necessary, what continued training on coaching competencies are advised, and how to align yourself with credibility and increasing competence.

Building your Coaching Career Skills

We also delve into important career skills for coaches such as how to speak publicly, how to professionalise your coaching sessions, and identify the common pitfalls and successes new coaches experience. We will examine how to market yourself as a coach, develop an action plan to build your future and lay out how you will use these skills moving forwards.

Meet YoUR Trainers

MSc Martijn Leonard
Martijn is wereldwijd actief als flow trainer, coach en consultant.
Martijn studeerde in 2008 af op het onderwerp Flow in Sports bij Olympische Sporters aan de Erasmus Universiteit in Rotterdam. Martijn behaalde zijn mastergraad voor de opleiding Human Resource Management en studeerde sportpsychologie aan de Vrije Universiteit van Amsterdam. Martijn kwam als voetballer uit voor o.a. Feyenoord en heeft binnen het voetbal meer dan 15 jaar ervaring als hoofdtrainer in de jeugd en senioren. Martijn was o.a. hoofdtrainer in de jeugd van ADO Den Haag en drie jaar hoofd jeugdopleiding bij FFC in Moskou. Hij is docent bij de Action Types Academy en als coach ICF en ECO Coach gecertificeerd. Martijn geeft training in de sport en het bedrijfsleven. Hij begeleidde sporters, teams en coaches in verschillende sporten die actief zijn bij de amateurs, in de topsport en bij nationale teams. In het voetbal is hij actief bij clubs als PSV, Feyenoord en SC Heerenveen, voor de KNVB UEFA Pro opleiding en actief voor clubs in de Champions League in binnen- en buitenland. Het is zijn passie om talenten tot bloei te laten komen en jou te helpen successen te behalen.
Sue Jackson
Sue is a flow scientist, sport psychologist, and author.
Sue has been involved in the psychology of flow since completing a PhD on flow state in elite athletes in the early 1990s. Sue is one of the most cited authors on flow, including creating the FSS scales that are widely used to measure flow. Sue’s work in flow has helped to make this optimal psychological state understandable and more accessible to all.

The quality of the coaching course was excellent. I learned so much. The practical exercises, content and one to one coaching were of a very high standard. As a parent, husband, owner of my coaching and speaking business, I thoroughly recommend the Flow Centre to you. If you are serious about becoming a coach, then enrol and enjoy the learning!

Matthew Whitfield, Lead Pilot Trainer in Royal Air Force, Coach, Speaker

"You have no idea how you have enhanced my life, I really appreciate your time and expertise and what you have taught me not only for my sport but more importantly for my life. The lessons I have absorbed, in which I use daily, are priceless .

Nathan Charles –Australian International Rugby Player

"I took the Flow Centre’s course, and was very impressed by the quality and clarity of information on offer. As a coach and trainer in leadership and professional development, I now have new information and tools to enrich my teachings. Recommended.

Nick Kettles, Coach, Coach Trainer.

"I’ve rarely worked with a coach who has been able to create and maintain such a calm, safe and supportive space from which to feel ready and able to explore and grow... a true gift that I have benefited from hugely over the past 4 months as Cameron has supported me through major life changes and given me the confidence and drive to find and stay to my true path.”

Phillipa Bray – Boots Executive

"I really loved learning from all of our guest speakers throughout the course! Each one came from such a different professional background, and added so much value...Not only did my experience with FC prepare me and inspire me to launch my own coaching services, but it also impacted my overall life, relationships, and more. I feel I became a better friend, partner, listener, communicator, etc… all through taking this course.”

Justine Patino, Coach, Executive

FAQ

Is it worth the money?


You bet. Investing in yourself is sometimes hard to do, but this course content has helped many others start careers, improve their relationships, become better leaders, and increase their overall life satisfaction.

At US$7495 (est. €6295/£5495/AU$9995) this course is very good value for money and comparable to similar courses in the market.

Typically, you get what you pay for, and this course is no different. It is important to assess the trainers and coaches on the course as you will likely do this training only once. The quality of your coach training will determine your ability, confidence, network, contacts, and skills you possess when you start coaching.

Cancellation and Withdrawing Policy


Refunds will not be permitted after the course has commenced. Withdrawal will be at the participants cost. If the withdrawal is due to the fault of the Flow Centre, then a refund minus deposit and percentage of course undertaken will occur.

Cancellation within 30 days of course commencement result in a 50% refund. Cancellation within 31-60 days of course commencement result in a 70% refund.
Cancellation more than 60 days of course commencement result in a 100% refund.

If you do not pass the course requirements (i.e., coaching competence) and performance evaluation, additional attempts to pass the performance evaluation will be billed at US$350 (Includes thorough feedback and performance evaluation).

Do I still have access to the course after I’m finished?


Absolutely. You leave the course with a large course manual that you can use for years to come.

Further you can continue to engage with FC coaches long after the course. Many trainee coaches now work with FC and enjoy FC supervision, ongoing training updates, and much more.

Can I do this course whilst working full time?


Absolutely, most people do. You will need to dedicate a lot of time, however, to completing the components of the course; it is recommended that you plan your time wisely.

Do I have to practice every day?


No. In the course we will set some new positive habits for you to engage with. For maximum benefit, we recommend that you integrate the skills learnt on the course into your daily life straight away. Put simply, the more you practice these tasks, the more your awareness will grow and the deeper your training will become—but daily participation is not compulsory.

What are the learning outcomes of this course?


- 10 hours of mentoring
- Feedback on your areas of strength and development
- Peer-to-peer live coaching experience
- Experiential coaching exercises to embed your learning
- Time to reflect and deepen your understanding
- Ongoing support and supervision from our facilitators
- Eight-hours of group mentoring
- Two-hours of 1-to-1 mentoring spread across the course
- Connections to others in our community
- Detailed understanding of ICF ethics and competencies
- Support on your ICF certification and application
- A range of powerful exercises from a multitude of domains
- A comprehensive background on coaching
- How coaching differentiates from other disciplines
- Fundamental psychological theories of human behaviour
- Knowledge on how the brain functions and operates
- A deep understanding of thoughts and emotions
- Confidence in using the coaching competencies
- Help to identify your own ‘blind spots’
- An ability to deeply listen and identify underpinning factors
- An ability to develop your intuitive action
- An ability to ask pertinent and provoking questions
- Experience in how to seize coaching opportunities
- An ability to develop trust quickly and effectively
- An ability to manage a coaching session safely
- An awareness of your coaching strengths
- Practice of how to prepare for coaching sessions
- A range of ‘what to do’ and ‘what not to do’ coaching tips
- How to uncover your client’s purpose, vision and values
- An ability to identify the next best step for your client
- The integral skills required to be an effective coach
- Powerful insights to real-life situations
- The attributes of a successful coach
- A plan of your future as a coach

Do I get a certificate?


Yes. You will get a diploma by the Flow Centre, and you will also be able to apply for ICF accreditation with over 143 hours of coach training.

How do I secure my place on the course?


20% of the course fee is required to secure your deposit and place on the course. Full payment is due 60 days prior to course commencement.

Do you still have more questions?


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