This opening module establishes what Depth-Oriented Coaching is and why it matters. Participants are introduced to depth as an orientation, a way of being with clients that creates the conditions for transformational conversations. The principles of organicity, non-interference, wholeness, slowing down, trusting emergence, non-efforting, and silence are explored experientially. 

Throughout the module, we also explore how coaches can begin to engage at deeper levels in their sessions while remaining clearly within the scope of coaching. Working ethically and safely through a present-moment, consent-based framework that prioritises awareness, regulation, and choice.

Learning Outcomes: 

• A grounded and articulate orientation to the foundational principles of Depth-Oriented Coaching, understanding clearly what creates the conditions for depth.
• Greater awareness of why clients often remain stuck despite repeated insight, and how a presence-based approach supports sustainable change. 
• Strengthened inner capacities as coaches, including clarity on staying in scope and developing more capacity to be with silence, slowing down, not-knowing, and present-moment focus.

This module develops presence as the inner ground required to hold depth. Mindfulness is cultivated as receptive, non-efforting awareness rather than as a formula or intervention. Participants learn to stabilize attention, soften internal pressure, and tolerate stillness in themselves so they can remain grounded when sessions become quiet, emotional, or uncertain. 

Learning Outcomes:

• The inner ability to stabilise attention through a personal mindfulness practice
• A reliable, receptive base of presence that supports working at depth
• Awareness of performance energy and striving in themselves
• The skill of returning to presence again and again without self-criticism

This module introduces a non-pathologising way to understand interference. Participants explore how protective “coach parts” pull them away from presence, for example, the Fixer, the Expert, the Pleaser, the Inner Critic. The emphasis is on recognising these patterns in themselves through somatic and attentional cues, and learning to return to presence when they appear. 

Learning Outcomes:

• Non-pathologising self-observation of protective patterns.
• Awareness of how common “coach parts” interrupt listening and contact.
• Ability to recognise when a part is becoming active, by noticing shifts in their attention and their body.
• Learning to relate to parts as protection rather than problems.

This module shifts the focus toward sustaining presence in the coaching relationship. Participants deepen their ability to listen while staying connected to themselves—learning embodied listening as they hear clients’ stories, emotions, and experiences. Coaches practise noticing the subtle relational pulls that arise within them—such as the impulse to rescue, advise, interpret, or step back—and meeting those inner movements with compassion rather than acting on them. The emphasis is on remaining grounded and attuned when uncertainty or strong feeling enters a session, so that depth can be held.

Learning Outcomes:

• Develop the ability to stay grounded and embodied with a client
• Ability to listen deeply and hold depth without moving into advising or interpreting
• The capacity to track themselves while staying fully with another person
• Greater resilience with emotion, uncertainty, and quietness in sessions

Building on the capacity for contact, this module develops the coach’s ability to notice when attention is captured by narrative and explanation. Participants learn to distinguish story from experience and to gently invite themselves and their clients back toward the present moment. The focus is on deepening lived awareness while staying firmly within coaching scope.

Learning Outcomes:

• Ability to distinguish between story and lived experience
• Capacity to notice when attention is captured by narrative
• Able to recognise when contact deepens or fades
• Increased comfort staying with experience, sensation, emotion, or impulse without analysis, interpretation and meaning-making
• The ability to invite clients into present-moment awareness 

This module focuses on developing the coach’s somatic awareness and tracking to support working at greater depth. Participants learn to become more sensitively connected to their own bodily experience as a source of insight. For many, this is like learning a new language, shifting from thinking about the body to perceiving through it. 

Once this inner capacity is more established, coaches practise supporting clients to notice and connect with their own present-moment somatic experience. Participants also strengthen their ability to track simple, observable cues in clients such as breath, posture, vocal tone, pace, eye contact, and overall energy shifts in order to deepen client awareness and guide ethical pacing. Sensitivity to signs of safety, readiness, and strain helps coaches remain clearly within coaching scope while holding depth calmly and relationally.

Learning Outcomes:

• Developing somatic awareness in themselves as coaches and learning to value the body as a direct source of insight
• Supporting clients to strengthen their own ability to notice and connect with present-moment somatic experience.
• Tracking somatic cues in clients to deepen awareness and help conversations move from story into lived experience.
• Recognising signs of safety, readiness, and strain in the client, so coaches maintain ethical pacing and remain clearly within the scope of coaching.

In this module, participants deepen their experience of what is possible with parts-informed work in coaching and learn to meet their own inner parts with curiosity and compassion. Coaches practise recognising the function of protective patterns, understanding what these parts are afraid of, what they need, and how they shape clarity and action. The emphasis is on strengthening inner awareness and self leadership so that parts can be understood and held calmly and ethically, without pressure to change them.

Learning Outcomes:

• Ability to meet and engage inner parts with curiosity, compassion, and clarity of role
• Recognise protective patterns and articulate their function, including what parts are afraid of and what they need
• Differentiate parts-led blends from embodied, Self-led presence
• Use simple, ethical, consent-based parts language to explore and hold client experience without pressure to change.

In this module, coaches deepen their ability to recognise and meet stuckness and protective patterns within themselves. Noticing moments when they feel internally blocked, pressured, or unsure, and reframe their own resistance as protective intelligence rather than personal failure. They will strengthen their ability to stay embodied with non-movement, uncertainty, and silence without pushing themselves to change. 

Once this inner awareness and steadiness are more established, participants begin translating the learning into client work, gently inviting clients to notice and meet their own resistance in the same way. The emphasis throughout is on trusting awareness and readiness over pressure-based outcomes, so both coaches and clients can be met calmly and ethically with compassion and clarity in the present moment.

Learning Outcomes:

• Recognise and meet their own stuckness and resistance with embodied awareness.
• Understand and articulate the protective function of resistance, including what parts are afraid of and what they need.
• Stay grounded and present with non-movement, uncertainty, and silence without over-functioning.
• Begin applying a simple, ethical process for working with resistance in clients through consent-based, awareness-led invitations.

This module focuses on deepening participants’ ability to contact and recognise Self Energy as the inner ground that makes coaching at depth possible. Participants are given a felt experience of this state—an embodied sense of being settled, clear in attention, and fully available to another person—out of which essential qualities such as strength, love, courage, patience, and compassion naturally emerge. 

Coaches practise learning to recognise and return to this Self-led presence, and to notice how being grounded in Self Energy shifts the way they perceive a situation and the choices they make. From this deeper place, participants discover how their perceptions soften and their responses become more attuned, allowing actions to arise organically. 

Learning Outcomes:

• Experience Self-led Energy as a distinct embodied state of inner presence
• Differentiate parts-led blends from Self-led presence and return to Self-in-presence
• Notice how entering Self Energy shifts their perception and choices in a situation
• Articulate how Self-led presence shapes listening, questions, and responsive actions, and begin applying this ethically with clients remaining within scope of coaching

In the final module participants are supported to weave together the capacities they have been cultivating throughout the program—mindfulness, somatic awareness, parts-informed perception, ethical pacing, and steady present-moment contact. Participants practise integrating awareness into the way they are in sessions with clients, how they structure sessions, communicate with clients, and move through everyday life. By the end of the module, participants have designed rhythms and supports that maintain depth-oriented presence in both their coaching and their daily lives.

Learning Outcomes:

• Integrate all core capacities into a coherent approach
• Recognise and articulate the practical factors that erode or sustain their embodied presence over time
• Design a sustainable personal rhythm that supports ongoing mindfulness and embodiment.
• Apply awareness-led reflection to maintain clarity, compassion, and steady present-moment focus in both sessions and daily professional life

This program is designed for trained and practising coaches who want to deepen their presence, confidence, and capacity to hold transformational space. It is particularly suited to coaches who are curious about mindfulness, somatic awareness, and parts-informed approaches.

A foundation in coaching is recommended. Participants typically have completed a coach training program or have some experience working 1:1 with clients. The work meets people where they are, while inviting depth rather than technique-heavy learning. If you're unsure whether this program is for you, then please feel free to contact us. 

Many coach trainings focus on adding more tools, frameworks, or techniques. This program is different in that it focuses on developing the inner capacities that make depth-oriented coaching possible in the first place—presence, attunement, embodied awareness, and ethical steadiness.

To support this kind of learning, the program is intentionally designed to be relational and contained. You’ll work with a single instructor throughout all 14 sessions, allowing trust, continuity, and depth to build over time. Group size is limited to 24 participants per cohort, creating enough intimacy for meaningful learning while still offering diverse perspectives. There are two cohorts in this round, both beginning in April.

The curriculum is also highly sequential. Each module builds directly on the previous one, so capacities are developed gradually and cumulatively rather than taught as stand-alone concepts. This creates a sense of progression and integration, supporting learning that is embodied and sustainable rather than theoretical or rushed.

Live sessions run weekly for 14 weeks (2 hours each), with optional peer-practice sessions and reflective exercises between sessions. Most participants devote about 3-4 hours per week.

Yes. All live teaching sessions are recorded so you can revisit key concepts or catch up if you miss a session. For the Integration Practice Sessions only the QA portion is recorded. Breakout practices during these sessions aren't recorded. 

If you can't attend a live session, you can watch the recording and then submit a form to confirm you have reviewed the recording. If you miss the Integration Practice Sessions you will need to practice with a partner for 2 hours and send in the form to confirm the practice.  

Yes. The Foundations program is eligible for ICF CCEUs, with details confirmed by March 18th, 2026. We are currently waiting for approval. 

A 7-day refund is available from the date of enrolment, provided the program has not yet commenced.

Once the program has begun, enrolment is non-refundable due to the live, small-group nature of the training.

No. This is a professional coaching training. The work invites reflection and embodied awareness, while remaining firmly within the scope of coaching. It does not involve therapy, counselling, diagnosis, or trauma treatment.

You’re welcome to reach out with questions before enrolling. This program invites commitment and depth, and it’s important that it feels aligned for you.