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, Persoal 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 Kim Duncan.
• 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 Kim Duncan.

One-Day Skills Courses

These classes are held on-site at Hollifield Leadership Center.

Schedule for One-Day Skills Courses (discount available for those affiliated with Baptist State Convention of North Carolina churches.)

Date	Cost	Register
April 15, 2010 9:00am-4:30pm "Preparing for ICF Certification"	$139
July 29, 2010 9:00am-4:30pm "Coaching Around Strengths"	$160
October 14, 2010 9:00am-4:30pm "Intro to Using Assessments in Coaching"	$169

Continuing Education Webinars (Registration required.)

Date	Subject	Facilitator	Register
March 12, 2010 11:00 a.m.	Coach as Leader	Bill Copper
April 9, 2010 11:00 a.m.	Coaching Conversation Models	Bill Copper
May 7, 2010 11:00 a.m.	Turbo Listening	Bill Copper
June 9, 2010 11:00 a.m.	Faith Coaching	Bill Copper
July 9, 2010 11:00 a.m.	Winning Opportunities to Coach	Bill Copper
August 6, 2010 11:00 a.m.	Strong Starts	Bill Copper
September 3, 2010 11:00 a.m.	Focus Mindset	Bill Copper

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Advanced Courses

A Coach Approach to Evangelism and Discipleship

This learning experience will focus on understanding how coaching impacts our attitude, approach, and expectations for evangelizing and disciple-making. Participants will develop personalized definitions for evangelism and discipleship and deepen their commitment to these Christian practices.

Class includes:

• The art of dialogue as useful for coaching faith movement
• Understanding faith development in terms of shifts in belief and behavior as well as in terms of assent, fidelity, and trust
• Exploring forgiveness, grace, and mercy as key coaching concepts

Date	Cost	Register
June 9-11, 2010	$750

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.

Date	Cost	Register
February 10-12, 2010	$750
April 14-16, 2010	$750
August 25-27, 2010	$750
November 17-19, 2010	$750

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.

Date	Cost	Register
March 8-10, 2010	$750
July 26-28, 2010	$750
December 6-8, 2010	$750

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!!

Date	Cost	Register
March 10-12, 2010	$750
July 28-30, 2010	$750
December 8-10, 2010	$750

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.

Date	Cost	Register
June 7-9, 2010	$750
October 11-13, 2010	$750

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.

Date	Cost	Register
May 17-19, 2010	$750
September 13-15, 2010	$750

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.

Date	Cost	Register
May 19-21, 2010	$750
September 15-17, 2010	$750

Launching a Coaching Practice

This learning experience will help students learn how to start a successful coaching practice. The course includes time invested helping each student develop their own strategy and tools for moving forward with their coaching practice.

Date	Cost	Register
April 19-21, 2010	$750

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.

Date	Cost	Register
April 21-23, 2010	$750

HLC is a ministry owned and operated by Baptist State Convention of North Carolina, and financially supported through fees for services and by the generous Cooperative Program Missions Giving of affiliated congregations.