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Your Live Contact & Coaching Hours

Explained

To attain your qualification, you’ll need to log live contact hours and coaching hours, as well as working through the learning platform materials. These hours are built into your course, with some flexibility over how to achieve them, so that by graduation, you’ll feel confident, capable, and fully prepared to coach.

What are Live Contact Hours?

Live Contact Hours are the time you spend in interactive HCA sessions where you learn, practise, and connect with others in real time. Examples include:

  • Weekly Core Live Mentor Sessions

  • Live Zoom Webinars

  • Coach Connect & Support Sessions

  • Coaching Clinics

  • Coaching Practice Sessions

  • One-Day Live Events

  • Three-Day Live Events (Diploma students only) 

 

Live Contact Hours give you direct access to HCA trainers, guest experts, and peers, ensuring your learning comes alive beyond the coursework, and are part of the accreditation criteria.

What are Coaching Hours?

Coaching Hours are the time you spend actively practising health coaching, whether as the coach, the client, or even as an observer. Examples include: coaching practice in CORE Mentor groups, TRIPOD sessions, peer coaching, volunteer practice, and live event breakout sessions. Coaching Hours provide real-world experience so you leave the course confident in your skills and ready to work with clients.

How Will I Get These Hours?

Rest assured we’ve built the hours into your training programme. With multiple live sessions each week (including evenings and occasional weekends), it’s very achievable to attain your hours, even alongside full-time work. And there is so much freedom in how you do this too! You’ll receive a log to keep track of your progress, and the HCA team will guide you.

Core Live Weekly Mentor Sessions

When you join HCA, you become very much part of the family, and a central component of all our courses is the Core Live Weekly Mentor sessions. In these online sessions, you connect with a smaller group of fellow students on a regular basis, and are guided through the course by experienced Mentors who are experts in the fields of coaching, wellbeing and/or nutrition.

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​The Coaching Certificate and all four Pillars of the Diploma include 8-12 online Mentor Sessions, lasting 90-100 minutes. During these sessions you will be practising coaching with your peers, so you can also log additional coaching hours alongside the live contact hours.

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Mary Walker - Head of Live Supervision 

Coach, Connect and Support

Coach, Connect and Support Sessions (CCS), hosted by Mary Walker, are held 4-6 times per month; they are suitable for all students including new joiners. These sessions provide a valuable and rich opportunity for you to connect with fellow students, including those further on in their coaching training journey.

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The format of these safe and supportive sessions varies: some offer the opportunity to practise coaching skills and coaching tools, others are Student Spotlights, during which our student body can share their personal story (and hone their presentation skills), and during others, you will hear from expert speakers on a host of fascinating health and wellbeing topics including neurodiversity, trauma, exercise, mindset, corporate health coaching, and much more. The speaker sessions are all recorded for you to catch up on in your own time should you wish to.

Coaching Clinics

Coaching Clinics offer a unique opportunity for you to observe a Master Coach at work. Come and join the monthly 90 minute sessions to watch Marcelle Dubruel, HCA's Senior Health Coach, coaching one of your peers. You will see how HCA's coaching tools and the GREAT coaching process are seamlessly woven into a client session as well as having the opportunity to pose your questions about the process and outcomes. 

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Marcelle Dubrelle - Senior Health Coach Trainer

Webinars

In addition to our regular sessions, we host special topic webinars, often with special guest speakers throughout the year, to deepen your knowledge and enhance your health coaching skills. Taking place at different points throughout the year, these events provide valuable insights and opportunities to expand your expertise, as well as keeping you engaged and inspired on your health coach journey.

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1-Day Special Live Events Online

We host quarterly 1-Day Special Live Events online that are designed to inspire and enrich your learning journey. These events feature highly respected guest speakers from the health and wellbeing industry. In the past we have had Michael Arloski, Patrick Holford, Dr. Indra Barathan, Dr Ayan Panja and TEDx speaker Darryl Edwards, among many others.

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These full-day online events are more than just a learning opportunity - they're a chance to engage in coaching practice that counts toward your coaching log and to have the opportunity to connect with graduates and fellow students at various stages of their training.

3-Day Live Training Events

Our Level 5 Diploma students have the unique opportunity to experience Health Coaching live with leaders of our Academy, across three dynamic days in London, UK, and online for international students. 

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These events provide you with a chance to:

  • Meet and get to know the HCA central team, including our very own directors

  • Connect with like-minded, passionate students from different stages of the course

  • Hear and learn from expert speakers in the Health, Nutrition, Wellbeing, Health Coaching and Business and Marketing industries

  • Take part in interactive breakout sessions, putting newfound knowledge and skills into practice with peers

  • Graduate LIVE with the HCA team including our Director of Studies, Nikki, & Head of Live Supervisions, Mary

  • Bring learning to life!

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Your Diploma course fee includes a place at one 3-day live event. 

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