Coaching Workshops

& How to Earn Coaching Certification

The Gestalt Institute of Cleveland specializes in coaching training and offers a wide selection of workshops throughout the year. We also offer Coaching Certification. Certification requires a total of 8 courses (2 required Foundation courses and 6 Modular courses), a 5-day practicum, and a comprehensive exam. GIC will provide certification initially along with graduate credit from Cleveland State University where applicable. ICF (International Coaching Foundation) certification will be provided within 6 months. Elective courses are practice related and provide continuing education units for maintaining certification.

The prerequisite Foundation course will be waived for graduates of the Gestalt Institute of Cleveland's GTP or BEI programs.

Foundations Courses

Gestalt Coaching is a seven day foundation course that builds the core understanding of all gestalt
concepts that can then be applied in each of the modular courses. As a foundational course, it is
required for certification. Read more...

Coaching Ethics is a two day foundation course that addresses coaching ethics. Utilizing the ICF Ethical standards, the focus of the course is to exam how to provide rock-solid coaching and stay above the fray of unethical practices.

Certification Processes

Gestalt Practicum is a five day practicum at the end of the course work for certification. The focus of the intense practicum is to get faculty feedback and approval that the individual can be certified as competent in gestalt coaching.

Gestalt Examination is a comprehensive examination that enables GIC to certify that the individual with adequate knowledge of coaching and gestalt theory. Much of this will result from the supplemental readings for each workshops. There will be core questions of gestalt theory, a questions pertaining to each workshop the individual has completed, and a case study. It will be determined if these examinations will be written, open-book, and/or oral.

Modular Courses

Life Coaching: A Gestalt Approach is a three day journey through the field of Life coaching. Day One will provide a theoretical review of how Life coaching evolved and the theoretical foundations that have been built in the last decade, including use of assessments and professional certification. Day Two will continue the theory building as primary concepts underlying Gestalt theory will be presented and overlain onto Life coaching. Day Three will focus on a series of exercises and live coaching that will enliven the theories presented and create a series of experiences that will enable the student to embody the coaching process. Sarah Toman & Herb Stevenson. Read more...

Executive Coaching: A Gestalt Approach is a three day journey through the field of executive coaching. Day One will provide a theoretical review of how executive coaching evolved and the theoretical foundations that have been built in the last decade, including use of assessments and professional certification. Day Two will continue the theory building as primary concepts underlying Gestalt theory will be presented and overlain onto executive coaching. Days Three will focus on a series of exercises and live coaching that will enliven the theories presented and create a series of experience that will enable the study to embody the coaching process. Experiential exercises are interspersed throughout the workshop. Jay Brinegar & Herb Stevenson. Read more...

Developmental Coaching supports the client by bridging the gap that can create extended competence. Bridging the gap focuses on what is missing. It builds on existing skills and thoughts by using them as pillars to discover new competencies; often, competencies required by recent position changes within the organization, the environment, and/or the recent future. Michelle Vanderlip, FRB Cleveland & Herb Stevenson. Read more...

Performance Coaching is often related to the Peter Principle--promotion into incompetency. Rather than executive/leadership skills, the individual has not been exposed to specific management skills. In these cases, the focus of the coaching is to backfill the competency with specific skills to round out the management abilities of the individual. Read more...

Coaching for Strategy/Visioning is forward thinking--visioning. It may be known that present performance is more than adequate, but future positions or dreams require a larger executive skill base or an expanded mind-set or simply a greater self awareness in order to be effective for future challenges.

Coaching for Emotional Intelligence is based on the realization that emotional maturity, or as stated in business, emotional competency can be taught for those that have not naturally developed it in their day-to-day life. Often, the issue is not a deficiency, but having never been afforded the opportunity to develop the emotional competency required as we move up the ladder of life. Juliann Spoth & Herb Stevenson. Read more...

Coaching Across Differences is based on a global approach to business and leadership. Facing an increasingly diverse and globalized world, organizations must have the cultural competency and flexibility in order to maintain the competitive advantage and succeed. This workshop will address the ever increasing needs to foster an inclusive organization that is capable of retaining, developing and capitalizing on its diverse talents domestically and globally. This is a three-day workshop led by Celia Young and Curt Waller. Read more...

Coaching and Resistance is based on the fact that resistance is common occurrence for all change efforts. This workshop will address what are resistances, the various models of resistance, including the gestalt and the model of Rick Maurer. 3-5 days. Rick Maurer and Herb Stevenson.

Coaching Polarities is based on the core concepts implicit to gestalt theory that all meaning is created by knowing the other–our polarity. Incorporating the rich tradition of gestalt theory and the cutting edge models of Barry Johnson’s polarity management, this workshop addresses how to support executives caught in a paradox that seems to have no end. 3-5 days. Barry Johnson & Herb Stevenson. Read more...

Elective Courses

Setting up Your Coaching Practice is a three-five day workshop on the nuts and bolts of setting up a coaching practice. Besides the very basics of starting a new business, such as stationary and business cards, the focus is also on the process the new coach experience in starting a new venture. Read more...

Marketing Your Coaching Practice is a three-five day workshop that focuses on the basics of creating a marketing plan, developing contacts, building a website, securing contact lists, building e-newsletters through services such as Constant Contact.

Telecourses

In development.

Becoming an Effective Organizational Intervener

1 year - 5 modules

For over thirty years, the Gestalt Institute of Cleveland has acknowledged and taught that successful leadership requires an indepth awareness of oneself coupled with the capacity to understand organization and system dynamics sufficiently to create effective personal and organizational interventions. Therefore, the basic premise of Personal & Organizational Effectiveness: Becoming an Effective Organizational Intervener is that through better interventions, individuals become more effective leaders.

Personal & Organizational Effectiveness: Becoming an Effective Organizational Intervener is a dynamic program for people involved in leadership within organizations whether it be via day-to-day management or organizational change and development. It provides an introduction to the body of knowledge developed in the Gestalt Institute of Cleveland’s Organization & Systems Development programs. In five exciting sessions, participants will explore our overall model and theory base as applied to individual, group, and organizational levels of system. The program offers participants a powerful and integrative opportunity to increase their awareness, knowledge, and skills in order to become more effective interveners in organizations.

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