Facilitating Coaching Circles® – The Online Course (English Only)

Description du cours en français

12 hours of ICF-approved Resource Development of Continuing Coach Education units

*The Live Workshop offers an additional 16 CCE units in Core Competencies for a total of 28 CCEUs.

A Quick Return on your Investment

Coaching circles are a relatively low cost alternative to one-on-one coaching programs yet, they truly enhance the performance and development of people who meet in this dynamic, challenging and safe setting. As a result, your investment in this course will quickly expand your reach and your impact as a coach, facilitator or organizational development practitioner.

What you’ll Get out of this Course

Explore at your own pace how coaching circles work while practicing the skills you need to be an effective facilitator-coach. Learn to make powerful offers to the clients you work with or to the organizations and communities you are part of. Benefit from our 20+ years of experience in designing and leading coaching circles of all shapes and forms around the world.

Learn, reflect and practice in a stimulating interactive environment that includes live videos, exercises, and amazing content.

• As a learner, you will find valuable learning aids to support your development as you move through the course.
• As a facilitator, you will find ready-to-use tools to lead the process effectively and mindfully as well as real-life scenarios to help you address the wide range of situations that arise in the effervescence of a coaching circle.
• As a coach, you will find great models and printable handouts to support participants in their development work and business challenges.

The course consists of 5 modules organized around the life stages of coaching circles and 11 capsules focusing on the facilitation and coaching skills needed to lead coaching circles effectively and mindfully. With 12 hours of interactive guidance, you’ll be on your way to launching your first coaching circle with skill and confidence.

Once a Student always a Student!

As a paid registrant to the eLearning Course, you’ll have round-the-clock unlimited access to the course with no time limit on completing the course or accessing the course and related materials once you’re done.

You will also receive one free download of the brand new Coaching Circles Quick Start Guide which offers a clear description of how coaching circles work as well as best practices and tools both for facilitators and participants.

Combine the Online Course with live practice

You can take the Online Course as a stand alone or save 10% on both the online course and the 2-day Live Workshop by combining your purchases. You can also decide to take the Live Workshop (at full price) at any point in the future.

Go to Live Workshop to find out how you can experience the energy and dynamism of being in a coaching circle and integrate what you have learned in the Online Course to support your clients or your organization.

COURSE OUTLINE

Topics in the Modules

Module 1 – Core concepts

• The drivers and results of coaching circle
• The traditions that coaching circles draw from
• The three phases in the life of a coaching circle
• The complementary roles in a coaching circle

Module 2 – Designing and making an offer

• The value proposition for coaching circles
• The steps involved in enrolling sponsors and designing an offer
• The design elements that will shape an offer
• Case examples to illustrate possible designs

Module 3 – Launching the first coaching circle session

• Design options for launching coaching circles
• Setting up a group for success
• Leading the first session

Module 4 – Leading a typical session

• The role and practices of the facilitator-coach before, during and after a session
• The dynamics of each phase of the coaching circle: connecting, coaching and completing

Module 5 – Sustaining momentum and completing

• Supporting performance and learning over the life of the coaching circle
• The key transitions experienced by a coaching circle
• The completion process

Topics in the Facilitation Capsules

1. Sensing and observing yourself as a way to remain attuned to the group
2. Working in multiple domains: content, process and coaching
3. Modulating the rhythm and flow in the group process
4. Capitalize on openings for coaching and supporting emerging threads
5. Using facilitation techniques to optimize the group process

Topics in the Coaching Capsules

1. Asking insightful questions to best serve clients
2. Using assessment models to enrich the coaching process
3. Using distinctions to evoke new perspectives and possibilities
4. Embedding themes in the coaching circle process to enhance learning
5. Eliciting powerful commitments and experiments
6. Cultivating presence as facilitator-coach and participants

SNEAK PEEK INSIDE THE COURSE

Models

Real-life scenarios

Learning Aids & Quizzes

Facilitator Tools

Participant Handouts