Our next programme starts April 2026 – get in touch to join the waitlist
Our dual accredited (ILM and EMCC) training programme for experienced coaches and mentors, HR and Organisational Development professionals and executive and senior leaders
Coaching has an amazing impact on our ability to communicate, to lead, influence, to support and enable. It teaches us so much about ourselves and helps increase our confidence, our performance and our well-being.
Perhaps you are a manager or Human Resources / Organisation Development professional wishing to build on your existing coaching skills and develop your expertise and credibility. Or maybe you’re a leader wishing to enhance your leadership practice or a professional coach or mentor looking to accredit your experience or looking to establish or develop a coaching business.
Benefits for you
Our Advanced programme is accredited by the EMCC European Quality Award (EQA) at Senior Practitioner Level, and we are proud to be one of the select few organisations which hold this accreditation in the UK.
This says to your clients or your organisation that you are practicing coaching ethically, professionally and at a level that has been assessed and verified to meet the competence standards in the EMCC Competence Framework at Senior Practitioner Level and that the skills and experience you are gaining are of excellent quality.
Our unique programme offers you the opportunity to gain dual accreditation. On successful completion of the programme, you will receive an ILM Level 7 Certificate for Executive and Senior Level Coaches. You will also be able to obtain the European Individual Award (EIA) with the European Mentoring Coaching Council (EMCC). This will either be at Senior Practitioner Level once you have accumulated the sufficient number of hours of coaching practice. In our pre-course conversation where we discuss your aims for the course and your prior experience, we can chat with you about this and agree the best route forward for you. You
You will:
• Know how to review and build the context, strategy, culture and processes for coaching and mentoring at a strategic level
• Deepen your awareness of self and others and cultivate a presence which best serves the needs of your clients
• Utilise skilfully a range of coaching and mentoring approaches and models
• Gain experience of planning, delivering and evaluating coaching and be coached by course delegates around topics of meaning to you
Benefits for organisations
- Implement coaching in complex working environments or at an executive or senior level in your organisation
- Ensure your organisation’s coaches and mentors are properly equipped with the skills, knowledge and understanding they need
- Develop a coaching and mentoring culture in which senior managers and leaders demonstrate their commitment to supporting their own and others’ development and performance improvement
Course content
The induction to the programme gives you an opportunity to understand more about how it works (it’s structure, assessment and support) and space to get to know other participants and to ask questions. During the programme, we will cover a range of topics to enhance and deepen your coaching skills including:
• Self-awareness and ‘self as instrument’
• Reflective practice and supervision
• Contracting
• Coaching outdoors
• Neurodiversity coaching
• Language and metaphor in coaching
• Nancy Kline’s Thinking Environment
• Mindfulness for coaches
• Clean space
• NLP and coaching
Throughout the programme there will be the opportunity to coach, be coached and observe coaching and receive feedback from tutors and other delegates.
Why choose us?
- Our facilitators bring the curiosity, compassion and energy you’d expect of a good coach to everything they do – to every learning session, supervision group and 1-1 conversation. Meet our faculty!
- All sessions are interactive, thought provoking and practical – we are great believers in learning from experience which is underpinned by a good theoretical base.
- We’re proud of the support we offer for learners both during and after our programmes and you’ll have peace of mind knowing that you are supported by experienced coaches and a qualified coach supervisor throughout. This will help you grow and develop without feeling overwhelmed.
- All our programmes include high quality learning resources both in hard copy and electronically.
- We have a wealth of experience of coaching in a wide range of contexts – including the NHS, senior civil service, businesses and the voluntary sector. We are a values-led team and providing social value is important to us. We are involved in initiatives to promote inclusion including volunteering with the wonderful Queen Bee Coaching.
- We offer a unique introduction to the fundamentals of coaching outdoors
- We know that the learning doesn’t stop when the course finishes! We offer a complementary workshop if you want to set up your own coaching business and 6 months free access to our Consciously Connected Coaching Collective.
Format and dates
Induction
- 26 March 2026 (online) 2pm – 4.30pm
In-person training dates at Didsbury House Hotel, Manchester (9am – 5pm)
- 15 and 16 April
- 19 and 20 May
- 17 and 18 June
Online dates including training and supervision (all 9.30am – 1pm)
- 4 June
- 2 July
- 7 and 8 July
- 16 and 17 September
6 months membership of the Consciously Connected Coaching Collective, with 6 x 90 minute focused learning sessions online, 6 x peer discussion groups and 2 x coaching book clubs. You will also be expected to undertake co-coaching with your cohort on the programme. Download our brochure here.
Entry criteria
You will have some experience of coaching and mentoring, as a coach working 1-1 with clients. This may include an ILM Level 5 qualification. If you have been coaching as a leader without formal training, we can offer you a ‘top up’ short course so you can really make the most of the Advanced programme of learning. To gain the EMCC Senior Practitioner Accreditation, you will be expected to demonstrate significant coaching experience which can be applied retrospectively. If you are unsure whether your experience will enable you to gain the most from the learning, let’s have a conversation.
