GAP Community’s Coaching Academy is a powerful journey designed to impart and practice the art of transformational coaching. Whether you are a professional coach, a teacher, business owner, parent, mentor, manager, or other leader in your community, the Coaching Academy will provide you with new skill, inspired perspectives and potent distinctions to equip you in championing others.

The Coaching Academy will prepare you with resources, practical knowledge and over 60 hours of guided experience, feedback, and immersive learning. While there are countless ways to develop your coaching skills, the Academy offers strength-based learning and results grounded in the core principles of transformational inquiry. We create a context in which the coaching you offer to others is not for the sake of self-improvement, rather for the sake of bringing to life that which is dormant – transforming despair into hope. You will become familiar with a style of coaching that produces sustainable results not from a formula, system, or way of doing things, rather a mastery of holding a space, standing in tension, and willingness to be fully present with another. You will practice the art of being in the deep while calling out to the deep in others.

The Coaching Academy will require you to exercise the courage to step out, challenge the status quo and inspire others to break through their current limitations to new levels of excellence, creativity and productivity.

The Academy is for individuals who are ready to make a dramatic leap in their stand for others. Graduates will become certified in a six-week coaching process that can be used for individual clients, businesses, and nonprofit organizations. The qualification offers graduates a new range of business and personal opportunities, as well as providing inspiration for new and fulfilling career and personal life paths.

The Opportunity

The Academy was established to professionally train people who are committed to having conversations that catalyze transformation of any kind in their organizations, families and communities.

Whether it is productivity, conflict resolution, change management, personal relationships, life planning, child development, or managing a team, being a coach opens up a new frontier of opportunity for you, those you serve and the community as a whole!

Promises

Learn how to champion another to realize tangible results in their life

By participating in the Academy, we promise you will:

Master the fundamentals of coaching. Learn to design, strategize and develop material and coaching strategies that will compel individuals to participate, excel and connect all aspects of their work and personal life.

Distinguish yourself as a dynamic coach by championing people to reinvent the way they relate to others and their circumstances. By identifying and shifting what people are “listening for” and practicing relevant focused listening skills, you will support others in developing strategies to help separate their identity from their results. New behavior and choices will appear and increase your ability to inject flexibility in conflicted situations by identifying common interests, revealing new possibilities.

Motivate and empower individuals to be responsible for their life. To be fierce in their conversations and to be curious and generous listeners. You will learn what it takes to coach individuals to receive feedback from others as information necessary to make lasting changes.

Advance your communication, presentation, and coaching skills by learning to actively identify the changes people long for yet may believe are impossible. By working on being flexible in your “way of being” you will identify your personal winning strategies and learn how to breakthrough your natural blind spots and create new life stories for yourself and others.