When you complete Co-Active Foundations: Human Being & Human Doing, you leave with a new way of seeing conversations, relationships, and the people around you. You have the base skills for what it takes to be an effective coach, but you need to continue learning in order to master them.
Ignite the Practice: Co-Active Coaching Practitioner Training is Level 2 of the Co-Active coach training pathway. It builds on everything you explored in the first course, where you were introduced to the relational frameworks that underpin Co-Active work. Now, you actually step into the coaching chair and begin learning the skills that define professional coaching.
Over five days in two parts, you will coach real clients, receive structured feedback, and build the core coaching skills that launch a professional practice. You will also earn your Co-Active Practitioner (CAP) designation and 52 hours toward your International Coaching Federation (ICF) Associate Certified Coach (ACC) credential.ย
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Five Days, Two Parts
Instead of a single 8-hour day like Foundations, Ignite the Practice is a 5-day course delivered in two parts, with 8 hours of learning each day and homework coaching assignments between each session. You practice a skill in the room, go coach a client that evening, and return the next day with feedback and observations that deepen the learning.
How the Structure Builds Skill
- Part One covers three days: You build core coaching skills through experiential practice, develop self-awareness, and begin coaching real people as homework after each day.
- Part Two covers two days: You integrate your learning, work with advanced relational dynamics, and prepare for ongoing client work with your newly designed Discovery Session.
- Homework coaching is required: After Days 1, 2, 3, and 4, you coach a client and bring their feedback back to class, creating a loop of practice, reflection, and refinement that research shows can improve learning retention by up to 90%.ย
- You coach in small cohorts: Each session is co-led by two highly trained course leaders, so you receive personalized attention throughout the five days.
By Day 5, you are reflecting on your growth as a coach, naming your strengths, and identifying where you want to stretch next.
From Dialogue to Doing
Ignite the Practice takes concepts you were introduced to in Foundations and puts them to work in coaching conversations with clients. The familiar becomes a tool you use with others, not just a framework you understand about yourself.
Building on Foundations
- The Four Cornerstones: What you encountered as the philosophical foundation of Co-Active Coaching deepens into a lived practice. You move from intellectually understanding the principles to embodying them, holding every client as Naturally Creative, Resourceful and Whole, releasing assumptions to fully Dance in This Moment, focusing on the Whole Person across heart, mind, body, and spirit, and trusting the coaching relationship itself as the catalyst to Evoke Transformation.
- Deep Listening: What you explored as a way of being curious and present in conversations expands into the Three Levels of Listening. You learn to move from self-focused internal awareness to laser-focused attention on the client, to a wide global listening that reads energy, tone, and what is not being said.
- The Creative/Reactive model: What helped you notice when you were operating from a reactive place deepens through the Saboteur. You learn to recognize it in clients, help them explore it, and coach through it toward their own resonance and aliveness.
The ideas are the same, applied with more depth, more skill, and more direct service to the person in front of you. Explore the full Co-Active coach training pathway to see how each level builds on the last.
Brand New Territory
Ignite the Practice also introduces skills that are entirely new. These are the practical tools of a working coach that you will use in every client session from this point forward.
Skills You Learn for the First Time
- 23 Visible Co-Active Coaching Skills: You receive a named framework of coaching skills covering everything from Championing, Acknowledgment, and Holding the Focus, to Blurting, Bottom-lining, and Reframing. Each skill is defined, practiced, and developed through real coaching rounds with peer observation and feedback.
- The Wheel of Life: A coaching tool used with clients to map their satisfaction across eight areas of life. You learn to use it in Discovery Sessions and ongoing coaching to open entry points for conversation and track progress over time.
- Values and Visioning: You learn to help clients identify what matters most to them and articulate a compelling vision for their life. These become anchors you return to throughout any coaching relationship.
By the time you complete Ignite the Practice, you have a coaching framework you can use with paying clients and the skills to start building a practice grounded in real experience.
Your Next Step in Coach Training
Over five days you build skills, work with real clients, and graduate with a recognized Co-Active coaching credential that signals to prospective clients and employers that you have done the real work. You also leave with 52 hours toward your ICF ACC credential, putting further professional recognition within reach.
Co-Active Training Institute has been training coaches for more than 30 years, and more than 150,000 practitioners across 120 countries have come through this pathway. Ignite the Practice is where their coaching lives began. And yours can too.
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