Continuing Education

Initial VALWOOD Christian Coaching Certification is valid for one year. In order to maintain your certification you will need to complete 10 hours of continuing education each certificate year, beginning with the receipt of your certificate.

We offer several ways to accomplish this:

• One-day skills course on-site at Hollifield Leadership Center (8 hours) (Combine this option with two 1-hour Teleclasses.)
• Continuing Ed Webinars (1 hour each)
  *See schedule below
• Advanced Classes such as A Coach Approach to Evangelism and Discipleship, Coaching Teams, Coaching Change, Personal Coaching, Transition, and Transformation, Coaching as a Learning Catalyst, Personal Coaching, and The Language of Coaching (16 hours) (you may spread these hours over two years with 2 webinars each year to reach the 10 hour requirement)
  *See schedule below
• Audit Foundations of Christian Leadership Coaching
  (16 hours) (you may spread these hours over two years with 2 webinars each year to reach the 10 hour requirement)
• For those who live out-of-state, we allow you to transfer in 5 hours of non-Valwood credits. Forms and additional information available from Bill Copper.
• We now have Coaching Feedback Sessions available. These telephone sessions are one hour long and are worth one hour of continuing education credit. For a full description of this learning experience and a registration form contact Bill Copper.

One-Day Skills Courses

Held on-site at Hollifield Leadership Center. A discount is available for those affiliated with Baptist State Convention of North Carolina churches.

Continuing Education Webinars 

Registration required

Advanced Courses

Establishing a Dynamic Coaching Relationship
This learning experience focuses on creating dynamic coaching relationships. Focus is given to orienting around areas of strengths and high performance patterns. This experience introduces the students to establishing a coaching practice and ethical issues in coaching.

Pre-requisites for this advanced class include Introduction to Christian Leadership Coaching and Foundations of Christian Leadership Coaching.

Personal Coaching
In this course students will develop the six basic components of personal coaching: goals, tolerations, needs, values, boundaries and standards.

Pre-requisites for this advanced class include Introduction to Christian Leadership Coaching and Foundations of Christian Leadership Coaching.

Coaching Teams
Much of the work that we do within organizations and churches is with teams of people. Coaches use the same foundational skills to coach individuals and teams but if you've ever tried to coach a team of people, you know that it is much more complex than coaching an individual.

Class includes:

• Guidance that scripture gives us about teams and coaching teams
• Coaching groups to become teams
• Coaching teams to become more effective teams
• Assessing the dysfunctions of a team (using The Five Dysfunctions of a Team by Patrick Lencioni)
• Plenty of skills practice and case study work
• Lots of fun!!

Pre-requisites for this advanced class include Introduction to Christian Leadership Coaching and Foundations of Christian Leadership Coaching.

The Language of Coaching
This learning experience introduces the concepts of metaphor, storytelling, and formulas to promote discovery. Participants will learn to recognize distinctions, yellow flag words, and how to synthesize the other person's words for the benefit of the other person.

Pre-requisites for this advanced class include Introduction to Christian Leadership Coaching and Foundations of Christian Leadership Coaching.

Coaching Change, Transition, and Transformation

This learning experience helps participants distinguish between these levels of change and the most appropriate coaching skills for helping people navigate through them.

Pre-requisites for this advanced class include Introduction to Christian Leadership Coaching and Foundations of Christian Leadership Coaching.

Coaching as a Learning Catalyst

This learning experience will provide information on different learning styles, cognitive preferences, and learning that reflects how the brain works in order to generate results in your coaching.

Launching a Coaching Practice

Come join a powerful community of new coaches in learning how to lay the solid foundations of branding and marketing, legal and financial structures, and product development! You will come away from this intensive, encouraging training able to:

• Understand and apply your personal coaching brand
• Build and sell your systems, products, and packages
• Make your business visible, credible, and connected
• Work the sales cycle and market to your audience
• Develop a customized business plan

Using Instruments, Assessments in Coaching

This course provides students an overview of various assessments, inventories, and tools for creating awareness with coaching clients. Among the instruments addressed will be the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI), the Leadership Practices Inventory 360 (LPI 360), StrengthsFinder 2.0, and DiSC. Attention will be given to discerning which instruments are most useful in which client situations, what steps
are necessary for utilizing various instruments, and how to promote effective client engagement with instruments.

Additional requirements for the class include recent (within two years) reports from the following assessments:

• StrengthsFinder 2.0
• Myers-Briggs Type Indicator – MBTI
• FIRO-B

If you don’t have recent reports you can register here.
to take the MBTI and/or FIRO-B, and buy the StrengthsFinder book here.