How will AwarenessCoaching be imparted? There will be... ...lectures, group work and plenum discussions on the 3-day intensive training weekend (Fri-Sun), the two full study intensive days (one Friday per month) and the 3-day colloquium weekend (Fri-Sun) at the end of the training (min. 65 hours of training in total). ...as well reading of recommended supporting literature, practising with the newly taught coaching tools and techniques during the weeks at home with yourself (self-coaching), friends, colleagues (peer-coaching), writing reports about the practise experience and get feed-back from your trainer (mentoring) using email exchanges and telephone coaching between the monthly study intensive days. That way you learn and use your growing ability to coach (enable) and integrate a developing coaching culture into your day-to-day-practice. Highly participatory, supportive and structured, the ACFT will provide you with more than the necessary knowledge and skill required to... ...act responsible and professionally as coach, ...to fulfil your (clients’) coachees’ expectations, ...deliver on and above industry level and professional standards, ...meet the needs of the AC’s course recognition criteria. Human Communication Ltd. (the legal body of London Meditation) is an Organisational Member of the AC agreeing to abide by the terms and conditions of membership. Association for Coaching (AC) membership number (OMAC HCL0106OM) Human Communication Ltd. offers this AC recognised foundation training with over 65 hours delivered classroom based and in distance learning. The next course starts in September 2011 and runs over 4 months. At the beginning the introductory weekend and of each study intensive day the participants will get a detailed agenda, a breakdown of the content of the course and the evaluation processes at the end of each day. The training has a clear model of coaching including: ...a structure (GROWTH) for the beginning (DreamWork, HistoGram, SMART Goals...), middle (PESTLE, SWOT, SWAN, action plan...) and end stage(s) (Taskforce, evaluation and Happy Hour) of the coaching process; as well essential communication skills training; such as questioning techniques, active listening, TCI; the provision of relevant structures for evaluating the coaching process; the provision of information on ethical issues (AC Code of Ethics and Good Practice procedure); a balanced mix of theoretical input and experiential skill based learning. The AwarenessCoaching Foundation Training (ACFT) is challenging. Participating in the ACFT requires an ongoing commitment to yourself. The ACFT is intended to educate professional coaches to enable them to sustainably work as internal coaches, as Associate of London Coaching and in their own (commercial) practice. The ACFT is also considered as the first step towards the Association for Coaching (AC)’s Accreditation Scheme (from skill to competence!).