Chapter 07

Life Coaching Certification: Everything You Need To Know

Although you don’t need to be certified to become a life coach, it’s always highly recommended - especially if you’re a brand-new coach as most life coaching certifications teach you the foundations of coaching and proven coaching methodologies to start coaching clients.

Being a certified life coach is a responsibility not just to yourself but to your prospective clients as well. Coaching is about guiding individuals to achieve their goals and create the life of their dreams, and it’s your responsibility as their coach to have the necessary tools and skills to support them at any point throughout their journey.

What qualifications do you need to be a life coach?

There are no prerequisites to become a life coach. The coaching industry is unregulated, which means any individual who wants to become a life coach can. Life coaching doesn’t require any certifications, work experience, or degree.

That being said, a life coaching certification can provide you with the knowledge, tools, and skills you need to get started if you don’t have any prior experience in this industry. Most certifications also require students to complete a certain amount of coaching practice hours before they can get certified.

Do you need a life coaching certification to start coaching?

How long does it take to train as a life coach?

Most life coaching certifications can last anywhere from 3 months to 6 months. But there are also shorter and longer coaching programs, depending on how much time and money you are willing to invest in it for the value they offer.

But being a life coach is a life-long commitment. Many certifications expire after a year or two, which means you need to continue your learning journey to keep them up-to-date.

Or even if you decide not to validate your certification for longer, a great coach never stops learning new and different methodologies, tools, techniques, and skills to keep leveling-up their coaching abilities and create better, lasting results for their clients.

How to choose the right life coaching certification?

You might have been considering whether or not you should get a coaching certification for a while now, or how to choose the right one yet.

The truth is, there are hundreds of different elements that could play a role when you’re deciding which coaching certification program is right for you, but here’s the good news…

You don’t have to consider everything.

When you’re ready to choose a coaching certification program, you just need to hone in on a handful of needle-moving elements that can lead you straight to the right one.

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Read on to discover the 3 key elements you need to consider and guiding questions to help you choose the right life coaching certification for you.

Can I get certified with Evercoach?

Straight answer: Yes!

We, at Evercoach by Mindvalley, have released Certified Life Coach for all those new and experienced coaches who want to learn a proven, holistic coaching methodology to create transformational results for their clients every single time.

After decades of hands-on coaching work, co-founder of both Evercoach and Mindvalley, Ajit Nawalkha, created the 4-Part Life Coaching Process methodology to coach anyone at any stage of life. This coaching process includes the 4 key aspects of life that every single human being on the planet needs in order to create success and happiness.

As part of the Certified Life Coach program, you also become a fully-certified trainer in the exclusive 6-Phase Meditation and a 3 Important Questions Goal-Setting Modality trainer - both methodologies created and taught by Mindvalley Founder, Vishen Lakhiani.

For any coach who is currently certified by the International Coach Federation (ICF), Certified Life Coach has been accredited for 42 Continuing Coach Education (CCE) units, which means that by just doing this one certification program, you will be able to complete almost all of ICF's required continuous learning units for 3 years.

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You get all this and much more inside Certified Life Coach by Evercoach. Click here to learn more about our life coaching certification program.

Not ready to get certified? Here's how you can become a successful 6-figure coach without a coaching certification.