Black Friday Sale: Accredited Therapeutic Coaching training down from ￡425 to ￡295

I had a great response to last year's Black Friday sale so I'm offering the same hefty reduction this year on the NCFE accredited Skills Certificate programme, from the usual ￡425 down to ￡295 for just 24 hours, running from midnight this Thursday to midnight on Friday.

Judging by last year, some who do the Skills training will go on to the Diploma programme with the cost of the Skills Certificate fully deductible from the cost of the Diploma.

Some will not feel the need to complete the Diploma programme and just want to up-skill, add to their CPD hours (80 attributed) and also add Therapeutic Coaching Skills to their professional profile.

And some will want to do the programme for just for personal development as it's very reflective, experiential and walks you through the complete model. It's been described as 'life changing' by many previous Fusion learners. There are reports of 'light bulb moments' with a shift in perception or direction resulting from the unique experience of self coaching.

So, if you have been thinking about signing up, this Friday could be just the right time for you...

Do you want to take your skills to the next level?

Follow this link to purchase your Skills Workbook direct.

Fusion: responding to change

The Fusion programme has changed to embrace the new landscape in which we now find ourselves and, I have to say, I think it is much improved as a result. The need to adapt has provided an opportunity to respond to feedback from previous Fusion graduates that they would like less theory and more practical application.

Key changes include:

• New online interactive workshops delivered via Zoom
• Full integration of the Skills Certificate programme with the Diploma training bridging the theory-application gap
• Access to the unique Fusion five session manual during training
• Twelve months free membership of the Association for Coaching
• An accelerated pathway to coach accreditation
• The cost of the Skills Certificate programme is fully deductible from the fee for the Diploma 

The training information handbook has now been updated and is outlined below.

Places are already filling and numbers will be restricted. You can reserve your place by completing the application form here and returning it to [email protected]

Priority will be given to those who have already purchased the Skills Certificate programme. Here is a link to purchase the Skills Workbook direct.

The Fusion Diploma in Therapeutic Coaching:

The 2021 Diploma training will run from January to June over 7 online workshops. The programme will closely follow the format of the unique Fusion Coaching Model and Systems. On completion, learners will have a step by step blueprint of how to integrate therapeutic coaching into their working practice with free and ongoing access to the unique Fusion practitioner manual.

The practitioner manual is the key that fully unlocks the Fusion Model bringing together everything needed for five client sessions including check lists, psycho-educational client hand outs, worksheets, guided visualisation scripts, therapeutic stories and outcome measures. These are faithful reproductions of Frances’s own working documents.

The Diploma programme incorporates the complete Fusion Therapeutic Coaching Skills Certificate course at no extra cost. The Diploma will be accredited by the Association for Coaching and will now provide a clear pathway to recognised professional coach status. 

Fusion Therapeutic Coaching Ltd is an Organizational Member of both the BACP and the Association for Coaching. All 2021 Diploma students will be entitled to a full year of free membership of the AC with its excellent range of member benefits and free training resources and seminars as detailed here.

Graduates of the 2021 Fusion Diploma will also be able to access to the AC accelerated accreditation scheme, saving time and money to achieve professional recognition.

You can take a look at the Association for Coaching accreditation pathway here

The Fusion workbook

The 70,000 word work book covers a broad range of theory, tools and skills. Programme contents are outlined on the Integrated Coaching Academy website.

Here is a link to the course contents.

Here is a link to purchase the workbook direct.

Take a look. You might be surprised by the extensive range of the training. The Fusion Model is an organically developed, tried and tested, fully integrated coach-counselling approach that will elevate your skills to the next level.

The 2021 Fusion learning pathways are a direct response to the professional demand for:

• Effective, practical and bespoke integrated training that meets growing client needs
• Training that provides a direct and easy to follow path to accredited coach status
• A flexible programme that can be completed at your own pace, in the safety and comfort of the home or workplace

Note: If already purchased, the cost of the Skills Certificate is fully deductible from the Diploma programme.

Online Diploma workshops 2021 Dates: 10am-1pm 16th 30th Jan, 13th 27th Feb, 13th March, 10th April, 12th June

Course fee ￡1495:  A 50% deposit is required to reserve your place. 

Course completion 

To successfully complete the Diploma programme, you will need to:

• Complete all learning TASKs outlined in the Fusion Skills Certificate together with the end of course Q and A
• Keep a learner journal for the duration of the programme
• Keep a reflective journal for the duration of the programme
• Submit a supervision report covering 3 months minimum
• Provide a log of 20 hours coaching practice
• Complete a 3000 word case study 

On completion of the Fusion Diploma in Therapeutic Coaching, you will have:

• A nationally recognised award
• A clear pathway to accelerated professional accreditation of the Association for Coaching
• Access to the unique Fusion 5 session practitioner manual
• Permission for use of the professional designation FCTC (Fusion Certified Therapeutic Coach)
• Fusion Therapeutic Coaching logos and promotional material
• Free ongoing alumni listing on the Integrated Coaching Academy website with back links to you and your contact information.

The Fusion Therapeutic Coaching Skills Certificate: FAQs 

Who can take Fusion’s Therapeutic Coaching Distance Learning Certificate? 

The course is designed for people who have an interest in mental health and wish to gain an understanding of the principles and practice of the integrative Fusion? Therapeutic Coaching Model. This may be for personal development or to add new skills to your professional toolbox. You are likely to be an excellent communicator and have experience of working in a role associated with wellbeing. 

How does the Fusion Therapeutic Coaching Distance Learning Certificate work? 

Distance learning means you can study from home or work, at your own pace and in your own time. Students receive a 70,000 word course manual and study guide outlining written assignments, reflective tasks and questions. You also have access to a professional tutor to provide you with support via email, post or telephone. Your tutor will be happy to answer any questions you may have and give you advice on successful completion of the course. 

How long do I have to complete the programme? 

12 months. If the course is updated during that time, the updated information will be sent to you free of charge. Completion of the course will take in the region of 120 study hours which can be spread over the 12 month period. 

Is there an end of course examination? 

No, the programme is completed by an end of course Q and A which is assessed alongside your responses to the reflective TASKs outlined in the Fusion skills workbook. 

On completion of the Distance Learner Skills Certificate will I have access to the Fusion five session manual? 

No, not unless you also attend the Diploma programme. 

Will I qualify for alumni listing on completion of the Distance Learner Skills Certificate? 

Not unless you also successfully complete the Diploma. 

Diploma Programme: Frequently Asked Questions 

Can I sign up for the Diploma workshops without first completing the Distance Learner Skills Certificate? 

Yes, however, you will not achieve Diploma status until the Skills Certificate course has been successfully completed together with the course assignments. 

Can I enrol on the Diploma as part of my Continuing Professional Development and not complete the written assignments? 

Yes, a CPD certificate will be provided for you covering the hours attended at the work shops 

If I do not complete the Diploma will I have access to the Fusion session manual? 

Yes, the manual is provided as part of the training as is the Skills Certificate programme. You will not however graduate with Diploma status, qualify for alumni listing or be certified for use of the professional acronym FCTC (Fusion Certified Therapeutic Coach) 

How long do I have to complete the Diploma programme? 

12 months. If the course is updated during that time, the updated information will be sent to you free of charge. Completion of the full programme will take in the region of 250 hours which can be spread over the 12 month period. 

Therapeutic Coaching: a new paradigm

According to Forbes, simply put, ‘coaching is exploding’ and is the fastest growing industry worldwide and there are many areas where coaching skills can enhance your career progress.

Therapeutic Coaching is a new paradigm that integrates the most effective strategies from the worlds of coaching and counselling. Fusion provides a framework which is modelled on established theory and is brief, safe and effective.

Fusion is an Organisational Member of both the BACP and the Association for Coaching. The Fusion Model sets itself alongside the British Association of Counselling and Psychotherapy ethical framework for good practice and the Association for Coaching Global Code of Ethics. 

All Fusion courses are loaded with practical skills and underpinning theory plus a wide range of professional tools and techniques to help you achieve excellent outcomes for your client, wherever they are on the Continuum of Wellbeing. 

Frances Masters  MBACP accred GHGI

Frances Masters is a BACP accredited psychotherapist, coach, training consultant and author of the book PTSD Resolution. In 2009, Frances founded the charity Reclaim Life; training its volunteers to work in the new, dynamic mental health model, Fusion. That training programme became accredited by the National College of Further Education as a Therapeutic Coaching Diploma and Distance learner Skills Certificate. 

Follow this link for immediate access to the

Therapeutic Coaching Distance Learner Skills Certificate programme** 

Bringing together for the first time, advanced counselling, cognitive behavioural and human givens skills in a solution focused coaching framework. This is the first and only independently accredited distance learning therapeutic coaching course in the UK. 

The integration of coaching and counselling is a new paradigm. Fusion is at the leading edge with a fully integrated model which has been successfully used over several years with thousands of satisfied clients.  

Do you have an interest in mental health and wellbeing? Do you want to take your career to the next level? Perhaps you’re a counsellor looking to add advanced coaching tools to your therapeutic toolbox or you may be a coach, who wants to deepen and broaden your therapeutic skills? Perhaps you are a hypnotherapist using powerful psychological techniques and would like a safe and solid theoretical frame for your work? You may be working in schools, human resources, the police or the NHS or in another helping profession and just want to be more effective for your clients. 

Fusion can help you, with tried and tested training which brings together the very best of coaching and counselling into a powerful new integrated model that really helps and really works. 

On completion, Distance Learner graduates will receive a certificate from NCFE, an awarding organisation recognised by the qualification regulators for England and Wales. NCFE's regulators are the Office of Qualifications and Examinations Regulation (Ofqual) in England, Qualification Wales and CCEA regulations. The general Conditions of Recognition can be found at ww.ofqual.gov.uk 

**There is a 10% discount for all NHS workers 

The Fusion Model 

The innovative Fusion Mental Health First Aid model draws on Person Centred Counselling, Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, Human Givens Psychotherapy and Holistic Life Coaching to bring together a unique toolbox of skills to help you provide the very best support for your clients. This is not just any coaching course or the GROW model in another format. Fusion has an innovative and unique approach to emotional health and wellbeing which has been tried and tested over ten years with thousands of client successes.  

On the programme you will learn:

• The SAFE SPACE ‘recipe’ for emotional wellbeing
• How to dramatically accelerate client outcomes
• How to conduct a ‘life audit’
• What us the ‘essence of the problem/essence of the solution’
• The important first session: How to pace, turn and lead your client
• When and how to use the Fusion Wheel of Life
• Present, future and super-future focusing
• How to use guided imagery to effect change fast
• integration of therapeutic story and metaphor
• How to successfully treat anxiety and depression, fears and phobias
• How to deal with panic attacks and anger attacks
• What to do to resolve PTSD fast
• The utilisation of powerful brain filters 
• The mindfulness based STOP System
• Effective goal setting 
• And much, much more… 

Frequently asked questions 

The 70,000 word, 426 page work book covers a broad range of theory and skills. 

Module 1 

The Therapeutic Coaching Timeline

Professional evolution

The Therapeutic Coach: A new paradigm

The big experiment

What is therapeutic coaching? Is it different from counselling?  

About the NCFE accredited Therapeutic Coaching Diploma

Effective Therapy: Affordable training

Module 2 

Work Book

Zen philosophy; an auspicious beginning

Setting SMART Goals

Self Reflection

Learning something new

Recognising emotions

Module 3 

Communication Micros Skills

S.O.L.E.R

Listen

Mirroring and reflection

Paraphrasing

Summarising

Open questions

Empathy

Carl Roger’s core conditions

About Carl Rogers

Look back, but don’t stare 

Module 4 

Human needs

Create a SAFE SPACE to get your emotional needs met:

The work life balance

Attunement and the therapeutic alliance

Accelerated rapport

Smile

Information Gathering: Using Clinical Measures and feedback

CORE 10

Taking an emotional needs ‘audit’

Actualising tendency versus learned helplessness

How to restoring hope 

Module 5 

A first session with a client

Placebo-nocebo

Confidentiality in therapeutic work

Positive expectation

SUDS scaling 

Module 6 

Dealing with anxiety and panic attacks

Fight or flight

Pattern matching

Thinking errors or cognitive distortions

Resilience and Base Stress

Diaphragmatic Breathing

The Observing Self and Meta awareness

Misuse of the Imagination

What else do I need to know? 

Module 7 

Setting therapeutic goals

The Magic Question

The Reticular Activating System (RAS)

RAS and focused attention

What are your Hobbies and Interests?

Developing metaphor therapeutically 

Module 8 

Psycho Education

Triune theory

Sleep

Pattern matching and neural pathways

Patterns of response 

Module 9 

Supervision and the helping professions

Referrals

Diversity: Celebrating Difference, Celebrating ‘Sameness’

Challenging the labels

HAPPINESSISNOWHERE 

Module 10 

STOP: GO Bridging the gap between counselling and coaching

Holistic Life Coaching

Ploughing new furrows: Counselling in a coaching context

Where are you on the wellbeing continuum?

React or respond?

Thought stopping

Neuroplasticity and the changing brain

Affirmations 

Module 11 

The STOP System

STOP and diaphragmatic breathing: How to test your own breathing

STOP and ‘Taking a Step Back’

STOP and the Observing Self

STOP and Emotional intelligence

STOP and interrupting old or habitual patterns 

Module 12 

The Wheel of Life

Case study: Geoff #1

Using the coaching wheel of life

Assessing and scaling life as it is

The life wheel protocol 

Module 13 

Case study: Geoff #2

Wheel of life doc 1

A holistic view of the client

The preferred future

Story: What a bird should look like

Write it down-make it happen 

Module 14 

Case study: Geoff #3

Wheel of life doc 2

SMART goals

Case study: Geoff #4

SMART goals doc 

Module 15 

Visualisation

Describing guided imagery

Visualisation: a history

Meditation and mindfulness

Metaphor in guided imagery 

Module 16 

Case study: Geoff #5

Therapeutic time travel

From problem focused to solution focused

A progressive relaxation and bespoke visualisation for Geoff 

Conclusion 

Intelligence plus intuition equals ‘whole brain’ learning

The Ebbinghaus Curve of Forgetting

A privilege 

Appendix 

TASK documents

Therapeutic stories 

Resources 

Therapeutic Coaching in practice

First session questionnaire

SAFE SPACE audit sheet

CORE 10 questions

Case study: Shelly

Case Study: David; coaching a client with M.E.

BACP ethical guidelines

Association for Coaching: coaching competencies

Articles Is the Therapeutic Coach a ‘brain mechanic?’

What do you do if you don't like your client?

Smile and the world smiles back.

The Top Five Regrets of the Dying

Swim towards the light.

A Nice Result

Better to do something imperfectly than nothing flawlessly

No need for my services?

The Super Organising Idea

All boxed up?

Working at the cutting edge

Epigenetics

Mapping the connectome

The gut microbiome

Polyvagal theory

The seven pillars of mindfulness

Mental health first aid 

Order your workbook here 

Testimonials 

Founding Chair of BACP Coaching Linda Aspey

 In the field of coach-counsellor integration, Frances is a trailblazer'  

Health journalist and BACP Coaching Executive Specialist for Communication Sally Melissa-Brown  healthjournalist.co.uk

 'Fusion teaches you a fast, effective way to diffuse stress and take control of your emotions. It's deceptively simple and includes lots of fun techniques and exercises which will appeal to children of all ages.'

Make Menopause Matter founder Diane Danzebrink:

 ‘I discovered Fusion therapeutic coaching when I needed it most. When personal circumstances left me with mental and emotional issues I was lucky enough to find Frances Masters. Fusion has quite literally changed my life!  

Having studied traditional counselling some years ago I was left feeling disappointed that I had not been taught how to help my clients move forward with their lives. I was so disillusioned I abandoned my dream of becoming a counsellor and followed an alternative career path.  

My personal Fusion experience provided a real ‘light bulb’ moment for me, this was what my counselling training had been missing and I went on to complete the diploma in Fusion therapeutic coaching. I am passionate about my work, having experienced the mental and emotional trauma of depression when I was least expecting it made me determined to use my experience to help others’

Principal Teaching Fellow, University of Southampton John Perry, MA, MA, MA, MSc, FHEA,

https://www.southampton.ac.uk/medicine/about/staff/jwp.page

 ‘Frances is an inspirational and engaging trainer. A highly-skilled facilitator, Frances is responsive to learners’ needs, flexible, good humoured and positive in her approach.

I whole-heartedly recommend both Frances and her approach to all who are committed to helping others to move in the direction of accomplishing their full creative and constructive potential.’ 

Psychotherapist, hypnotherapist and trainer Peter Garner Cert Ed BA(Hons) MA www.petergarner.org

 ‘I have had the pleasure of undertaking a considerable amount of training delivered by Frances and can say that it has always been of a very high standard. Frances is able to draw upon a vast range of knowledge in both counselling and coaching to create learning opportunities that are informative and enjoyable. She has the knack of making complex topics easy to understand in a way that empowered me to apply my learning in a real world setting.’  

BACP accredited psychotherapist and therapeutic coach Sue Harper

‘Since training as a Fusion Therapeutic Coach I have never looked back. Because it 'fuses' several key therapeutic techniques; person centred counselling, CBT and Human Givens Psychotherapy in a solution focused coaching frame work, it offers a huge tool bag of skills to use with a wide variety of clients with differing psychological issues.’   

2013 Diploma graduate Tracy Giorgio 

'I've never had such comprehensive training before where so many useful and practical techniques and skills were given to me. The course was fast paced and dynamic. There was lots of information but it was still accessible so I didn't feel overloaded. I'm now delivering a six week confidence building work shop for women all based on what I've learned on the Diploma and it's being so well received. 

I'm about to put in for promotion within the NHS and I fully intend to take the Fusion Model with me on my professional journey. Thank you. You have given me so much professionally.'

Freelance facilitator of reflective practice Steve Dilworth D Prof MSc.

‘The psycho-education and many of the tools that we all took away in our toolkits are very adaptable to work in schools, with children and in terms of staff interaction and consistency around the children, and families’.

Founder of Gym for the Mind Esther Limberg-Berks [email protected]

'Attending the Fusion Therapeutic Diploma was a significant turning point in my life. Although I have always had a natural way with people I had never previously had any professional guidance or experience as a counsellor or coach. I was fortunate to be introduced to Frances and the Fusion Model, and this approach just made sense. Frances has given me a fantastic level of support which has no doubt helped me with my confidence to put my training into action and set up as a Wellbeing Coach and life could not be better!

Do you want to?

• Be a part of something new in integrated therapy and coaching  
• Have access to a proven professional toolkit for fast and successful client outcomes 
• Apply for the exclusive Fusion five session manual which integrates advanced coaching and counselling tools 
• Receive client and coach materials, scripts and hand outs that provide a solid framework for brief and effective therapeutic outcomes 
• Receive a regular newsletter for continuing professional development 
• Be included in a professional online forum that supports you in your work
• Have guidance on working in a professional ethical framework for good practice 
• Access group networking and training opportunities

Find out more about the NCFE accredited Fusion Therapeutic Coaching Distance Learner Skills Certificate and order your workbook here