Life Coach Certification Masterclass: 3 Certifications In 1

Learn how life coaching helps clients achieve goals through objective perspective, forward focus, and a structured three-phase process: assessment, problem analysis and strategy planning, and evaluation.

becoming a life coach offers rewarding, meaningful work by helping clients achieve goals and build purpose, while fostering personal growth and the freedom to work from anywhere as your boss.

Clarify how coaching differs from therapy, mentoring, consulting, and training by emphasizing client-led goals, action, and a neutral process.

Understand coaching models and theories, design personalized action plans, tailor sessions to each client, and guide them to apply theory, take action, and follow through to reach goals.

Discover coaching fundamentals essential for effective sessions, including listening styles, asking the right questions, and building trust to create a safe, growth-oriented coaching relationship.

Practice active listening to become a coach who asks questions, nods, and accepts clients, creating a sacred space that builds trust and growth, while avoiding lapses like interruptions and multitasking.

Master three primary listening techniques: active listening, listening for values and goals, and listening with heart, intuition, and body; apply mirroring, body language, and gut feelings to uncover client insights.

learn to use a listening template to focus on five client aspects—focus, mindset, skills and capacities, habits, and energy—and guide coaching toward clear goals and growth.

Develop effective questioning by listening deeply and letting client responses guide the questions, forming a purpose-driven sequence of listening, questioning, timing, and phrasing.

Discover how coaching questions differ from normal questions, designed to help clients internalize the question, challenge old beliefs, raise awareness, and accept personal responsibility for their decisions.

Explore open, close, leading, follow-the-client, clarify, challenge limiting beliefs, what-if, commitment, stretch, and inquiry questions to unlock client insights and guide coaching conversations.

Explain why you use questioning and that there are no universal answers. Ask clear, permission-based questions to build trust, uncover needs, avoid leading questions, and adapt techniques like what-if.

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In the life coach certification masterclass, learn how trust underpins coaching by creating safety, helping clients share vulnerabilities, and building rapport early for lasting results.

Discover how the trust checklist exercise assesses a client's general, personal, and work-related trust levels, guiding targeted trust-building strategies in coaching.

Build trust in coaching by safeguarding confidentiality, keeping commitments, and communicating openly across diverse clients, while honing listening skills and accepting differences.

Master trust-building in coaching by leading by example, showing real care, being available, and avoiding micromanagement. Practice mirroring techniques to foster openness and help clients share fears, failures, and goals.

Explore your core personality and learn to describe it using the Big Five and Myers-Briggs models, gaining self-awareness to better understand how you communicate and relate to others.

Explore the big five personality model and its five traits—extroversion, openness to experience, conscientiousness, agreeableness, and neuroticism—and how they influence behavior, noting common criticisms and a forthcoming Myers-Briggs comparison.

Explore the Myers Briggs Type Indicator and its four dimensions—extroversion vs introversion, sensing vs intuition, thinking vs feeling, judging vs perceiving—and discuss its limitations and a Big Five hybrid.

Discover a five-dimension personality model that analyzes energy source, thinking style, decision making, working style, and emotions and reactions to reveal how daily behavior shapes work and relationships.

Discover coaching models as session blueprints, led by the Grow framework from goal to commitment, with alternatives like the Fuel and Clear models, and guidance on when to improvise.

Explore the GROW coaching model, its four steps—goal, reality, options, and will—and how they structure client sessions. Learn to set SMART goals, identify obstacles, and create actionable plans.

Explore the STEPPPA model for coaching, which centers on emotions and guides sessions from subject and target identification to emotion, perception, plan, pace, and action.

the fuel model frames the coaching conversation, sets ground rules and timelines, explores current versus desired states, brainstorms options, and creates a detailed, accountable action plan.

The CLEAR model guides team and business coaching by acting as a catalyst for development through five stages: contract, listen, explore, action, and review, fostering shared goals and commitment.

We center on the growth model because it’s a tested coaching framework that facilitates client change, is easy to grasp, and provides a four-stage path for building a program.

this introduction outlines the coaching process using the grow model and the gru framework—goal, reality, options, and will—to set rock-solid, smart goals that drive client transformation.

Define and align with your core values to guide behavior and shape life goals. Recognize values to ease decisions about career, family, and paths you pursue.

Define your personal values through a six-step process. Start with a blank slate, use guided questions, group and identify core values, then write and review statements to guide goals.

Discover how to craft a vivid life vision aligned with your values, set impactful goals, and plan backwards from the end to motivate daily actions.

Clarify your why and visualize how achieving goals will impact your life. Write goals down, create an action plan, and focus on the process.

Discover how stretch goals, suggested by Peter Teal, focus on one to three ambitious targets, boost growth in coaching, reframe thinking, and build momentum like a rocket taking off.

Start with long term goals to gain clarity, motivation, and a practical roadmap. By backwards planning and empowering the subconscious, you align daily actions with a 20-year vision, unlocking opportunities.

Identify a long term goal as a guiding blueprint for direction, with targets like mastering your craft, mentoring others, or pursuing language fluency and starting a business.

Turn long-term goals into actionable short-term steps using the smart framework—specific, measurable, attainable, realistic, and timely—and track progress with milestones and deadlines for a healthier diet and consistent habits.

Learn how to create smart goals that fit into a long-term goal, with a reality phase to assess where clients stand, challenges, and distance to the goal, informing action plan.

In step two of the group coaching model, reality, compare clients' ideal goals with their current reality to reveal the gap and guide exercises that clarify their true status.

Define the status quo as the current habits and environment shaping growth, and show how complacency traps clients in fear. Equip coaches with strategies to pursue excellence and actionable plans.

Explore the wheel of life exercise to map life areas, score satisfaction on a scale of one to ten, identify gaps, and plan actions across health, relationships, career, and growth.

Identify your big rocks and priorities to guide daily actions. Apply the big rocks exercise to help clients focus on essential priorities, reduce overwhelm, and align life with meaningful goals.

This lecture shows the reality coaching phase of the growth model using Anna’s case and the wheel of life to assess health, relationships, and career.

Explore options and obstacles in the group coaching model to help clients reach goals by brainstorming creatively, evaluating ideas, and selecting the best options with the client leading the discussion.

Brainstorm with clients to generate 20–50 ideas in a 15–20 minute session, using diverse groups or one-on-one, a facilitator, no judgment, and five questions (do more, less, start, stop, continue).

Evaluate brainstorming ideas by removing duplicates, clustering into themes, and using multipoint voting and the effort–impact matrix to prioritize high impact, low effort ideas.

The spheres of influence exercise helps clients map worries into circles—control, influence, and everything else—and create an action plan to handle what they can control and accept what lies outside.

Create a not to do list to eliminate time wasters and boost focus. Prioritize high impact tasks that maximize value production and happiness, delegating or saying no to low-value activities.

Demonstrates the option phase of the growth model with Anna’s will of life exercise, guiding brainstorming and using the effort–impact matrix to create an action plan.

Develop a client-centered action plan that converts goals into concrete milestones, tracks progress, and adapts to the client's lifestyle, ensuring the client commits to actionable steps and achieves results.

Apply the 80/20 rule to coaching by focusing on the top 20 percent of actions that drive 80 percent of results, guided by effort–impact metrics.

Design an action plan by setting clear goals, breaking them into milestones and mini-goals, then specifying daily tasks, scheduling them, and tracking progress to stay motivated and adjust as needed.

translate the growth model into a practical action plan by defining a four-week timeline, setting milestones for healthy, quick meals, and scheduling tasks to improve work-life balance, health, and fitness.

Master the GROW coaching model: set smart goals, assess reality, explore options and obstacles, and craft a practical will-driven plan with milestones, tailored to your client’s lifestyle.

Structure coaching sessions with clear ground rules, exercises, and models for any program. Define the pre coaching call and first session, and use questions to keep clients on track.

Define and communicate clear coaching ground rules to guide the client relationship, including session length, weekly frequency, payment policy, and timekeeping in your coaching agreement.

Learn to price coaching services by leveraging perceived value and a 40 to 80 dollar hourly rate for one-on-one sessions, while accounting for prep and follow-up work.

Master the pre coaching call by asking the right questions, listening without judgment, and assessing client readiness. Build rapport, determine fit, and share your coaching approach.

Clarify how you will work together in the intake session, including commitments, confidentiality, structure, payment, and the coaching agreement to establish trust and clear expectations.

Assess client progress through structured evaluation sessions by measuring change across three themes—how much, how important, and how different—using targeted questions to refine action plans.

Structure a coaching program from a pre coaching call and intake to weeks two through five of growth model steps, with evaluations for short-term or long-term goals and wrap up.