If the relational frameworks you explored in Co-Active Foundations: Human Being & Human Doing spoke to you and you are ready to take things further, the next step is Co-Active Ignite the Practice: Co-Active Practitioner Training. It builds directly on what you already know and puts those lessons into real practice.
Foundations introduced you to the Co-Active approach through partner conversations and guided reflection. Ignite the Practice takes what you learned and moves it into a coaching relationship. You shift from applying these ideas in your own life to developing the skills to use them in service of someone else.
The coaching industry has grown 62% since 2019 to become a $4.56 billion global market, and the practitioners driving that growth started exactly where you are now.
Ready to take the next step? View Ignite the Practice dates and find a cohort that fits your schedule.
Who Ignite Is Designed For
Ignite the Practice serves people coming to it from different directions, and you donโt need a background in coaching to be ready for it. The only prerequisite is Foundations. What brings people here varies, but the common thread is a readiness to build on what they experienced as they were introduced to the Four Cornerstones.ย ย
People Who Thrive in Ignite
- Aspiring professional coaches: Ignite counts toward 52 hours of International Coaching Federation (ICF) training and earns the Co-Active Practitioner (CAP) designation, your first formal accreditation in coaching training. For those pursuing the ICF Associate Certified Coach (ACC) credential, an add-on option is also available.
- Leaders and managers: People in leadership roles who want to hold better conversations, develop their teams, and bring a coaching approach to the way they lead find that Ignite gives them a practical framework they can apply every day.
- Career changers: Anyone pivoting into consulting, leadership development, or people-focused work who wants effective relational skills for their next role.ย
Wherever you are coming from, Ignite the Practice is where real coach training begins. Explore the full Co-Active Coach Training Pathway to see how each level builds on the last.
What Changes at Ignite
The skills you practiced in Foundations were about you, how you listen, how you ask questions, how you relate. At Ignite the Practice, those same skills get redirected. You learn to use them with intention, in structured coaching conversations, with someone else’s growth as the goal.
When the Work Becomes About Someone Else
- The Co-Active Model: You are introduced to the full Co-Active Model as a coaching framework, building on the Four Cornerstones you encountered in Foundations and learning how to apply them in service of a client’s growth.
- Levels of Listening: Your listening develops from general curiosity and presence into a structured skill. You learn to move between internal awareness, laser-focused attention on the client, and a wide, receptive listening that reads energy, tone, and what is not being said.
- Powerful Questions: The skill you practiced in Foundations sharpens here. You learn to form questions from the client’s own words, keep them short and open, and use them to open new thinking rather than direct it.
- Structured feedback: You give and receive direct, skill-specific feedback throughout the training, building self-awareness as a coach alongside the skills themselves.
This is where the shift happens. You move from someone who understands Co-Active principles to someone who can hold space for another person’s growth. That is a different kind of learning, and it starts on Day 1 of Ignite the Practice.
You Start Coaching Real People
The most significant thing that happens in Ignite the Practice is that you start coaching actual people between sessions. Homework is not reading or reflection. It is coaching, and you bring what you learn from each session back into the room the next day.
The Homework That Builds Your Practice
- After Day 1, practice powerful Questions in the real world: You take the skill of Powerful Questions outside the training and into everyday conversations, noticing what opens up when you lead with curiosity rather than direction.
- After Day 2, coach a client using the Levels of Listeningย and Visible Co-Active Coaching Skills coach a client using the Levels of Listening and Visible Co-Active Coaching Skills: You coach a real person, choosing three skills in particular you want to practice, while reminding yourself of the Levels of Listening and Powerful Questions before you begin.
- After Day 3, coach with emphasis on Values and the Saboteur: You coach someone with a focus on discovering their values and working with aspects of the Saboteur. You also do a deeper self-reflection on values โ noticing them in others, in media, and in what you find yourself unable to be with.
- After Day 4, coach using the three Principles: You run a full coaching session weaving together the Principles of Fulfillment (What do you want?), Balance (What are you choosing?), and Process (What are you experiencing?).
- Between the two parts, design and run your Discovery Session: You create your own Discovery Session and invite at least three people to experience it before your next course begins.ย
By the time you complete both parts of Ignite the Practice, you have coached real people multiple times, collected real feedback, and built a Discovery Session you can keep using.
Your Next Step in Coach Training
Ignite the Practice is where the Co-Active approach moves from something you understand to something you use. You come in with Foundations already in your bones, and you leave with hands-on coaching experience, a recognized credential, and a clear sense of where you want to go next. The five-day structure, delivered in two parts, gives your learning room to develop between sessions rather than all at once.
Co-Active Training Institute shapes more new coaches each year than any other program in the world, and that community is built one practitioner at a time. Whatever draws you to this work, a career shift, a desire to lead differently, or a calling you have been sitting with for a while, Ignite is where it begins.
Ready to take the next step? View Ignite the Practice dates and find a cohort that fits your schedule.