Academic Coach
Certification

Portland, Or

August 10 - 13 2025

Four days of training...

leading to an academic coach certification

Intended for academic professionals seeking to enhance their coaching practice through an ACTP academic coach certification.

Qualifying coaches are higher education professionals. Certification requires full participation in our four-day training, completion of pre-work and after-work assignments, and an 80% passing rate on module assessments.

Academic Coach Information

Early Bird

Member Price

$550

Includes

  • 4 Days of Training
  • Feedback on Coaching Methods
  • Take Home Resources
  • Certification Certificate
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Early Bird

NonMember Price

$800

Includes

  • 4 Days of Training
  • Feedback on Coaching Methods
  • Take Home Resources
  • Certification Certificate
  • ACTP Membership
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Venue Information

Coming Soon

Graduate Tempe

(480) 967 - 9431
225 E Apache Blvd
Tempe, Az 85281
$149/nt

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

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

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

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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