Concepts for Coaches by Gloria Walker Coaching provides professional development and ICF accredited continuing education courses for coaches. It is not a life coach training program, but rather is here to supplement your existing training.

I created Concepts for Coaches because I wanted to know more...

Most coach training programs, by their very nature, need to teach you a little bit about a lot of different things, an approach that by necessity focuses on breadth, which then leaves some of us wondering about the depth. You leave feeling like you have a good grasp of a wide variety of tools, but on a mostly superficial level...

Are you left wanting to know more? I know I was! 

I wanted to understand how deeper exposure could inform my coaching and enhance my client’s experience. If knowing bits and pieces helped me become a coach, then having a deeper understanding should help me to become an even better coach and thus provide more value to my clients.

I also wanted to develop more confidence and knew that learning these tools would do just that.

So I dove in!

As a former academic, my default mode is research, and that’s exactly what I did. I dove into learning all I could about the psychology-based approaches that seemed to inform much of what I had been taught in coach training.

Combining extensive teaching/facilitation experience from my years in higher education, along with knowing how to pull together and synthesize information in a way that makes it approachable and easier to learn, with my extensive coach training and experience was the logical next step.

This is why I created Concepts for Coaches.

The course offerings provide thorough introductions to their topics in a supportive, approachable, and fun small group environment that facilitates learning and active engagement with the topic.

Whether you're a freshly minted coach wanted to add depth to your toolkit, an experienced coach who's heard of the tools and wants to learn more, or an ICF credentialed coach looking for high quality continuing education to get your CCEUs, our courses are a great option.

About Gloria

Gloria Walker is the founder of Concepts for Coaches and owner of Gloria Walker Coaching. She has over 15 years of experience in higher education and has been a coach since 2017. Gloria is a Martha Beck Certified Master Coach and has her ACC credential from the International Coaching Federation. She has extensively studied Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), Nonviolent Communication (NVC), Internal Family Systems, Somatic Coaching, and Mindfulness in Coaching and incorporates these concepts into her professional development curriculum.

Diversity Statement

Concepts for Coaches by Gloria Walker Coaching is anti-racist, anti-discrimination, anti-hate, pro-diversity, pro-equality, and pro-equity. This is a safe place for BIPOC and LGBTQIA+ persons. We are committed to dignity, equality, equal rights, and justice for all human beings.

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