The course should take around 6 to 10 months to complete. However, there is no set end time and you may take as long as you need to complete it.

The course is of variable duration because it partly depends on how long it takes each student to complete his or her real-life coaching outside of the training weekends. We keep this open as we appreciate that our students are often full time employed or running their own business and so need to manage the training to suit their needs.

Absolutely! All of our courses are geared towards people who are either working full time, parenting full time or running their own business. Our aim is to ensure you can complete the course and become an expert in your chosen area of coaching or NLP without creating upheaval and unrealistic burdens on you. That’s why the training takes place at the weekend to avoid disrupting your working week and the support takes place online recognising that not everyone has the time to attend live events in the evenings.

At the moment all of our courses take place at the weekend as this means our students do not need to disrupt their working week. We appreciate that some people work at weekends or have commitments then but we have found that for the majority of people weekends are the best time to avoid taking annual leave to train with us.

The course is for people who want to work with young people to inspire, empower and challenge them to live to their potential. It is ideal for existing youth related professionals who want to add a new approach to their working methods and it’s also perfect for those who want to work as independent youth coaching contracting with schools, charities and families to work with young people individually or in groups.

There is currently no other course like this available. Whilst there are some other youth coaching courses on the market, none offer the level of training, experience and mix of skills that Dynamic Youth Coaching offers. The combination of live training, mentoring, real-life practice, video based learning and a programme for creating your own practice is absolutely unique.

Imagine learning to drive from a book and passing a written test. Then you take a real car out onto a real road! That would clearly be crazy and yet this happens a lot in coach training! For us, it’s important you have real experience and so as part of the course you will complete 30 hours of real-life youth coaching (or 50 hours including group coaching) outside of the training environment. By coaching real-life clients you will gain the experience and confidence needed to continue as a coach after you qualify. Coaching is a practical skill and if you only learn it as theory you will almost certainly not be as effective as you could be and you will probably never use the skills in practice as you won’t have that foundation of having done it.

Most people who train on this course will already have connections with young people in some way which is why they join the course. So we expect you will be able to source a range of clients from your own connections or within your existing work. However, we have built a range of contacts in the youth environment who are keen to engage the work of a youth coach and we will work with you to try to secure a place in such places should you struggle to find practice client work.

The mentoring supports you with your coaching practice and with any other concerns you have on your path to qualification. Mentoring takes place monthly and allows you to discuss your client work in detail exploring where you have challenges as well as what is working well for you.

The Smart Zone is an online members area with hours of videos which cover the course material in detail allowing you to access it whenever and wherever you want to back up the live training.

We believe that coaching is fundamentally a human relationship skill and so do not require any written work for the course. We recognise that continuous learning will always improve your skills as a coach but we don’t believe that making you write essays demonstrates your ability to connect with your clients and create positive coaching sessions.

To qualify you need to attend all five weekends of live, complete your live coaching hours and submit three case studies of your work.

We ensure that we keep our groups small enough that the trainer can have close engagement with each member of the group to ensure you’re on track and getting what you need from the training. On our Dynamic Youth Coaching course, our groups are never larger than 16 people.

The is comprised of 65 hours of live training.The total study time is around 150 hours including completion of the case study coaching, reflective learning, online videos, mentoring and webinars.

Yes you do. A CRB check is necessary and we will help you to complete this if you don’t already have a valid check. .