Short course
Advanced Coaching
Course status:
Applications being accepted
Dates and time:
13/04/2027 - 15/06/202718:00 - 21:00
Study format:
In-person weekly
Fees:
£475.00
This course promises to be an exciting departure from traditional advanced programmes that generally offer intense immersion in one particular model but do little to help the coach develop their own practice in ways that are critical to them.
You may be a business, life, sports, health, or financial coach; work in corporate, private or public sectors; with in-house, external, or assigned clients (paying or provided with your services for nothing); with years of experience, or just be beginning. Whatever your situation, your practice will be deepened and developed as a result of attending.
Over ten weeks, you will be supported as you develop plans, identify key areas, gain peers to work alongside, and be guided and encouraged as you put those plans into practice.
There will be opportunities to enhance your intervention skills, better understand clients' needs, draw on evidence rather than hearsay, explore your own attitudes to work and clients, expand client numbers, and build your professional standing.
The course is particularly suited to students who have completed an initial coaching programme, whether recently or some time ago, and are keen to expand their practice.
Book this course
Book your place online using the button below.
Course starts Tuesday 13 April 2027
This is an in-person course which requires your attendance at the weekly meetings in Oxford on Tuesdays, 6.00-9.00pm.
Week 1: Recap, Review, and Readiness
Week 2: Beyond Models – The Coaching Process as Dialogue
Week 3: Emotions in Coaching
Week 4: Coaching Presence and Use of Self
Week 5: Deep Listening and Powerful Questions
Week 6: Working with Values and Motivation
Week 7: Difference, Diversity, and Power in Coaching
Week 8: Complexity and Systems Thinking
Week 9: Feedback, Challenge, and Transformative Conversations
Week 10: Practice Development
Course aims
This highly personalised and practical course aims to help coaches (regardless of their discipline, niche, extent of practice, and whether internal or external) to develop their practice in a number of ways – in terms of scope, market, scale, depth of interaction, quality of outcomes, rigour, visibility, profile, or impact.
Course objectives
- To encourage participants to evaluate their own coaching practice against their evolving, personal vision for it.
- To enable them, in a supportive environment, to explore opportunities for its development.
- To provide a safe and creative space for participants to experiment with new and more demanding skills, techniques, and approaches.
Learning outcomes
By the end of the course students will have been given the opportunity to:
- have experienced, and experimented with, new ways of looking at their coaching practice
- have a clear understanding of the potential for their coaching work
- have created a medium-term plan for the development of themselves and their coaching practice
- have enhanced their coaching skills, and their presentation of them, through various forms of feedback.
Level and demands
The Department’s Weekly Classes are taught at FHEQ Level 4, ie first year undergraduate level, and you will be expected to engage in a significant amount of private study in preparation for the classes. This may take the form, for instance, of reading and analysing set texts, responding to questions or tasks, or preparing work to present in class.
Teaching methods
Using a virtual learning environment (Canvas), background notes will be provided shortly before each session so that you can read up on the week’s theme in advance if you wish.
We try to make sessions interactive and dynamic – you won’t find the tutor hiding behind a lectern!
Classroom activities will vary, involve a range of discussions and creative tasks, in both the full and smaller groups.
Assessment methods
Only those students who have registered for assessment and accreditation, in advance of the course start date, can submit coursework/assignments for assessment.
Assessment
You will be set two pieces of work for the course. The first is an in-class oral presentation. This does not count towards your final outcome but preparing for it, and the feedback you are given, will help you prepare for your assessed piece of work of 1,500 words due at the end of the course. The assessed work is marked pass or fail.
Dr Graham Wilson
After a PhD in behavioural science, I worked in leadership, organisational development, consultancy, and coaching. Around the turn of the millennium, I qualified firstly as a psychodynamic psychotherapist and then as a spiritual counsellor, becoming a Registered Member of the BACP.
From 2013, I’ve taught psychology, counselling, coaching, and photography at Oxford and elsewhere. Through teaching, writing many textbooks, professional and public dialogue, I aim to make these subjects accessible and relevant to everyone.
A Research Fellow of the Ronin Institute (RIIS2.0), I also serve on the executive of the APHE, am active in the BACP Research Teaching Network, a Fellow of the RAI, and member of the IVSA.
Academic credit
Credit Accumulation Transfer Scheme (CATS Points)
Please note, students who do not register for assessment and accreditation during the enrolment process will not be able to do so after the course has begun. If you wish to gain credit from completing this course you must register to do so before the course starts.
Only those who have registered for assessment and accreditation will be awarded CATS points for completing work to the required standard. Please note that assignments are not graded but are marked either pass or fail.
Learn more about the Credit Accumulation Transfer Scheme.
If you are enrolled on the Certificate of Higher Education at the Department you need to indicate this on the enrolment form but there is no additional registration fee for assessment and accreditation.
Digital certificate of completion
Students who are registered for assessment and accreditation and pass their final assignment will also be eligible for a digital Certificate of Completion. Information on how to access the digital certificate will be emailed to you after the end of the course. The certificate will show your name, the course title and the dates of the course attended. You will be able to download the certificate and share it on social media if you choose to do so.
Fees
| Description | Costs |
|---|---|
| Course fee (with no assessment) | £475.00 |
| Assessment and Accreditation fee | £60.00 |
Funding
If you are in receipt of a UK state benefit, or are a care-leaver in the UK, you may be eligible for a reduction of 50% of tuition fees. Please see the below link for full details:
Concessionary fees for short courses
Recommended reading
Recommended reading is optional and you are not required to purchase these books to study this course.
Library facilities
All weekly class students may become borrowing members of the Rewley House Library, part of the Bodleian Libraries, for the duration of their course. Prospective students whose courses have not yet started are also welcome to use the Library for reference.
- More information about the Library can be found on the Bodleian Libraries website.
- This guide for Weekly Class students also provides further information.
Preparatory reading
- Coaching skills: The definitive guide to being a coach / Rogers, J
- The coaching manual / Starr, J
Module code: O26P530PCW
How to enrol
Please use the ‘Book now’ button on this page.
How to register for accreditation and assessment
To be able to submit coursework and to earn credit (CATS points) for this course, if you wish to do so, you will need to register and pay an additional £60 fee. You can do this by ticking the relevant box at the bottom of the enrolment form or when enrolling online.
Students who do not register for CATS points during the enrolment process will not be able to do so after the course has begun.
If you are enrolled on the Certificate of Higher Education at the Department you need to indicate this on the enrolment form but there is no additional registration fee.