The Professional Coaching Course, offered in partnership with New Ventures West, is a rare opportunity to journey with a supportive community into what it means to be human.
Graduates of the programme emerge having cultivated the rigour, wisdom and compassion of a coach.
The programme is comprehensive and one year long. It provides everything necessary for you to become a skilled coach and is fully accredited by the International Coach Federation.
As well as being a qualification, it is an invitation onto a transformative journey. It invites you into a deeper way of being in the world in which you are more able to step into new possibilities. It also invites you to embody the qualities and skills that allow you support others in their own lifelong development.
“My experience of the Professional Coaching Course was transformational. I have a newfound relationship with myself, with others and with my work that is truly enriching. I am deeply grateful to Thirdspace and the beloved people with whom I shared the journey.”
Personal and experiential, the PCC combines intensive face-to-face teaching, learning in small groups, one-to-one supervision, ongoing reflective practices and working with your own clients.
You will learn how to practice the methodology of integral development coaching. The teaching is always in a group no larger than 20 to ensure the depth of your experience. Our teaching weaves a tapestry of sources from poetry to music, nature to neuroscience, psychology to spirituality. We learn and teach in a way that draws upon the wisdom of the body and responds to the real world.
Year after year, our students tell us that the PCC changes lives for the better - both your own, the people you’ll coach during the year, and in your wider life.
Who will benefit?
The PCC might be for you if you are looking to do any of the following:
Become skilled, sensitive and creative in supporting the development of others
Lead others in a way that supports their development
Add developmental coaching to an existing consulting practice
Provide professional-level coaching within your organisation
Fully integrate coaching into your leadership
Start your own coaching business
What could I expect?
The Professional Coaching Course has been recognised by the International Coach Federation as an Accredited Coach Training Programme. We conduct a thorough, rigorous certification process for people who complete the programme and apply to be designated as a New Ventures West certified coaches.
By joining the PCC, you will be offered:
A powerful proven methodology grounded in theory, research, and practice
A rigorous curriculum of study and practice that includes 17 days of face-to-face learning
Teaching from seasoned faculty known for their wisdom, compassion, presence, and experience
Your own custom-designed individual development plan for the year
A dedicated mentor coach who works with you throughout the year, coaching you on your own development and on your coaching, listening to coaching recordings you make and giving you detailed feedback
Being part of an accomplished group of 8-20 fellow participants from diverse fields, who are all committed to this work
An active graduate community of close to 1000 people
How does it work, being together online?
In the three years since we moved to hosting the PCC entirely using online technology we have discovered how incredibly rich, powerful, supportive and connecting it can be to learn, practice and build community this way.
Participants regularly tell us they are amazed what’s possible with our unique ways of using Zoom, Slack and other supporting technology to connect, teach and learn together with dignity, joy and integrity - and how inspiring it is to learn this way.
It also frees everyone participating from the costs and environmental impact of travelling to be together multiple times during the year. We’re deeply committed to an inclusive, environmentally responsible, deeply connecting way of gathering and learning together across the world and all it makes possible. You can read more about our approach, and what we’re learning, here.
Upcoming Programmes
We are now accepting applications for the programme running on the following dates:
Session I: 13-16 June 2024
Session II: 18-22 September 2024
Session III: 9-12 January 2025
Session IV: 5-8 June 2025
If you’re keen to know more about the programme, or ready to begin an application to join our next PCC cohort, please use the links below for more information.
If at any point you would like to speak to one of us about the programme or making an application, don’t hesitate to get in touch.