The Foundations Program

HOW IS THE FOUNDATIONS COURSE CONDUCTED?

• Classes run one hour per week for 31 weeks.
• You’ll come to class by a telephone conference call or via Zoom’s web conference platform as we shift to that. You’ll receive all the information you need to connect.
• Join us from almost anywhere—your office, your living room, the deck, or the beach.
• Manuals, contracts, our student website and other proprietary materials are made available to you via E-mail and/or on the web.
• You’ll receive recordings of all Foundations classes so you’re covered if you have to miss a few, though you must be in attendance for 80% to receive credit for the course.
• You’ll have numerous demonstrations in class so you can see how your instructor models coaching and see what it’s like to be coached
• Each week you are paired with a fellow student for an hour of practice by phone on specific coaching skills. This gives you real-time practice and helps you to connect with other student in your class.
• The weekly time demands for Foundations are modest: an hour of class, an hour of homework with an assigned partner, plus reading time for the two books assigned.

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WHO WILL TEACH YOU?

• Our instructors are extraordinary—check their bios here. One instructor will work with you throughout the Foundations course.
• They are senior coaches who walk their talk with highly successful coaching practices.
• Your instructors hold Professional Certified Coach (PCC) or Master Certified Coach (MCC) credentials from the International Coach Federation (ICF).
• Passionate about coaching and teaching, they are committed to your success, whether you are a new coach or a coach reaching out for a new specialization.
• Your classmates come from a wide range of backgrounds and will enhance your learning through the insights they bring, the questions they ask, and the knowledge they share, as in any first-class school.
• Between your instructor and fellow students, you’ll enjoy warm social support within the class—an atmosphere that will surely boost everyone’s learning, enthusiasm, and enjoyment.
• To read our faculty bios, click here.

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WHAT WILL YOU LEARN IN FOUNDATIONS?

You will learn the essentials of coaching, with a focus on coaching individuals:

• Coaching skills grounded in social science research
• How to incorporate positive psychology into your coaching
• Proven individual coaching techniques to help your clients achieve centrally important professional and personal goals and to reach their full potential
• Theories of coaching
• How to coach individuals from the first phone call through the first few sessions and on through the life of your coaching relationship
• Establishing and building on the coaching relationship
• Using powerful questions, a hallmark of great coaching
• How and why to listen as you may never have listened before
• How to deal with challenges like resistance or ambivalence in your client
• What to do in case of a ruptured coaching relationship
• The nature and progress of personal change
• How to use homework and accountability to help your clients move forward
• How to keep your focus on the client throughout the session

You will also learn about group coaching. At MentorCoach we believe that every coach training program should cover group coaching skills but that is not the case. Here’s some of what we’ll teach you:

• The advantages of group coaching for the coach (positively impact more lives, make more money) and the client (lower cost, ongoing group support)
• Exactly how to structure your group time, minute by minute
• Overview of different types of groups
• Special focus on virtual groups led by teleconference with participants from throughout the US and internationally (anywhere with a phone)
• How to lead a coaching group and the option of leading your own in our group practicum–where we supply the clients from MCP students in your class and the larger MCP Community

Because developing a thriving coaching practice requires marketing, we teach you how to market in a way that suits you. You’ll learn:

• A unique MentorCoach™ approach to marketing that you can adjust to your personality and values (even if you are shy and introverted)
• Marketing as a process of building trust
• Marketing in which you focus on service, not selling, so that you are freed to attract your ideal clients rather than chase them
• How to talk to others about coaching
• What to charge, now and later
• How to market in your home community or nationally, even internationally
• Marketing via e-newsletters, e-mail, the web and social media
• The steps to building business-to-business alliances

EARN 31 WEEKS OF CONTINUING EDUCATION CREDITS

MentorCoach Foundations provides 31 weeks of continuing education credits for:

Social Workers through the National Association of Social Workers (NASW). Provides 31 contact hours.

LCSWs and MFTs in California, through the California Board of Behavioral Science (CA BBS). Provides 31 continuing education hours.

ICF Members by providing 31 hours of International Coach Federation Coach Continuing Education Units (ICF CCEUs – ICF Core Competencies)

Note: To receive continuing education you must be present for 25 of the 31 classes (80% of the course). Every class is recorded so when you inevitably miss a class, you’ll always have the recording. Should you end up in Foundations being present for fewer than 25 classes, no problem. You just sit in, at no charge, for the requisite number of missed classes at a future Foundations class. Thus making sure you are present for 80% of the class and get full credit!

THREE TUITION PLANS

There are three ways you can pay your tuition:

Eight monthly payments of $295

Three bi-monthly payments of $750

Or $1995 in advance

Our Guarantee: Receive a full 100% Tuition Refund up to the start of the second class

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