Programme Focus
In the programme Inspirational Life and Professional Coaching (ILPC) we focus on competencies such as:
Personal Mastery:
Interpersonal skills:
Professional Leadership and effectiveness:
Personal Mastery:
- Behavioural modification
- Inspiring inner strengths and personal accountability
- Full engagement of four inner life resources (spiritual, physical, mental and emotional)
- Developing a unique personal brand
- Personal life skills including e.g. personal wellbeing, self-mastery, spiritual congruence and emotional maturity
- Intellectual sharpness and mental resilience
- Personal and work related challenges
Interpersonal skills:
- Inspiring service leadership
- Building quality one-on-one and team relationships
- Improving relationships with direct reports, peers and supervisors
- Relationship and team building skills and challenges
Professional Leadership and effectiveness:
- Managerial and leadership skills
- Executive and business coaching skills
- Improving leadership and management competencies
- Developing communication and assertiveness skills, conflict resolution and effective decision making
ILPC Theoretical Training – Programme Content
The theoretical training of the ILPC Certified Master Coach consists of two compulsory sections:
The ILPC also offers a further specialisation option. This is made possible through Elective Modules that enable ILPC participants to achieve specialised knowledge and skills.
ILPC Certified Master Coach Programme Content
1. Foundational Modules (50 hours)
1.1 Orientation: What can be expected?
1.2 What is Coaching? Conceptual Clarification: Coaching, Mentoring, Counselling, Training, Facilitation
1.3 The Coaching Playing Field – Boundaries of Life and Professional Coaching – who can benefit from coaching?
1.4 Defining the Inspirational Life and Professional Coaching approach
1.5 The ILPC Coaching Philosophy and Approach
1.6 Niche Areas for an ILPC Practice
1.7 Does a need or market for life and professional coaching exist?
1.8 Who can coach? Role Profile of a Successful Coach
1.9 IAC and ILPC Core Coaching Competencies
1.10 Theoretical Foundation of ILPC – accountability of the ILPC Approach
1.11 Coaching Style
1.12 Different Approaches to the Coaching Process
1.13 The ILPC Process
1.14 Barriers to Effective ILPC
1.15 Is Coaching worth the Money? Assessing the ROI of Coaching
1.16 Marketing your ILPC Practice/Developing a Coaching Business: Who needs helping skills?
1.17 Future Trends and Issues in Coaching
1.18 Appraising Coaching Success
1.19 Support Organisations in South Africa
2. Core Modules (50 hours)
2.1 Communicating Effectively (14 hours)
2.2 Building a Coaching Relationship (ICF: B) (5 hours)
- Diagnostic ILPC-Questionnaires
2.3 Interpersonal Life Skills Coaching
Participants will master the skills to deal with the causes and manifestations of strained relationships at home
and at work. This e.g. include:
2.5 Introduction to Personal Life skills Coaching (14 hours)
2.6 Introduction to Professional Workplace Coaching (14 hours)
- Challenges
- Strategies
3. Elective Modules for further specialisation
The elective modules are intended as specialised training for those who wish to acquire new coaching skills. ILPC participants are encouraged to continuously upgrade their specialised knowledge and skills.
1. Coaching Skills for Managers and Supervisors (14 hours)
2. Leadership Coaching – building leadership strengths (14 hours)
3. Introduction to Executive Coaching (14 hours)
4. Introduction to Business Coaching (14 hours)
5. Basic Temperament (Personality) analysis (14 hours)
6. Introduction to understanding and dealing with emotions in Life Coaching (14 hours)
7. Introduction to Interpersonal Life Skills Coaching (ICF:B) (14 hours)
8. Introduction to Couples/Marriage Coaching (14 hours)
9. The Quiet Voice of Spirit - Spiritual Wellbeing (14 hours)
10. Trauma Counselling (7 hours)
11. Money Management – Steps to Financial Freedom (14 hours)
12. Intellectual Sharpness, Mental Attitude and Mind Power (14 hours)
13. Total Wellbeing: The Power of full life engagement (14 hours)
14. Maximising Teaching and Learning Effectiveness Coaching (20 hours)
15. Return on Investment – how to measure ROI (7 hours)
16. Introduction to ILPC Team Coaching (14 hours)
17. Defining your unique identity – developing your personal brand (14 hours)
18. Introduction to Youth Coaching (14 hours)
19. Assertiveness Coaching (14 hours)
20. Communication and Presentation Skills including relevant IAC masteries (14 hours)
21. Emotional Leadership (Intelligence) and Wellbeing (14 hours)
22. Physical Wellbeing (14 hours)
23. Retirementality - a new way of thinking (14 hours)
24. Intellectual and Mental Wellbeing (14 hours)
25. Time and Stress Management (14 hours)
26. Advanced Executive Coaching*
27. Personal Life Skills Coaching (Advanced level) (14 hours)*
28. Temperament Analysis (Advanced level) (14 hours)*
29. Advanced Business Coaching (14 hours)*
30. Advanced Youth Coaching (14 hours)*
31. Advanced Couples/Marriage Coaching (14 hours)*
32. Advanced ILPC-Team Effectiveness Coaching (14 hours)*
33. Advanced Interpersonal Life Skills Coaching (14 hours)*
34. The ILPC-Toolkit – Part 2 (7 hours)*
* The basic or introductory core modules in the ILPC programme are prerequisites for the advanced
elective modules.
- Foundational modules (50 hours)
- Core modules (50 hours)
The ILPC also offers a further specialisation option. This is made possible through Elective Modules that enable ILPC participants to achieve specialised knowledge and skills.
ILPC Certified Master Coach Programme Content
1. Foundational Modules (50 hours)
1.1 Orientation: What can be expected?
1.2 What is Coaching? Conceptual Clarification: Coaching, Mentoring, Counselling, Training, Facilitation
1.3 The Coaching Playing Field – Boundaries of Life and Professional Coaching – who can benefit from coaching?
1.4 Defining the Inspirational Life and Professional Coaching approach
1.5 The ILPC Coaching Philosophy and Approach
1.6 Niche Areas for an ILPC Practice
1.7 Does a need or market for life and professional coaching exist?
1.8 Who can coach? Role Profile of a Successful Coach
1.9 IAC and ILPC Core Coaching Competencies
1.10 Theoretical Foundation of ILPC – accountability of the ILPC Approach
1.11 Coaching Style
1.12 Different Approaches to the Coaching Process
1.13 The ILPC Process
1.14 Barriers to Effective ILPC
1.15 Is Coaching worth the Money? Assessing the ROI of Coaching
1.16 Marketing your ILPC Practice/Developing a Coaching Business: Who needs helping skills?
1.17 Future Trends and Issues in Coaching
1.18 Appraising Coaching Success
1.19 Support Organisations in South Africa
2. Core Modules (50 hours)
2.1 Communicating Effectively (14 hours)
- The heart of effective communication – connect with the heart of the client
- Engaged listening – seek first to understand (IAC: 3)
- Diagnostic Questioning and Assessment
- Processing information in the present - expanding awareness (IAC: 4)
2.2 Building a Coaching Relationship (ICF: B) (5 hours)
- Establishing and maintaining a relationship of trust (IAC: 1)
- Establishing an open safe and flexible relationship
- Diagnostic ILPC-Questionnaires
2.3 Interpersonal Life Skills Coaching
Participants will master the skills to deal with the causes and manifestations of strained relationships at home
and at work. This e.g. include:
- communication problems
- low self-esteem
- emotional immaturity
- marital problems
- external control and
- abusive relationships
- Models
- Diagnostic Questionnaires
- Techniques
- Supporting organisations
2.5 Introduction to Personal Life skills Coaching (14 hours)
- Defining life skills
- Challenges and strategies
- The ILPC approach to life skills coaching
- Perceiving, affirming and expanding the client's potential (IAC: 2)
2.6 Introduction to Professional Workplace Coaching (14 hours)
- Introduction to Executive and Business Leadership Coaching
- Challenges
- Strategies
3. Elective Modules for further specialisation
The elective modules are intended as specialised training for those who wish to acquire new coaching skills. ILPC participants are encouraged to continuously upgrade their specialised knowledge and skills.
1. Coaching Skills for Managers and Supervisors (14 hours)
2. Leadership Coaching – building leadership strengths (14 hours)
3. Introduction to Executive Coaching (14 hours)
4. Introduction to Business Coaching (14 hours)
5. Basic Temperament (Personality) analysis (14 hours)
6. Introduction to understanding and dealing with emotions in Life Coaching (14 hours)
7. Introduction to Interpersonal Life Skills Coaching (ICF:B) (14 hours)
8. Introduction to Couples/Marriage Coaching (14 hours)
9. The Quiet Voice of Spirit - Spiritual Wellbeing (14 hours)
10. Trauma Counselling (7 hours)
11. Money Management – Steps to Financial Freedom (14 hours)
12. Intellectual Sharpness, Mental Attitude and Mind Power (14 hours)
13. Total Wellbeing: The Power of full life engagement (14 hours)
14. Maximising Teaching and Learning Effectiveness Coaching (20 hours)
15. Return on Investment – how to measure ROI (7 hours)
16. Introduction to ILPC Team Coaching (14 hours)
17. Defining your unique identity – developing your personal brand (14 hours)
18. Introduction to Youth Coaching (14 hours)
19. Assertiveness Coaching (14 hours)
20. Communication and Presentation Skills including relevant IAC masteries (14 hours)
21. Emotional Leadership (Intelligence) and Wellbeing (14 hours)
22. Physical Wellbeing (14 hours)
23. Retirementality - a new way of thinking (14 hours)
24. Intellectual and Mental Wellbeing (14 hours)
25. Time and Stress Management (14 hours)
26. Advanced Executive Coaching*
27. Personal Life Skills Coaching (Advanced level) (14 hours)*
28. Temperament Analysis (Advanced level) (14 hours)*
29. Advanced Business Coaching (14 hours)*
30. Advanced Youth Coaching (14 hours)*
31. Advanced Couples/Marriage Coaching (14 hours)*
32. Advanced ILPC-Team Effectiveness Coaching (14 hours)*
33. Advanced Interpersonal Life Skills Coaching (14 hours)*
34. The ILPC-Toolkit – Part 2 (7 hours)*
* The basic or introductory core modules in the ILPC programme are prerequisites for the advanced
elective modules.
