Coaching Training

Coach training consists of ICF (International Coach Federation) approved courses through Coach Approach Ministries that lead to certification.

Better your leadership and become a coach yourself!

Two Pathways offered:

  1. CCLC (Certified Christian Leadership Coach) Package Deal

With this purchase, you will receive all the training and mentor coaching required to become a Certified Christian Leadership Coach with the best discount.

2. Courses Ala Carte

This is the pathway for you if you simply wish to pay as you go.

CCLC Package Deal

CCLC stands for Certified Christian Leadership Coach which is a certification offered through Coach Approach Ministries (CAM). This certification equips you with the foundational skills of coaching and is fully certified through ICF (the International Coaching Federation).

       $1599 for General Public / $1399 for Credentialed Ministers

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Includes:

  1.  A 3-hour introductory online course required for certification (CAM 101)

  2. Two 16-hour online courses - CAM 501 (required) plus CAM 502 or CAM 503

  3. 10 hours of Group Mentor Coaching

Take courses a la carte

  • CAM 501: Foundations for Christian Coaching (Online Sessions)

    $399.00

    This 16-hour ICF approved course helps give you a major upgrade in how you communicate, lead, and relate, consider CAM 501: Foundations for Christian Coaching. This is an interactive course where you will have the opportunity to practice and receive growth-oriented feedback. You will finish the course ready and able to use coaching at a basic level.

    Topics include core coaching skills, a coaching conversation model, the biblical basis for coaching, how coaching is distinct from counseling and mentoring, and how you can use coaching in their ministries or workplace.

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    Schedule Options:

    Spring, 2025 - Tuesdays, beginning Mar. 25 (6 weekly sessions) 3 pm - 5 pm (EST)

    Fall, 2025 - Mondays, beginning Aug. 18 (6 weekly sessions) 6:30 pm - 8:30 pm (EST)

    All classes are on Zoom - Eastern Standard Time

  • CAM 502: Establishing A Dynamic Coaching Relationship

    $399.00

    This 16-hour ICF-accredited course is essential for every coach — whether your aim is a professional coaching practice or to establish coaching relationships within your ministry or professional role. It will show you how to develop a solid professional coaching relationship.

    Topics include:

    The ethics and standards every coach must meet.

    How to support the client to orient around areas of strengths and high-performance patterns.

    Basics for establishing a coaching practice.

    Contracting for results.

    How to talk about coaching in order to attract clients.

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    Schedule Options:

    Spring, 2025: Mondays, beginning May 12 (6 weekly sessions) 7 pm - 9 pm

    Fall, 2025: Mondays, beginning Oct. 27 (6 weekly sessions) 7 pm - 9 pm

    All classes are on Zoom - Eastern Standard Time

  • CAM 503: Coaching through Change, Transition, and Transformation

    $399.00

    A 16-hour ICF-accredited class

    Life is all about change. However, not all change is the same, and coaches need to be able to support three types of change: proactive change, transitions, and deep transformation. This ICF course provides students the knowledge and skills necessary for coaching people and groups through change. Attention is given to understanding different types of change, how to support people going through transitions, and how to use coaching to initiate positive change.

    Topics include the dynamics of change, transition, and transformation, models to navigate coaching in these areas, the coaching skills and the coaching process to help people navigate through changes, transition, and transformation, and increased effectiveness as a catalyst for transformation

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    Spring, 2025 - Wednesdays, beginning Mar. 19 (6 weekly sessions) 12 pm - 2 pm (EST)

    All classes are on Zoom - Eastern Standard Time

  • CAM 508: Coaching for Spiritual Growth (Online Sessions)

    $399.00

    This 16-hour ICF-accredited course provides you the knowledge and skills necessary to apply coaching to faith conversations so you can use coaching to support people moving closer to God and deeper in their commitment to Christ. The course introduces several spiritual growth models and coaching frameworks that support spiritual growth as well as insights on how to apply coaching informally and in challenging conversations. Attention is given to how a dialogical approach can be effective for evangelism and discipleship, how coaching can be expressed in the ministries of a local church, and the relationship between coaching competencies and Christian practices.

    Topics include:

    • Understand and appreciate coaching as an evangelism and discipleship relationship.

    • Use coaching skills and the coaching process to help people move forward in faith commitments.

    • Increase effectiveness as a catalyst for discipleship and evangelism.

    • Develop your own framework in your own context.

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    Schedule Options:

    Fall, 2025 - Tuesdays, beginning Sept. 16 (6 weekly sessions) 3 pm - 5 pm

    All classes are on Zoom - Eastern Standard Time

  • CAM 513: Coaching Church Planters

    $399.00

    This 16-hour ICF-accredited course is essential for every coach who desires to coach church planters. Coaching church planters has its own distinctions. Planters are fundraisers, recruiters, communicators, and more. In this course, we will cover a variety of coaching models and skills specific to coaching church planters and is laid out with the foundation of current church planting best practices in mind.

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    Schedule Options:

    Fall, 2025 - Thursdays, beginning Sept. 18 (6 weekly sessions) 3 pm - 5 pm

    All classes are on Zoom - Eastern Standard Time

  • Group Mentor Coaching (GMC)

    $999.00

    This mentor coaching process provides at least ten hours of mentor coaching – seven hours through a group coaching/supervision cohort and three hours of one-on-one feedback coaching. Depending on the number of registrations, GMC could include up to 11 group sessions. Participation in all group sessions is expected.

    GMC is specifically intended to satisfy the mentor coaching requirement for ICF credentialing, prepare coaches for future program feedback and assessments, and provide quality feedback geared toward coaching strengths and growth opportunities.

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    Schedule: TBA

    All Classes are on Zoom - Eastern Standard Time

For more CAM courses visit https://coachapproachministries.org/courses/.