The Metavision Institute in the beautiful Southern Highlands, one and a half hours south of Sydney, offers courses in Holistic Psychotherapy and Counseling. The new Metavision Holistic Coaching course is being run for the first time from the 28 May 2009. The course is facilitated by coach, facilitator and business development consultant, Rosemary Shapiro-Liu.

Participants are likely to already be involved in some form of work with people, and would want to increase their knowledge about coaching, and skills to coach.

Rosemary currently works with the School for Social Entrepreneurs in Auburn, Sydney, and offers coaching to a variety of clients, especially people in holistic work and those involved in social entrepreneurship.

The course will run over three modules of two days each - 28 & 29 May, 18 & 19 June and 20 & 21 August 2009 (Thursdays and Fridays). Participants will receive a Certificate in Holistic Coaching.

It is important that participants have had a certain amount of experience in counseling, coaching, pscyhotherapy or similar modalities. They will need to have a suitable level of interpersonal skills to get the most out of the course. To assess that, there is an application procedure for the Holistic Coaching Course.

During the course participants will expand their current understanding of and practice in coaching, exploring how to work with clients holistically. The course is experiential and will make use of group exercises and peer training and teaching. There is an expectation that participants will have knowledge, skills and experience, and this will be shared during the course, with a focus on coaching skills and techniques.A good deal of Action Learning techniques are incorporated into the course.

The focus will be on training participants to assist their clients to articulate and reach their goals, in a balanced and holistic practice.

Sessions will cover:

• An introduction to Holistic Coaching
• Exploring clients and client needs
• Coaching Skills and Tools within a Holistic mileu
• Ethics of Coaching, clarity and boundaries
• Preparation for incorproation of the course content into your present or future practice.

There will be some assignments between sessions that will be more experiential than time-consuming.

By the end of the course participants will understand the difference between coaching and other one-to-one work with clients (for example psychotherapy, mentoring, supervising, counseling, healing) and will have the skills to work with the present and the future with their clients. They will be able to assist clients to achieve mutually agreed-upon goals, empowering their clients to take ownership of their growth and development. Participants will learn from one another and the facilitator, and will have put in place a plan for their own practice. Participants will have a “toolkit” of skills and tools and will know how to take their learning further after the course.  

Participants will work on freeing people to be the best they can be, and will be encouraged to enjoy their practice and work with their own strengths.

Please find further information at the www.metavision.com.au and fill in an Application Form. See also fees and registration.

Feel free to call Rosemary Shapiro-Liu at 0405 392827 for further information.