What is this course?
A practical route into professional coaching.
One connected Level 2 and Level 3 pathway, with the theory taught through coaching.
Hands on
Ten teaching weeks of tutor-led workshops, live coaching and independent study.
Assessed as you go
Practice sessions with feedback build up to your Level 2 and Level 3 practical assessments and your portfolio.
Fully accredited
PT Circle and Calibre Coaching Academy run it together. Active IQ certifies it.
Built for a career
You have your first conversation with a potential client in week one, and start your business plan the same week.
What will I become?
A coach who can work with real people.
Qualification matters. Being able to coach matters more.
- Run a professional client consultation
- Communicate clearly and confidently
- Deliver structured sessions on a gym floor
- Work to best practice, inside your professional scope
- Build a portfolio that proves you can do it
- Leave with ready-to-go resources for your next move
Is this me?
Five starting points. One standard.
You don't need to see yourself in every profile. Look for the ambition, the challenge or the next step that sounds like you.
How does it work?
Ten teaching weeks. Certified by week 24.
Drag the slider to see what happens each week, from four weeks before you start to the day you're certified.
How will I learn? Practise. Reflect. Apply. Repeat.
Different ways of learning work together.
Tutor-led explanation, demonstration, discussion and coaching practice.
Face-to-face delivery with your peers in a working gym.
Active IQ e-learning, worksheets, revision and portfolio work.
Templates and tools for consultation, planning, business and evidence.
Tutor observation, peer insight and your own self-evaluation.
Tutors stay with you through submission, quality assurance and certification.
How will I be assessed? As your coaching grows.
Evidence builds week by week. By your final practical observations, your consultation has already been assessed and your session plans are done.
Gather and record client information
Build competence through guided delivery
Use feedback to get better, session by session
Your Level 2 and Level 3 practical observations
Written, recorded and invigilated evidence
Quality assurance checks every decision
What will I learn?
Twenty workshops, week by week.
Each week has two workshops, work to do before the next one, and a step towards your assessment. Pick a week to see it.
What happens between workshops?
The course keeps going between contact days, through study, practice and building your portfolio.
The underpinning knowledge, and your route to the exams.
Your progress, reflections and required evidence in one place.
Consultation, planning and a programme for one real client.
Your coaching identity, foundations and launch resources.
Repeat, refine, repeat, until assessment feels routine.
Templates, worked examples, videos and guidance.
How will I be supported?
From registration to your first client.
Registration guidance, pre-course preparation and access support.
Tutor explanation, practical feedback, peer discussion and ongoing coaching support.
Preparation, clear guidance, observation feedback, and support with a re-assessment if you need one.
Portfolio completion, outstanding evidence, quality assurance updates and your next steps.
What happens before week one?
Six steps before your first workshop, so you arrive knowing your cohort, your roadmap and your first week.
Confirm your place and your details.
Your roadmap, guidance and learning resources.
Start the e-learning and pre-course actions.
Meet your cohort in the learner community.
Your pre-course preparation call.
Week one, ready to learn and coach.
Who looks after the quality?
Expert support builds your confidence. Quality assurance protects the standard.
Coaches who turn what they do with clients into practical guidance.
Practise, discuss and grow with people working to the same standard.
Assessment criteria, evidence requirements and deadlines, visible throughout.
Through completion and into your first steps as a professional coach.
Internal and external quality assurance both review every assessment decision and every piece of evidence before you're certified.
How do I get started?
Course to career.
Five steps from your final assessment to working as a coach.
Your practical, written and exam evidence.
Portfolio, case study and business plan.
Internal and external review of every decision.
Issued once quality assurance is complete.
Into your career, with the Academy still behind you.
What comes after you qualify?
Your qualification is the start. Your coaching career is what comes next.
- Turn your qualification into results for real clients
- Refine your coaching service and your professional identity
- Launch with confidence, using the business resources you built on the course
- Keep developing with Academy CPD and specialist qualifications
- Stay part of the Academy and PT Circle community
From enquiry to your first workshop
You get the full price on the call, before you commit to anything.
Get in touch with the PT Circle team.
Fit, expectations and eligibility, with the full price.
Your details and some ID.
Your place, confirmed in writing.
Guidance, resources and preparation.
Ready to begin?
Make your move.
Talk to the PT Circle team about your future in coaching. Six quick questions, and Jonah rings you within one working day with an honest answer.
Or download the original prospectus or the full course overview (PDF).