• What’s included: Tuition include training fees, materials, post-retreat class calls, and meals and commuter fee.
• Required pre-reading text for each retreat is not included (The Mindful Coach for PBC I)
• Faculty: Bebe Hansen and PBC Faculty
• Location: This course will be held at Highland Lake Cove, a secluded and beautiful retreat center 30 minutes south of Asheville Airport (AVL). Retreats include morning practices and evening sessions. We believe that the community experience is a vitally important element of the retreat, so come ready to fully participate.
• Meals and Lodging: Lodging includes single occupancy lodging with shared bath or en suite bathroom and is provided Sunday night through Wednesday. Meals are provided Sunday dinner through Wednesday lunch.
• Arrival: Check-in is at 4pm on Sunday, followed by dinner served at 6pm.
• Departure: Check-out is at 11am on the last day, but the course will end at 2pm on the last day.
• ICF CCE’s for Renewal – This option is available to ICF certified coaches (ACC, PCC, or MCC) seeking CCEs for renewal, inquire with Jenny for details

The Presence-Based^® Coaching Course is a three-part program. This course provides coaching and change professionals with a pragmatic toolkit for accelerating your own development and that of your clients. We focus on building and extending our own presence, and on specific coaching moves and models that awaken and support long term efficacy in our clients.

Attending will build your foundation of Presence-Based coaching skills, with a particular orientation toward developing the whole person. The course is grounded in a model of human development, leading toward the capacity to be present and a learner in all of life.

General Description

In PBC I: Being a Development Partner, the ongoing theme is on the presence of the practitioner. This focus on presence, coupled with a powerful architecture for the coaching conversation, invites the conditions for development.  PBC I is a three-day retreat with two 60-minute follow-up class calls on Zoom. There is  approximately 1 hour of pre-course work plus reading The Mindful Coach.

In PBC II: Evoking Self-Generation, there is an emphasis on presence as an outcome of coaching for clients. We continue to strengthen our own ground as coaches, as we also couple our way of being with new coaching moves that evoke new awareness and capacity in the client. The result is greater resilience, efficacy, choice, aliveness, and leadership presence. PBC II is a a four-day retreat with two 60-minute follow-up class calls on Zoom.   There is  approximately 2 hours of pre-course work plus reading Presence-Based Coaching.

The Presence-Based Coaching model and methodology is an entry into supporting others around change that offers considerable depth, challenging even for experienced practitioners. Our overall promises for the Presence-Based Coaching I and II and Mentor Coaching Courses are that you will build observable new competencies in coaching, greatly enhance your coaching presence, contextualize your coaching in a robust model of human development, and be more self-generative in your own life. 

Who This is For

The Presence-Based Coaching Courses are designed for:

• new and aspiring coaches wanting a coherent and integrated coaching approach
• experienced coaches, facilitators, and OD practitioners seeking to integrate somatic and presence-based coaching into their work
• business and nonprofit leaders using coaching to develop people and build relationships
• educators and helping professionals who recognize that their way of being, and ability to ask artful questions, is essential for the learning and empowerment of others.

Specific Areas of Learning Focus for PBC I

• distinguishing somatic, emotional, and cognitive awareness
• working with your own habits, attachments, and aversions as a coach
• cultivating and holding mindful presence in a coaching partnership
• distinguishing and coaching through seven distinct roles
• framing artful questions for catalyzing awareness, defining outcomes, and mapping a plan of action
• working with metaphors and distinctions
• designing body practices and self-observations
• building an integrated development plan

If you must cancel your registration for any retreat or course, all fees paid minus a cancellation fee will be refunded, as long as the conditions outlined in the terms and conditions are met. If those conditions are not met, no refunds will be provided. See more details on cancellation policies on the Terms & Conditions page. Your registration confirms acceptance of these polices.