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 — placeholder ]
Schedule [ Weekly sessions — placeholder ]
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Investment [ Pricing on request ]
CCE Hours 16 (confirm at enrollment)
Facilitator Dr. Nila Jennings

Course details

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CCE HOURS

16 CCE Hours

Final ICF allocation confirmed at enrollment.

FORMAT

Live virtual cohort

SCHEDULE

Weekly · 2 hrs

INVESTMENT

$1,600

The shift this course teaches

From rescuing clients to resourcing them.

Most helping professionals are trained to solve. Coaching mastery asks for something harder, and far more useful to the client.

From

Solving, fixing, advising, and rescuing

shift

Coaching awareness, agency, assumptions, options, and growth

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.

Six modules

One disciplined shift, six focused sessions.

Each module pairs a framework with reflective practice and applied coaching skills you can use the very next session.

MODULE 1

Introduction to Masterful Coaching

Define mastery, name the helper's traps, and set your learning intentions for the cohort.

MODULE 2

Developing Your Professional Identity as a Coach

Move from role confusion to a clear, owned coaching identity — distinct from consultant, mentor, and therapist.

MODULE 3

Psychological Triggers and Role Clarity

Notice what hooks you out of presence — rescuing, fixing, knowing — and practice returning to a coaching stance.

MODULE 4

Problem Complexity & the Client's Map of the World

Coach the client's thinking about the problem, not the problem itself. Work with the client's reality instead of overwriting it with yours.

MODULE 5

Maintaining Presence in Coaching

Practice the felt, embodied skill of staying with — not solving for — the client, even when the topic is messy.

MODULE 6

Ethics & Embodying a Coaching Mindset

Translate ICF ethics into everyday coaching behavior and decisions — and integrate the shift into your ongoing practice.

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

Next cohort

Ready to make the shift?

Join the next cohort of Shift to Mastery, or request full course details and pricing.