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A 16-week ICF-accredited continuing education course for certified coaches, facilitators and therapists
An overview of our course
Climate Change Coaching Mastery will expand and deepen your existing coaching skills so you can confidently and effectively co-create action on climate with your clients. This is your chance to become a climate leader by coaching others to overcome barriers to change in the context of the climate emergency and find meaning and motivation in climate action.
In this programme you will develop the skills to coach clients to:
- connect to their purpose and motivation around the climate crisis
- feel a deeper sense of power and agency to act on climate
- manage overwhelm and work with uncertainty in the face of complexity
- move from a limiting scarcity mindset to access more creative states and new perspectives
- navigate and process the emotional landscape experienced when confronted with the realities of the climate crisis
- manage their well-being so they can avoid burnout and stay on the pitch for the long term
the course at a glance
- eight, 2-hour modules of live virtual training
- a mix of theory, coaching demonstration and live practice
- 18 practical coaching tools and models
- ICF accredited with 28 CCEUs and a certificate of completion
- additional self-paced learning to watch, listen and read
- a community space to connect with your cohort
- facilitators are qualified professional coaches with climate change coaching experience
course dates
We run two courses a year, one in the (European) spring, with live sessions delivered fortnightly. The second is a fast-track in the (European) autumn with live sessions delivered weekly.
fast track
- Intro - 22 October 2024, 12-1pm BST
- Module 1 - 29 October 2024, 12-2pm BST
- Module 2 - 5 November 2024, 12-2pm GMT
- Module 3 - 12 November 2024, 12-2pm GMT
- Practical skills lab - 19 November 2024, 12-2pm GMT
- Module 4 - 26 November 2024, 12-2pm GMT
- Module 5 - 3 December 2024, 12-2pm GMT
- Practical skills lab - 10 December 2024, 12-2pm GMT
- Module 6 - 17 December 2024, 12-2pm GMT
fortnightly
- Intro - 18 March 2025, 3-4pm GMT
- Module 1 - 25 March 2025, 3-5pm GMT
- Module 2 - 8 April 2025, 3-5pm BST
- Module 3 - 22 April 2025, 3-5pm BST
- Practical skills lab - 6 May 2025, 3-5pm BST
- Module 4 - 20 May 2025, 3-5pm BST
- Module 5 - 3 June 2025, 3-5pm BST
- Practical skills lab - 17 June 2025, 3-5pm BST
- Module 6 - 1 July 2025, 3-5pm BST
Pay in full now
The full cost of the course is £1,250 + VAT. If you are UK-based you are required to pay VAT and you can register directly for the course here.
If you are based outside of the UK and have a coaching business, email us to request a VAT-exempt invoice and we’ll process it as quickly as possible.
Pay in installments
We understand that an outlay of 100 percent of the course fees all at once can be cost prohibitive so we are partnering with Go Cardless to offer multi-payment installments. We offer 2 options here, a 4-part payment plan for the fortnightly cohort and a 3-part payment plan for the fast-track cohort.
- Fortnightly payment plan – £315+VAT/payment (initial payment on registering for the course and then 3 additional payments at the start of April, May and June 2024).
- Fast track payment plan – £420+VAT/payment (initial payment on registering for the course and then 2 additional payments at the start of November and December 2024).
You can select your desired payment option at check out. To qualify for VAT-exempt course fees your billing address must be outside of the UK.
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This is an excellent, well-designed course that provides you not only with a wealth of tools for climate coaching, but with the space to dive deeper into your own emotions around the crisis with your cohort. As a result I am now better at supporting others to build the resilience, skills and sense of purpose needed to navigate complex times.
Molly Stevenson
Regenerative Coach and Team Facilitator
course details
Climate Change Coaching Mastery is a 16-week continuing education programme for certified coaches, as well as facilitators and therapists conversant in core coaching concepts (if you’re unsure whether you qualify, get in touch and we’ll be happy to discuss whether this course is a good fit for you).
The course consists of:
Module 1 - Power boundaries and contracting
- Safely bring climate into coaching conversations
- Learn to re-balance power in coaching relationships
- Bring the company's climate strategy into coaching
Module 2 - Purpose and Possibility
- Articulate your purpose in relation to climate
- Help clients find purpose and define a climate story
- Understand how motivation sustains climate action
Module 3 - Managing uncertainty and complexity
- Adopt non-attachment and model it for clients
- Deescalate overwhelm and navigate complexity
- Set more effective goals that recognise complexity
Land the learning lab 1
- Highly interactive session
- A chance to coach and observe others live with a real client from the world of climate action.
- Experience a group mapping exercise to gain deeper understanding into the needs and behaviours of an ideal client.
Module 4 - Individual and system scarcity
- Adopt a mindset that allows for possibility
- Identify and coach common triggers of scarcity
- Understand and coach systemic collusion
Module 5 - Eco-anxiety and grief
- Learn to work with eco-anxiety, anger and grief
- Adopt a coaching style that creates space for intense emotions to safely emerge
- Understand emotional flexibility in sustained action
Land the learning lab 2
- Highly interactive session
- A chance to coach and observe others live with a real client from the world of climate action.
- Experience a group mapping exercise to gain deeper understanding into the needs and behaviours of an ideal client.
Module 6 - Wellbeing and resilience
- Help clients build a practical resilience toolkit
- Embrace an attitude of deep-care
- Show clients how their work behaviours model or thwart the paradigm shift they seek to achieve
Ready to find out more?
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Ruma and Emily were compassionate and thoughtful instructors that really supported the whole premise of moving coachees from deep emotions such as sadness, guilt, anger, scarcity and overwhelm to explore purpose, goal setting and action. I will be using the tools I learned throughout my coaching practice.
Eliza Hogan
CEO Future at Play Ltd
Why do coaches need these skills?
We believe that the climate crisis is just as much a human behavioural problem as it is a scientific or technological one. This is good news because it means that we can all do something about it, and as coaches it is particularly meaningful, because behaviour change is at the heart of what we do.
This is a topic that is showing up increasingly in the coaching room – whether for parents or executive leadership – as the environmental crisis is now an undeniable part of our reality that intersects with many other critical issues.
It’s vital that coaches are equipped to step into this space with confidence and the knowledge of how to help their clients navigate this uniquely complex topic.
Climate change coaching skills allow you to support your clients to overcome their disempowerment, overwhelm and scarcity, to find the possibility within the challenges and to reimagine and build a better future.
A course you can trust
This programme has been rigourously tested and honed over 14 cohorts, including with internal coaching teams of large organisations. The course content has been assessed and accredited by the International Coach Federation, the gold standard in professional coaching.
The course content is based on the original climate change coaching methodology developed by our co-founder Charly Cox and co-author of our book, Sarah Flynn. The updated 2024 Mastery course material (previously the Climate Change Coaching Training Programme) has been refined by Charly and Mastery Programme Director Emily Buchanan, blending climate change coaching theory with leading-edge practical application.
The course is underpinned by the key foundational coaching techniques recommended by the International Coach Federation in their core competencies.
Our live modules are designed to provide a warm, supportive and collaborative learning environment, suited to diverse learning styles. Each core module will be a mix of interactive training, live demonstration and practice coaching in breakout rooms so that you can both be coached and practice the skills you are learning.
Additional theory and resources are provided through our learning hub to deepen your understanding of each topic between sessions.
Clients who have taken this course
Continuing professional development that gets you ahead
This course is for you if:
- you’d like to have more purpose and impact as a coach
- you want to stay relevant to leaders (and all coachees) as the world changes rapidly
- be an important part of driving the green transition – whether at a corporate or individual level
- you need confidence and guidance to start coaching on climate-related topics
- you want to be part of a community of coaches who care deeply like you do
- want to learn from the best – we pioneered this field and have trained over 175 climate change coaches since 2019.
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Taking part in this course has tuned up my skills as a coach for all clients, and for those who are thinking about or active in climate change in particular. This feels like essential work for me to be doing, and I feel better equipped now and grateful for my ability to do so.
Elisabeth Goodman
Coach and Advocate for Neurodiversity and for the Environment
Why we built this course
When we first launched the Climate Change Coaches in 2018 we were inundated with messages from coaches who felt deeply connected to this issue but were unsure how to approach coaching this topic or even if they were allowed to. Building a programme to bring purpose-led coaches together and share our methodology felt like a no-brainer. We ran our first ‘circle’ to test these ideas in 2019 which has evolved into our flagship training programme for coaches Climate Change Coaching Mastery. To date we have trained over 200 coaches and we are delighted to see that the community only continues to grow and develop with us.
imagine the impact you could have as a coach if you could use your skills to create a better world for future generations
Join our 16-week climate change coaching program and:
- gain the confidence to coach your clients on the most important issue of our time
- stay relevant to your clients as the world rapidly changes around us
- bring a new level of purpose to your coaching practice
FAQs
Am I eligible?
To join Climate Change Coaching Mastery we require that you are either a certified coach or a facilitator/therapist who is conversant in core coaching concepts. For coaches, we ask that you have a minimum of 25 hours of coach training. For facilitators/therapists we ask you contact us to detail your understanding of foundational coaching understanding before we accept your registration.
If you have no prior experience in coaching but would like to develop your skills in this area, check out our Green Coach Transition course, which has no coaching prerequisites.
What if I can’t make all the live sessions?
All the live sessions will be recorded (except for breakout room coaching) and uploaded to the learning hub with 24 hours of the session taking place. In order to obtain course completion and full CCEUs we ask that you watch the recording and fill out a demonstration of learning form (via the learning hub) to illustrate understanding of the subject.
You must attend four out of six of the live sessions in order to obtain course completion and obtain full CCEUs. If you are unable to, you will only be awarded the CCEUs for the sessions that you did attend.
What is the time commitment in between sessions for prep and homework?
We have estimated that each module has 105 minutes of engaged learning – this includes prep material, videos, coaching action logs to fill out etc. Only about 25% of this is required to be done before the live session, the rest is self-paced and can be completed after the live session. We recommend completing each module within the period between live sessions so as not to fall behind. All the content needs to be read, exercises submitted and the short tests completed in order to gain the full CCEUs completion for the a-synchronous content, and to be awarded the course completion certificate.
How long will I have access to the learning hub?
You will have access to the learning hub content, including all session recordings up until 3 weeks after your last live session. All learning hub content muct be completed by this time in order for you to gain your course completion certificate and full CCEUs.
Do you offer payment plans?
We are happy to be partnering with Go-Cardless to offer multi-payment installments on both our fortnightly and fast-track cohort. We offer 2 options here, a 4-part payment plan for the fortnightly cohort and a 3-part payment plan for the fast-track cohort.
- Fortnightly payment plan – £315 + VAT/payment (initial payment on registering for the course and then 3 additional payments at the start of April, May and June 2024).
- Fast track payment plan – £420 + VAT/payment (initial payment on registering for the course and then 2 additional payments at the start of November and December 2024).
You can select your desired payment option at check out. To qualify for VAT-exempt course fees your billing address must be outside of the UK.
Do you offer scholarships?
As part of our commitment to develop coaches from all over the world, we are offering 2 fee-free places on every cohort to coaches in countries normally less represented on our programmes, who want to coach people where they live.
All of our work is about putting coaching into the hands of climate leaders, to inspire action that changes systems. Climate leaders in the global south often lack that kind of support and we know that the most effective kind of support comes from someone who shares their context.
Our aim with this scholarship programme is to increase the ability and capacity of coaches in the below regions, who find it difficult to cover the costs of such a training, so they can go on to support and increase the impact of their local climate leaders.
You are eligible if you are:
- a trained coach
- based in Africa, Asia (excluding Japan and Korea), Latin America/Caribbean, the Pacific Islands or the Arab states
- unable to pay for your place and able to demonstrate why that’s the case
- coaching (or wanting to) coach climate leaders where you live and can demonstrate your commitment to using your new skills with climate leaders in your country/region after this course
Click through to our application form here – closing date for our fortnightly cohort is 5 March 2024, and 15 October 2024 for the fast-track cohort.
