Elementary Coaching Skills with a Twist
Blended learning format: live calls & online material
ARE YOU READY TO...
...dedicate the next 8 weeks to learn about what coaching really is and how it really works? To discover what social engineering and human hacking means to us as coaches?
The Achiever Level FREE Core Training is your step-by-step guidance towards learning about yourself and the coaching skills you are required to demonstrate.
Wondering if the ELEMS course is for you? Here is how you will know:
Start date
Next 2025 cohort begins in May. Launch party is on Friday, May 9th.
Check out the course dates in the FAQs
Course Duration
FOR GLOBALLY ORIENTED PROFESSIONALS
TIME INVESTMENT
What's included. An overview
Unique Learning Paths
- 2 Modules broken down into 4 units each
- Each Unit is completed in 1 Workshop (2.5 hours)
- 8 weekly Workshops - live Zoom calls
- Extra group coaching during Workshops for practice - live Zoom calls
- Pre-recorded video lessons & e-books
- Real-world Activities
- Supervision & feedback
- Buddy Coaching
Who is this course for?
When you wish to acquire the foundations of professional coaching without aiming to - necessarily - build an external practice, or if you wish to become an internal coach, then this course is for you. Ideal candidates may be:
- anyone who aspires to become a coach
- individuals going through career transition
- managers of all levels
- teachers and university students
- employees & staff of all organisations & NGOs
- SME business owners & directors
- coaches who wish to enhance their skills and credibility
- sports coaches
Breakdown of course hours
Total course hours: 46
Hours per module: 10
Hours per unit: 2.5 (one workshop)
Workshop structure: 2.5 hours live video ZOOM call (including a small break) on a weekly basis
Pre-recorded videos with full analysis of terminology and evidence-based theory: approximately 5 hours included in total course hours
Buddy Coaching (coaching your peers outside class hours): 12 hours (6 as trainee coach - 6 as client)
Additional time to invest for this course
Asynchronous self-study & assignment completion hours: approx. 10 hours in total
Important Processes
All live lessons are uploaded in the specific cohort area to ensure confidentiality of the work done. Additional material can be found in there for specific study.
Core Competencies Development
Experiential Learning Components
Coach Practice Development
Assignments
Strategies & Techniques
Buddy Coaching
What's inside this live & e-learning experience?
Module one: INTRODUCTION TO TALENT & SKILLS ENHANCEMENT
Definitions, Competencies and The Academy Framework
- Core Competencies in coaching to inspire others to take action
- Coaching for mindset change: from apathy to effort
- The Academy Framework: The Eleven Priming Elements
- Basic competencies I: Self-insight – coaching for assets and limitations
- Basic competencies II: Facilitating awareness
Neuroscience and the brain & Rules of Engagement
- Neuroscience I: ethics and moral dilemmas in life and in coaching
- Basic competencies in practice: Session 1 – Setting the foundation
- Basic competencies VI: Designing actions, planning & goal setting based on philosophy
Module two: APPLYING TALENT ENHANCEMENT
Ayrton Senna & coaching, belief systems and efficacy
- Neuropsychology through Senna
- Maieutics and Dialectics: the beginning of questioning
- Self-efficacy: building it through education & vocational training
- Basic competencies in practice: Session 2 – Exploring the client (readiness to change – TTM / self-efficacy – belief system)
Coaching Strategies & Skills: Define Your Role Strategy
- Developing vision statements with clients
- Basic competencies VIII: Managing progress and accountability in coaching
- Skills: rapport – trust – empathy
- Skills: Listening – providing & receiving feedback
How can I become a fully certified professional?
Achiever Level: Core Training (Knowledge-based Modules) - FREE
Deliverables & assessed elements
Learning Logs
Real world activities
Reflective Practice
In-class peer coaching
Knowledge
assessment
Buddy Coaching
Achiever Level: Competence Assessment Module (applying to practice)
Deliverables & assessed elements
Observed Group Coaching
Practicum
Individual Mentor Coaching Sessions
field
assignment
Final
Knowledge Assessment
Multiple choice test following the style of the ICF assessment process
Performance
Evaluation
Neuropsychology for Professionals
Module 1
Deliverables & assessed elements
Learning Logs
Knowledge Assessment
Mini research projects
Pamela Caravas
Pamela is the first "human hacker" coach to use Sherlock Holmes Techniques worldwide in coaching. Born in Australia, she is an accomplished intellectual performance enhancement coach, an entrepreneur and founder of her global Coaching for Intellectual Performance Enhancement company headquartered in London.
She is the first coach to work with FBI agents to create a new skill set for executive and life coaches. She is passionate about her research in the lies people tell themselves and how coaches can help their clients go past them.
Pamela holds a postgraduate degree in Teaching from Aston University, Birmingham. She went on to study all sciences and theories related to brain-to-brain coaching.
She is a guest lecturer at Universities and colleges teaching the Sherlock Holmes technique in Intellectual Performance Enhancement & Coaching in addition to Negotiation Skills.
She currently works as an affiliate for UNLOQ on projects delivering coaching to the United Nations (UNDP, UNV) and the UN High Commissioner for Refugees among other projects for small and large corporations.
To read more about Pamela, please visit her bio.