Association for the Coaching & Tutoring Profession
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Academic CoachCertification
Portland, Or
August 10 - 13 2025
Four days of training leading to
an academic coach certification
Enhance your academic coaching practice by obtaining an ACTP Academic Coach Certification is specifically designed for professionals in higher education.
Develop essential academic coaching skills to set you apart and improve your impact on students.
To earn the ACTP Academic Coach Certification,
attend and actively participate in our four-day training, complete the assigned pre-institute work, and achieve at least 80% on our module assessments.
ACTP academic coach certification combines psychological theories with best practices and application methods focused on understanding the complexities that today’s college students face to promote their academic success effectively.
Don’t miss this chance to transform your coaching
abilities.
Register today!
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Member Price
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Venue Information
Hilton Portland Downtown
$149.00 a night
(503) 226 - 1611
921 SW 6th Ave
Portland, OR 97204
Book by 7/10/2025 to receive published rate.
Training Topics
- The difference between counseling, coaching, and mentoring
- Coaching Foundation
- Five Habits
- 7 Pillars
- Emotional Intelligence
- Arthur Chickering
- Ethics
- Partnership Roles
- Informed Consent
- Cognitive Behaviorism
- Appreciative Inquiry
- Solutions-Focused Coaching
- OSKAR
- Positive Psychology
- Disarm – Recognizing the importance of first impressions, create a safe, welcoming environment for students.
- Discover – Utilize positive open-ended questions to draw out what they enjoy doing, their strengths, and their passions. Listen to each answer carefully before asking the next positive question.
- Dream – Help students formulate a vision of what they might become, and then assist them in developing their life and career goals.
- Design – Help students devise concrete, incremental, and achievable goals
- Deliver – The students follows through on their plans. The advisor is there for them when they stumble, believing in them every step of the way and helping them continue to update and refine their dreams as they go.
- Don’t Settle – The advisor challenges the student to proactively raise the student’s internal bar of self-expectations
- Confidentiality
- Code of Ethics
- Documentation
- Tracking
- Profession Development
- Coaches Self-Assessment
- Student/Coach Assessment
- Outcomes
- Building Trust
- Active Listening
- Nonverbal behaviors
- How to Ask questions
- Goal-Setting
- Strategies in Working With Diverse Populations
- Establishing Trust and Rapport
- Beginning and Ending a Session
- Collaborative: Working in partnership with the client. A partnership within which style is quiet, accepting, attentive, respectfully curious, and directive rather than overtly persuasive.
- Evocative: Listening than telling; eliciting rather than installing. Motivation to change is found within the person, and it is the practitioner’s role to elicit this.
- Respectful: Respecting the person’s autonomy, resourcefulness, and ability to choose.
- MBTI
- Holland and the SDS
Institute Schedule
Day 1
**Be true to your school; represent by wearing your school swag!
10:00am – 12:00pm
Learning Sessions
12:00pm – 1:30pm
Lunch On Your Own
1:30pm – 4:30pm
Learning Sessions
Immediatly following
Meet & Greet Happy Hour
** Dinner On Your Own
Day 2
9:00am – 9:45am
Breakfast Roundtables
9:45am -12:00pm
Learning Sessions
12:00pm – 1:30pm
Lunch On Your Own
1:30pm – 4:30pm
Learning Sessions
**Dinner On Your Own
Day 3
9:00am – 9:45am
Breakfast Roundtables
9:45am – 12:00pm
Learning Sessions
12:00pm – 1:30pm
Lunch On Your Own
1:30pm – 4:30pm
Learning Sessions
**Dinner On Your Own
Day 4
9:00am – 11:30am
Learning Session
11:30am – 12:00pm
Closing remarks; Certification awards
Institute Topics*
*Topics Subject to Change
Sunday
Module 1
Pre-Work Assignments
Introduction to Academic Coaching
- How we think – Paradigm Shift
- Brief History of Coaching
- Why and what is academic coaching?
- Coaching Alliance
- Difference between coaching and other support activities
Module 2
Ethics and Coaching the Student
- Ethics and Trust
- Informed Consent
- Confidentiality
Monday
Module 3 – Theoretical Foundations of Academic Coaching
- Choice / Reality Coaching
- Humanistic Coaching
- Coaching through Positive Psychology
- Neuro Linguistic Programming
- Solutions Focused Brief Coaching
- Prochaska and Di Clementi
- Stages of change
- Cognitive Behavior Coaching
- Cognitive Distortion
- Cognitive Restructuring
- Questioning
- Rational Emotive Behavioral Coaching
Module 4 – Developing non-cognitive traits that support student success
- Self-regulation
- Self-esteem
- Self-efficacy
- Self-Determinism (motivation)
- Agentic, assertiveness, grit
- Locus of Control
- Motivation
Module 5 – Appreciative Coaching
- Appreciative Inquiry and Coaching
- Principles of appreciative inquiry
- How to develop inquiries focused on student strengths
- Appreciated coaching and interviewing strategies
- How to assist students to design steps to achieve dreams
Tuesday
Module 6 – Developing the Coach
- Assessment of emotional intelligence
- Key concepts of emotional intelligence
- How to coach for Emotional Intelligence in coaching
- The emotional intelligence competency model
- Best practices in coaching emotional intelligence
Module 7 – Coaching the student
- Building Trust
- Active Listening
- Nonverbal behaviors
- How to Ask questions
- Goal-Setting
- Establishing Trust and Rapport
- Beginning and Ending a Session
- 5 A’s plus additional models
Module 8 – Toolbox Support
- Metacognitive strategies
- Workshops
Module 9 – Motivational Interviewing
- OARS
- DARN
- CAT
Wednesday
Module 10 – Assessments in Coaching
- Learn how to use assessment tools:
- Myers-Briggs Type Indicator
- Coaching Questionnaire
- Observe modeling of how to incorporate assessments into coaching sessions.
- Learn how to integrate assessment results into your feedback coaching preparation process
- Practice giving assessment feedback
- Understand the ethical use of assessment tools
Module 11 – Coaching Program Presentation
- Program Name
- Mission
- Values
- Motto & slogan
- Organizational structure
- Measurable outcomes
Institute Refund Policies
Requests for registration refunds of the must be made in email 15 days prior to the event minus a $50 processing fee. Requests for refunds of the Institute after 15 days prior to the event will not be honored unless they are requested in writing and are extenuating circumstance. ACTP reserves the right to offer a credit to the following institute.
Requests made 5 days prior to the Institute date will not be considered.
Payments by institutions will be refunded to the institutions and payments made by individuals will be returned to the individual.
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A limited number of discounted rooms are available through phone hotel registration:
Jennifer Walker
(314) 678 – 2903
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