BMC Academy Compassionate Coaching Approach

Foundations For Mindful Living:
Coaching, Mindfulness, and Neuroscience

An ICF-accredited Level 1 program, Foundations for Mindful Living is an induction into coaching competencies, informal mindfulness practice and how they shape your and your clients’ brains. At the core of the program is a focus on building your capacity as a coach to support your clients with mindfulness practices that encourage a calm mind, resourceful states and attention to wellbeing. Your commitment to a mindfulness practice as a coach becomes the theme of the peer coaching sessions in the academy’s popular Coaching Workouts.

The program trains you to develop a communication style reflecting ICF ethics and competencies. Mindfulness training enables you to engage in deep listening, deep looking, emergence of insights and compassionate presence when working with your clients. When you model this behavior as a coach, your clients will begin to exhibit this mindset in their communication style. The program consists of three modules: Mind Presence, Applied Mindfulness and Mentor Coaching.

Your learning path begins with the module Mind Presence: Emergence of Insights.

Benefit from a 10% discount by paying for the full program upfront or opt to pay each module as you go.

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Neuroscience of Mindfulness, Resiliency and Coaching
Application of Mindfulness practice in Coaching
Resourceful States
Coaching and Mindfulness Ethics
The Coach’s Practice

Online Live Sessions

Self-Study

Understand application of mindful- ness through the informal practice
Connect program themes with coaching topics
Set the foundation for mindfulness as a path vs tool approach

Online Live Sessions

Self-Study

Develop practice through feedback
Comprehensive understanding of coaching competencies
Complete graduation process

Group Sessions Online

Individual Sessions Online

Coaching From Within:
Facilitating Change With Compassion

Coaching from Within is ICF Level 2 coach training program aimed for coaching practitioners interested in cultivating mindfulness for personal development and in deepening of their coaching practice. In this program you will learn how to create a safe and nourishing environment for your clients to deepen awareness and make sustainable decisions. By the end of three core modules Mind, Body and Heart Presence you will be able to coach your clients how to tap into body wisdom, ignite an antidote to negativity and inner criticism and motivate themselves with with self-compassion.

Our comprehensive coaching program offers a unique blend of three fundamental pillars of mindfulness practice: Mind, Body, and Heart Presence and Mindful Circles that follow principles of group coaching.

Participation Requirements

Level 2 program training path begins with Mind Presence: Emergence of Insights.

Participants who haven't participated in our Level 1 program need to provide a character reference from a mindfulness teacher, coach, or therapist. The final step before registration is an interview with the Education Director.