Deepening Your Practice: Working with the Unfolding Self

A new programme for developing as a coach, for graduates of the PCC

We are delighted to announce that 2026 will see the launch of a new 9-month advanced coach development programme for graduates of the Professional Coaching Course. Taking place over three intensive sessions between May 2026 and February 2027, accompanied by ongoing streams of coaching practice, one-to-one coaching with our faculty, group sessions, supervision and peer practice, this new programme provides sustained, deep support for you to develop your sensitivity, creativity, and responsiveness as a coach.

The programme will be led by Justin Wise, Neena Sims and Lizzie Winn.

For some time now we've been drawing on Internal Family Systems as we work with our own development and with our clients. It's a way of understanding people that proposes we're never just 'one thing' but constituted as a system, or 'family', of inner parts in ongoing relationship with one another and the world. As well as the many parts of us (protector parts and 'exiled' parts carrying both burdens and gifts) the model proposes an enduring Essential Self—wide, deep, compassionate, present—which can attend to the parts, support them and, when called for, lead them in skilful ways.

This approach has strong resonance with all we teach on the PCC and opens up new ways of understanding development, personality, and how to work sensitively with the unfolding developmental process of our clients across all four human domains. The central question animating this programme is how to respond skilfully and compassionately, in real time, to what arises in the moment—in your client, in you and in the space between you—drawing on IFS alongside Focusing, inquiry, process work and somatic sensing.

This is an opportunity to take everything you've learned on the PCC and deepen it. You'll develop your capacity to work with the richness of human experience, both your own and your clients', expanding your ability to hold complexity and support developmental learning across all four human domains.

Learning Themes and Intentions

Your Own Development

  • Work with your own current and deeper narratives in community, bringing your own developmental journey into the programme

  • Deepen contact with your presence, aliveness and essential self

  • Learn to respond with kindness to what is stuck, fearful, longing or exiled in you

  • Develop a nervous system confident enough to meet what arises, in yourself and in your coaching clients

Working with Clients

  • Develop the sensitivity and skill to know when and how to bring parts and process work into a developmental programme

  • Learn to work skilfully with the inner system of parts (managers, protectors, exiles) and support your clients in drawing increasingly on the grounded presence that is their essential self

  • Learn to recognise and respond compassionately to complexity as it unfolds in real time

  • Practice focusing, somatic attunement, internal family systems work and in-the-moment inquiry with clients

  • Integrate this work with the integral development methodology you learned on the PCC

  • Learn multiple ways of sensing into wholeness, both with yourself and with others

The Container

  • Receive Justin, Lizzie and Neena's most alive current thinking and practice in their own coaching and self-development work

  • Enter into community with disclosure, vulnerability and connection, creating a container of safety so we can all be in our development together

  • Be held in this rigorous path of development, practice and community over 9 months

Practicalities

Programme Structure

  • A fully online programme running over 9 months

  • Three intensive sessions with up to 18 participants

What's Included

  • Four one-to-one developmental coaching sessions with one of Lizzie, Neena or Justin

  • Four Group Practice / Supervision Sessions in small groups of up to 6 participants

  • Peer learning groups for mutual support throughout the journey

  • A rich collection of resources - readings, practices, frameworks - to deepen your work

  • Structured time for practice, integration and feedback

Your Work during the programme

  • Self-observations and reflections in relation to the new practices and your own journey as a coach

  • Regular practice with your own clients or peers between sessions to embody what's being taught

  • Engagement with reading that supports the work

The details

  • Who can apply: Anyone who has completed the Professional Coaching Course

  • Session Dates: May 18-21 2026, Sept 15-18 2026, Feb 10-12 2027

  • Timing: 10am - 5pm UK each day

  • Fees: An introductory fee of £4500 (ex UK VAT) (where applicable) for this first cohort of the programme. If you're in the UK we will need to add UK VAT at 20%.

    We want to make this opportunity available to everyone, and know that everyone's financial resources are different, so you are also welcome to let us know that you would benefit from a reduced fee. We'll get in touch to agree with you what can work.