Life Congruence Coach: Fully Certified Life Congruence Coach SA

Life Congruence Coach

Become a Life Congruence Coach

Become a Life Congruence Coach, through an approved programme by the internationally recognized International Coach Federation (ICF), as a Continuing Coach Education (CCE) Programme.

Who Should Attend?

Anyone who feels called to coach
Anyone who cares deeply about coaching and wants to start a career in coaching
Individuals who want to be masters of their own destiny and wish to develop to their full potential
Human Resources Practitioners
Those with influential roles in organisations; and
Coaches who have not yet completed a holistic Life Coaching Programme.

What will this programme help you achieve?

This Programme will enable you to become a fully certified Life Congruence Coach with all the rights and entitlements that this accords to you, meaning that you can use the title to offer your coaching services to others, market yourself accordingly, use our methodologies, tools and logos and become a part of our alumni family of world-wide coaches.

Additionally, you will have:

Developed and honed key coaching skills including establishing trust and relatedness, how to “dance in the moment”, ask impactful
questions, listen actively and with genuine empathy, access your own intuition and knowing, use direct communication positively
and create awareness for the coachee to go from where they are, to where they want to be;
Practised and internalized the ICF core competencies;
Learned to use our coaching methodologies to facilitate conversations fluidly;
Practised and adopted tools that make coaching fun, transformative and insightful; and
Realized a deep understanding and sense of purpose for your role as a coach.

Our Coaching Philosophy

Mind-body is part of the same system and influence each other.
We are not broken, we work perfectly well except that our past conditioning, life experiences and mind games keep us from living our best lives.
As we focus on our choices we are able to take our power back.
There is never failure, only feedback.
We all respond to our perception of reality, and not reality itself.
Our options are never limited.
We can model excellence and genius when we break the task down into small enough chunks. If someone has done it before, then it is a human possibility, and then you can do it too; and
We all have all the resources we need, it is just that we need to learn to access, harness and strengthen them.

What you get at the end of the Programme

At the end of the Programme, you will be issued with:

The Saraswati Coach Academy International Life Congruence Coach Certificate
A certificate of completion as authorised by the ICF stating your CCE units completed for renewal of your ICF credential or to progress towards next levels of certification
This means that delegates would be accumulating the necessary training hours towards an ICF credential, should they wish to pursue this, subject to them applying independently to the ICF and fulfilling the practical and application requirements.

What is required of you to obtain this Certificate?

As stipulated by the ICF, full classroom attendance, including the completion of all practical work, is required.

Who is the International Coach Federation (ICF)

The objective of the ICF is to build, support and maintain the integrity of the coaching profession. It is dedicated to advance coaching globally by furthering the art, science and practice of coaching professionally.

Our Teaching Methodology and Timeframe

The programme is designed around 32 classroom hours and 4 self-study hours. Training activities take place during the programme – it is experiential in nature and blends theory with practice to holistically address self-development, effectively setting you up to apply all you have experienced and learned in real coaching situations. It will ensure that you can confidently and seamlessly apply new learning and growth in real coaching situations.

We interface visual material, self-reflection exercises, practical coaching exercises and real-time coaching observations with the course content, and in so doing, anchor learning outcomes sustainably.

The programme will run over two concurrent weeks, on given days as follow:

Thursday evening	17:30 to 21:30
Friday evening	17:30 to 21:30
Saturday	08:00 to 17:00;
Sunday	08:00 to 17:00;
Thursday evening	17:30 to 21:30; and closing off on
Friday evening	17:30 to 21:30.

In which language are classes

Classes are conducted in English.

The Programme Structure and Outline

The Programme is comprised of 5 Modules and are interrelated and integrative by nature.

Training is scheduled over six (6) days (36 hours).

Programme Outline:

Day 1: Module 1:	The Foundation of Coaching including ICF Core Competencies
Day 1: Module 2:	Coaching Tools: Bag of Tricks
Day 2: Module 3:	Self-Mastery
Day 3 and 4: Module 4:	Life Congruence Coaching Methodology
Day 5: Module 5:	Pro-forma Documentation, Checklists and Assessment Material; and
Day 6:	Coaching practise

How much does the Become a Life Congruence Coach Programme cost?
The cost is R17,500.00 / $1,250.00 and covers all materials, meals and related expenses. At least a 50% deposit is required prior to registration confirmation and full payment must be made before programme commencement.

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OUR TEAM

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Helga Landis, Executive and Business Coach, Team Effectiveness Coach, Author and Motivational speaker

Helga’s corporate exposure in many executive positions, including that held with Price Waterhouse, Aptus Integrated Solutions, The Landis Group of Companies, Sure back and Sensormatic ensures that she is able to understand and assist coachees and teams to appropriately respond to organisational and market demands and excel and achieve in complex, dynamic, multi-faceted environments. Helga is a Board Certified Coach, Certified Life Congruence Coach, Certified Change & Transformation Coachand Professional Certified Coach. She is the CEO for the group and Programme Director for Saraswati Coach Academy International. Helga also consults to various premier organisations, including GoldFields, Impala Platinum, AstraZeneca, Aspen Pharmacare and Gem Diamonds, to name a few. She has coached over 500 executives and individuals from all walks of life, with over 5,000 coaching hours to date. Her book: Employment and the Law, A Practical Guide for the Workplace, is currently in its third edition.
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Sarisha Padayachee, Registered Industrial Psychologist.

Sarisha has a key focus in Human Resource Development, Psychological Assessment, Research Methods in Psychology, positive Psychology in the workplace, individual Counselling Techniques in the workplace and Conflict Resolution. She is a trained and accredited Psychometric Assessment User in a number of world- wide assessment tools.
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Lesley Grossett, Custodian for Information Services

Lesley’s professional career spans over 20 years with a specialisation in industrial and organisational psychology, human resources management and employee relations. She is the co- author with Helga Landis of Employment and the Law: A Practical Guide for the Workplace.
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John Folster, Team Effectiveness Coach, Human Resource Practitioner

Johnisa Certified Team Effectiveness Coach. Additionally, he is retained by many organisations in the managing and outsourcing of their HR Functions and human capital requirements. He is part of the core team of principal consultants on many of Saraswati’s consulting projects, and specialises in Culture Survey Design and Administration, Performance Management and Employment Law.
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Amory Landis; Executive, Results and Performance Coach, Team Effectiveness Coach, Human Resources Practitioner

Amory is a certified Results Coach, mBit Coach and Life Congruence Coach and has been extremely successful in achieving solid out comes in his coaching assignments. The highly impacted and improved performance of his coachees have benefited organisations significantly especially those executives who are new entrants to senior management.
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Mornay Vivier, Executive and Performance Coach

Mornay’s background in civil engineering allows him to coach from a uniquely structured, process-driven philosophy, allowing for tangible and visible outcomes and a significant ROI.
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Tumi Mzimba
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Hein Kruger

OUR SKILLS AND KNOWLEDGE BASE

OUR FACULTY

HELGA LANDIS

Executive, Business, Change and Life Coach

Helga’s coaching experience includes hundreds of executive coaching assignments to premier organisations like MTN, Impala Platinum, Gold Fields, the Old Mutual Group, Sanlam, inter alia in excess of 12,000 coaching hours over the past 15 years.

Helga developed the Programme material for Saraswati Coach Academy International and piloted its impact and efficacy at various client organisations with huge success over the past 10 years.

She trained approximately 500 students in the NAFCOCJCCI Labour and Employee Relations Certification Programmes; a programme that she designed and facilitated.

Other training included various professional programmes over the past 30 years including: Communication Skills, Negotiation Skills, various human resources topics and employee relations management.

She holds a Master’s Degree in Law and is a published author (Juta).

Helga furthermore directed numerous cutting-edge consulting assignments to blue-chip companies internationally over the past 30 years, ranging from organisational redesign, culture change, business improvement, change management, HR strategy design and people management tactics and strategies. This has provided her with deep insight into the challenges faced by executives – helping her addressing coaching needs meaningfully.

However, Helga’s real work was on herself and in creating self-mastery and consistency for her own personal growth.

Helga holds certifications as a Certified Professional Coach, Certified Executive Coach, Results Coach, Life Congruence Coach and Change and Transformation Coach.

AMORY LANDIS

Executive, Change, Results, Mbit and Life Coach

Amory Landis is a Certified Life, Performance and Executive Coach with credentials as a Mbit Coach, Results Coach, Life Congruence Coach and Certified Professional Coach.

He has coached hundreds of individuals and executives towards living an authentic and balanced life, whilst helping them to develop and hone their gifts.

Amory is particularly asked to coach for improved individual performance and in this area he works with professional athletes, executives and people who are aspiring to reach the next level in their career or personal goals.

He utilizes a holistic approach towards self-discovery and personal mastery, guiding individuals towards a joyful state in which they are able to function at their highest potential.

He also consults for various premier organisations as a specialist consultant in areas of human resources management, change management and organizational culture design. Some of his clients include Gold Fields, Implats, Sanlam, Joburg Property Company and Minerals Processing Executive.

KAREN WHITE

Mentor Coach

Karen worked in a corporate environment for 20 years, before transitioning into coaching. She held a number of senior human resource leadership roles across a broad cross-section of the organization.

At the same time her coach training and experience (2 250+ coaching hours) provide perspectives and ways of working that open up new possibilities for her coachees.

Karen is a certified Integral Coach, Leadership Embodiment Coach and is credentialed through the ICF at Master Coach level.

She serves as Mentor Coach to Saraswati Coach Academy International.

COMPETITIVE EDGE

AND UNIQUE OFFERING

Our coach training programmes address not only foundational coaching skills and practices but also cater for advanced further learning and development
This means that you will continue to build your coaching competence as well as add advanced methodologies and coaching approaches to your coaching toolkit
The content matter of our programmes addresses growing global needs in corporate environments, including business improvement, culture change, change management and leadership effectiveness and transformation
Our coach training programmes are used to develop in-house coaching competence, such as for example, training HR to become Change and Transformation Coaches
We regularly schedule and host coach practise opportunities and self-enrichment days for our alumni at a fractional cost or no cost involved at all
Our in-house Mentor Coach is ICF accredited at MCC level; and
We dove-tail a psychometric assessment facility with our executive coaching and coach training initiatives

VALUES

Our mission statement reiterates our intent in business: “Success through Excellence” and accordingly, excellence must be felt, seen and experienced through acute professional execution in everything we do.
Excellence means we:
- Have zero tolerance for poor quality or mediocrity
- Pay significant attention to detail
- Hire the best people
- Provide the best coaches to our clients without compromise
- Take stock of where we may have fallen short and correct it
- Enforce continuous learning and self-development
- Develop and foster good personal habits.
Pivotal and core to how we serve our clients is devotion. We believe that a devoted-centric approach to service leads to a genuine understanding of our customers’ needs and puts into constant question the effort and dedication with which we respond and our level and quality of service.
Accordingly, we display the value of devotion through:
- Testing and seeking feedback on our level of effort
- Testing and seeking feedback on the quality of our service
- Testing and seeking feedback on whether you had a true and insightful experience
- Doing more than what we get paid for, always
- Adding more value than what we thought possible
- Sharing our knowledge and insight freely whenever the opportunity arises
- Making our clients’ goals and objectives our own.
We aim at establishing lasting, mutually beneficial and trusting relationships with our clients’ organisations and commit to their future development and growth. To achieve this, we further subscribe to the values of integrity and devotion.
In displaying the value of integrity we:
- Remain authentic and real by operating from an inner place of self-knowing and awareness
- We are transparent and truthful in our dealings with you
- We are congruent: what we say, is what we do
Our professional services are provided in accordance with our clients’ business strategies and mission objectives. To do so, we are customer centric and customer friendly. To achieve this, we subscribe to the value of approachability. Approachability means that we are open-minded.
In displaying this value we:
- Listen well and show you that we have listened to you by acting with insight and responsiveness
- We spend adequate time to understand your needs
- You can call on us beyond the scope of work on issues large and small
- We practice flexibility and agility and are thus unencumbered by red tape or bureaucracy.

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