12-Week Coaching
Certificate
Are you looking to expand your skills and boost your career with an
Accredited Coaching Qualification?
Our accredited 12-Week Coaching Certificate course offers a comprehensive introduction to coaching, equipping you with essential skills to enhance communication, build relationships, and broaden career prospects across various sectors.
Certificate
Specifications
STUDY MODE: Part-time, flexible hours.
COURSE LENGTH: 12 Weeks
LEARNING HOURS: 100 Hours
COURSE START DATES:
January, April, June and September
QUALIFICATION:
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HCA Certificate in Coaching
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Association for Coaching Award
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Personalised Care Institute (PCI) - Foundations of Health Coaching
What is included?
This comprehensive course is accredited by the prestigious Association for Coaching, meeting their rigorous Award level standards, enabling you to join the growing coaching profession. It is also accredited by the Personalised Care Institute (PCI), enabling graduates to apply for entry-level health coaching opportunities within the NHS.
You will enjoy a blend of group mentoring sessions, online live training, inspiring webinars and workshops, coaching clinics and easy to follow short videos and presentations on our Online Learning Academy.
Group Mentoring Sessions
A unique feature of our course is the weekly mentoring sessions with specialist mentors.
You will join a mentoring group led by a highly experienced coach and mentor who teaches and demonstrates the HCA GREAT Coaching process, which underpins coaching behavioural change.
In breakout rooms you will have the opportunity to develop and practice your coaching skills while receiving constructive feedback from your peers.
Coach, Connect & Support Sessions
With six Coach, Connect & Support sessions to choose from per month, you will have regular interaction with our senior training team and guest speakers. These sessions cover topics such as coaching, behavioural change, nutrition, health, and student spotlights, ensuring you stay inspired throughout your training.
These sessions also provide the opportunity to connect and practise in small breakout groups with your peers.
Lyn Hatch, Professional Health Coach & HCA Mentor
Online Learning Academy
You will gain access to our dynamic Online Learning Academy, where you will work through five engaging modules at your own pace.
Each module is packed with comprehensive coaching content, video presentations, interactive quizzes, and opportunities to reflect on your learning. To solidify your understanding, you will also complete one main assignment at the end of each module.
1-Day Special Guest
Speaker Event
Attend one of our online 1-Day Special Live Events where you'll meet, and learn from our senior training team and special industry guests as they cover different areas of coaching and wellbeing.
These events provide an opportunity to connect with the HCA core team and meet fellow students during coaching practice breakout sessions.
With a focus on health and wellness, these events are particularly beneficial for those enrolled in our 12-month Health & Wellness Diploma course, but all attendees with an interest in applying coaching within a wellness context are welcome.
Coaching Clinics
Every month, you can join our 90-minute Coaching Clinic, where you will witness expert coaching in action with Senior Trainer, Marcelle Dubruel. Watch as the GREAT Coaching model transforms goals into achievable actions.
Each session concludes with an engaging open group feedback session, offering you the chance to learn, share, and refine your own coaching skills.
Coaching Practice
Case Studies
The course is designed to immerse you in coaching by giving you plenty of opportunities to practice with fellow students.
To further hone your coaching skills, you'll also work with volunteers from your own network - people eager to make positive life changes.
You'll complete 20 hours of volunteer case study work on your own schedule, with full guidance provided. This hands-on experience will not only reinforce your learning but also empower you to make a real impact from the start!
"COACHING HAS HELPED ME TO UNLOCK MY PATIENTS POTENTIAL, ALLOWING THEM TO ACHIEVE LASTING CHANGE."
After being in the health profession for 30 years, as a homeopath, nutritionist and personal trainer, I often felt frustrated with clients coming to me enthusiastically asking for help but shortly afterwards, being non compliant and struggling to follow through with the plan of action I had prescribed.
When I came across coaching, I was hooked! It has equipped me with the knowledge and skills to ask the right questions to make clients feel empowered. As a result those I work with feel more involved and accountable, leading to sustainable habits and higher commitment levels.
The key difference is that they now feel actively involved in their own journey. They have an intrinsic understanding of what works for them and just need the right support and space to achieve it. Coaching has enabled me to unlock this potential.
KATE . HCA GRADUATE
HCA Certificate in Coaching
Syllabus
The course consists of core modules with lots of exciting topics to learn in each one covering the foundations of training through to the behavioural change process.
FOUNDATIONS
OF COACHING
COACHING MODELS & WORKING WITH DIFFERENT PERSONALITY TYPES
CLIENT PROFILING AND GETTING CLEAR ON WHAT NEEDS TO CHANGE
SETTING SMARTER
GOALS
LISTENING SKILLS &
BUILDING RAPPORT
OVERCOMING BARRIERS AND CHALLENGES
ACHIEVING SUCCESS AND MAINTAINING SUCCESS
COACHING
AGREEMENTS
HISTORY & ORIGINS
OF COACHING
THE GREAT COACHING
MODEL
WHY CHANGE IS A MUST, A CLIENT CENTRED APPROACH
COACHING RELATIONSHIP
SKILLS
EXPLORING A FIXED VS
GROWTH MINDSET
TAKING COMMITTED ACTION, SEEING REAL RESULTS
THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN COACHING,
MENTORING & GIVING ADVICE
GETTING READY
TO COACH
ALANA, HCA STUDENT
"I've had various experiences with education and online courses but honestly, I find HCA really immersive, engaging, and really neurodivergent friendly. It's not always easy for me to learn, even when I find something interesting, and I feel I have learned so much, in a manageable way, and in turn, really improved in leaps and bounds as a Coach."
Options for
further study
HCA LEVEL 5 DIPLOMA IN HEALTH & WELLNESS COACHING
This 12-week course is the first Pillar of our 4-Pillar, Level 5 Health & Wellness Coaching Diploma. You will have the option to continue on to complete the other 3 Pillars should you choose to, leading to:
Level 5 Ofqual regulated Diploma
The HCA Diploma in Health & Wellness Coaching
Association for Coaching accredited Life Coaching Diploma
Enrolment
& costs
Whilst there are no specific entry requirements; it's important that you feel ready to study and are are passionate and committed to making a difference to others!
Certificate Cost
£1,500
Payment plans are available