Curriculum
This program has 6 intensive modules and runs over a period of approximately 12 months. Its structure optimises development and integration, allows time for practice and meaning making, builds a peer coaching and feedback culture, deepens and accelerates learning.
Attendees on this programme are fully committed to advancing their expertise in developing and growing potential in themselves, their people and the organisations they work with and for. They realise it takes both inner work and outer work to do this well.
The program has a learning/growth activity each month and is made up of 6 levels of learning and intensity.
The core purpose is to develop your grasp and expertise in growing potential and authentic leaders through your one on one and one to team interactions.
It places personal and interpersonal growth at the core of professional leadership development.
In essence we take a holistic approach and interweave and integrate practical, emotional, creative, interpersonal, intellectual and other learning within an educational framework.
“Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom” - Aristotle
Module 1
Opening the Way
Advanced coaching & mentoring – 4 days
The content will be a synthesis of the following:
Models and definitions – including holistic intelligence, leadership maps
Advanced use of coaching & mentoring gateways – including guiding, meaning, challenging, feeling, enabling, valuing
Understanding the social brain
Focus, continuity, session flow & timing
5-steps to coaching & mentoring
Expanding intuition - noticing and sensing skills
Approaches to goal setting, debriefing, problem solving
Practicing the feedback loop
Module 1 Course work:
Forming the peer coaching groups, planning course work for the year and introducing the practice client project
Module 2
Meeting of Waves
Mastering emotional intelligence, personal & interpersonal development – 4 days
The content will be a synthesis of the following:
Growing self-awareness and emotional intelligence
Mindfulness practices
Ancient models of personal development from time honoured traditions
Projection, transference and counter-transference
Understanding psycho-dynamics
Communication and interpersonal skills
Giving and receiving feedback
Building self-esteem and confidence
Module 2 Course work:
Peer coaching groups, supervision of practice client
Module 3
Breaking Ground
Awareness, feedback & holistic intelligence – 3 days
The content will be a synthesis of the following
Expanding awareness, mindfulness and presence
Mastering feedback practices
Balancing 4 intelligences
Self care and resilience
Exploring growth limiting mind patterns, attitudes & behaviours
Enneagram teachings
Enabling others to grow awareness and emotional intelligence
Module 3 Course work:
Peer coaching groups, supervision practice client and presentations
Module 4
Winds of Change
Creating coaching & mentoring cultures – 3 days
The content will be a synthesis of the following:
The art of facilitating small peer coaching groups
Creating a feedback culture - giving, receiving, asking feedback
Understanding and working with small group & organisational dynamics
Working with resistance
Empowering and motivation
Collaboration, transparency and other approaches to power
Coaching culture planning and design
Module 4 Course work:
On-going practice client, peer coaching groups, presentation
Module 5
Ripple Effect
Mastering professional practice – 4 days
The content will be a synthesis of the following:
Growing further confidence in scripting, empty chair and simulation approaches
How to work with overwhelm, stress and anxiety
Enabling positive framing and pro active attitudes in others
Valuing and challenging practices
Change cycles and transformation
Standards of professional practice including values & ethics, contracting, boundaries & referral, cultural context, record keeping
Evaluation and quality control
Challenges of the different professions and professional settings
Looking after yourself in your role
Module 5 Course work:
Peer coaching groups, practice client project completion and study presentation
Module 6
Completing the Cycle
Self, peer and collaborative assessment and integration – 3 days
This is an integral part of the learning process and elements of assessment will run through all levels.
The aim of this module is to integrate and complete development within the course through an intensive self, peer and collaborative assessment procedure. To look at ’where to now’, and what are you accrediting yourself to do.
Criteria are agreed between facilitators and participants for assessment relevant to the learning goals of the course and participants own development. We will determine and apply the assessment procedure.
Reflection and evaluation – what have we learned, changed, applied?
Where to next, what can we commit to?
Graduation and celebration
Course work
Peer coaching groups
Groups of 3 are formed during the first 4-day module. They will meet (virtual or actual) on average 2-3 hours a month. Minimum requirement is 22 hours.
The peer groups are an integral component of the programme and will be peer led. Their aim is to practice coaching & mentoring with each other using the feedback loop, to integrate learning, share insight and current challenges, supervise practice clients, present and discuss casework, prepare for the next module and to identify further developmental needs.
Presentation
Prepare and present a relevant aspect of coaching & mentoring as part of your study for module 3, 4 or 5. The theoretical presentation will be a maximum of 20 minutes.
Practice client project
Work with a practice client starting after Module 1 for at least 10 hours, supervised within the peer learning groups and in your personal supervision.
Prepare and introduce your client, including stages of the relationship, elements that worked, and what needs changing for module 5. You will be given project information and steps to follow.
Self, peer and collaborative assessment
This is an integral part of the learning process and elements of assessment and collaborative feedback will run through all modules.
Supervision (optional and recommended)
If you already have a Spirited Leadership coach/mentor we recommend you to continue. For those who have not we recommend you start. The purpose is to process and deepen your learning.
The certificate will be awarded once all 6 levels and all course work have been completed. 80% attendance for both the modules and peer coaching groups is required and all course work has been completed.
Essential learning methods
This exciting new programme has a powerful development approach that blends together different types of learning.
Experiential holistic self-discovery
Autonomous self-discovery through structured and unstructured experience, in which emphasis is placed on a person’s innate ability to learn from their own and others’ thoughts, feelings, bodies, perceptions and intuitions. Time is set aside for reflecting on the process and drawing out meaning and significance.
Skills training and practice
Using role-play, intensive coaching, pair and small group work, learning groups, peer supervision and feedback, mindfulness, observation and analysis.
A vital learning community
Facilitators and participants aim to balance hierarchy with co-operative and self-directed ways of working. Reflective practice and working with individual and group needs as they arise, will be used to further enable the development of the learning community.
Theoretical study
This includes theoretical input from the facilitator as well as from participants. Models and theory will be offered and collaboratively explored.
From their private study course participants will prepare and give a presentation of maximum 20 minutes to the group either in level 3 or 4 as part of the required course work.
Transpersonal exploration
Exploring and challenging our belief structures and perceived realities by understanding the transpersonal dimension of experience and its relevance in coaching & mentoring and in self-care. We will explore psychological frameworks and experiential methods.
Dates
2023/2024
Module 1 – Opening the Way – 16, 17, 18, 19 May 2023 - 4 days
Module 2 – Meeting of Waves – 26, 27, 28, 29 July - 4 days
Module 3 – Breaking Ground – 20, 21, 22 September - 3 days
Module 4 – Winds of Change – 21, 22, 23 November - 3 days
Module 5 – Ripple Effect – January 23, 24, 25, 26 - 4 days (these dates are flexible)
Module 6 – Completing the Cycle – March 2024 - 3 days
Completion of the certificate requires completion of all 6 modules
Pricing
and application
The full price for the Certificate course is $16,500 plus GST and all course materials.
Payment can be spread over ten months
The course is limited to 9 places. This means a high value personalised attention approach.
Pricing does not include accommodation, breakfast or evening meals.