Program goal: to train coaches to provide services that will create options for work and personal life building meaningful and fulfilling lives. This is done while simultaneously healing emotional pain and stress through unleashing the client’s inner potential. Inner potential consists of teaching the client to access their deepest knowledge learned over a life time stored in the subconscious mind as well as accessing a creative force (however the client defines it.).
The program emphasizes life coaching integrated with the ability to do business and executive coaching.
LCI Coaching: Coaching focuses on helping people to create the lives they want and to set up goals and strategies for doing that. Unlike counseling it does not go into past problems to any great degree, nor does it focus on problems. Rather coaching makes a reality of what people want.
From 20 years of experience as a life coach, Dr. Dianne Greyerbiehl has built a framework for coaching that involves accessing both the conscious and subconscious mind, as well as a creative force as defined by the client. It focuses on what people want and how to make that happen. However, both internal and external barriers get in the way of achieving the goals of building a better life. In order to move forward, those barriers must be moved out of the way. Sometimes, it involves just problem solving how to do this and setting up new strategies for coping with the problem. Sometimes, however, it involves going into a deep change process where some knowledge of counseling techniques and deep change strategies are essential.
The deep change process involves knowing how to help clients access their intuitive wisdom (subconscious knowledge) where solutions to the barriers lay. This includes knowing a range of techniques from three distinct fields of research positive psychology, neuropsychological functioning and deeper consciousness. Techniques that are taught from these areas include visualization, some Gestalt approaches, brain-based training approaches, mindfulness, positive psychology strategies, finding the empowered self using narrative therapy, core transformation and accessing the client’s own spiritual resources.
Coaching Philosophy: We believe you create your lifestyle through your intentions (what you want), beliefs and choices. The result is a mixture of positive and negative outcomes. Consequently, it’s important to emphasize building what you want through establishing a life plan, while learning how to manage your problems.
To do this it’s important to pay attention to all aspects of living – spirit/life meaning, mind, emotional, physical and interpersonal realities. However, we believe that the spirit/life meaning domain is the driving force for creating positive life choices and opportunities in daily living. This force consists of your intuitive inner self and a creative force (as you define it).
We believe you have the capacity within yourself to solve your problems and build the life you want. However, you may need help learning how to access this intuitive inner knowledge. We provide that help through coaching to facilitate the growth of inner potential, change thinking patterns, improve communication and produce a thriving life.
I. Program of Training for Basic Certification
Required Courses:
Basic Coaching (12 weeks, 2.5 hours per session): a course that presents the basic strategies of life coaching. This includes setting up a life plan, assessment procedures, coaching communication, ethics and goal setting. This learning is applied by working with two to three clients totaling 20 hours of direct coaching.
Positive Psychology Coaching (12 weeks, 2.5 hours per session): a course that presents advanced coping strategies for developing a positive meaningful lifestyle. In-depth positive psychology coaching techniques are presented to support this process in the client including a range of ways to access the subconscious mind and intuitive knowing. This information is applied by working with two to three clients totaling 20 hours of direct coaching. .
Applied Coaching: Practicum and Building a Practice ( 10 weeks, 2.5 hours per session): 60 hours of hands-on life coaching with clients are required using the life coaching framework and strategies learned. In addition how to build and run a thriving life coaching business will be addressed.
This training involves a one year commitment. Successful completion of all three courses will result in basic certification as a life coach. Application for International Coaching Federation (ICF) program certification is in process.
II. Program of Training for Professional Certification
Prerequisite: Basic certification as a life coach; completion of the courses below results in certification as a professional certified life coach
Required Courses:
Transformational Coaching (10 weeks, 2.5 hours): 60 hours of hands-on life coaching with clients required using the life coaching framework and strategies learned as well as those taught within the course. Various types of deep transformational change approaches will be taught including a change model, hypnosis, mindfulness, increasing intuition, and strengthening the empowered self.
Group Coaching (6 weeks, 2.5 hours): the principles of doing life coaching within various types of groups will be a focus of this course. Contexts will include personal coaching groups and organizational coaching groups. Strategies for development and marketing groups will be discussed. Each student will be expected to participate in or develop a coaching group and attain at least 10 hours of direct coaching time.
Other Courses (Prerequisite: Basic Coaching certification)
Executive Coaching (12 sessions or five day workshop)
Business Coaching (12 sessions or five day workshop)
Body-Based Coaching (8 sessions or three day workshop)
Assessment in Coaching (6 sessions or two day workshop)
Independent Study
Formats: Face-to-face or by phone. Phone based courses often involve an intensive face-to-face 3 day training in the beginning of the course. People will be assigned buddies to work with in between classes to practice specific skills.
Unique Components
- 20 years of experience and breadth of knowledge of program director, Dr. Dianne Greyerbiehl
- 20 years of adult teaching experience at the college and adult education level
- Follow-up mentoring program
- Deep change process integral to program
- Basic skills in counseling integrated into program
- Knowledge of how to access the knowledge in the subconscious mind to provide better choices, insight and decisions.
- Curriculum geared to International Coach Federation competencies
- Holistic model of coaching that includes bringing in the faith-base/spirituality of clients (as defined by them), as well as taking into consideration the client’s interpersonal relationships, beliefs and intentions, emotions and physical health.
President of Life Coaching Institute
Dr. Dianne Greyerbiehl is the founder and president of Life Coaching Institute, Inc. Dr. Greyerbiehl holds a Ph.D. in neurocognitive psychology and speech-language pathology, as well as master’s degrees in counseling and business. She is licensed as a counselor and speech pathologist in South Carolina with over 30 years of experience as a counselor, communication specialist, teacher and organizational consultant. She is a master life coach and one of the founders of the life coaching area, building her own framework of life coaching over a 20 year period of time.
Cost of Courses: $750 per course for 10 to 12 week courses
