About the second year programme
In this training programme you will deepen and strengthen your knowledge and skills as a coach/counsellor. After completion of this training programme, you will be able to guide people with a variety of issues in a profound way in self-examination and development. The second year programme will help you to become an independent working counsellor and will strengthen your coaching skills.
In four blocks of two practice days, we will explore different coaching areas that are important in everyday life:
- Personal life and health
- Family and relationships
- Career, leadership and team
- Mourning, trauma and recovery
In addition to these blocks, one class day will cover the psychology of change and one day will be about starting your own practice.
You will learn which themes, skills and interventions are helpful to guide and stimulate change. We will continuously combine theory and practice, and you will reflect on your own practice and actions in the process. You will also learn how to deal constructively with disturbances or resistance in the coaching process.
During the programme, you go through a growth process as a coach by receiving feedback from your teacher and fellow students. Intervision is an important part of the programme.
How do you specialise?
To choose a specialisation, you can opt to select a subject as covered in the four blocks, or you can choose your own specialisation aside of these blocks. Once you have selected a specific field, you will draft a plan together with your teacher to set up a project that will help you learn all the necessary skills and information to become a specialised coach/counsellor in the chosen field.
During the course of the programme, you will compile a portfolio of all practical sessions in class, as well as of your coaching sessions with (test-)clients. You will spend 40 hours working with test clients. At least half of these hours must be spent with clients in the area of your chosen specialisation.
Is this course suitable for you?
The second year programme is suitable for those who have successfully completed the first year programme or who have gained sufficient coaching/counselling experience otherwise, and who want to develop themselves further into professional and specialised coaches and counsellors.
What is the purpose of the programme?
The second year programme provides you with extra skills and experience to become a professional and specialised coach/counsellor. After this programme, you will be able to work independently – for example in your own practice – and you will be able to guide people thoroughly and in-depth on a wide variety of issues.
What will you learn in the second year programme?
In this training programme you will:
- Learn how to work with clients on the themes of personal life and health, family and relationships, career, leadership and team, and mourning, trauma and recovery.
- Learn how change and learning processes work and how to apply them in your daily practice.
- Learn how to intervene in a professional manner on disturbances in the coaching process.
- Learn to understand and apply various coaching/counselling-roles and techniques.
- Gain deeper knowledge and skills regarding coaching on specific themes.
Who are your fellow students?
The students in the second year course are people who want to specialise in a certain field of coaching/counselling. Your fellow students all have successfully concluded the first year or have gained at least basic coaching and counselling skills otherwise. The area of specialisation can differ per person. The programme is designed to give every student the opportunity to deepen their general skills, learn from and with their peers and to specialise in the field of their personal choice.
Course schedule
The programme consists of 10 days of class, in which the following themes and subjects will be covered:
Day 1
- Psychology of learning and change
- Change and resistance
- Humanistic psychology, positive psychology and social psychology on change
- The client’s learning process
- Motivation
- Methodologies to achieve change
Day 2 and 3 – Personal life and health
- Energy, stress, and burn-out
- The Wheel of Life
- Positive psychology
- Mindset
- Coping
Day 4 and 5 – Family and relationships
- Family constellations
- Systemic work in organisations
- Attachment styles
- Transactional Analysis
- Healthy and unhealthy communication patterns
- Transference, countertransference and projection
Day 6 and 7 – Career, leadership and team
- Career counselling
- Developing a corporate coaching programme
- Understanding the levels of an organisation
- Change management
- Team coaching
- Management coaching
- Creative thinking
Day 8 and 9 – Mourning, trauma and recovery
- Psychology of loss and grief counselling
- Theories on grief
- Trauma counselling
- Recovery coaching, Post-traumatic growth
- ACT (Acceptance and Commitment Therapy)
- Mindfulness
- Polyvagal theory
- Window of tolerance
Day 10 – Starting your own practice
- Who have you become as a coach/counsellor?
- Business skills for coaches
- Knowledge and skills needed to start your own practice
- Re-cap of the programme: your lessons learned
Classroom and online programme
Coaching and Counselling Year 2 is available as a classroom programme and a Live Online programme. Please find more information about the online programme here.
The study load for this training programme is approximately 8 to 10 hours per week.
