There are no academic qualifications required for entry into the course, and participants come from many professional backgrounds. Participants share a desire to learn to work with themselves as instruments and to work at a deeper one-to-one level with clients in organisations, in the service of helping clients to improve their work relationships and personal effectiveness.

Applications are reviewed as these are received, and potential candidates are invited for individual interview with the course director and/or one of the faculty. Offers are made taking into account individual suitability and group composition. Each cohort is limited to 12 participants; once 12 offers have been made we will establish a short waitlist or, if there is sufficient interest among qualified candidates, may run a second cohort.

Course fees: £9,850

For more information about financing your studies and your fee status, please see our fees and funding area.

Please note that course fees are subject to a 3% or CPI uplift each year, whichever is greater.

We are happy to offer a range of ways to pay your fees, as well as some funding for specific courses.

Assessment

For the award of the Tavistock Consulting certificate in executive coaching, participants must satisfy course staff that they possess the relevant competencies for practice in alignment with the EMCC senior practitioner competency framework.

50% is based on continuous assessment of the development of participants’ coaching skills through observation including a mid-course and end-of-course review, 50% on written submissions i.e. case summaries based on current coaching practice.

Attendance

Attendance is part-time. All five modules are in person unless precluded due to reasons outside the control of the Tavistock (e.g. public transport strike). Group supervision sessions are likewise in person.

In addition there will be four 1.5 hour reading seminars between modules; these are delivered online. Dates for these seminars will be confirmed at the start of the programme.

Please note that whilst we try to keep these dates and timings fixed, there is always the chance that due to unforeseen events, these may need to be changed. We endeavour to communicate to participants about any changes with as much notice as possible.

Many course graduates have developed their existing coaching practice to focus on systems-psychodynamic coaching with their new qualification or have extended an extant consultancy practice to include systems psychodynamic coaching. Some have entered a new stage in their career by establishing themselves as freelance coaches.

Others have gone on to develop an internal coaching practice, for example working in an HR role that includes the provision of coaching within their organisation.