Transform Your Coaching Career With Our Advanced Programme
Ready to coach with depth, humanity and systemic awareness? Our one-year Advanced Diploma in Coaching is designed for people who want to experience an approach that can be truly transformational
We start from a simple belief: you cannot offer a client more discernment, self-awareness or steadiness than you have found in yourself. That’s why this programme is built on depth as much as breadth, and it’s what “psychologically-minded coaching” actually means in practice.
Who Is It For?
Whether you aim to become a life coach, executive coach, or internal organisational coach, or simply want to deepen your current practice, this programme equips you to work confidently with complexity, ambiguity and the whole person, their beliefs, identity, relationships and systems.
For an authentic glimpse into the Wise Goose experience in our graduates’ own words, visit our Alumni Spotlight page .
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.
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
Why Hybrid?
We intentionally train coaches across multiple environments because that’s where coaching now happens.
That’s why our Advanced programme combines learning in Devon, London and online. As well as gaining coaching skills, you’ll develop the confidence and awareness to work effectively with clients in different settings and understand how environment shapes the coaching relationship.
Trusted, Accredited Training
Alumni rate the overall effectiveness of our Professional Training Programme at 95%, three to five years after graduating.
Accredited by the Association for Coaching (AC) at Advanced Diploma level, Our Advanced Programme carries AC Accelerated Coach Training Accreditation (ACTA). This focuses on the individual accreditation journey offering a simplified and streamlined process for learners who want to gain Individual Coach Accreditation.
Real Voices
“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