(New) Certificate in Professional Coaching

Coaching: Helping others become more effective

We define coaching as partnering with clients in a thought-provoking and creative process that inspires them to maximize their personal and professional potential.

Whether you wish to build on your current role or you're planning a career change, SFU’s part-time Certificate in Professional Coaching, which takes place at our Vancouver campus, will prepare you to transform individuals, teams, and organizations by helping them reach their highest level of effectiveness. It will also help you take the next step toward professional coaching certification.

In addition to building your coaching skills, understanding, capacity, and presence, you'll learn to plan, promote and implement coaching services in a variety of organizational settings. You'll also learn to incorporate coaching into your current position and establish a new career as a certified life coach, leadership coach, career coach, or executive coach.

Graduate with the skills you need to coach effectively

Our coaching program curriculum reflects four key principles on which effective coaches base their practice:

• Living with integrtity
• Beginning with trust
• Learning through dialogue
• Engaging in a structured process of change

With these principles in mind, you'll explore several themes that will strengthen your coaching capacity:

• Adult development
• Change
• Multiple perspectives
• Self as instrument
• Story
• The quaternity (also known as a person’s four-part harmony)
• Unconditional positive regard

These principles and themes will link directly to a three-stage coaching process that you can apply to individuals, teams, and organizations.

Learn from certified coaching professionals

We've developed this part-time certificate program, which is aligned with the International Coach Federation’s core coaching competencies and training requirements, in consultation with coaching industry leaders. Your instructors are leading coaching professionals with strong practical and theoretical backgrounds.

Maintain your professional coaching status with continuing education units

Each course in this professional certificate program except the capstone is pre-approved for continuing education credits from the Vocational Rehabilitation Association of Canada (VRAC) and the College of Vocational Rehabilitation Professionals (CVRP).