MA Executive, Business and Life Coaching

OVERVIEW

This programme is aimed at professionals from a range of organisational and other settings, who have the need to mentor and/or coach colleagues entering the professions or at senior levels. It is also designed for people in the financial and business worlds, who need to expand their range of skills and expertise in enabling their client group to manage their finances and business more effectively. This course also caters for individuals who are making career changes and bringing lifelong expertise to a process of transformation and change in their clients’ personal, as well as professional, lives.

This course has developed from an in-depth knowledge of counselling, psychotherapy, business acumen and management consultancy. The key to this kind of approach is the significance of relationship. This is a strategic concept and goes far beyond empathy. Transformational coaching deals with content and process simultaneously and identifies key issues and how to address them. This approach is given additional depth and significance because the underlying theoretical frameworks are taught to help the student assess both the nature and significance of the problem and the manner of intervention.

TUTORS

Julie Hewson Director of the Iron Mill Institute, BA (Hons) Post Graduate, Cert Ed Dip SW, CQSW, TSTA, CTA, MBACP Senior Accredited, UKCP registered Psychotherapist. Trainer and Supervisor for the European Association of Supervision. 

Mary O'Donoghue. Diploma in Life and Business Coaching, Post Graduate Diploma in Gestalt Therapy, Diploma in Counselling and Psychotherapy, Certified Supervisor and Diploma in Business Studies.

ENTRY REQUIREMENTS

Candidates for entry onto the Masters programme, whether the exit point be Postgraduate Certificate, Postgraduate Diploma or full Masters of Arts, must normally fulfil the following entry requirements:

·       possession of a first degree in a related subject *, or an equivalent relevant professional qualification acceptable to the Iron Mill Institute and the University of Worcester. * for example: psychology; sociology; counselling; management; sport; business, education

·       demonstration of a mature attitude, commitment and suitability, demonstrated at interview, and significant practice experience (normally a minimum of three years post qualification in their relevant discipline).

·       evidence of a basic knowledge and interest in the field of Coaching

All applicants must satisfy the interviewer that they are capable of undertaking the study programme and offer evidence of academic ability, motivation and potential. – This may include relevant experience and practice in the world of business and personal development experience, prior completion of a suitable scheme of study, or completing specified essay, project work, or APL/APEL portfolio. Entrance onto the Coaching programme, involving transferred credit, proceeds in accordance with University of Worcester academic regulations: postgraduate Regulatory Framework.

Applicants, whose first language is not English, must provide evidence of successful achievement of IELTS at level 7 (or equivalent) prior to the commencement of the course.

All students accepted onto the programme are required to have access to a personal computer.

Course Content >

Key Information

Course title

MA Executive, Business and Life Coaching

Duration

2.5 years 

The Diploma modules are the taught components of the MA, once these have been completed a further 6-12 months is needed to complete the dissertation. 

Validation

The MA programme is validated by the University of Worcester, Institute of Health and Society.

Entry requirements

See the main description for full details

Next intake

November 2010 

Cost

These are in addition to the Diploma fees.

From £2200 (this excludes the Diploma Fees).  Instalment options are available. This may be subject to a small annual increase in line with university fee structure.

Dates ('10/'11 Course)

25/26 September 2010 (101)

13-15 November 2010

15-17 January 2011

19-21 March 2011

14-16 May 2011

16-18 July 2011

3/4 September 2011

Taster Days

We offer one-day tasters in all of our longer training. These days are both informative and fun and you will leave with some useful tools. They take place 2-3 times a year, dates can be found in the Workshops section of the website. If you decide to progress onto further training the amount you have paid will be discounted from the course fees.

Coaching Taster Day

Coaching is a relatively new kid on the block, though it has been around for decades in other disguises. Essentially it operates from a premise that many people need a forum in which to assess their current personal or work situation and plan for the future in a strategic way that takes account of their beliefs, their values, the system in which they live and the overall ecology of the situation. It concentrates on now rather than the past and works for the betterment of the future. Read more...