We are living through a moment when more and more people, including those who have done everything they were told to do, are quietly asking what their lives are actually for.

 

The dominant ways of helping them, therapy and performance coaching, were not built for this particular question. Something older was. Philosophy, lived rather than studied, has spent two and a half thousand years on exactly this ground.

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Philosophy-Inspired Coaching is an attempt to bring that older tradition into the coaching room with rigour, structure, and integrity. It draws on four wisdom traditions, the Stoic, the existentialist, the Buddhist-inspired, and the Daoist, as lenses to be offered rather than doctrines to be transmitted. It is organised around a developmental model of flourishing, and a session architecture that can actually be taught. It does not replace what good coaching already does. It gives it the depth coaching has always been reaching for.

 

The certification is being developed in line with the standards of the International Authority for Professional Coaching & Mentoring (IAPC&M), with whom I am a Fellow Accredited Coach, and accreditation of the programme itself will be sought as part of its launch.

It is built deliberately as a small, personal apprenticeship rather than a scaled cohort. Each candidate is mentored individually across the full arc of certification by me. The work itself is an apprenticeship in a way of being, and cannot honestly be delivered any other way.

 

A note on how the certification is structured, for those weighing whether it's for them.

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There Will Be Two Tracks to Certification

 

The full track is for those seeking complete formation in the approach. It leads to certification as a Philosophy-Inspired Coach with Coaching Philosophia, and prepares candidates who wish to do so to apply for accreditation as a Practitioner Coach with the IAPC&M, subject to meeting their further accreditation criteria.

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A reduced-fee specialist track is available for coaches already holding recognised accreditation (ICF, EMCC, or IAPC&M) who wish to certify specifically as Philosophy-Inspired Coaches, without seeking further coaching accreditation.

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If something in this speaks to you, whether because you recognise the condition in the people you serve, or because you recognise it, quietly, in yourself, then you may be one of the people this work is for.

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Leave your details below and I will be in touch as the doors open to the first apprentices.