Rigorous, Ethical Coach Training
A university-level, multi-instructor life coach training program designed to build real skill, strong ethics, and real-world readiness.
A more credible path into coaching
The coaching industry does not need more hype, faster certifications, or shallow promises. It needs better-trained coaches.
The Coaching Guild is a university-level, multi-instructor life coach training program for people who want a more serious, ethical, and credible path into this work. We are not built around one guru, one method, or one personality. We are built to help students develop real coaching skill, strong ethical grounding, and the capacity to work well with actual human complexity.
This program is designed for people who want to do this work well. It is rigorous, relational, and grounded in the belief that coaching should be practiced with competence, consent, and integrity.
What makes The Coaching Guild different
The difference is in how this program is built.
The Coaching Guild is designed as a university-level, multi-instructor training experience that develops real coaching skill over time. Rather than centering one personality, one method, or a fast-track certification model, the program is structured to help students build ethical grounding, relational depth, practical competence, and real-world readiness.
Inside the program, students engage coaching as a serious discipline. They learn across multiple areas of practice, receive instruction from multiple perspectives, and develop their capacity through both live learning and applied work. The goal is not just to help students feel inspired. It is to help them become capable.
Can I afford it?
The standard tuition for The Coaching Guild is $9,950.
We also believe serious coach training should be more financially possible, which is why The Coaching Guild offers equity-based tuition
and self-designed payment plans.
We do not believe rigorous training should only be available to people with the easiest financial circumstances. If this program feels like the right fit, we invite you to start a conversation about what is possible.
What you’ll learn inside the program
The Coaching Guild is designed to help students build real coaching skill across ethics, relational depth, practical application, and the realities of professional practice. This is not training built around inspiration alone. It is training built to make you more capable.
Inside the program, students learn how to:
- coach with stronger presence, discernment, and relational skill
- practice with consent, competence, and integrity
- understand ethics, boundaries, and the responsibilities of coaching work
- respond more skillfully to trauma, mental health realities, and human complexity
- work across difference with greater cultural awareness and care
- build confidence in real coaching conversations, not just theory
- develop a clearer coaching identity and style
- understand the foundations of building a sustainable coaching practice
Students are trained in both the art and responsibility of coaching. The goal is not simply to help you feel ready. The goal is to help you become genuinely prepared.
How the program works
The Coaching Guild is built for depth, not speed. This is a university-level, multi-instructor
life coach training program that takes a minimum of 18 months to complete.
Students attend live calls twice each week and learn from a variety of exceptional instructors with deep experience in their areas of expertise. The structure is designed to give students more than inspiration or information. It is designed to build real coaching skill through sustained learning, live teaching, applied work, and developmental challenge.
This is not a fast-track certification. It is a serious training experience for people who want to become skilled, ethical, real-world coaches.
Prerequisites
We want you to start strong
All applicants must submit an application and have an entrance interview.
Before class start date, applicants must have:
- A basic starter website for your business
- At least one 101 level psychology class (If you do not have the college leve psych class, we can point you to where you can get it online with very minimal cost. )
- You will need a computer and reliable access to the internet to access the conference line for classes
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- A basic starter website for your business
- At least one 101 level psychology class (If you do not have the college leve psych class, we can point you to where you can get it online with very minimal cost. )
- You will need a computer and reliable access to the internet to access the conference line for classes
Graduation and Certification Requirements
We want you to finish prepared
- Complete all coursework as assigned
- Complete the Positive Psychiatry Course from the University of Sydney – Coursera
- Complete 40 documented client session hours
- 5 instructor or academic mentor coaches reviewed client sessions
- Tuition and all other fees paid in full
- Complete a panel certification interview
The Coaching Guild requires annual
re-certification.
Re-certification requirements include:
- Submit documentation for a minimum of 5 hours of pro-bono work or community support
- Submit documentation for a minimum of 10 hours of approved coaching-related continuing education
- Pay $50.00 annual recertification fee
Annual Retreat
Staying Connected and Growing Together
The Annual Retreat is an opportunity to meet and grow in person. The retreat will feature plenty of group learning time, play time, self-care time, and good old fashioned alone doing nothing time.
The retreat is included in the price of tuition for active students at no additional charge. It is $695.00 for alumni. (transportation and accommodations not included).
The first retreat will be held at Puerto Nuevo Hotel and Villas in beautiful Baja Mexico, ninety minutes South of San Diego.
Dates to be announced.
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