To be a credible and expert Transformation Coach, one must commit to self-development, personal life mastery and the physical manifestation of the strength of your brand. This characteristic will set you apart as an authentic expert. Similarly, your credibility as a transformation coach requires you to demonstrate your expertise from a position of authority and a role model. How can you be a true coach if you are not living a life of success based on your own transformation and authentic referencing system that demonstrates your personal mastery?

Mastery of your personal life will demonstrate that understand who you are, your passion and what makes you authentic. You must discover who you are through the conduct of your own personal SWOT Analysis, that will serve to guide the discovery of your innate talents, passion and life purpose that will guide the fulfilment of your life purpose by your own deliberate or intentional design for self-transformation.

You cannot claim to be helping your client to live abundantly through transformation changes unless you have undergone your own personal transformation to establish your own authenticity. This will allow you to speak and guide your client with authority, get them to trust you and your guidance and commit to your transformation coaching strategy.

Objectives are to create the opportunity for Trainee Coaches: –

• to develop a critical consciousness and self-awareness;
• to develop action plans or strategies to improve socio-economic conditions and social wellbeing,
• to discover/identify, explore and map relevant resources that will facilitate the development of talents, passion and skills for change, in coping with existing issues and challenges that prevent progress,
• to allow for or self-discovery, self-transformation, self-efficacy, and self-determination.

The OCDT’ Transformation Coach Trainer will help and guide trainee coaches to:

1. Clarify the following critical conceptual considerations:
   • Understand What is Coaching
     The Difference between Coaching and Therapy
   • Types of Coaching
   • The Benefits of Coaching
   • What is Psychology behind transformation coaching
2. Develop an awareness and practice of being and living in the present moment of conscious reality, in which the Trainee coach is encouraged to make informed decisions as to what actions and responses he needs take for his/her social and emotional wellbeing and sustainable economic livelihood.
3. Consider the present moment’ decision-making action from the position of the client’s mindfulness, critical thinking and considered responsiveness in the present moment.
4. Identify, navigate and solve issues, concerns, and challenges that threaten, compromise and limit positive mindset development and growth responses from the client that are important for prosperity and sustainable living.
5. Delve deep within the authentic self with self-assessment tools to enable the client to navigate mental blockages to living with purpose, developing the capacity to overcome adversities with newfound coping skills.
6. Delve deep within the authentic self with self- assessment tools to enable the trainee coach to discover, his/her innate skills and talents and to set his/her goals and plans for developing his/her own personal mastery through career training enhancement in order to hone those skills and talents for personal economic and social development for sustainable living. focused on your future aspirations and take on practices that exercise,
7. Develop and Practice new skills and talents for transformational change, while becoming aware that life is a journey and learning is a lifelong process for as long as the journey continues. As such the Trainees coach is encouraged to embrace the transformation of self, with new practice experiences in this journey, which invariably will cause a conscious shifting of the mindset from one of lack to one of abundance and growth. This process will allow the trainee coach to understand his role in living his life on purpose and the importance of new growth and change, as he steps out of the existing comfort zone, to seek new conscious awakening that will inspire growth and mindset change. To advance within the spiritual realm of his/her authentic self in pursuit of the new self, the trainee coach will need further coaching to inspire, motivate and assist in his/her transformation.

These same coaching strategies will be used by the trainee coach in his/her coaching practice.