What we do

We're all about transforming lives through creating
exceptional coaches and NLP therapists

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What We Do

We aim to offer the very best coach training courses available and in a way that remains affordable to the normal person paying for themselves or the organisation who feels the tightening budget.

We train, supervise and support coaches to gain the very best skills and then take action after qualification to build their coaching practice or seamlessly add coaching to their work role.

Our Diploma in Coaching Excellence is for you if you want to coach full time or extensively within your workplace.  It is founded on integrative coaching drawing from the very latest developments within coaching psychology to offer a cutting-edge level of training and expertise.  Delivered over 6 – 8 months, it includes quality classroom training, real-life experience, supervision and online learning material.

Our NLP Practitioner Course is aimed at people who are serious about learning NLP and using it to an extremely high standard.  Unlike many NLP courses on the market today, our NLP Practitioner course is focused on longer-term, experiential learning working with real clients on real issues.  This is one of the very best NLP courses available anywhere.

Our passion is coaching and everything we do centres around adding value to the coaches we work with at all levels.  You can be sure you’re in the right place for coaches at the Smart School.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

In their own words

Click here to see Smart School trained coaches describe their journey through the school and what it has done for them.

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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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How are coaching and NLP different?

People often ask about the difference between NLP and coaching and sometimes the boundaries are blurred. But they are different and below is a simple way of looking at the difference.

NLP is firmly rooted in interventions that work with the unconscious mind to change patterns of behaviour and thinking which are ineffective for the client or to reinforce and draw upon strengths to enhance results and performance.

Coaching on, the other hand, is far more conscious-minded, using a conversational style to bring about change by identifying goals, exploring challenges and opening up more options for empowered thinking and behaviour.

Both, however, address all aspects of the person including beliefs, values, needs, thoughts, emotions and behaviours.

 

Who joins the Smart School?

We have a wide variety of people who join the school from many backgrounds in business, central and local government and the caring professions.

Typically, they are enthusiastic about learning and want to help people in some way whether it's in the workplace or life in general. They are very much people-people and usually tell us that they have been the listening ear for people in their life. They are caring but also positive and believe in change.

Whether they want to use coaching in work or for their own business, Smart School students are determined to learn the skills they need to apply coaching in the real world. That means putting in the practice and taking advantage of the support on offer.

 

What’s a typical day on our training weekend?

A typical day is a mix of small group classroom training, breakout coaching sessions and time to ask questions or discuss ideas with the trainer.

Each day kicks off at 9.30am for morning coffee and tea and an initial catch-up and then we start at 10.00am for the training. We usually begin with a round-up of challenges from your real-life coaching sessions so we can explore the connections with the new materials through the weekend and then it’s straight into the new topics.

The days alternate between classroom learning and practical coaching in pairs or triads followed by discussion to clarify points of learning and practice. We usually finish around 5.30pm with many coaches having a final chat over a drink.