Red Echo Associates

Life Skills Coach Training

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Quality Coaching Mentorship Healing Liberation

To participate in this program, you need to have a Grade 12 Certificate or a background in social services, human services, or human resource field. You can also have an equivalent combination of education and experience. Since group counseling and facilitation is challenging, it's important for trainees and/or Life Skills Coaches to be in good physical and emotional health with high energy levels. Additionally, living a drug, alcohol and addiction-free lifestyle is required.

2023, Six weeks, Five Phases Total

PHASE 1 
JULY 31 TO AUGUST 4

PHASE 2 
AUG 21 TO AUG 25

PHASE 3
 SEPT 11 TO SEPT 15

PHASE 4
 SEPT 25 TO SEPT 29

PHASE 5
 OCT 9 TO OCT 13

PHASE 5 
OCT 23 TO 27

Who Should Attend:

Those who recognize the need and demand for skilled facilitators within community projects. Those who recognize the need and demand for high quality programs for communities and organizations. Those who want to continue to grow, (un/re)learn, and enhance their skill set within their coaching and facilitation practice. Such as: Program Coordinators, Health Staff, Administrators, Front-Line Staff, Crisis Response Workers, Social Workers, Coaches, Youth Leaders, Parents, Foster Parents, Teachers, Professors, Students, Post-Secondary Students, those who are passionate in increasing the quality services communities receive within the realm of programming, facilitation, and support.

Phase One (JULY 31 to AUGUST 4)

• Facilitation in Group

• The Life Skills
Content/Process
Model

• The role of the Life
Skills Coach

• Developing an
Effective Working
Group

• Building on Cultural
Strengths

• Introduction to circle checking

• Developing Ice
Breakers and Warm
Ups

• Essential
Communication
Skills

• Learning Styles, Phases and Growth.

Phase Two (
AUGUST 21 to AUGUST 25 )

• Group Dynamics

• Self Esteem 
Developments in
 Groups

• Self Esteem 
Exercises and
 Practice

• Group Dynamics -Development
 Stages

• Group
Behaviour (helpful/harmful)

• The Feedback

• Process (giving & receiving)

• Native Family Life
Cycle

• Understanding & Healing the Impact of Residential school

• Understanding and
 Shifting Lateral
Violence

Phase Three (SEPTEMBER 11 to SEPTEMBER 15)

• Facilitating the Change Process

• Counselling 
Approaches

• Counselling
 Skills Practice

• Structured/Creative
 Problem Solving

• Designing for
Change

• Systems Thinking

• Navigating 
Socio-Political
 Complexities

Phase Four (SEPTEMBER 25 to SEPTEMBER 29
)

• Quality Coaching

• Facilitators Self Care
 Techniques

• Dealing with Stress

• Using Assertive Skills 
Effectively

• Ethics of the Facilitator

• Assessing Personal 
Skills

• Creating and Maintaining Space for Liberation

• Mindshifting and 
Emotional Process
Work

• Human-centred, Results-Based Approaches

Phase Five - Certification and Assessment

(OCTOBER 9 to OCTOBER 13 and OCTOBER 23 to OCTOBER 27)

• Intensive Group 
Counselling
 Practice

• Theory 
Presentation by Participants for Assessment

• Life Skills Person
Delivery by Participants

• Designing the Life 
Skills Program

• Ethics and
 Responsibility of a
 Life Skills Coach

• Assessment and Certification of 
Coaches by Trainers

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Completion provides a Life Skills Coach Certification

Program Costs: Tuition $3500 Program

Day: 9:00 a.m - 5: 00 p.m

Location: T.B.D. in North Battleford area (Those selected will receive details in their confirmation package)

Training must fill a minimum of 14 seats to commence

*Tuition must be paid in full prior to start date*

Bonus for addition to the program:

R1ZE: Phase one to the Âhkamêyimowin Liberation Experience will be included throughout the phases.

"In-powered People, Proactive Leadership, Indigenous Liberation Through Conscious Action"

R1ZE Benefits:

~ Leave with clarity in how to go into a community or organization and help, serve and support in a way that has long lasting impacts.

~ Recognize lateral violence, communal dynamics, and how to maneuver among them for a greater positive impact in your work.

~ Pinpoint key moments and opportunities for proactive initiatives both professionally and personally.

~ Become capable of being "internally untouchable" through emotional awareness and the power of perception.

R1ZE Experiences:

•    Systems Thinking: Understandings of the basics of systems principals and how to apply them in personal life, relationships, and work.

•    Emotional Intelligence: Become aware of the power between the Energy of Emotion and Perception while learning practical methods for emotional freedom.

•    Authentic Leadership: Unleashing the greatness within through self-awareness and conscious life styles. This includes a look at ego, personality types in relation to common leadership styles and seeking balance in authentic expression.

•    Indigenous Resurgence: Solution based insights on overcoming emotional struggles associated with attempts of colonialism, oppression, genocide and the current realities of Indigenous peoples in relation systems, collective well-being and enhancing collective understanding for conscious action.

See you Soon!

You can also apply and email Resume, Biography, and Letter of Interest directly to colby22sis@gmail.com