Social Therapeutic Coaching
Training & Certification
ADVANCED GROUP COACHING METHOD. Our experiential and practical trainings provide tools that immediately impact your practice.
Choose from:
Access Tools: Quickly enhance your group, team and individual practice.
Full Immersion Program: Become certified to lead Life Development Groups, family and couples work.
All trainings are designed for experienced coaches, therapists, and community-based leaders, helping you expand your skills and effectiveness.
NOW AVAILABLE! Training Videos
These widely acclaimed videos introduce a practical and innovative toolkit for coaches to empower their clients growth—at home and work, with loved ones, colleagues and strangers. Led by America’s Loneliness Coach, author, speaker and trainer Carrie Sackett, they were delivered at the International Coaching Federation 2024 Coaching Week.
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Testimonials
“I am in awe of” social therapeutic couples coaching. —Jonathan Passmore, award-winning coach, psychologist and thought leader to his 20,000 LinkedIn followers
This is what I have been looking for! Both training in and experiencing Life Development Groups is changing my practice in a profoundly hopeful and humanistic way. – Silvia Llacera, PCCI felt a lightness after training with Carrie. I learned that I could let go of my need to get couples to a certain point. She introduced tools for connecting in a different way that’s more organic and can help my clients grow. – Susan Holt, Chair, Family Life Coaching AssociationUpcoming Virtual Trainings
PRACTICING SOCIAL THERAPEUTIC COACHING
Weekend intensive
Spend two days with seasoned group, family, and couples practitioners.
Deep Dive: Explore the four pillars and 9 competencies of social therapeutics.
Practice: Engage in group and couples session simulations and experience a Life Development Group as a participant.
Interactive Learning: Enjoy engaged dialogue, playful activities and relatable lessons to apply immediately in your work with groups/teams, families, couples and individuals.
Dates: October 19+20
Time: 12:00pm-5:00pm ET/ 9:00am-2:00pm PT/ GMT+1 17,00-22,00
Fee: $600
Bi-weekly offering begins January 14, 2025 (4 x 2-hr sessions). Next Weekend Intensive February 8+9, 2025 – sign up for our wait list
COUPLES COACHING WORKSHOP
Expand your practice into couples work with this groundbreaking approach.
Award-winning coach, psychologist and thought leader Jonathan Passmore is “in awe of” social therapeutic couples coaching.
Practical application: Experience and discuss couples session simulations.
Engaging learning: Gain tools to support the relationship and offer transformative growth to clients.
Date: Saturday, November 9
Time: 11:00am-3:00pm ET/ 8:00am-12:00pm PT/ GMT 16,00-20,00 (London)
Fee: $315
WHAT ARE RELATIONAL QUESTIONS?
And Why Should We Be Asking Them?
Developing relational awareness as a coach is a game-changer for your practice.
Practical application: Working with how we are impacting and being impacted on in the moment draws clients’ attention out of their internal loop and into the container we are creating together. This powerful shift helps evoke new awareness and possibilities for growth.
Takeaways:
4 relational questions that will transform your client sessions
Experiential exercises to integrate and embody the learnings
Advanced toolkit for co-creating difficult and growthful conversations
Date: Thursday, November 21
Time: 12:00pm-2:00pm ET/ 9:00am-11:00am PT/ GMT+1 17,00-19,00
Fee: $150
WE’RE DOING OUR EMOTIONS ALL WRONG!
How to Empower Your Clients to Create Mental and Emotional Well-being
If you have felt unsure of how to handle your clients’ emotions—big and small—and are open to being challenged with new ideas, this is the workshop for you.
Practical application: Learn new tools for relating and responding to your clients’ emotionality. Drawing on the latest discoveries in neuroscience and works by Batja Mesquita, Adam Grant and Dr. Richard Boyatzis, this workshop will break you free of outdated assumptions about emotions.
Interactive Learning: Enjoy engaged dialogue, experiential and playful activities and relatable lessons to embody and apply immediately in your work with groups, teams, families, couples and individuals.
Date: Friday, December 6
Time: 12:00pm-2:00pm ET/ 9:00am-11:00am PT/ GMT+1 17,00-19,00
Fee: $150
LIFE DEVELOPMENT GROUP FOR PRACTITIONERS
Pre-requisite: One social therapeutic coaching training course + reading of book Social Therapeutic Coaching. Limited to 8 people.
Want to take your course learnings and bring them to life in practice?
Experience this Life Development Group as both participant and a group leader. Designed for coaches to apply learnings in a practical setting.
Mondays, November 11-December 16
Combo Training Fee: $800 (Early bird: $700 by October 15) Practicing Social Therapeutic Coaching + November Life Development Group for Practitioners
Life Development Group for Practitioners only: $600 (Early bird: $550 by October 15) for previous trainees only
Enhance your coaching practice with hands-on group leadership experience.
PRACTITIONER DROP-IN
SUPERVISION GROUP
Bring a coaching challenge and receive feedback and discussion through the social therapeutic lens. Great for group, team, couples, and family coaches as well as those looking for innovative, advanced approaches to coaching. Limited to 5 people.
Schedule:
Second Friday of every month
Next sessions: Oct. 11, Nov. 8, Dec. 13
Time: 4:00-5:30pm ET/ 1:00-2:30pm PT
Fees:
$25 per session
Free for training graduates and their guests
NOTE: Individual consultations also available
SOCIAL THERAPEUTIC COACHING
CERTIFICATION PROGRAM
60 hours total
Includes:
Practicing Social Therapeutic Coaching - weekend intensive or bi-weekly
6-week Life Development Group participation
Group, couples or family observation
Supervision sessions
Bi-weekly cohort discussion sessions
Marketing guidance
Fee: $5775
Next Cohort: Begins October 19, 2024.
Certifications
Level I
Advanced Method
15 hours
Enhance your current practice with new techniques for couples, family, team or single-issue group work.
Learn to see and relate to the group, integrating relationality, improv and language games into your sessions.
Components (must total at least 15 hours):
Weekend Intensive (8.5 hours)
Life Development Group for Practitioners (9 hours)
Couples Coaching Workshop (3.5 hours)
Supervision (1.5 hours per session)
Ongoing Development:
Monthly Drop-In Supervision. Free to trainees.
Level II
Social Therapeutic Coaching (STC)
60 hours
Become certified to lead Life Development Groups.
Master the four pillars and 12 components of social therapeutics
Develop the skills to lead Life Development Groups, social therapeutic family and couples work
Reduced pricing available to those who have participated in previous trainings