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Reach Your Coaching Potential

The objective of the ACTP Master Coach Training at the iNLP Center is to discover your unique approach to coaching and turn it into an art form. You will move well beyond the coaching models taught in our NLP-Integrated Life Coach Training. It’s a critical development in your expertise and skill as a coach. 

Developing world-class coaching skills by discovering your unique approach is a process that unfolds over time, starting with the basics. With a reasonable understanding of what you’ve already learned at the iNLP Center, you are ready to discover higher potential as a coach. 

This training is about you and your individuality as a coach. Your potential. Not mine. Not the potential of your colleagues. You do not coach like anyone else. You share the fundamentals with many but how you apply them is and can only be your own art form. 

If you gave canvas, paint, and brushes to 100 painters, you’d have 100 people using the fundamentals of art. And you’d get 100 different paintings, each one created with the same tools but with different interpretations. Likewise, if you could give the same client to 100 coaches, you’d get 100 different coaching sessions, with each coach applying the fundamentals in a different way and producing different results. 

Our purpose here is to help you discover your way of practicing life coaching, given that the fundamentals you’ve learned are solid. This is what makes coaches stand out, attract the right clients, and reach their potential. 

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Master Coach Training Learning Style

Get Ready to Dive In

In this ACTP training, we use inductive learning. Most traditional education, including our NLP-Integrated Life Coach training at the iNLP Center, represents deductive learning. Inductive learning will open new discoveries that are unlikely to happen any other way.

Let’s explore the differences between deductive and inductive learning. 

How Deductive Learning Works

Deductive teachers present facts, rules, and models and expects students to apply them. This is a top-down approach. Deductive learning says: Here are the rules. Bring back examples of how they work. (This is the best style for foundational learning of skills)

How Inductive Learning Works

Inductive teaching is a bottom-up approach to learning. First, it offers examples and then asks students to discover the rules, facts and models. Inductive learning says: Here are some examples. What are the rules? (This is the best style for advanced learning of models and development)

Both deductive and inductive learning are valid and necessary forms of education. Anything can be taught with either method and most things are more thoroughly learned using a combination of the two. A common example is learning a new language. Quality language and grammar schools use both styles of learning. 

Many administrators find that deductive learning is faster and places greater responsibility on the instructor to teach the rules correctly. Inductive learning is slower and requires more creative effort on the part of students. Yet, students retain more of what they learn.

Our opinion is that deductive learning is the most efficient way to learn the fundamentals of life coaching, while inductive learning is the most effective path to mastery.

We can sum it up as follows: 

Once you’ve understood the fundamentals of coaching in our NLP-Integrated Life Coach Training, you can build upon that by discovering your own unique insights, methods, and creative expertise, gained through our inductive learning ACTP Master Life Coach live sessions at the iNLP Center.

Beside this new learning potential, you will:

• Enjoy the variety of topics in class
• Learn at a deeper level
• Discover a broader array of insight
• Retain what you learn
• Become a unique, world-class coach
• Understand learning and personal development in a new light

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For a deeper dive into inductive vs. deductive learning in language, read:

• Inductive and deductive grammar teaching: what is it, and does it work? Oxford University Press
• What is Inductive Learning? NetLanguages
• Inductive and Deductive Approach in TESOL International Teacher Training Organization (ITTO)

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ACTP Training Course Content

This training includes a variety of components:

Live Coaching Demonstrations
The iNLP Center’s live coaching demonstrations count toward your PCC hours. During these sessions, you’ll observe the trainer demonstrating advanced, real-time coaching with a volunteer and the class will discuss the coaching.

Case Studies & Coaching Supervision
Students present examples of clients and the class discusses the possibilities to discover new ideas.

Lacking in most coach training, coaching supervision gives you the opportunity to bring coaching cases and scenarios to class to receive expert supervision. With this supervision, you will refine your approach to coaching and discover opportunities to help clients grow that never occurred to you before.

Observed Coaching
ICF requires that PCC-level coaches receive observed coaching sessions in which you will coach a client in front of an instructor and receive feedback. You’ll meet that requirement during these sessions as students coach one another which leads to class discussion and learning from the process. Moreover, our exploratory approach to coaching makes the observed coaching process positive and fun.

Group Coaching
The trainer facilitates group coaching for class discussion. 

Discussion and Learning
The trainer will inspire and lead discussions about the coaching content for each class. However, what the trainer says is less important than what you interpret. What can YOU learn from the process? This is the only thing that matters. Here are some topics covered:

• Advanced Coaching Agreements
  • Coaching agreements – goals for each session – are the heart of life coaching. A clear and achievable coaching agreement is the only measure of success for both the coach and client.
  • The coaching agreements section of the training will show you how to:
  • Systematically secure a well-formed coaching agreement
  • Ensure that goals come from the client’s deepest desires
  • Let go of preconceived notions and allow the session to unfold organically
  • Keep clients on a growth path that leads to ongoing transformation
  • Coach with mindful presence and high confidence
• What To Do When
  • These classes are largely about how to bring about transformation during a coaching session and beyond. Once the coaching agreement is established, how to guide the client toward it effectively?
  • With so many coaching and NLP tools at your disposal, which do you use and under what circumstances? There is no substitute for experience in this area and that’s what you’ll get during these classes.

New Coaching Models
New models will be introduced based on class learning and development. With each new model, students have an opportunity to test, refine and improve upon it. 

Retaining and Applying with our Integration Tool
After each class, you will have the opportunity to fill out a survey to organize your thoughts and integrate the learning. You will be emailed a copy of the form so you can retain the learning and raise related questions in future classes. Our learning integration tool is a process for creatively integrating and retaining insights gained during class. It’s based on a number of established learning and memory retention concepts.