Life Coaching is the 2nd fastest growth industry in the world and has been for the last 3-years. This explosive growth in Life Coaching is due to the amazing results that are being achieved around the world by people and corporations applying coaching principals.

Dear Life Coaching Enthusiast,

Coaches worldwide have been quoted as saying that the coaching profession is the most personally rewarding and exciting profession they have ever been involved in.

Can you imagine a new career helping to transform people's lives? Envisage what it would be like if you were living your dream of assisting people achieve greater success in their lives.

Project your life forward, and in a very short period of time you could be…

• helping people each and every day implement amazing changes in their lives.
  
  
• working with people that are positive and excited about the possibilities you can help them create.
  
  
• absolutely passionate about your work and fulfilled by the incredible outcomes you were helping people achieve in their lives.
  
  
• living a self fulfilling prophecy as you applied coaching principals to your own life and transformed it into the most positive, ambitious vision you could imagine.
  
  
• working the times and hours you want! No longer would you be a slave to your job or boss.

If these outcomes excite you then you’ll find coaching is the career you’ve been looking for. Coaching gives you the opportunity to take your current skills and develop them into a qualification that will change your life and those around you forever.

What is Life Coaching, and why has it become so popular?

Life Coaching is assisting and empowering a person, organisation or team to achieve their desired outcomes. Coaches do this through a structured and professional process combining sophisticated training, expanding awareness and designing supportive environments that inspire growth.

It may help you to understand Life Coaching if you think about the analogy of a sports coach. Sports people have been using coaches to assist them attain and maintain peak performance for decades. Sporting coaches motivate, inspire and guide their clients to achieve seemingly super human results.

Take the example of one of our own sporting hero’s Ian Thorpe. Ian continually performed at the highest level against the best in the world. Obviously he had extraordinary natural ability. But one of the greatest assets to his success is his coach. Obviously Ian’s coach is not as good a swimmer as Ian! So what exactly does Ian’s coach teach him if it’s not to swim? His coach is a powerful ally that motivates and guides him and keeps him continuously accountable to his goals.

Life Coaching first became popularised in the United States in the early 90’s and since that time people around the globe have recognised the value of the coach-client relationship and have utilised it to achieve extraordinary results in their personal and professional lives.

Part of the Life Coaching process is to help clients choose new perspectives and establish new beliefs about what is possible in their lives.

As a qualified coach you’ll:

• Assist your clients to identify and build on their strengths
  
• Assist clients to acknowledge weakness and focus on what’s working in their lives
  
• Help clients establish compelling goals
  
• Inspire clients to achieve more by raising their expectations of what’s possible
  
• Empower clients with practical and philosophical techniques and tools
  
• Motivate clients to sustain focus and steer them towards ultimate success.

Now comes an important Question.
Can you be a Life Coach?
The answer is ‘YES’ you can.

Life Coaching is a skill that you can master just like any other.

Here’s Life Coach Ingrid Cliff….

	My journey to coaching reflects my inner journey and personal growth. I have been in human resources for over 20 years. During that time I became part of many executives search for meaning.   I developed an interest in alternative healing therapies to help the process towards my personal growth happen in a smoother and gentler way. This interest started to combine with my human resources work as there were strong overlaps between personal growth strategies and my theoretical base. In the past few years I found that the area that I loved the most in human resources was working with senior executives to improve their performance and leadership skills. While all our discussions started by focussing on their work issues, we discovered that challenges at work often reflected challenges in other areas of their lives. We naturally moved into a coaching relationship as part of this journey. Observing and being part of the changes they made in their lives was exciting and very fulfilling. I now have my own business ‘Heart Harmony’, and coach full time.

Coaches today come from all sorts of professional and personal backgrounds. Heath, Education, Business, Finance, Management, Marketing, Sales and Administration just to name a few.

If you’re a person who people come to for help, support and guidance you’re probably already ‘coaching’ at a certain level.

You can now take your ‘natural’ mentoring, leadership and communication skills and develop them into a structure to ‘coach’ people professionally.

What do YOU want out of Coaching?

That’s a question worth reflecting on. You see, a person becomes a professional coach primarily for one reason and one reason only…

To have a positive, profound and enduring life changing affect on another person's life! That desire is at the fundamental heart of what coaching is all about.

And that’s what makes coaching such a powerful and rewarding profession.

As a qualified coach, you’ll also…

• Expand your natural skills in mentoring, leading and assisting others into a formal qualification.
  
  
• You’ll be able to utilise your coaching skills to create an extremely rewarding self-employment opportunity.
  
  
• You can Fast-Track your career by giving yourself great options for career advancement in the future.
  
  
• And as a parent or grandparent you’ll be able to further develop the careers and life choices of your children and grandchildren as you become more effective role models and leaders in your family.

Is it any wonder that coaching is the 2nd fastest growth industry in the world!

Here’s Life Coaching Graduate Glenys Savage…

	When I first heard about Life Coaching I was working in Real Estate, separated with three children, and working sometimes thirteen days straight. The last thing I would call my life was balanced. My children never saw me, we rarely even ate together and my social life was going to work seminars. Something triggered when I saw the ad to become a Life Coach, as my favorite role at work was that of motivator and trainer. My decision to become a coach was so I could help other women in business create a healthy balance in their lives.   I have now received my Certificate (and am still smiling) and have started up my own Life Coaching practice called G.Y.S.T. LIFE COACHING (Get Your Self Together). My life is in balance and my children are happy because they have their mother back.

The Life Coaching Institute (LCI) delivers accredited Coaching qualifications…

…And is the only NATIONAL educator to do so!

LCI delivers the Certificate IV in Life Coaching and Diploma of Life Coaching. Both courses are accredited, nationally recognised qualifications under the Australian Qualifications Framework and recognised all around Australia and overseas.

The Certificate IV in Life Coaching is the most popular coaching qualification in the country. It has 9 units, 3 practical assessments, and 9 Tele-Classes. It’s the ideal entry level qualification into the coaching industry.

The Diploma of Life Coaching is the perfect qualification if you want a more thorough understanding of underlying coaching theories. It has 17 Units, including 16 core Units and one Specialty Stream of study (there is a choice of six specialty streams).

If you’d like to finetune your practical coaching skills and boost your confidence, you’re also welcome to attend additional optional workshops for both courses.

Here’s Life Coaching Graduate Liz Moody

	This course has added enormously to my skills as a coach. I am an NLP Trainer and since completing this course, have expanded the ways in which I add value to my clients. The techniques I have mastered, have lead me to work with a broader variety of clients with excellent results. And the marketing strategies and business planning process has proved to be extremely beneficial, and my client base, which has grown rapidly, must be attributed to the methods learned in this program. I now regularly receive referrals from happy clients, further proof of the benefits of becoming a Certified Life Coach with the Institute.

The subjects of the Certificate IV in Life Coaching include: -

In addition to the above 9 Units, the Diploma of Life Coaching includes the following Units, beginning with a series of four units that examine each of the four coaching approaches in detail:

A notable feature of the Certificate IV in Life Coaching and Diploma of Life Coaching is that they are supported by a range of Specialty Streams.  Each Specialty Stream has been specifically developed to provide you with the opportunity to gain a higher level of practical and theoretical knowledge in specific fields of coaching that are currently in high demand.

If you are completing the Diploma of Life Coaching, then your final unit is comprised of a Specialty Stream of your choice and you are able to complete further additional Specialty Streams, if you choose.  If you undertake the Certificate IV program, you can also complete as many Specialty Streams as you desire. The coaching specialties are:

Business Coaching

The Business Coaching Specialty Stream is ideal for Coaches wanting to assist business owners with issues relating to the establishment, growth and change in their business.  Business Coaches can assist business owners establish an initial vision for their business, establish a business purpose, set and achieve goals, maintain motivation, monitor performance, manage stress and implement strategies for renewal and growth.   The Business Coaching Specialty Stream covers topics such as: Coaching interventions and techniques to use with business owners. Assisting business owners develop strategies for improved business performance and management. Developing Action Plans to identify and remedy business problems.

Executive Coaching

The Executive Coaching Specialty Stream provides a framework for coaches to work with executives within the corporate arena. Executives seek coaching for a variety of reasons including enhancing their time management skills, improving their motivation, managing stress levels, encouraging innovative thinking and advancing their leadership skills. Assisting an executive in maintaining a greater degree of balance between their work and personal life is also a common coaching scenario.   Areas covered in this Specialty Stream include: Acquiring a knowledge of executive environments including business protocols, organisational structures and communication channels. Working to improve performance of a client who has managerial authority and responsibility. Understanding the link between improved executive performance and improved company performance. Helping the client to improve interpersonal relationships. Coaching interventions and techniques to use with executive clients. Strategies for time and stress management. Career consulting and coaching.

Workplace Coaching

Workplace Coaching is a high-growth coaching specialty as companies become increasingly aware of how the attitudes and motivation of employees and workplace teams can impact overall company performance. Workplace Coaches work with both individuals and teams in the workplace setting in a variety of coaching situations including improving individual and team motivation and performance, clarifying visions and strategies, building positive work environments, helping individuals and teams to cope with change, and working with employees to identify workplace problems and implement solutions.   The Workplace Coaching Specialty Stream covers: Techniques for group coaching. Effective teamwork strategies. Strategies to remedy business problems and improve workplace functioning. Creating a shared vision and working towards common goals. The process of coaching for peak performance.

Career Coaching

Selina Scoble (Olympian and Professional Life Coach) estimates that 80% of her coaching clients require Career Coaching at some stage during the coaching process, irrespective of their initial reasons for attending coaching. Career Coaches work with clients on changes or transitions in their career to establish a career that aligns with their strengths and preferences. Career Coaching is useful for clients changing the direction of their career, transitioning from one work role to another or re-entering the workforce after an extended absence.   Topics covered in the Career Coaching Specialty Stream include: Assessing job-personality fit and vocational suitability assessments. Appropriate coaching interventions for career transitions. Factors in career satisfaction. Developing a career plan. Strategies for clients to re-enter the workforce after extended absence. Supporting clients during the commencement of a new role.

Health & Wellness Coaching

General health and wellness is an important and growing area of concern for many. Health and/or Lifestyle Coaches work with clients to achieve balance between work and leisure pursuits, set health-related goals, formulate a holistic plan for self-care, and moderate self-defeating lifestyle patterns. It is a very rewarding field of coaching as clients make changes in their lives that positively influence their health, which in turn improves their self-confidence and outlook on life.   The Health and Wellness Specialty Stream addresses: The dimensions of health and wellness. Understanding the difference between 'health' and 'wellness'. The importance of a positive outlook and positive self-regard in achieving optimal wellness. Negative behaviours that impact a person’s health and wellness. The nature of stress and strategies for the management of stress. Nutritional principles and the benefits of an active lifestyle. Strategies for achieving optimal health and wellness. Techniques to help clients change behaviours. Becoming aware of your own 'wellness' level and its impact on your role as a life coach.

Life Cycle Coaching

‘Change’ is an inevitable part of life and effective ways to help clients manage change greatly assists them lead a more fulfilled life. Life Cycle Coaching supports clients during life transitions and change related issues, including employment related changes, mid-life, changes to family structure, relationship changes and shifts in sense of purpose and life focus.   Topics covered in the Life Cycle Specialty Stream include: Understanding the stages of the human life cycle, and the influences and issues that impact on the life cycle. Strategies for coping with life transitions. Applying life cycle coaching principles in a variety of life cycle coaching contexts. Assisting clients to manage change in their life. Awareness of the impact your own life cycle may have on your role as a Life Coach.

We’ve invested hundreds of thousands of dollars over the last 6 years developing, refining and producing industry leading course materials and resources that set the BENCHMARK for Life Coaching education.

We’ve done this in close consultation with many of the industry's most highly respected and qualified master coaches…

…With the goal of DRAMATICALLY improving your comprehension and understanding and to make the learning experience one that is FUN, INSPIRATIONAL AND EMPOWERING.

We are the only Life Coaching training provider in Australia that provides students with study materials that have been specifically designed for self-paced learning. Each set of activities within each professionally presented Workbook is referenced back to extensively researched Books of Readings. This unique feature significantly assists your comprehension and minimises your time spent on ‘chasing up’ information. In effect helping you move through your studies in a quicker timeframe.

All the learning material you require to complete your studies is provided to you. You don’t have to purchase any additional textbooks or search for other resources. Our dedicated Course Development Team have worked tirelessly to cleverly design the course resources.  Each Unit has its own Workbook and associated Book of Readings. The Books of Readings utilise over 50 associated coaching textbooks from the most astute, highly regarded and influential coaches from around the world.

You’ll be fully supported by the Industry's largest and most highly qualified team of professionals…

Your course has been professionally developed to ensure that upon completion you have the confidence, skills and knowledge to be a highly effective and respected Life Coach. We understand that fitting study into a busy lifestyle that may already be full with work and family commitments can be challenging. That’s why we’ve developed a unique, completely flexible approach to Life Coaching education. We call it ‘Flex Learning.’

Flex Learning is a methodology for the way in which we’ve developed, and deliver, the Certificate IV and Diploma of Life Coaching. Flex Learning puts you in control over when, where and how quickly you learn. With Flex Learning you are able to structure your preferred study methods around the many flexible delivery options we make available to you.

For instance, if you want to study full time you can choose to increase your practical contact time and Fast Track your studies to graduate sooner. Or perhaps like the majority of students you are working full or part time, and would prefer to integrate your studies around other important responsibilities. Well, Flex Learning gives you the best of both worlds by allowing you to self pace through your studies, integrating face to face practical content together with external support such as evening TeleClasses and an interactive student network.

Flex Learning allows you to complete your accredited and nationally recognised Diploma of Life Coaching or Certificate IV in Life Coaching in the time frame that suits you – and with the study and support structure that best meets your learning needs.

Flex Training Materials include a complete set of thoroughly researched and referenced readings and workbooks. This cohesive set of training resources allows you to undertake study at your leisure, away from a classroom style environment. In fact, if your lifestyle requires it, you can complete practically all your studies externally utilising these professionally compiled training materials.

 

The theoretical component of each Unit is supplemented by a two-hour TeleClass.  TeleClasses aid the important transition from theory to application. During a TeleClass, you will be part of an interactive group coaching and teaching environment. You can attend the TeleClass for each Unit at any time after the Unit’s workbook has been successfully completed. TeleClasses are scheduled weekly and include discussion of concepts and their application in a coaching environment, demonstration of skills, and practice of skill application. All TeleClasses are facilitated by an Institute Master Coach.

 

When you’d like to apply your newfound coaching theory in a practical and supportive environment, the optional Practice Makes Perfect workshops are the ideal forum. These workshops run regularly on weekends at Student Fulfilment Centres. Each workshop enables you to apply specific coaching theory to practical coaching scenarios under the guidance and supervision of an accredited Life Coach and in the company of other students at a similar stage of development. After completing the Practice Makes Perfect workshops, your skill level and confidence will skyrocket!

 

When you are ready, and have completed the relevant written units, you have the opportunity to put your coaching skills to the test at the Skill Assessment Workshops. This is where you demonstrate to a qualified Life Coach that you can apply the knowledge and skills you have learned in a practical setting. In this supportive environment, your assessor will work with you one-on-one to perfect your skills, providing you with feedback and opportunities to learn and expand your knowledge and experience.

As you progress toward your goal of becoming an accredited Life Coach, you’ll be fully supported by our team of Coaching Advisers as you access Flex Support.

Through Flex Support you have access to a personal Coaching Adviser by phone and email for immediate study assistance. The Toll Free 1300 Study Assistance Hotline gives you direct access to your Coaching Adviser who will answer questions about assessment topics, clarify any concepts or information from your workbooks or readings, and provide personal coaching on completing your assessment. Your Coaching Adviser is available from Monday to Friday, 9am to 5pm (EST) to ensure you understand the learning material and are able to apply your knowledge to the activities and case studies you work through.

Here’s Life Coaching Graduate and 2000 Olympian Selinda Scoble

	The most key benefit for studying with LCIA was that the course was self-paced. This was the best thing for me as I was working full time when I first started study and couldn't give that up. The workbooks and readings were great. They were easy to read and very informative. The support system from LCIA was another huge benefit. To know that you could pick up the phone at any time to ask questions or talk to someone for support was fantastic. All the staff were very encouraging, supportive, professional and friendly.

One of the most critical aspects to a qualification, is your ability to use it in the marketplace…

As a graduate, you’ll be invited into the industry's most powerful business network that can skyrocket the success of your coaching business…

Unfortunately, after graduation, many course providers simply leave their graduates to fend for themselves. Once you have your qualification, there is a whole new world of possibility – there’s also a whole new world of challenges!

The reality of the situation is this: Having the support you require AFTER GRADUATION, is as important as the qualification itself!

To assist you apply your new skills after graduation, LCI has developed the industry's most comprehensive business development and support program. We call it CoachIQ™ (“Be an Intelligent Coach”). As a member of CoachIQ™ you’ll receive an enormous number of benefits, including:

• Your own personal Master Coach who will work with you to help you innovate and implement proven strategies to take your practice to the next level of personal and financial success.
  
  
• Advertising and Marketing support. You’ll have access to proven advertising and marketing templates to use and profit from that’ll assist you attract the right clients from day one.
  
  
• You’ll also have access to results producing brochures to market your services, and professional stationery including Letterheads, Business Cards and With Compliments Slips, all branded with the Life Coaching Institute brand to endorse the credibility of your business and services.
  
  
• Your own website (subdomain) linked to LCI’s website (which receives in excess of 300,000 hits per month!). You’ll also get a listing on the LCI Find a Coach search engine, Australia’s leading search engine specifically for coaches. This service alone has been quoted by one member as “the single most powerful means of attracting clients to my coaching business.”
  
  
• You’ll receive prioritised client referrals. As a CoachIQ™ member the Institute will refer clients to you. LCI receives an enormous number of enquiries nationally for coaching services that we pass directly to our graduates via CoachIQ™.
  
  
• You’ll have ongoing access to products that the Institute develops to assist you grow your business and build stronger client relationships. This will assist grow your income potential significantly and vastly reduce the time you need to put into product development. Products include e-courses, workshops, seminars, client resources, referral programs and much more.
  
  
• You’ll be invited to join some of the country's most professional coach networks where some of Australia’s leading coaches meet to share their ideas and experiences.
  
  
• You’ll be provided with Industry Association Membership to the Australian Life Coaching Association (ALCA), one of the leading coach membership associations. Your membership will serve as an endorsement of your skills and adds credibility to your qualification.
  
  
• And you’ll have access to a Case Management Adviser that can assist you with any client related issues you may experience.
  

Coaches are not only living their dream; they’re building six figure income businesses to boot!

Not only are coaches transforming their lives, many coaches have developed big six figure income businesses. Whilst coaches charge vastly different fee levels for their services (usually depending on their experience, specialty and confidence), as a guide, most private clients pay between $200 and $500 per month to their coaches.

Depending on your expertise and the outcome required, businesses will pay between $1000 and $5000 a month. Elite coaches with specialised skills also negotiate performance payments which can see them earning well over $250,000 per year. When you add to this the opportunity for coaches to package and sell products that they develop, coaching can be a very rewarding profession personally, professionally and financially.

Your most cost effective path to a recognised Coaching qualification

Considering everything you’ve read about our nationally accredited courses, the support systems and our personnel, you may find it difficult to understand how it’s also the most competitively priced course of its kind in the country.

We’d like to quickly explain.

If you’re comparing other education opportunities you’ll very quickly find that LCIA’s courses are the most competitively priced qualification of their kind in Australia.

It seems ironic, but so many people enquiring about our programs ask, “How can you offer all this for that price?”

It’s a valid and logical question. Naturally people tend to associate quality with price.

However, when you have VOLUME you can have the best of Price and Quality.

Just think about this for a moment. Other training providers also have premises and staff, and advertise their programs (the main costs for an education company). But they need to fund those costs with 5% to 10% of the number of students LCIA has. So how do they manage to offset those costs? Well, they have to charge significantly more for their programs! And that also doesn’t leave them with much to invest back into course development to maintain quality and applicability.

So, although initially it seems a little strange at first, now you can see how it makes sense that we can (and do!) offer the highest quality programs, with the best support services and graduate outcomes, for the most competitive investment!

Achieve your aspirations in coaching for only 20% to 50% of the investment of other providers…

That’s right! Other coaching training providers charge 2 to 5 times more for their programs because they don’t have the volume cost efficiencies. (And in most instances can’t provide you with anywhere near the same level of support!).

And you can receive even greater savings by making your investment upfront (we pass our administration cost savings back to you), or take advantage of regular monthly payments plans over 12 or 21 months.

Certificate IV in Life Coaching

* Investment indicated for Specialty Streams includes GST.

Diploma of Life Coaching

* Investment indicated for Specialty Streams includes GST.

An investment that’s easy to make with our unique ‘Guarantee of Coaching Excellence.’

We’re so confident in our ability to deliver to you the most applicable and practical course available – with the best support services – that if for any reason whatsoever you decide you do not want to proceed with your course within 30-days of enrolling, we will give you a 100% no questions asked money back guarantee! It’s a guarantee no other Life Coaching provider offers and totally relieves you of any risk!

A SPECIAL BONUS OFFER to encourage you to begin NOW.

If you enrol online and include an additional** Specialty Stream with your enrolment, we’ll give you a second Specialty Stream totally FREE (valued at $495)…

AND, if you enrol in 2 additional** Specialty Streams, we’ll give you 2 Streams for FREE (Value $990)!!!

** This Offer does not apply to the Specialty Stream selected as part of your Diploma of Life Coaching.  It only applies to Specialty Streams purchased in addition to your Diploma of Life Coaching course.

So, ACT NOW and start pursuing your dream of becoming a qualified Life Coach…

• Make your work a labor of love, rather than just labor!
  
  
• Live a life of passion as you live your dream.
  
  
• Escape from the shackles of your depressing workplace and surround yourself with positive and exciting people.
  
  
• Free yourself of the 9 to 5 mindset and be your own boss!

This is all achievable. People are living it RIGHT THIS INSTANT, and so can you…

Your first step on the journey to become a qualified Life Coach, begins HERE.