Je veux devenir coach ! Où me former ?

EMCC Belgium emphasizes the importance of rigorous training and mastery of an approach.

Choosing a coaching school is an important and personal step.

The diversity of offerings can sometimes be confusing. Some training programs are more focused on "soft skills." They prioritize personal development and deepening the coach's identity, as well as their ability to adapt to different situations and interlocutors. Other programs are more focused on "hard skills and results": the emphasis is placed on acquiring methods, techniques, and analytical frameworks.

For Lenhardt, the coaching profession is a unique construct within complexity. It lies at the intersection of multiple disciplines: therapy, psychosociology, management theories, economics, etc. Training must therefore draw from all these approaches and enable the individual to live in a transdisciplinary environment where they will build their coaching stance. A curriculum aimed solely at providing additional skills is not sufficient.

Training must be different for each individual. It is not about cloning coaches into exact copies of their trainers; it should ideally help the person build their coaching stance. A curriculum aimed solely at providing additional skills is not sufficient.

According to Lenhardt, a coach's training path must include:

• sufficient life experience, maturity, and credibility acquired through a personal and professional journey that has led to an identity (re)construction
• a good general knowledge
• significant professional experience that has led to managing relationships
• mastery of certain communication tools
• specific coaching training to master its challenges, conditions, and modalities of practice.

At this stage, EMCC Belgium does not certify or recommend any school.

We offer you an analytical framework that includes a series of parameters that seem essential to us in a training approach for the coaching profession.

Here is a series of questions that we invite you to ask the training institutes you encounter. The answers will allow you to compare the different offerings on the market.

• Verify that the school's key values align with yours
• What is the code of ethics the school relies on? (Comparing it to the EMCC Belgium code of ethics will help you verify its congruence)
• What is the objective/main theme of the training?

• Does the curriculum cover individual and/or group coaching?
• What are the types of curricula? Their prices?
• What is the number of participants per curriculum?
• Is certification provided? How is it conducted?
• Multidisciplinary theoretical model?
• What is the balance between theory and practice?
• Are experiential tools provided?
• Is the training generalist?
• Is it more oriented towards certain types of coaching?

• Are supervisions offered?
• Are intervisions organized?

• How many trainers for which curricula?
• Are they permanently present?
• Who are the permanent reference persons?
• Are they trained in coaching?
• Are they coaches themselves?
• What is their experience?
• Have they undertaken personal development work with a therapist?
• Are they themselves supervised?
• Do they have managerial experience?

• What are the essential, non-negotiable prerequisites?
• What happens in case of an issue with a participant during training?
• What happens if a participant drops out during training?
• Do they consider refunds under certain circumstances?

• Is marketing assistance provided at the end of the curriculum?
• Is practical support provided?
• Possibility of continued intervision?
• Possibility of continued supervision?