About This Course
Coaching is one of the most powerful tools for personal and professional transformation. But to coach with confidence, you must first master the fundamentals: listening, questioning, and guiding others toward their own solutions.
The Coaching Fundamentals Intensive is a retreat-style programme in Portugal, designed to accelerate your growth by immersing you in two days of focused, practice-rich training. Across a dynamic weekend, you’ll not only learn proven coaching models — you’ll live them, practise them, and embody them in real time.
This course is ideal for professionals, mentors, educators, and emerging coaches who want to quickly elevate their ability to support, guide, and empower others.
Course Description
The Coaching Fundamentals Intensive is a fully immersive experience that blends professional skill-building with personal growth. From the opening session on Friday evening, participants are invited into a focused space designed to sharpen awareness, build confidence, and deepen human connection.
Across two full days of guided practice, you’ll work with proven coaching frameworks while developing the core skills that bring them to life: attentive listening, insightful questioning, and the ability to create a safe, supportive environment for others. Through structured exercises, role-play, and live feedback, you will gain the confidence to move beyond theory and begin coaching with clarity and purpose.
By the close of the weekend, you will not only have a working knowledge of coaching models but also the lived experience of applying them in real conversations. You’ll leave with tools you can use immediately — and the assurance that you are ready to make a meaningful impact in both professional and personal settings.
Retreat Experience
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Friday Night Opening Ceremony: Welcome dinner and orientation programme to connect with mentors and peers.
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Saturday & Sunday Intensives: Full immersion in applied coaching practice, supported by expert facilitators.
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Retreat Setting: Hosted in Portugal, with a balance of learning, networking, and reflection in an inspiring environment.
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3-Night Stay: Friday, Saturday, and Sunday, with full access to resources and mentoring.
What You Will Learn
Learning Outcomes
By the end of this course, learners will be able to:
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Apply and critically reflect on core coaching models in a variety of contexts.
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Demonstrate competence in active listening, questioning techniques, and feedback.
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Structure and facilitate a short coaching conversation aligned to professional standards.
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Reflect on their own coaching practice and identify strengths and development areas.
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Produce evidence of coaching skills application through coursework and reflective assignments.
Key Takeaways:
✅ Practical coaching experience you can use immediately
✅ Accredited CPD hours and Silver Level 3 certification
✅ Confidence to hold coaching conversations in professional and personal life
✅ Immersive retreat learning environment for rapid skill development
Who This Course Is For
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Professionals stepping into coaching: team leaders, HR/People partners, L&D practitioners, mentors, and managers who want a reliable coaching toolkit they can use immediately.
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Emerging coaches seeking structured practice, live feedback, and an accredited stepping stone toward further training.
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Practitioners in adjacent fields (therapists-in-training, wellbeing practitioners, educators, youth/community leaders) who want to add coaching conversations to their work.
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Consultants and facilitators who need to unlock client thinking rather than prescribe answers.
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Career shifters exploring coaching as a next chapter and wanting an immersive, confidence-building start.
Fit & expectations: No prior coaching experience required. You should be willing to practise live, give/receive feedback, and engage in reflective work across the weekend.
How You Will Learn
This is a structured academic retreat combining lectures, practice, reflection, and coursework:
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Five 2-hour lectures: delivered across Saturday and Sunday, covering coaching frameworks, models, and applied skills.
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Practice tutorials: guided peer-to-peer coaching conversations with mentor observation and feedback.
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Course manual & workbook: includes theory notes, practical exercises, reflective journaling prompts, and case studies.
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Post-course assignments: reflective essay, coaching practice log, and case study application to evidence learning.
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Mentor support: feedback on both live practice during the retreat and coursework submissions after.
Empower
Growth
Course Modules (Delivered via 5 Lectures + Practice Labs)
Lecture 1: Foundations of Coaching
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History, scope, and applications of coaching.
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Distinctions between coaching, mentoring, counselling, and training.
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Core coaching models (e.g., GROW, CLEAR, OSKAR).
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Ethics and boundaries in coaching practice.
Practice Tutorial: Peer discussion and mini-coaching introductions.
Lecture 2: Active Listening & Presence
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Levels of listening and barriers to effective communication.
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Presence and non-verbal awareness.
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Empathy vs. sympathy in professional settings.
Practice Tutorial: Listening triads with live feedback.
Lecture 3: Powerful Questioning & Goal Orientation
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Designing open, probing, and reflective questions.
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Aligning goals with values and context.
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Structuring a coaching session for outcomes.
Practice Tutorial: Structured role-play in pairs.
Lecture 4: Feedback & Performance Support
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Feedback models (SBI, BOOST, Pendleton).
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Building trust and psychological safety.
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Coaching for performance vs. coaching for development.
Practice Tutorial: Feedback exercises with live mentor critique.
Lecture 5: Integration & Coaching in Action
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Blending models into personal coaching style.
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Managing difficult conversations and resistance.
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Mapping future growth as a practitioner.
Practice Tutorial: Observed coaching practice with peer + mentor assessment.