Advanced Diploma in Integrative Coaching
A programme for coaches who want to take a deep dive into working with meaning-making in their clients and themselves
Locating ourselves and our practice together
Practical Beyond Words sessions
Meaning-making and your practice
Ethical Questions for the 2020s
It’s taken almost ten years, and a lot of work on ourselves, for the Advanced Diploma in Integrative Coaching to evolve into what it is today. Beginning life as a fairly traditional ILM7 qualification in coaching and mentoring, it now invites participants and us as their coaches to confront our own feelings of not-enoughness as we explore together what exactly is going on when we meet with individuals, teams or systems in the course of developing our coaching practice.
The programme is built around two three-day residential retreats, the first held each September and the second in the following June. In these retreats, we explore a wide range of topics such as the nature and application of meaning-making frameworks to areas with which many coaching clients wrestle, the potential to integrate ideas of several voices from the world of psychotherapy into the work we carry out in the coaching room and how we might create a Beyond Words element into our practice. These and other inquiries are supplemented by nine three-hour online sessions, one during each month between the two residential blocks, in which we combine learning sessions with practical coaching experience and supervision.
Each participant will be offered the chance to complete the Harthill Consulting Leadership Development Profile, and to discuss their report with one of the programme faculty. They will also work together in coaching trios for the full duration of the programme.
Key inquiry topics covered in the programme include:
Bringing Buber, Bion and Girard into the coaching room
Movement and meaning
New ways of seeing the CLEAR model
Connecting ourselves and our work with a wider ecosystem
We will soon be releasing full details about the next cohort, which begins with a residential block in September 2027. Participants are usually experienced coaches or therapists seeking to move into coaching; however, a few people with no coaching experience have joined each cohort and found the programme to be of benefit both personally and professionally.
We’d love to meet you to discuss whether this is the best coaching programme for you.
Accredited by the Association for Coaching (AC). Successful completion and completion of the required coaching hours guarantees individual AC Coach Accreditation at the appropriate level.