Our courses

Take time to explore our range of exceptional coaching
and NLP courses

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Courses and
Qualifications





 

Coaching courses for people with purpose

Our courses are designed to create coaches, NLP Practitioners and change makers who have a purpose, passion and a desire to be truly skilled in their field.

Each course has been designed with the guiding principle that they produce real masters.

If you want to have more than just a certificate in a drawer and instead want to become a coach who can changes lives, improve workplaces and brings your unique character to you change work, then you’re in the right place.

Coaching courses

Diploma in
Coaching
Excellence

If you want to become a life coach, executive coach or build coaching skills for the workplace, then our Diploma in Coaching Excellence is your starting place.

Delivering a cutting edge level of coaching content with skills integrated from a range of the most recent developments, this brilliant coaching course will help you become an truly outstanding coach capable of working in a range of fields.

Our coaches are working at every level from running their own businesses to local and central government and from the private sector to charities.

 

NLP Practitioner
& Hypnotherapy
Certificate

If you wish to work at a high level with the seemingly magical art of NLP whether in coaches, business or clinical work take time to explore our NLP course.  It is very different from the bog standard courses you will find.

We have created this course to stand out from the crowd of courses that aim to be cheap, cheerful and fast.  Instead, this NLP certification is aimed at creating genuine confidence and mastery over an extended period of time.

If you’re serious about using NLP, don’t compromise on your training.

 

Short Courses

Our short courses have emerged from our behind-the-scenes work with our existing coaches and a demand to supply these important skills to external coaches, managers, consultants and change creators.

They are designed to offer specific skills and approaches to support those who create change in people and organisations.

Free Coaching Discovery Day
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Watch a course overview video

Watch a short video on our Diploma in Coaching Excellence course and get a detailed picture of the course, the structure, investment and benefits.

This is the perfect option if you don’t have much time to attend one of our seminars but want to get to know more about our course.


Free Discovery Day

Attend a free Discovery Day and find out what coaching is, how it's changed, how you can blend it with your existing skills and how you can use coaching to create a business or shape your career.

You will also find out everything you need to know about our Diploma in Coaching Excellence and how you can train with us.

Discovery Days run from 10.30am until 4.30pm in central London. It's an open, honest exploratory day in which you can get all your questions answered.

If you think coaching is for you but you need to know a bit more about it then the Discover Day an ideal place to find out. Likewise, if you know for sure that coaching is for you but you want to know if the Smart School is the right place to train, this is an ideal opportunity to get to know us.

Go ahead and reserve your place now.


Book a personal consultation

This is ideal if you are already familiar with coaching and don’t need an introduction to it. Instead you want to find out how it would work for YOU and how our course is different from others.

The personal consultation option is all about YOU and how the course would work for you individually.

We can explore what you want to do with coaching, who you want coach, how you can build a business in that area or how it would fit in to your workplace.

This can be by phone or face-to-face in Victoria, London and would normally be with the founder of the school.


Check dates and book your course now

This option is for you if you know you the Smart School is the right place to train and you know what course you want to take.

You can go ahead and select your start date and pay your deposit or the full course fee.

Select this option to go through the booking page.


Smart School Satisfaction Guarantee

Our Satisfaction Guarantee means that if you join the course and decide after the first weekend that it's not for you, then we will refund your fee minus the non-refundable deposit of £500.

This means you can join our course with confidence and security.

Master Coach Special Offer

As well as receiving the full Diploma in Coaching Excellence worth £2995, you will also receive:

  • Two-day Foundations Course in Group Coaching and Facilitation - £495
  • Two-day Being and Meaning Masterclass - £495

Full price £3985 - £2995 on the “Master Coach” (saving £990)

About the bonuses:

Foundation Course in Group Coaching and Facilitation

This is a two-day live training course which gives you solid grounding in the techniques for coaching and facilitating groups from 5 to 5,000 people.

Over the course of two days you will learn key approaches for harnessing the power of the group in coaching, for creating a learning space for each member and for dealing with large organisational and community based consultations and facilitated events.

Being and Meaning Masterclass

This two day course addresses clients issues at their most fundamental, existential level of meaning and the purpose of being.

Drawing on existential thought from Shakespeare to the Matrix and from Nietzsche to Auster, you will discover how concerns with death, meaninglessness and isolation form the foundations of human thought, emotion and behaviour.

And you’ll learn how you can coach on these issues enabling the client to greater self-knowledge and understanding and hence a freedom to act and choose.

Places are limited! to reserve your place quickly.

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Who is the Diploma for?

The Diploma in Coaching Excellence is for people who want to train to become a life coach, a performance coach within an organisation or an executive coach.

We particularly attract two kinds of people. We find we are highly sought after by people who want to become independent, self-employed coaches who build their own practice. That’s because we pay a lot of attention to what each coach wants to do with their course after they qualify and we provide the forum and workshops to explore issues like discovering your niche, learning how to market what you do and also looking at other ways to help your target market.

But we also attract HR managers and learning and development professionals who want to learn advanced coaching skills to use within the workplace. In this case, it's the depth of the learning and the formal qualification that makes it so attractive.

What kind of qualities do you need?

This course is for you if you want to become truly excellent at coaching. In other words, it’s not just about getting a certificate – it’s about getting good!

And that means being prepared to put the time into coaching outside of the training weekends, reflect on your practice and engage in the supervision to improve continuously. The course is fun and inspirational but you need to want to learn, to challenge yourself and to take the action needed to become exceptional as a coach.

It’s about finding the passion that makes this whole process make sense, so we’re looking for people who really care about what it means to them to become a coach and to make a difference with what they do.

We also provide a real sense of community and a place for likeminded people to share their coaching journey so it’s important to be happy to mix and bond with your fellow coaches.

Overall we attract positive, determined people who want the coaching course to make a difference in some way to their lives and are enthused about the journey.

How is the course different?

There are plenty of coaching courses out there. So what’s makes ours different?

We can sum up the difference in three phrases: integrative coaching, real qualification, highly practical.

Firstly, the diploma teaches the latest developments in coaching which have emerged from coaching psychology and fuses a range of styles into the integrative framework we call the 6Cs. You will learn coaching skills that few other schools teach. Time and again this has been highlighted by our coaches as one of the most attractive elements of the school when they joined. Ultimately, it’s one of the things that will turn you into an exceptional coach.

Our course offers a real qualification because although we teach the skills and provide the support, the certificate and record of success is awarded by a UK awarding body, the Institute of Training and Occupational Learning – that’s still pretty rare in the coaching world.

Finally, our course is all about how you take what you learn and apply it in the real world. We teach some highly specialised coaching knowledge but we always boil it down to “what do you do with it?” as ultimately this is what’s important.