“When people ask me which coach training I recommend, I immediately point them to Steve March’s cutting-edge Aletheia Coaching. It has brought considerable depth to my coaching and is perfectly suited to our complex, uncertain times. ”
Aletheia Coaching Practicum
The shift from practicing coaching in coach training courses into practicing with real paying clients as a professional coach presents many new opportunities to learn and refine your skillfulness. In this 6-month course, you will learn how to coach throughout the lifecycle of an Aletheia-styled coaching engagement. Some of the topics covered include:
Getting Clients & Conducting Initial Meetings that build rapport
How to conduct Intake Conversations & Create Developmental Containers to focus the energy and attention of the coach and client
Creating the context for practicing unfoldment & Teaching the practice of unfoldment in a just-in-time manner
Discussing real client situations, identifying needed skills, and practicing them
Deepening real-time contact and other coaching skills
Leveraging neuroplastic memory and self reconsolidation through the design of integrating experiments & Navigating stuckness and quickening unfoldment
Navigating power dynamics in the coaching relationship
How to bring a coaching engagement to completion
In addition, you will have many opportunities to bring your most pressing challenges and questions about coaching your clients and receive support and assistance to navigate your coaching engagements.
Course Leaders
This course is co-led by Sherri Lassila and Angie Fox, our current Advanced Coaching Program Level 1 course teaching faculty, who are both passionate about helping coaches offer powerful coaching to their clients. They both have hundreds of hours coaching in the Aletheia unfolding style.
Sherri has been an executive coach and leadership facilitator since 1998, and has been co-teaching the Aletheia Advanced Coaching Program Level 1 since 2020. Her original certification was with The Coaches Training Institute (CTI) in 1998, and she later trained in many additional coaching methodologies (including Integral Coaching), as well as other approaches to parts, process and presence work. Sherri’s clients are mostly executive level leaders in a wide range of companies from tech/biotech start-ups to Fortune 500’s. She also does some career purpose/transition coaching, self-development coaching, and group coaching. In addition to her private practice, Sherri has also developed and facilitated hundreds of leadership and self-development workshops, including year-long cohort-based leadership programs, multi-year women’s leadership circles, and a number of programs through Stanford Business School where she was previously a student. Sherri joined Aletheia after a 20+ year path of mindfulness, meditation, transformation, and spiritual growth as she was seeking a more integrated approach to bridge the coaching she was doing with executives, and the deeper self-development work she was doing in more mindfulness-based, and spiritual programs. Aletheia has been transformational for her and her clients, and teaching the Level 1 has been one of the most rewarding experiences of her career. Sherri lives in Palo Alto, CA and is a mom of two wonderful college students, who continue to train her in so many things.
Angie has been coaching and studying with Steve March since 2006, joining Aletheia as a student in 2013, the coaching faculty in 2015, and as a teacher in 2021. Her initial coach training certification was with New Ventures West while working at (Genentech/Roche) in the areas of Training, Learning, Leadership, and Organizational Development. As an external coach and consultant since 2012, she facilitated programs around change, leadership, communication, feedback, coaching, mindfulness, wellbeing, resilience, and trust. Bringing an unfolding approach to working with groups, she has also supported senior leadership team launches, facilitated team offsite retreats, supported agile transformations with tools like the Enneagram IEQ9 and Leadership Circle Profile (LCP), and helped teams strengthen trust and relationships to enhance their effectiveness. Angie's current career pivot is deepening in the somatic space through study with RADIX and integrating that into her teaching, coaching, and in-person workshops. She also offers pro-bono and low-cost support to parents through group programs and coaching through Aletheia and her local community. Angie lives in Pinole, CA, where she and her husband steward 1/3 acre of land, where she strives to be in a reciprocal relationship, nurturing the soil that nourishes her back. Every summer, she is blessed with an abundance of elderberries that she loves to share with neighbors, family, and friends. She also cares for her two teenagers, who keep her humble and learning daily, 2 dogs, 6 chickens, and a pond of fish.
ICF Mentor Coaching Requirement
Size of this course will be limited to allow participants to use this course to fulfill the 7 hours of group mentor coaching allowed in the ICF Mentor Coaching credential requirement. For a fee, additional 1:1 mentor coaching can be arranged with course faculty upon request (current ICF requirement is that 3 of 10 hours of Mentor Coaching be conducted 1:1).
Is this program for ME?
Mentor Coaching for Coaching Engagements is for you if….
You have completed (or are close to completing) Advanced Coaching Program Level 1
You are a newer coach, ready to take on paying clients, and want more support as you begin your career as a professional coach
You are an experienced coach and want support to integrate Aletheia Coaching into your coaching practice
You want to expand your learning network of peers, bring your challenges, celebrate your successes, and share your learnings
You have at least two hours a week to participate in the course
What is the structure of this course?
This course is composed of eight 2-hour live sessions which include teaching, demonstration, practice, and discussion occurring approximately every two to five weeks for six months. The first few sessions are scheduled close together, and then the sessions are spaced further apart towards the end. This offers MORE support up front, as participants take on new clients, and then SPREADS OUT the support so that participants can continue to work with their clients and bring in questions and challenges over longer duration. Conversation continues in between sessions on our online learning platform. Very little new content is offered in this course. Instead, you will take a deeper dive into content presented near the end of ACP Level 1 and spend more time practicing key skills, working through real client issues, and learning with and from one another and the faculty.
What is the cost?
The fee for this course is $1,799 USD. This can be paid either in full or via monthly installments.
Additional coaching sessions with faculty are available for a fee. Contact your course faculty for availability and fees if you are interested.
Can I take this concurrently with level 2?
Yes! In fact, we strongly encourage new coaches to take this course as they begin to transition into working with clients outside of Aletheia courses. Some coaches will start doing this at the end of Level 1. Others will wait until the middle of Level 2 or even later.
When does the next cohort start?
Please look at the schedule for the next cohort session dates and application deadlines. In general, we launch a new cohort approximately every 4-6 months.
What time of day are the sessions held?
Typically our cohorts are offered one section at a time (either 10 AM-Noon or 4-6 PM Pacific) allowing participation from around the world in different time zones. We alternate offerings and add courses based on demand. Please let us know if you are interested and don’t see an offering that works for your schedule. We keep a running waitlist!
what is the time commitment?
The typical time commitment is ~2 hours per week during the duration of the course. This time is spent preparing for online session by watching video lectures, participating in the online sessions, practicing with other participants or clients, participating in online Q & A, and studying written materials.