Advanced Course

Transform Your Coaching Career With Our Advanced Programme

“Wise Goose does not offer transactional courses, it was transformational for me and others in my cohort.”

Alumni – Gary King Business Psychologist and consultant

Why Choose Wise Goose?

• Professional & Personal Growth: Develop as a psychologically-minded coach, grounded in contemporary psychology, psychosynthesis, action research and change theory.
•Comprehensive Learning: Explore the ‘big picture’ systems perspective, identity-level change, and practical coaching skills through an experiential, dialogue-rich approach.
• Accredited Excellence: Accredited by the Association for Coaching ‘AC’ at their highest Advanced Diploma level. Wise Goose is an AC Accelerated ‘Fast Track’ Course provider. On completion of the programme your pathway to individual accreditation is streamlined by acknowledging proficiency demonstrated during the course. Our courses are also approved by the Institute of Leadership.
• Flexible & Future-Ready: Hybrid learning across London, Devon and online prepares you for coaching in diverse contexts, from virtual spaces to organisational settings.
• Expert Support: Learn in small groups with highly qualified trainers, supported by one-to-one and group supervision, peer learning groups, and observed practice.
• Ethical & Sustainable: Train with a certified B Corp, committed to social and environmental responsibility.

Something that really shone out for me about the course was being with people from a wide range of disciplines.  I learnt so much from colleagues from different fields coming together; each person brought something unique and special and will be developing a style of coaching that is right for them, drawing on the wealth of expertise and skills that they’ve already developed in their professional lives. Alumni Catherine Rees – School Improvement Leader

Alumni rate the overall effectiveness of our Professional Training Programme at 95%, three to five years after graduating.

Programme at a Glance

• Duration: 12 months (up to 24 months to complete all work)
• Training: 18 days of class-based learning (including Foundations)
• Hours: 350 total (126 contact hours, 175 independent study, plus coaching practice)
• Practice: 60 hours for AC Diploma or 40 hours for Institute of Leadership certification

Who Is It For?

Whether you aim to become a life coach, executive coach, internal organisational coach, or deepen your current practice, this programme equips you to work confidently with complexity, ambiguity and the whole person, their beliefs, identity, relationships and systems. Whether you’re considering training with us or simply want to learn more about our community, visit our Alumni Spotlight page for an authentic glimpse into the Wise Goose experience in our graduates’ own words. Here’s a taste:

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“I worked with people for 25 years in senior positions before I did this coaching programme. I was always interested in developing people, and teams which included coaching. The Wise Goose training helped give more shape to how I do that.  I’ve done finance and HR and project management and all these other things which weave in and out of the conversation, so I bring in whatever a person needs at the time. I’d done coaching already and something in me said ‘I need to get some structure around this and get qualified’. 

If there is a thread, it is the transpersonal element that interested me, linking into that sense of soul, of life purpose and what are you doing in the world, rather than narrow coaching models around improving your sales targets. I looked at different programmes and realised Wise Goose fit what I needed.  I mostly did the training to give myself confidence that what I was doing anyway made sense, and gain some additional tools.  And it did that – it gave me reassurance, “yes I know what I’m doing here”, I knew a lot of stuff already and it gave me some new stuff to work with, and it gave me a group of people that I could practice and learn with.  All of that was useful.

Alumni -Glyn Botterell

Are you ready to join a learning community where curiosity, dialogue and real practice sit at the heart of the experience?