Level One Coaching Award

[Soke]

Please register your interest here so that arrangements can be made to deliver this.
Course is 4 two hour sessions with oral and written exams.

[jaketurner2503]

im interested in doing the level 1 coaching course

Jake

[Soke]

thanks Jake I'll wait one more week and see if anyone else is interested then we can start. I have another two names from people who PM'd me.
I know you'll enjoy the course as you are already teaching.

[Stevie0704]

I'm interested, If i'm not too late in asking

Stevie

[Soke]

It's never to late !
If You can attend the first session at 10am in consett on tuesday 3rd August let me know.
It's a rolling program so the commitment is to 4 sessions, one week for four weeks.

[Stevie0704]

are there any weekend classes?
i'm not able to make it on weekdays

[Soke]

Thanks for your interest Steve.
Maybe some background information would help you understand what we are up against.

Over the years the course has moved from 10 weeks (2hours per week) to 4 weeks (2hours per week)
This was done because logistically getting a lot of people to arrange their life commitments seemed impossible, the net effect was that it is now impossible to judge whether the candidates have actually learned anything!

Some sessions have started with 10 people but because the content is really a degree level in coaching, fast-tracked, up to half of the candidates have left before the third session, this is from black belts who have proven their extraordinary qualities in their grading!! There are many different types of test for "spirit" and some have it and some don't.

I've even offered to go to some students houses to deliver the course at no cost to them but sadly this offer wasn't accepted.

We also have "teachers" who consider the course beneath them because they "teach" sadly the course has nothing to do with teaching. It's a coaching course the clue is in the name "coaching level one"

The first session involves an assessment of base line knowledge which is designed to point candidates in the right direction with their own studies. In the original 10 week course this could be checked. Now however I have no way of knowing whether the candidates ever move forward from this point, since I'm sure that some treat it as a compulsory attendance course for their next grade. They attend, get the grade and stagnate, what a waste of their time and mine.

So as I've said the course is not for the faint hearted many have fallen at the first hurdle, but if you have the desire to genuinely learn life skills that will set you apart from run of the mill instructors come aboard.

I'm up for any suggestions that will help get a disparate group of individuals together for 4 two hour sessions without missing any.

Good luck I'm all out of ideas.