Two programs, one offer · January 2027 only
ICF-approved coach education · 26 weeks · Live virtual
ICF Level 1 · Accredited coaching education
Certified Life Coach + Grief Specialization
Coach Academy · Bundle Offer · January 2027
Welcome
You've been the person people come to.
For perspective. For steadiness. For the conversation they can't have with everyone else.
Coach Academy helps you turn that instinct into professional coaching skills. This two-in-one offer bundles the Certified Life Coach Program with the Grief Specialization: a 26-week, ICF-approved, live virtual path to ICF credentials. This course was designed in response to large demand, for people wanting the confidence, credibility, and practice to coach well, and the skill to meet emotions like grief with professional confidence.
Coach education gives your supportive instinct a method. Structure, ethics, practice, mentoring, and a credential that give you the knowledge and integrity to make this a profession.
When you become a coach, the first life to change is often your own.
The details
Program at a glance
- Program
- Certified Life Coach + Grief Specialization
- Format
- Live virtual training, on Zoom
- Length
- 20 modules + 6 grief modules (26 weeks)
- Breaks
- Mid-way integration week + applicable holidays
- Classroom access
- Program duration + 3 months
- Weekly class
- 2 hours live
- Coursework
- About 4 to 5 hours per week
- Coaching practice
- About 1 to 2 hours per week
- Coach education hours
- 84 (ICF Level 1)
- CCE credits (grief)
- 10 ICF Continuing Coach Education credits
- Mentor coaching
- 10 hours with a qualified MCS (7 group, 3 individual)
- Designation earned
- CA Certified Life Coach + Specialization in Coaching Grief
- Premium Community Membership
- Influencer, included ($270 value)
- Deposit at registration
- $1,500
- Payment plans
- Up to 5 installments (interest-free)
- Start dates
- January 2027
- Tuition · all-inclusive
- $6,850 plus applicable taxes · January intake only
Successful completion
- 84 hours of coursework
- 10 ICF mentoring hours with a qualified MCS (7 group, 3 individual)
- 30 practical coaching hours
- 10 hours being coached
What you achieve
- Graduate a CA Certified Life Coach
- Qualify for ICF Level 1 Credential (ACC)
- Certificate of completion for 10 ICF Mentor Hours
- 6-month membership in a world-class global community
- A Certificate and Specialization in Coaching Grief
Additional fees apply for ICF Formative Evaluations. Details are covered on your call with an Admissions Coach. Offer valid for the January 2027 intake only; prices subject to change.
The curriculum
What you'll learn
In 20 modules plus the Grief Specialization, you'll practice the fundamentals behind professional coaching conversations. You'll learn how to:
- Listen for meaning, emotion, values, and patterns
- Ask questions that create clarity
- Create trust and safety
- Stay present when emotions or silence show up
- Use clean language that respects the client's meaning
- Recognize assumptions, judgment, and the urge to give advice
- Break through limiting thoughts and language
- Discover the magic of metaphors to clarify thinking
- Support clients as they move from awareness to action
- Practice proven approaches to change and well-being
- Understand the ICF Core Competencies
- Build confidence through practice, mentoring, and feedback
- Business mentorship: launching and growing your coaching practice
- Coach grief in every transition: retirement, the empty nest, aging, loss
360-degree learning
Coach, be coached, and observe coaching. You develop as a coach from every angle, inside the safety of a learning community.
Live coaching + feedback
Coaching demonstrations, group coaching, peer coaching, and observations, both in class and in community.
Unlimited peer coaching exchanges
Unlimited access to a global network of peers working toward ICF credentials, ready to practice coaching with you every week. This is our best kept secret and most valuable feature.
Tools, research, and tutorials
Ongoing development, research, and resources embedded in the classroom and the community. Access to weekly Learning Labs in the community.
Course outline
26 weeks, two tracks
Certified Life Coach · Weeks 1 to 20
Introduction to coaching
What coaching is and is not · Setting a benchmark for progress
The difference a coach makes
Communication styles · Cycle of empowerment · Tame the advice monster
Connection, trust & intimacy
Coaching as a partnership of equals · Creating trust and safety
THRIVE™ framework
The coaching conversation · Directional and progressive
Group mentoring 1 ★
Questions forum · Live coaching demos · Mentoring on coaching
Language & beliefs
Break through limiting thoughts and language · The beliefs beneath the words
Levels of listening
What it means to truly listen · Conscious listening strategies
Clean language
Empower others to explore their own thinking · Self-managing your own bias
Metaphors, feelings & breakthroughs
The magic of metaphors · Working with feelings to create breakthroughs
Self-management
Judgment, relating, and assumptions · How to hold space and stay present
Group mentoring 2 ★
Questions forum · Live coaching demos · Mentoring on coaching
T & H in THRIVE™
Practising the first stages of the THRIVE™ framework in live coaching
R & I in THRIVE™
Practising the middle stages of the THRIVE™ framework in live coaching
V & E in THRIVE™
Completing the THRIVE™ framework · Bringing the full conversation together
Mission & vision statements
The power of intentions and visualizations · Coaching with a clear mission
Group mentoring 3 ★
Questions forum · Live coaching demos · Mentoring on coaching
ICF Core Competencies integration
Present a competency that challenges you · Presentations
Business mentoring 1
Building your coaching practice · Positioning, pricing, and first clients
Business mentoring 2
Growing your practice · Marketing, referrals, and next steps in business
Closing & next steps
Next steps · Reciprocal circle
Grief Specialization · Weeks 21 to 26
The full 8-week Grief Specialization, condensed into 6 fast-track weeks that begin right after your closing class. Earn 10 ICF CCE credits while you build the skill of staying present when it matters most.
Giving grief meaning
What grief means across lives and cultures · Setting your personal benchmark
A response to trauma, loss, and change
The stages of grieving · Grief beyond death: change, transition, and loss
What to say?
Language that helps and language that harms · Holding space without fixing
The ways people grieve · Coaching vs therapy
Dimensions and types of grief · When to refer
From surviving to thriving
Post-traumatic growth · The research on resilient grieving · Rebuilding forward
Final project + closing
A creative, practical project tying learning together · Closing reflections
★ ICF group mentoring hours. A mid-way integration week falls after week 12. Course outline is subject to change.
The ICF pathway, explained
From your first class to a globally recognized credential
Coach Academy is an approved partner of the International Coaching Federation, the gold standard in coaching worldwide. Here is exactly how the pathway works.
Complete the program
26 weeks of live classes, coursework, and real coaching practice: 84 ICF Level 1 coach education hours, 10 mentor coaching hours with a qualified MCS, 30 practical coaching hours, 10 hours being coached, and 10 CCE credits from the Grief Specialization.
Graduate a CA Certified Life Coach
Your Coach Academy designation, backed by documented hours and evaluated practice.
Apply for your ICF ACC credential
Your 84 hours and mentoring meet the education requirements for the ICF Associate Certified Coach (ACC) application. We walk you through it, including the formative evaluation step.
Keep growing, for life
Levels 2 and 3 and continuing education keep your credential moving toward PCC and MCC, with a community that grows with you.
The January bundle
Why this offer exists
Due to popular demand, this bundle folds our 8-week Grief Specialization into your Life Coach Program, condensed into 6 fast-track weeks that begin right after your closing class. One registration, two knowledge tracks, only offered January 2027.
Grief is emotion, and emotion is an important part of how people decide, change and make progress. In every transition your clients bring: retirement, the empty nest, aging, a move, a diagnosis. Loss of life is only one form of grief. Coaches who can meet emotion are in another category.
Included with your tuition
Your Influencer Community Membership (a $270 value) is included for 6 months: 10+ live events every month, unlimited coaching exchange, live coach demos, case study clinics, weekly Learning Labs, ICF group mentoring hours, and much more.
Why Coach Academy
Why we are different
Rigorous training, human delivery
Built for people who take this work seriously. The curriculum is grounded in ICF standards, evidence-informed practice, and 50,000+ hours of curriculum design, mentoring, and facilitation since 2016.
The THRIVE™ coaching model
Our CA Coaching Framework THRIVE™ delivers consistent, structured, powerful conversations. World-class, experienced facilitators mentor coaches at every level.
Small cohorts, real practice
You'll learn live, beside people coaching in leadership, education, healthcare, HR, and private practice around the world. Classes stay small for engaged learning and discussion.
A boutique learning experience
Classes are capped at 17 for more attention. Our programs strive for the academic excellence of the Ivy League and deliver with the care and rigor you would expect from a world-class institute.
"Coach Academy has changed my life for the better. The course facilitators are excellent, and the course content is beyond what I could have ever imagined. I love that through the pursuit of helping others by becoming a life coach, I am learning more about myself and becoming a better person in the process!"
All-inclusive tuition
$6,850
Plus applicable taxes · January intake only
- $1,500 deposit at registration
- Payment plans up to 5 installments (interest-free)
- 84 ICF coach education hours (Level 1)
- Grief Specialization included: 8 weeks in 6 fast-track weeks, 10 CCE credits
- 10 mentor coaching hours with a qualified MCS (7 group, 3 individual)
- Influencer Membership included ($270 value) for 6 months
Sponsored by your organization?
Many of our students are sponsored by an employer, a non-profit board, or a professional development fund. Coach training is a recognized investment in retention, engagement, and culture.
Your Admissions Coach can prepare everything your approver needs:
- ✓ This program overview and course outline
- ✓ The ICF-approved hours and credential pathway
- ✓ An invoice made out to your organization
- ✓ A receipt and documentation for development funds
This offer is only available for the January 2027 intake. It cannot be combined with any other offer. Restrictions apply.
Frequently asked
Questions, answered.
What does the bundle include?
Two programs in one registration: the Certified Life Coach Program (84 ICF Level 1 coach education hours) and the Grief Specialization (10 ICF CCE credits), plus 10 mentor coaching hours with a qualified MCS, 30 practical coaching hours, and a 6-month Influencer Community Membership ($270 value).
When is it offered?
The bundle is only offered for the January 2027 intake. It runs 26 weeks, part-time, live and virtual: 20 Life Coach modules, a mid-way integration week, then the 8-week Grief Specialization condensed into 6 fast-track weeks right after your closing class.
How much is it, and are payment plans available?
All-inclusive tuition is $6,850 plus applicable taxes, with a $1,500 deposit at registration and up to 5 interest-free installments. Additional fees apply for ICF Formative Evaluations.
Do I need prior experience?
No prior background in psychology or coaching is required. The program is designed for people who are naturally the one others come to, and want the skills, structure, and credential to make it a profession.
Can it be combined with other offers?
No. This offer is only available for the January 2027 intake and cannot be combined with any other offer. Restrictions apply, and prices are subject to change.
Start with a conversation
What happens when I fill out this form?
Fill out the form to set up a call with an Admissions Coach, or view program overviews and get more information. Either way, no pressure. All of our Admissions Coaches are graduates of our programs. They will be able to answer all your questions from first-hand experience as alumni of Coach Academy.
| Program | Certified Life Coach + Grief Specialization |
|---|---|
| Next cohort | January 2027 |
| Format | 26 weeks · Live virtual |
The first life to change is yours.
Your next step is a conversation.
Speak with an Admissions Coach: a graduate of our programs who can walk you through the pathway, the time commitment, tuition, and whether this January bundle is your fit. No sales pitch. Just a clear conversation.
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