Practicing Social Therapeutic Coaching

ICF-accredited with 9 cces

As a group-based method, relationship-centered approach to grow, Social Therapeutic Coaching carries into all coach specialties.

  • Understand the Four Pillars: Dive into the foundational elements of social therapeutics.

  • Develop Group Insight: Enhance your ability to perceive and relate to the group/team as a unified entity.

  • Practical Applications of Relationality: Gain clarity on how relationality boosts coach-client-group presence and trust.

  • Enhance Session Awareness: Sharpen your skills in observing and creating with emerging dynamics during sessions.

  • Empower Clients: Learn tools to help clients take emotional risks and engage in difficult conversations within the group.

  • Reflect and Facilitate Growth: Discover methods to mirror back the group's progress and activities, fostering collective growth.

  • Embrace Uncertainty: Challenge yourself to let go of the need for certainty and leverage your discoveries to guide clients in doing the same.

"The inaugural training session with Carrie Sackett, MS, PCC left me in awe! It was truly mind-opening and perspective-shifting. Being part of this class is both an honor and a thrilling opportunity."

— Steve Weiss, PCC, Transformational Leadership Coach

Each class will weave sections of Social Therapeutic Coaching together to dive deeply into a theme

  1. Belonging: A group-based understanding of human development.

  2. Shifting the Practitioner Lens: Move from a 'Me' to a 'We' perspective by abandoning inherited concepts and outdated modes of thinking.

  3. The Power of Improv/Theater Performance: Explore this metaphor for life and its applications.

  4. Seeing the 'We' in Emotions and Language: Understand the collective aspects of emotions and communication.

"With Carrie’s training, I’ve learned superpower tools for deepening client trust and growth. Now my clients refer me. My practice has transformed in a profoundly hopeful and humanistic way."

— Silvia Llacera, PCC, Executive and Team Coach

Takeaways

In this live, online course, the tools and method of this innovative approach to development are presented and explored holistically through experiential activities, simulated coaching sessions, reading, discussion and practice.

  1. Gain tools to go beyond facilitating individuals.

  2. Feel confident holding diverse levels of participation and emotional vulnerability.

  3. Build capacity for seeing collective activity and guiding growth and individual growth simultaneously.

  4. Receive 9 CCEs from ICF.

Rated 9 out of 10 by Coaching.com

"Carries’s thought-provoking session deeply resonates……participants gain valuable insight into group dynamics, connection, and relational coaching…highly interactive learning experience that challenges perspectives and encourages rich participation…”

Weekend Intensive

  • Dates: Saturday + Sunday, November 7 + 8, 2026

  • Time: 11:00pm-5:00pm ET/ 8:00am-2:00pm PT/ GMT 16,00-22,00 (UK)

  • Fee: $595. Early Bird $490 through October 5. ~€430; £ 365

Wait List for 2027

  • Dates: March 27 + 28

  • Time: 11:00pm-5:00pm ET/ 8:00am-2:00pm PT/ GMT+1 16,00-22,00 (UK)


Contact us for international scaled rates and need scholarships.

IMMERSIVE TRAINING

Get the 360° of Social Therapeutic Coaching with experiential learning, real-life practice and integration. Grow professionally and personally in this 16-hour, small cohort immersive with Carrie Sackett, MS, PCC.

  • Practicing Social Therapeutic Coaching

  • 4-week Life Development Group for Coaches (limited 8 people)

4-week Life Development Group agenda:

  • Designed for coaches to apply learnings in real-time practice, to develop the ‘We’ coaching mindset, to grow personally and professionally simultaneously.

  • REQUIRED: One 50-minute individual session with group lead Carrie Sackett, MS, PCC before June 11. This is to build our relationship and for you to feel supported in your bold decision to join a Life Development Group.

Sessions run 1.75 hours total:

  • 85 minutes as group participant: invest in your personal development. Bring a medium-level issue you want to grow around.

  • 20 minutes as coach: invest in your professional growth by integrating your subjective experience, the activity of the group and the four pillars of Social Therapeutic Coaching

Experiential Takeaways

  • Experience the Six Tenets of Group Leadership: Observe and engage with the core principles of effective group leadership.

  • Dual Communication: Immerse yourself in speaking to both the group and individual members simultaneously.

  • Foster Emotional Growth: Participate in creating an environment that promotes emotional growth, connection, and belonging.

  • Group-Building Activities: Practice activities that focus on building the group dynamic.

  • Real-Life Application: Bring a life or work issue to explore with the group, engaging in activities other than advice-giving or problem-solving.

  • Moment-to-Moment Sharing: Observe and experience the power of sharing your immediate experiences in relation to others, enhancing your emotional and relational skills.

4-week Life Development Group for Coaches

  • Dates: Tuesdays, October 27 - November 17

  • Time: 12:00-1:45pm ET/ GMT +1 17,00-18,45 (UK)

  • Fee: $400, ~ €340; £ 300 $325 if paired with November 7+8 coach training Practicing Social Therapeutic Coaching (see above).

Contact us for international scaled rates and need scholarships.

Life Development Group Client Video Testimonials