ACT Complete Life Coaching Certificate Advance to Expert

Increase lesson retention by moving from passive lectures to participatory learning through discussion, practice, and teaching within the 'learning to launch' study group, boosting neuroconnectivity and understanding.

Discover how coaching centers on a two-way helping dynamic between coaches and clients, keeping things simple, and how ACT and its comparisons with other modalities fit into the overview.

Apply the keep it super simple approach to life coaching by mapping client journeys from a to b, planning sessions and packages with a simple path to growth.

Discover how ACT, or acceptance commitment therapy, centers on action in life coaching, using acceptance commitment techniques to guide clients toward committed, meaningful steps.

Compare ACT with CBT, NLP, and traditional life coaching to show how ACT integrates thinking and feeling, addressing both brain and heart for meaningful change.

Compare act with other modalities and reveal why act addresses the why behind behavior. Explore the hexaflex and the bull's eye to illustrate acceptance-based paths to lasting change.

Explore the ACT hexaflex in practice, linking present moment focus, values, committed action, self as context, diffusion, and acceptance to drive long-term, values-aligned change.

Advance through the act framework basics, including the hexaflex and tri-flex flow, and master key worksheets like four-square, act matrix, choice points, and the An L assets and liabilities worksheet.

Explore the hexa flex and tri flex in ACT, focusing on present moment awareness, values, and avoiding experiential avoidance through a simple flow-chart approach.

Explore Four-Square as a powerful coaching tool to map a client's journey, test what's workable, and reveal private and public behaviors.

Learn to use the Act matrix to map inner and outer experiences into four quadrants, guiding actions toward your bull's eye and clarifying what to do more or less.

Shaw introduces an assets and liabilities worksheet as a practical coaching tool to categorize client activities in sessions and guide asset vs liability analysis and business planning.

Explore common ACT terms like bull's eye, diffusion, emotional/experiential avoidance, functional contextualism, and hooked versus unhooked, with emphasis on acceptance, psychological flexibility, and the choice point.

Explore psychological rigidity and move toward psychological flexibility by practicing contact with the present moment, values, committed action, diffusion, and acceptance, self concept and self as context toward workable goals.

Explore the hexaflex and tri flex within the ACT framework, covering present moment contact, values, committed action, self as context, diffusion, acceptance, and tri flex guided flow.

Explore the hexaflex CPM and the A to B model to move clients from distraction and unfocused states toward present-moment awareness using grounding and mindfulness techniques like breathing and tapping.

Uncover a client’s core values through elicitation in the hexaflex, address remote values, rank them, and use this clarity to guide the A to B journey toward the bull’s eye.

Explore committed action within the hexaflex, showing how action-focused coaching moves clients from their current state to desired outcomes using smart goals aligned with values and purpose.

Explore self as context in the hexaflex, moving from fusion with concept to a present-moment, objective third-person view, using exercises to observe thoughts and cultivate compassionate self-awareness.

Explore diffusion within the hexaflex by challenging fused thoughts across six areas: past, future, self, reasoning, rules, and judgment. Move clients from rigid to flexible thinking and take committed action.

Apply acceptance within ACT by acknowledging, allowing, and accommodating your thoughts, feelings, memories, and urges to align actions with your values in the present moment.

Learn to guide clients to be fully present by connecting to the present moment and viewing themselves from an objective context, enabling values-driven, committed action.

Learn to open up by connecting thoughts, feelings, and memories through Triflex techniques, moving beyond rules and judgments to create flexible strategies and do what matters.

This lecture introduces the tri flex model and hexaflex, linking values to committed action so clients do what matters. It emphasizes homework and real-world action plans to accelerate progress.

Explore how to become an effective act life coach using the A to B framework, nesh modality, and practical prep, pricing, session maps, and a flexible business model.

Discover how we are born helpless and become helpers through sensory-motor development. Guide clients with observation, feedback, homework, and follow-up as an ACT coach to foster growth and meaningful progress.

Apply the a to b framework for ACT coaching to guide client sessions and shape your business and marketing plans, emphasizing growth, personal development, and competency.

Discover how to define your niche, choose your modality, and craft a unique coaching style by blending personal experience, passion, and the smart model in ACT.

Navigate accreditation and legal issues by recognizing your limits, seeking region-specific legal advice, and evaluating accreditation options and insurance coverage to protect your coaching practice.

Set your rate by time value, market demand, and client budgets, recognizing ACT as a premium modality and avoid pricing it the same as CBT or NLP.

Set your coaching price by valuing your services, charging 50–150 dollars per hour, and offering packages. Understand your market, negotiate wisely, and grow your rate with experience.

Discover how to structure sessions or packages around a single issue using act principles like present moment awareness, values, and psychological flexibility, guiding clients from point a toward point b.

Map sessions with predetermined a to b goals, power questions, and being fully present; review homework and drive outside-session action with tools like the choice point.

Star Family Coaching demonstrates a solo partnership business model with cross-promotion, collaborative courses, 50-50 revenue splits, and passive income strategies across parenting, happiness, and financial literacy coaching.

Explore advanced ACT fundamentals, contrast beginner with advanced concepts, and use the hexaflex and ABC model to guide clients from ideal to reality, while learning acceptance language and motivation.

Explore the differences between beginner and advanced act training, learn to walk the talk with acceptance and values work, and become an act coach.

Build willingness by accepting thoughts and feelings and engaging in high-quality action, reframing emotional goals into concrete behavioral goals for meaningful progress.

Explore how willingness counters creative hopelessness by facing feelings through acceptance, acknowledgement, allow, and accommodate, and turn emotional control strategies into workable actions toward what matters.

Explore emotional control strategies (ecs) and experiential control, from breathing and grounding to tapping and meditation, and distinguish the good, bad, and ugly ways we cope while addressing root causes.

Explore emotional control strategies through clarifying questions that dislodge hopelessness. Use the DOTS framework—distraction, opting out, thinking strategies, substances—to evaluate and switch to more effective approaches.

Learn the language of acceptance in ACT, including the three A's: acknowledge, allow, accommodate, with phrases like stop and watch it, open up, and make peace with emotions.

Explore why change feels hard by identifying hooked, avoiding, remoteness of values, and doubtful goals within the ACT framework and committed action.

Explore motivational theory through William Glasser’s five drivers: survival needs, love, power, freedom, and fun—and how they shape behavior, memory, and physiology within the ACT framework of willingness and workability.

Explore willingness and workability in motivation through cost-benefit analysis and the choice point tool. Identify how actions create payoff or avoidance and apply these insights to coaching and personal goals.

Explore willingness intervention by aligning values with committed action, transforming emotional goals into concrete behaviors, and using cost-benefit analysis to move toward what matters.

Explore willingness intervention through carrot and whip motivation, positive reinforcement, and commitment patterns to move clients toward goals by reframing actions as behavioral outcomes.

Explore advanced ACT fundamentals through a demonstration that bridges to the next section. Use a simple starting blueprint for coaching conversations, beginner course context, and more essentials resources.

Prepare as an ACT coach with thorough pre-session setup—qualification, consent, rapport, and present-moment contact—using the A to B and CP tools, then convert emotional goals to behavior goals.

Explore the A to B ACT framework, tri flex, and the choice point tool to map present-moment client states, goals, and pathways from now to be and do what matters.

Qualify clients to proceed and align expectations before ACT coaching. Use consent, timeouts, and tools like power questions, choice point, and value elicitation to empower client self-resolution.

Build rapport in the first coaching session to help clients become fully present and connected, using three days of listening, mirroring, paraphrasing, and simple breathing techniques.

Learn to establish rapport by practicing a clear permission to proceed policy, use paraphrasing for connection, and apply time-out and consent policies to keep clients safe and engaged.

Master the eight zones of client history in act-based coaching using power questions to probe present problems, values, life factors, past events, motivation, flexibility, and resources.

Present act to clients with lectures, literature, and actionable exercises that teach acceptance, commitment, and daily psychological flexibility. Help clients walk the talk through present-moment awareness and values-driven actions.

Master the six power questions and power cues to quickly uncover client history, connect with the choice point, and support the a to b process for practical coaching.

Convert emotional goals into behavior goals by mapping antecedents, behaviors, and consequences within inputs, processes, and outputs (EPOs), and focus on sustainable action to improve parenting.

Learn how to assign action-oriented tasks outside sessions, using a life balance questionnaire, value assessments, journals, and a breathing technique, with a 24-hour follow-up to reinforce progress.

Present a detailed three-part demonstration of the first coaching session, outlining goals, rapport building, and ACT history, with breakdowns between parts and optional report helpers.

The Coach Hall intro outlines the section's A to be journey, AHAR sessions, and free introductory options, while previewing tools like love language, perception exercises, and ACT demonstrations.

Coach guides Rachel and Eddie through session one setup: establish rapport, apply power cues and questions, and introduce the choice point tool with initial A to B goals.

Coach Hall outlines session one part one, building rapport, clearing legal groundwork, and guiding Eddie through the four-seven-eight breathing technique to anchor him in the present moment.

Apply the act method with a helicopter eye-in-the-sky analogy, guiding action. Use the 2b i equals model to map current life and goals, and clarify them with six questions.

Establish ground rules, safety, and expectations to build trust between coach and client, gain permission to move on, and maintain rapport through relaxed transitions to questions and choice points.

Rachel guides Eddie through the choice point and CRP tool to set goals for a united family and better fathering, with plans to talk calmly with his wife.

Explore the overall goal and flow of a twelve-session ACT life coaching journey, grounding clients, achieving present-moment awareness, and moving toward what matters through values, committed action, and willingness.

Build trust and rapport early by creating a comfortable environment, using power questions and paraphrasing, and guiding clients through a choice point tool, with methods like AHAR and word-of-mouth.

Outlines traditional history taking in coaching, covering eight zones, present life status, past events, and the hexa flex to determine the primary issue and shape session planning.

Kocho presents a quick section overview, outlining session two parts one and two with Eddie and Rachel, then session three, and ends with a recap and next steps.

Introduce session two and three, celebrate progress from session one, enforce daily homework with a 24-hour follow-up, and apply a prep routine that reviews notes, breathes, and centers on values.

Coach Hall breaks down session 2 part 1, reestablishing rapport, keeping to one issue per package, and providing positive feedback as Eddie completes the homework and fills the choice point.

The coach breaks down session 2 part 2, guiding the client through SMART's five parts, presence, acceptance, values, and fusion or diffusion to craft a workable plan with homework.

Set goals and review the hexaflex flow, guiding Eddie toward present moment awareness, self as context, opening up, and acceptance, with homework updates and values work.

Rachel and Eddie explore power and choices, using reframing to handle difficult memories and fatherhood, and learn from male role models to strengthen family bonds.