Personal connection between facilitators and students is an important component to grow your self-trust as a coach. Thus, there will be no more than 30 students in our training. The personal knowledge and affinity for one another ensures a safe learning environment and offers community.

Graduates are invited to stay connected in a larger circle.

Every session will be recorded and made available 24 hours after classes.

To maintain our trustworthiness as coach training institute, we ask students who missed sessions to do a simple home assignment after each class to document they’ve watched the recordings.

This question depends on where you live. In some countries, Coach is a protected title, and you need to go through an official accreditation process to call yourself a coach. In other countries, there are no requirements.

After completion of Needs-Based Coaching, we recommend applying for accreditation with the world’s leading coach association, The International Coach Federation (ICF) as this is an internationally approved hallmark of quality.

Various countries have different regulations of titles and accreditation. In Denmark & UK, everybody can call themselves a coach, thus, clients look for accreditation from one of the big institutions, ICF being the most visible of them. In some countries (like for example Austria), there is a specific criterion for using the ‘coach’ title. You will need to explore by yourself what counts in your country.

Apart from the 9 training days and 10 webinars, count on 1-2 hours weekly for peer exchanges. You design your practice along with your practice partner. If you want more experience, you are welcome to arrange more coaching exchanges. Mentoring consists of 4 sessions, each of 90 minutes, between 2nd and 3rd module.

Reflection and journaling will anchor your learning so we recommend you make space for that, too.

Coaches partner with their clients and will not present as experts, as we believe the client is the one who knows the answers.

Coaches see their clients as whole and resourceful, moving towards greater expression of their wholeness. Traditionally, psychotherapists see their clients as broken and needing repair.

Some of the processes you’ll learn are also used by psychotherapists. It’s not the process but the approach that differentiates coaching from psychotherapy.

Empathic listening can bring about transformation for the client.

Needs-Based Coaches do that and more. They invite their client to embrace the different voices within, envision their desired future, explore how their family and culture impact their choices, and challenge them as needed. A Needs-Based Coach has a variety of approaches in order to best match clients.

There are various ways to get accredited with ICF. One of them, the portfolio pathway, works the way that applicants need 60 hours of coach specific training which must be documented thoroughly. Needs-Based Coaching live up to the standard of ‘coach specific training’, and we provide the documentation. There are additional requirements for accreditation; 100 logged coaching hours, 10 mentoring hours, an approved session transcript, and an exam. This counts for the other paths to accreditation as well.

Certified Needs-Based Coach

Resonant Healing Practitioner is a title earned through Sarah Peyton’s certification course, a different curriculum from Needs-Based Coaching. The 65 hours Needs-Based Coaching is a foundational coach training and doesn’t equip participants to move into the subtle fields of emotional healing. We do offer an add-on module for our graduates called ‘Deepen Your Reach’ where students learn some of the transformative processes developed by Sarah Peyton. With this extra module, and sufficient practice with peers, they will become able to offer this to clients as well.

When it comes to what you call yourself, again it’s up to the national legislation. Within the coaching community, there is some skepticism against using the words ‘coaching’ and ‘healing’ in the same sentence. The hallmark of coaching is that we see clients as whole and resourceful, and ‘healing’ indicates a brokenness.

There are various hubs that some clients get their clients through. At the Needs-Based Coaching Institute, we will in the future launch a page where our graduates can be listed.

The truth for most coaches is that they need to ongoingly work on their visibility to gain clients. It takes years to build a solid client base. The Needs-Based Coaching Institute does also offer an add-on module called ‘Becoming Visible’ that supports or graduates to find their voice and their signature.

True, having a coaching certificate doesn’t grant you clients. Pernille has been self-sustained for 10 years now, offering coaching, workshops, and project management. These elements feed well into each other, and she’s not reporting on energetic drain from having several clients a day.

I myself fully sustain myself and my family as a self-employed coach and communication trainer. I have 1:1 clients, host team supervisions, organize the NBC education and facilitate nonviolent communication trainings (not very many in the last few years).

Each coach will find their unique combination of activities. I would like to call myself „being lucky“, although when I look back, I worked in the field for almost 9 years, organizing big NVC spaces and festivals, IIT’s, Erasmus projects etc. before I started to work 1:1. That of course got me known and the coaching business picked up instantly. I don’t know how it is if you start completely from scratch.

Quite a few coaches work as internal coaches in a company, and this would be an obvious area if you are looking for a stable income, using coaching skills. Your suggestions sound relevant. Your options depend on what your professional history covers; if you’ve never had anything to do with banking, a bank HR manager would probably not choose you for an internal coach position. If you’ve been selling furniture all your life till now, Ikea might hire you to their HR department.