Aspire Coaching Training

is led by Ailbhe Harrington, MA, MCC, who has trained over 500 coaches on ICF-accredited programmes since 2009.

With the support of an experienced team of professional coaches and coaching mentors, we bring an updated and fresh approach to coach training.

We are committed to providing high-quality coach education accredited through the largest global coaching body, the International Coaching Federation (ICF). Our Foundation in Professional Coaching Skills is accredited as a Level 1, and our Diploma in Integrative Coaching is accredited as a Level 2.

Please explore below to learn more and reach out to talk directly with us if you have questions.

LEVEL ONE FOUNDATION IN COACHING

Our Level 1 programme is ideal for anyone looking to embark on a new career as a professional coach or those who want to bring coaching or a coaching approach into their current organisation or professional roles. It runs twice yearly, once in the Spring and again in the Autumn.

100 training hours over 6 months
9 full days of live training via zoom
Self-paced learning between training days
Assessed to ACC standard as defined by the International Coaching Federation.
Includes 10 hours of coach mentoring
Supervision clinic
12 hours of peer coaching practice

Live coaching demonstrations
Includes triad practice sessions
Supported by experienced MCC and PCC coaches
Introduces tools, theories and approaches from NLP, TA, neuroscience and more
Skillnet funding is available for qualifying companies & individuals

Learn More About Level 1

LEVEL TWO FOUNDATION IN COACHING

For coaches who wish to deepen their coaching practice as they work towards their PCC, we offer a Level 2 Diploma in Integrative Coaching. This programme builds on your existing Level 1 or other ICF-accredited training, and provides:

74.6 training hours over 10 months
7 live training sessions via zoom
Self-paced learning between live sessions
Assessed to PCC standard as defined by the International Coaching Federation.
Includes 10 hours of coach mentoring

Includes triad practice sessions
Supported by experienced MCC and PCC coaches
Introduces the Aspire Butterfly Model that draws on Transactional Analysis, NLP, Positive Psychology, phenomenology and other disciplines
Deepens your coaching skills to work more with the ‘who’ of the coachee
Skillnet funding is available for qualifying companies & individuals

Learn More About Level 2

Our Mission

Our mission is to create a psychologically safe educational journey that enables each person to experience becoming as fully human as possible, accessing their full potential so that they in turn can enable others to become as fully human as possible and accessing their full potential.

Our Vision

Our vision is to be a catalyst that generates love and compassion in societies, families, organisations, and the world.

Our Faculty of Professional Coaches

Our Level 1 and Level 2 programmes delivered by two experienced coach educators.

Ailbhe Harrington, MCC

Ailbhe Harrington has trained over 500 coaches on ICF accredited programmes over many years. Her experience spans leadership development, transformational coaching, third-level education and enterprise development within the private, public and voluntary sector within Ireland and Europe. She was also awarded by the ICF Ireland Chapter, Coach of the Year in (2016), Coach Trainer (2017), Coach Supervisor (2020) and the President’s Social Enterprise Award (2020).

Stephen Clements, PCC

Stephen Clements, PCC has been a lead mentor on many coach training programmes and has been a trainer with Aspire Coach Training since it was established in 2022. Stephen was awarded by the ICF Ireland Chapter, Coach of the Year (2020) and has an extensive background in technology leadership and coaching within multinational companies. Alongside being a coach educator, he works as a leadership coach, Coach Mentor and Coaching Supervisor.

Ailbhe Harrington, MCC

Stephen Clements, PCC

All our programmes are supported by a faculty of Coach Mentors and Observers who are all members of the International Coaching Federation. Aspire Coach Training and our faculty are committed to and agree to be accountable to the ICF Code of Ethics. We are committed to the ICF Values of Professionalism, Collaboration, Humanity and Equity. Aspire Coach Training commits to acting with integrity and transparency in all of its activities. We hold ourselves and our participants to the highest level of integrity and strive to be open and clear about our policies, processes, actions, and ethics.

Meet our Faculty Team

Our learning philosophy and values

Our philosophy and values form the steady base that guide us in how we work together as a faculty and in how we engage with every individual who chooses to learn and grow as a coach with us.

We believe that to learn and grow we need to be in a psychologically safe environment
Our mindset is one of continuous improvement and this underpins all our offerings
We believe that we are all creative, resourceful and whole
There is no such thing as failure only trial and grow
Our vulnerability is our greatest strength
We coach the “WHO” of the person not the “What” or story
As coaches we are the most important tool in coaching, and with that we need to develop self-awareness and be able to get out of our own way
Safety comes before challenge, yet we need to step into challenge as coaches
To become an authentic coach, we have to experience the journey of being a coachee, with all the highs, lows and vulnerability
The quality of our relationship with ourselves is vital if we are to be truly present, compassionate, transparent and authentic in how we coach
We are passionate about coaching and want all coaches to be experienced as credible and professional

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