Continuing Coach Education (CCE) · 16 Hours

Shift to Mastery: From Solving Client Problems to Coaching Client Growth.

A facilitated CCE course for coaches, leaders who coach, HR/OD professionals, consultants, and helping professionals ready to retire the helper habits of solving, fixing, advising, and rescuing — and embody a disciplined coaching stance instead.

At a glance

A disciplined, reflective coaching course — not a Level 1 program.

Format: Live virtual cohort
Schedule: Weekly sessions
Next cohort [ Date TBA ]
Investment [ Pricing on request ]
CCE Hours 16
Facilitator Dr. Nila Jennings

A disciplined, reflective coaching course. Not a Level 1 program.

✓Format Live virtual cohort
✓Schedule Tuesdays, 7 - 9 PM ET
✓Next cohort Sep 8 - Oct 20, 2026
✓Investment $1,600 USD
✓CCE Hours 16 (confirm at enrollment)
✓Facilitator Dr. Nila Jennings

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Course details

CCE Hours

16 CCE Hours

Final ICF allocation confirmed at enrollment.

Format

Live virtual cohort

Schedule

Tuesdays, 7 - 9 PM ET

Investment

$1,600 USD

WEEK 1

What if helping too quickly teaches the client to look outside themselves?

This week introduces a core distinction in masterful coaching: supporting the client without taking over the client’s work. We explore how coaching protects autonomy, strengthens self-direction, and creates the conditions for client growth.

WEEK 2

The secret to role clarity is knowing who you become under pressure.

This week explores how a coach’s professional identity can shift in the moment when a client brings complexity, emotion, or uncertainty. We examine how coaches drift into expert, advisor, teacher, or rescuer roles, and what it takes to return to the coaching role.

WEEK 3

Did you know the urge to solve may be a signal, not a strategy?

This week examines the internal reactions that can pull coaches out of presence and into fixing. We explore how discomfort, urgency, empathy, or the need to be useful may reveal something happening within the coach.

WEEK 4

What if the client’s problem is not the problem you think it is?

This week challenges the coach’s assumption that the presenting issue is the whole issue. We examine why the coach cannot fully access the client’s context, meaning, history, emotions, assumptions, or map of the world, and why solving from the outside can miss the deeper coaching opportunity.

WEEK 5

The fastest way to lose your client may be to get ahead of them.

This week explores the discipline of presence when the coach sees patterns, possibilities, or next steps before the client does. We examine how moving too quickly can interrupt awareness, weaken ownership, and shift the conversation from client discovery to coach direction.

WEEK 6

What happens when the coach breaks the coaching promise?

This week examines the ethical foundation of the coaching agreement. When a coach shifts into telling, directing, rescuing, or deciding for the client, the coach may break the very agreement that made coaching possible. We explore how honoring the contract protects trust, strengthens credibility, and preserves the client’s confidence in both the coach and the coaching process.

Who should enroll

Designed for professionals ready to coach, not just consult.

If your role asks you to grow people — and you keep catching yourself solving — this course is for you.

01

Coaches

Practicing coaches who want to deepen ICF-aligned mastery and reduce subtle advice-giving habits.

02

Leaders Who Coach

Managers and executives developing a coaching approach to grow people without solving for them.

03

HR / OD Professionals

Internal practitioners using coaching to support change, performance, and leadership development.

04

Consultants & Helping Pros

Advisors, therapists-as-coaches, and helping professionals adding rigorous coaching capability.

Week 4 teaching point

The move most helpers miss.

By Module 4, participants practice the single move that distinguishes a coach from a consultant: coaching the client’s thinking about the problem, rather than jumping to solve the problem itself.

Most helpers were trained to listen for the answer. Coaching mastery asks you to listen for the client’s map (the assumptions, identities, and choices already shaping their view) and to make that map workable, together.

"Coach the client's thinking about the problem. Not the problem itself."

— Week 4 · Shift to Mastery

Outcomes

What participants will be able to do.

By the end of the cohort, you will have practiced and integrated the following.

Hold a coaching stance under pressure

Recognize your own helper triggers and return to presence, on purpose.

Coach thinking, not problems

Work with the client's map of the world rather than substituting your own.

Distinguish coaching from consulting, mentoring, and therapy

Name the boundary clearly — for yourself, your clients, and your sponsors.

Use reflective practice as a discipline

Build a sustainable rhythm of journaling, peer practice, and feedback.

Apply ICF ethics in real situations

Move from ethics as a document to ethics as everyday coaching behavior.

Earn 16 CCE hours toward ICF credentialing

Useful for renewal, maintenance, and continued credibility.

Why this course is different

Four disciplines, woven into every module.

Organization Development & Change

Coaching grounded in systems, not just techniques, so growth holds up in real organizations.

Coaching as a Distinct Practice

A clear, defensible boundary between coaching, consulting, mentoring, and therapy.

ICF Professional Standards

Aligned with ICF core competencies and ethics, useful for accreditation and credibility.

Reflective Practice

Structured journaling, peer practice, and feedback so the shift is embodied, not just understood.

ICF

Certified Professional Coach

facilitaTED BY

Dr. Nila Jennings

Dr. Jennings has spent her career helping coaches, leaders, and helping professionals make the disciplined move from solving to coaching, without losing their warmth, their expertise, or their effectiveness.

Doctorate in Organization Development & Change
Master’s in Coaching
ICF-Certified Professional Coach
Founder, Fusion Coaching and Consulting Group

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