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What do people do once they’ve completed their certification?

Once trainees have completed their coach training certification, new coaches can:

  • Integrate the training into their personal and professional lives to improve themselves, their communication, relational, supporter, and executive skills, and their ability to set up an ethical and successful practice as a coach. 
  • Offer to do more for their current employer, or apply for new roles and get a promotion. Coaches apply to work at new jobs and find any number of ways to elevate their careers with their new knowledge, skills, and abilities. 
  • Apply to coach with Being True To You and/or other companies who hire contract coaches. We have different pods of different coaches.
  • Apply to work directly with retreats or clinics to either offer their integration coaching, or to work on-site as admin, supporters, sitters, and many will even move into or further develop their role as an administrator or facilitator.
  • Start their own business offering a service and/or product to a target audience in need of something they can help with. There are many steps to starting one’s own business, we offer the Becoming a Coach Business Training, a 12-week course that can begin right after certification. 
  • Sign up for our Blue Lotus monthly membership to receive ongoing training and mentorship as well as practice opportunities with coaching and teaching workshops. The alumni membership acts as a board of coaches to lean on for support, guidance, and accountability in perfecting their overall practice and method.
  • Sign up for our Mentorship 12-week Workshop run by Elaine Whitt and other senior coaches (coming Fall 2024). 

The focus of this coach training is learning how to be a transformational and integration coach. This is a unique and specific type of coaching designed to help clients transform something that has been holding them back. There are phases of coaching from helping people prepare for change, to evaluating options, to integrating the tools, practices, and treatments they undergo, to helping clients overcome huge issues through a longer-term process, to ultimately helping clients find and cultivate the path of their true self.

Because this process is so heart-centered, fully present and attentive, with very high standards and attention to detail, and teaches coaches how to be with clients through the thick and thin of everything they might face on the longer term journey, this training is perfect for sitters and facilitators, or people wanting to do such work, as the same principles and tenets overlap. You will learn all about how to hold space, and A LOT more. This is an area of essential training that many professionals, facilitators, and sitters do not have.

You can see all of our active coaches on our website. We do not offer a way to look into all of our certified coaches. However, if you want to know if someone has been certified you may submit a name to us and we can confirm whether or not they were certified. If you are looking for a team of coaches to hire, you may write up an ad and we will share the job posting with our certified coaching community. They can go right to your application and scheduling link to interview with you.
The investment for our coach training program is $4,200. If you pay in full you can save $200, which makes the total investment $4,000. We predict by the fall of 2025 the training will double in price because of the high demand for features we are having to add to the program. If you or someone you know is interested in the program we recommend jumping into the Fall of 2024 to get the best deal.

Our coach training is for all types of professional helpers and coaches working with many different audiences. You will always have the option to choose your clientele and you can position yourself to work with client demographics and circumstances that you are most specialized in. You will not have to work with any particular clientele that you do not want to or that you do not feel called or equipped to support.

In the training we talk about how the nature of addiction affects all of humanity. Everyone has attachments, habits, obsessions, control patterns, and tendencies to outsource their problems and solutions to the external world. This phenomenon does not stop at substance addiction.

It touches the lives of everyone. So whether you are working with addicts directly or not, your clients will have addictions and all kinds of attachments they need to face and let go of to reach their goals. You can’t wholeheartedly coach someone without acknowledging this phenomenon.

Our training will help you look at this condition in a different light so that it comes out of the shadow and you are able to help people through a deeper, more complete transformation.

Our coach training program runs just over 5 months. The program is entirely virtual and offers flexible options to attend the lecture discussions and the live workshops.

There is a 10 to 12-hour commitment per week to get through all the materials needed to become certified. However, we have built in a lot of flexibility to the training so meeting your requirements for certification can be done with ease.

Currently, we are offering the program twice a year, in the Spring starting the second week of March, and again in the Fall starting the second week of September.
The benefit of enrolling in the program early is to secure your seat, get a longer payment plan, and be able to join all of our group prep classes leading up to the start date. This will also give you the opportunity to set intentions for the program, create space in your calendar, and get yourself set up for success.
Yes, our enrollment fills up every season; however, we have not closed our doors on anyone yet as long as they sign up before the cutoff date. It is possible we could sell out in the last few weeks, and it is also possible that your attention will be taken in a different direction and you’ll miss out on your goals and vision here. We suggest you commit today and get your first payment in.

We offer several features to help our certified coaches start getting clients, build their clientele, get jobs or freelance work with other companies, and start a practice of their own.

We offer our Business Training for Coach online workshop, our Mentorship workshop, our monthly membership Blue Lotus Alumni group which includes weekly Peer Mentoring and ongoing training, Coaching at our lowest prices with senior coaches, job opportunities with us, and we post other companies ads in our community. 

The training empowers coaches to set themselves up with a strong committed clientele for themselves. Although we offer many opportunities for training, mentorship, practice, and taking paid clients, ultimately it is up to the newly certified coach how many clients they get, how many clients buy additional coaching rounds, and how successful they are as a coach.

Our online course occurs over 5 months with lectures on M&W, and experiential workshops on T&Th, and an optional support group on Friday. You may listen to the pre-recorded audio classes on your own time or live with the group, you will receive a handout for each lecture as well as coursework to complete for each level.

The coach training is structured in three parts, Part 1: Recovery Guide. Part 2: Coaching Guide. Part 3: Specialists Guide, to include our largest section on Psychedelic Integration Work. The lectures plus discussions are different from the experiential workshops. There are different kinds of content and instruction, and different instructors, coaches, and mentors to learn from.

Pre-recorded lectures play on Monday and Wednesday at two times: 9:00 to 11:00 a.m. and 3:00 to 6:00 p.m. Each of the lectures is followed by a live discussion group on Zoom. The experiential workshops take place on Tuesdays and Thursdays. Trainees will choose either Tuesday or Thursday to attend a workshop unless there are two workshops that week. There is an optional support group on Friday offering times at 11:00 a.m. and 2:00 p.m.

The commitment is about 10 to 12 hours per week with the flexibility to choose those hours. Because you can listen to the lectures on your own time, you will do the coursework on your own time, you will set up your partner coaching on your own time, and because you do not have to attend every discussion and workshop, you will have much flexibility to fit your time.

To become certified one must listen to every class audio, read every handout, complete all coursework, and have attended at minimum 16 live lecture discussions and 16 live experiential workshops. *Being True To You has the right to refuse certification to any of the trainees should concerns arise. This is unlikely.

The course begins with an orientation followed by a meet and greet so every trainee gets the opportunity to meet the team and their instructors, and to meet each other, so come day 1 / lecture 1, trainees already feel as though they belong. An orientation email is sent to every trainee with detailed instructions outlining the contents and features of the course and how to receive additional support.

Every trainee is provided a mentor to support them logistically and to review and respond to their coursework. There are over 20 different trainee mentors, six different instructors, backup instructors, and several people on the management and admin team available to support. Most importantly, there is a personal support group every Friday with two different times to attend. There is also a community slack group, community Facebook group, often side study groups formed by trainees, and the option to work with a coach at a discounted rate.

  • Our integration coach training is for anyone interested in becoming a coach, learning how to guide and support others through transformational processes, or those interested in (or already working in) the fields of mental health, addiction recovery, peak performance, personal development, or psychedelic therapy. 
  • Once complete, graduates can use this certification to start their coaching practice or to enhance their proficiency in working with people on-site in the retreat space. This is career training, but each graduate will take their job skills in the direction they wish. As a coaching program, we are not advocating for the use of psychedelics, or teaching the facilitation of psychedelics. This training offers education and skills on how to guide someone through the transformational process.
  • We have had people from all walks of life go through our program and coach with us; which has allowed us to create a culturally diverse community and broadened our awareness. Working with providers, retreats, and coaches from around the world has also supported us in finding that middle and common ground that welcomes all people. 
  • Our coach training stands independent of any other institution or program. We have built our program from the bottom up, listening to what people need and don’t need, and learning through trial and error, and working with over 10,000 clients. This training does not come from the University, it does not come from textbooks, or other third parties, it does not come from scientific research, it comes from direct experience.
  • We are not beholden to any organization, but we do honor and respect our regional and federal laws as well as our conscience and moral compass. No licensing board or legislature is controlling what coaches can talk about or how much coaches can help people, despite some institutions aiming to control the field of coaching. We are accountable to ourselves and responsible to the public, but not connected to any coaching federations. That is not necessary to coach people or make a living coaching people. 
  • We do not intend to unite with these overarching coaching companies that initially started in the ’90s or so. Their history was built on financial planning, goal setting, and personal development and has branched into many sectors. Our transformational coaching program is very different, more holistic, and multidimensional, and cannot be compared to ordinary life coaching. We are setting a whole new standard and level for “transformational and integration” coaches not just for coaching but for helping professionals at large.
Rather than putting a deposit you can just make a first payment and continue making monthly payments from there. If you want to make one monthly payment to hold your spot and then wait to pay for the training closer to the date you may do that. Just let us know how we can support you.
First payments or 25% of the training is non-refundable once paid. You will have 48 hours after you make a payment to change your mind and receive a refund minus a $50 processing fee if the course has not started yet and you have not received access to the classroom. Once the course starts that first payment or 25% of the training is non-refundable. If you need to stop or postpone the program beyond the first quarter up to 50% of the way through, we will usually prorate your time. If it is after 50% of the training has been delivered, refunds are not provided. However, we may apply your credits to the next season’s coach training, or in some cases we have applied the remaining credits to use for one of our other services.
If you still have questions regarding our Coach Training, please sign up for a Discovery Call with one of our Enrollment Coaches to get all your questions answered and to get help registering for the program.

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