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At Level123 Coaching, we provide world-class coach training for aspiring professional coaches, leaders, managers, HR professionals, educators, and consultants. Our internationally aligned coach training programmes help you develop practical coaching skills, gain certification, and build a successful coaching career
Our coach training programmes combine practical coaching experience, internationally aligned competencies, mentoring, supervision, and real-world application.
Whether you're beginning your coaching journey or advancing towards professional accreditation, our coach training prepares you to confidently coach individuals, teams, and organisations.
I help new and struggling coaches land their first 1–3 paying clients within 30 days without spending money on ads, using a simple outreach system, irresistible offer positioning, and daily accountability.
In this 30-day group coaching program, you'll learn:
• How to identify a profitable coaching niche
• How to create an offer people actually want to buy
• How to find potential clients online every day
• How to start conversations that lead to sales calls
• How to handle objections and close your first clients
• How to build confidence selling your coaching services
If you follow the system and complete the actions each day, you'll have everything you need to attract and sign your first coaching clients within 30 days.
Perfect for new coaches, life coaches, career coaches, wellness coaches, business coaches, and anyone struggling to get their first paying client.
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I help coaches become certification-ready in 60 training hours through live group coaching, coaching practice sessions, feedback, and accountability, so they can confidently pursue ICF or COMENSA accreditation and build greater credibility with clients and employers.
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I help overwhelmed professionals regain calm, clarity, and emotional control in 90 days through structured coaching, practical self-awareness tools, and accountability, so they can make better decisions, improve relationships, and perform with greater confidence under pressure.
– Gavin Dick
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Only $24 / R400 | Delivered Fully Online
Level123coaching.co.za aims to be one of the worlds leading coach training providers, offering the most affordable route to COMENSA and ICF accredited training programs for coaches of all levels.
The CORE9 PRESENCE SYSTEM™ is a structured coaching methodology aligned with nine international coaching competencies, designed to help coaches facilitate deep awareness, accountability, and sustainable behavioural change through a presence-led, client-centred approach.
We have both an Associate (Level1) and Professional (Level2) Coaching Dimplomas aligned with ICF and COMENSA requirements to give you credibility and confidence in the coaching marketplace.
Working in small groups helps us give you customised and personal attention helping you become a high caliber coach with skills you need to differentiate, and stand out from the crowd.
Join our next Intro Session to find out more about our offering.
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The Client acknowledges that coaching is a collaborative, non-directive process designed to support personal and/or professional development. The Coach does not provide advice, therapy, counselling, or consulting services.
The Client agrees that they are fully responsible for their own decisions, actions, and results arising from the coaching relationship. The Coach makes no guarantees regarding outcomes or results.
To the fullest extent permitted by law, the Coach shall not be liable for any direct, indirect, incidental, or consequential damages resulting from the coaching relationship or the Client’s use of the coaching services.
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One of the biggest sources of confusion for new clients is understanding exactly what coaching is. Coaching is often mistaken for mentoring, consulting, counselling, therapy, training, or simply giving advice. While these professions may overlap, they each serve different purposes.
The following explanation aligns with internationally recognised professional coaching standards.
Coaching is a collaborative partnership that helps people achieve meaningful goals through greater self-awareness, clearer thinking, better decision-making, and purposeful action.
Rather than telling clients what to do, a coach helps clients discover their own best answers.
A coach believes that the client is naturally resourceful, creative, and capable of finding solutions with the right support and powerful questions.
The coach's role is to facilitate learning—not to become the expert in the client's life.
Clarify goals
Increase self-awareness
Identify limiting beliefs
Improve confidence
Develop emotional intelligence
Solve problems
Make better decisions
Stay accountable
Create action plans
Build resilience
Improve relationships
Increase performance
Navigate change
Create lasting behavioural change
The purpose of coaching is not to fix people.
The purpose is to help people think more clearly.
When people think differently, they usually act differently.
When they act differently, they often create different results.
Coaching therefore creates change through awareness rather than instruction.
During a coaching session the coach may:
Listen deeply
Ask thought-provoking questions
Challenge assumptions
Reflect observations
Notice patterns
Encourage new perspectives
Help prioritise options
Explore values
Increase accountability
Celebrate progress
Help remove obstacles
Support commitment to action
The client does most of the talking.
The coach does most of the listening.
Therapy often focuses on healing psychological wounds, trauma, depression, anxiety, or mental illness.
A coach may discuss the past only when it helps the client move forward.
The primary focus of coaching is the future.
Counselling often helps clients cope with emotional pain, grief, relationships, or personal difficulties.
Coaching assumes the client is psychologically well enough to pursue goals and make decisions.
Consultants are hired because they have expertise.
Consultants diagnose problems and recommend solutions.
Example:
A consultant might say:
"Based on my experience, you should implement these five strategies."
A coach would ask:
"What strategies have you already considered, and which one feels most aligned with your goals?"
Mentors share their own experiences.
They teach from lessons they have learned.
Example:
"When I started my business, this worked for me."
A coach avoids making the conversation about themselves.
Training teaches knowledge and skills.
Examples include:
Leadership training
Sales training
Public speaking training
Excel training
Time management training
Training transfers information.
Coaching transforms thinking.
Teachers provide answers.
Coaches ask questions.
Teachers explain.
Coaches explore.
Teachers evaluate.
Coaches facilitate learning.
Advice places responsibility on the coach.
Coaching places responsibility on the client.
Instead of saying:
"Here's what you should do."
A coach asks:
"What feels like the right next step for you?"
The coach is not responsible for solving the client's life.
Instead, the coach helps the client develop the ability to solve future problems independently.
The goal is long-term capability, not short-term dependence.
Professional coaches do not judge clients.
They create a safe, confidential space where clients can think openly without fear of criticism.
Motivation is temporary.
Coaching helps people discover their own internal motivation based on their values and purpose.
Accountability is important, but coaching is much more than checking whether someone completed a task.
A coach helps uncover why action did or did not happen.
A coach is warm, empathetic, and supportive.
However, coaching remains a professional relationship with clear boundaries, confidentiality, ethics, and agreed objectives.
Managers focus on organisational performance.
Coaches focus on individual growth.
Managers direct work.
Coaches facilitate learning.
Profession
Primary Focus
Typical Approach
Coaching
Future growth and performance
Powerful questions, reflection, accountability
Therapy
Mental health and healing
Diagnosis, treatment, recovery
Counselling
Emotional support
Processing feelings and coping
Consulting
Expert solutions
Advice and recommendations
Mentoring
Experience sharing
Guidance from personal experience
Training
Skill development
Teaching knowledge and techniques
Teaching
Education
Explaining concepts and assessing learning
Managing
Organisational performance
Directing, supervising, evaluating
Professional coaching is based on several key beliefs:
The client is the expert in their own life.
Every client is creative, resourceful, and whole.
People are capable of growth and change.
Awareness precedes meaningful change.
Lasting solutions are more powerful when they come from the client.
Small consistent actions produce significant long-term results.
Trust, confidentiality, and psychological safety are essential.
The coaching relationship is a partnership, not a hierarchy.
Your coach will:
Listen without judgement.
Ask insightful questions.
Challenge your thinking respectfully.
Maintain confidentiality (within legal and ethical limits).
Help you clarify your goals.
Support you in creating realistic action plans.
Hold you accountable for commitments you choose to make.
Encourage reflection and continuous learning.
Maintain professional boundaries.
Refer you to another professional if your needs fall outside the scope of coaching.
Your coach will not:
Tell you how to live your life.
Make decisions for you.
Diagnose mental health conditions.
Provide therapy or counselling.
Give legal, financial, or medical advice.
Guarantee specific outcomes.
Judge your beliefs or choices.
Take responsibility for your actions.
Become emotionally dependent on the relationship.
Replace other qualified professionals when specialist support is needed.
Imagine climbing a mountain.
A coach walks beside you, asking questions that help you choose the best route and stay committed.
A mentor has climbed the mountain before and shares what worked for them.
A consultant studies the mountain and tells you which route to take.
A trainer teaches you how to use the climbing equipment.
A therapist helps you recover if you've been injured on a previous climb.
A manager tells you which mountain to climb and expects progress reports.
Each role is valuable, but coaching is unique because it empowers you to find your own path rather than following someone else's.
Coaching is a structured, confidential, and collaborative partnership that empowers people to increase self-awareness, unlock their potential, clarify goals, make informed decisions, overcome obstacles, and take purposeful action. Rather than providing answers, professional coaches use deep listening, powerful questions, reflection, and accountability to help clients create meaningful and sustainable change in their personal and professional lives.
Welcome to Level123 Coaching, a leading coaching academy dedicated to delivering professional coach training for individuals, leaders, managers, consultants, educators, HR professionals, entrepreneurs, and aspiring coaches. Whether you are looking for life coach training, executive coach training, business coach training, or leadership coach training, our comprehensive coaching courses are designed to help you develop world-class coaching skills and achieve recognised coaching certification.
Our mission is to provide practical, ethical, and transformational coach education through engaging learning experiences, experienced facilitators, and internationally aligned coaching standards. Every coaching programme combines theory with extensive practical coaching, ensuring graduates are confident, competent, and ready to make a meaningful difference in the lives of others.
Our accredited coach training programmes are designed for beginners as well as experienced professionals seeking advanced coach certification. Whether your goal is to become a professional life coach, executive coach, leadership coach, business coach, wellness coach, or performance coach, we offer flexible learning pathways that support your development.
Our coaching certification programme focuses on practical coaching conversations, ethical practice, emotional intelligence, communication excellence, active listening, powerful questioning, goal setting, accountability, and lasting behaviour change. Every learner develops the confidence to coach individuals, teams, organisations, and communities.
Our professional coach training is built around real coaching practice rather than simply learning concepts from textbooks. Throughout your coaching course, you will participate in live coaching sessions, coaching demonstrations, mentor coaching, peer coaching, coaching observations, reflective learning, coaching assessments, and constructive feedback.
This practical approach helps learners build genuine coaching confidence while mastering internationally recognised coaching competencies.
Our life coach training equips aspiring coaches with the knowledge and confidence to help clients create positive change in every area of life. Students learn how to support personal growth, confidence, wellbeing, relationships, career development, resilience, motivation, mindset, purpose, and goal achievement.
Our life coach training is ideal for individuals wanting to launch a coaching business or add professional coaching skills to their existing career.
Our executive coach training prepares professionals to coach senior leaders, executives, directors, entrepreneurs, and high-performing teams. Participants learn leadership coaching, strategic thinking, executive communication, organisational effectiveness, stakeholder management, decision making, performance improvement, and leadership development.
Graduates are equipped to work with organisations seeking measurable leadership growth and organisational performance.
Our business coach training helps entrepreneurs, consultants, managers, and business owners coach individuals and organisations towards sustainable success. Learners develop coaching strategies that improve productivity, leadership, communication, customer service, innovation, employee engagement, accountability, and business growth.
Business coaching combines proven coaching methodologies with practical commercial knowledge to create measurable business outcomes.
Our leadership coach training supports current and aspiring leaders in developing coaching-based leadership styles that inspire high-performing teams. Learners discover how coaching improves trust, collaboration, emotional intelligence, engagement, innovation, conflict resolution, resilience, and organisational culture.
Leadership coaching has become an essential skill for modern managers who want to empower rather than simply direct their teams.
Our flexible online coach training allows students to study from anywhere while participating in interactive learning experiences. Online learners benefit from live virtual classrooms, coaching practice, coaching demonstrations, mentoring, coaching supervision, peer learning, assessments, and ongoing support.
Whether you study full-time or part-time, our online coach training provides the same high standards as face-to-face delivery while allowing greater flexibility for working professionals.
Our range of coaching courses caters for beginners, experienced professionals, managers, HR practitioners, educators, healthcare professionals, consultants, trainers, and leaders. Every coaching course develops practical coaching competence through experiential learning, reflective practice, mentor coaching, supervised coaching, and real client conversations.
Our learners consistently report increased confidence, improved communication, stronger leadership, better relationships, and enhanced professional performance.
A recognised coaching qualification demonstrates your commitment to professional excellence and lifelong learning. Our programmes prepare learners to apply coaching confidently within organisations, educational institutions, healthcare settings, community projects, private practice, and consulting environments.
Whether your goal is employment, career advancement, leadership development, or building your own coaching business, earning a respected coaching qualification opens new professional opportunities.
Students wishing to continue their development may progress towards an advanced coaching diploma, specialised coaching programmes, leadership development qualifications, mentoring qualifications, facilitation training, and organisational coaching pathways.
Continuous professional development ensures coaches remain current with evolving coaching research, best practice, and international coaching standards.
Our ICF coach training aligns coaching education with internationally recognised coaching competencies and ethical principles. Learners gain a deep understanding of coaching presence, active listening, powerful questioning, cultivating trust, facilitating growth, maintaining ethical practice, and partnering effectively with clients.
For coaches pursuing international recognition, our ICF coach training provides an excellent foundation for ongoing professional development.
Alongside our comprehensive qualifications, we offer practical coaching workshops and interactive coaching classes covering specialised coaching topics including emotional intelligence, resilience, positive psychology, leadership, team coaching, performance coaching, motivational interviewing, strengths coaching, wellbeing coaching, communication, and advanced coaching techniques.
These coaching workshops provide valuable opportunities for continuous learning, networking, and professional growth.
Choosing the right coaching academy is one of the most important decisions in your coaching journey. At Level123 Coaching, we are committed to delivering high-quality coach education, practical learning, internationally aligned accredited coach training, experienced facilitators, supportive mentoring, and transformational learning experiences.
Whether you are seeking coach certification, coaching certification, professional coach training, executive coach training, life coach training, business coach training, leadership coach training, a recognised coaching qualification, a respected coaching diploma, flexible online coach training, engaging coaching workshops, practical coaching classes, or a comprehensive coaching certification programme, Level123 Coaching provides the knowledge, experience, and support to help you become an exceptional professional coach.
Begin your coach training journey today and develop the confidence, competence, and internationally recognised coaching skills to transform lives, empower leaders, and build a rewarding coaching career.
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There comes a point in every person’s life where information is no longer enough.
You’ve read the books.
You’ve watched the videos.
You’ve taken the courses.
You’ve saved the quotes.
And yet something still feels unfinished.
Not because you lack knowledge… but because knowledge alone does not transform lives.
People don’t change because they know more.
People change because someone shows up in their life and asks the right question at the right time, in the right way, with the right presence.
That person is a coach.
And coach training is where that transformation begins.
We live in a world overflowing with information, but starving for clarity.
People are overwhelmed, anxious, disconnected, and constantly distracted.
They don’t need more advice.
They need structure for thinking.
They need space for reflection.
They need accountability without judgment.
They need presence without pressure.
That is what coaching delivers.
And that is what coach training teaches you to provide.
Most people listen to respond.
Coaches learn to listen to understand.
Most people ask questions to lead conversations.
Coaches ask questions that unlock thinking.
Most people try to fix problems.
Coaches create awareness so people can solve their own problems.
This is the shift that happens inside professional coach training:
You stop being a communicator…
and start becoming a catalyst.
Expertise is everywhere.
Advice is free.
But transformation is rare.
Why?
Because transformation requires a different kind of interaction.
It requires:
Silence that is comfortable
Questions that are uncomfortable
Reflection that is honest
Accountability that is kind but firm
Presence that does not rush the process
These are not natural behaviours.
They are trained behaviours.
That is why accredited coach training exists.
Before coach training, you see behaviour.
After coach training, you see patterns.
Before coach training, you hear problems.
After coach training, you hear meaning behind the problem.
Before coach training, you try to fix situations.
After coach training, you help people build awareness so they can transform situations themselves.
And once you see people this way, you cannot unsee it.
Some people go into coaching to build a business.
Some go into coaching to become better leaders.
Some go into coaching because they feel called to help others grow.
But underneath all of it is one truth:
Coaching multiplies your impact.
Because you are no longer limited by your own output.
You are now working through others:
Leaders who lead better teams
Parents who raise more conscious children
Entrepreneurs who make better decisions
Employees who communicate more clearly
Humans who understand themselves more deeply
That is scale that no job title can compete with.
Motivation is temporary.
Insight is permanent.
A motivational talk may move someone for a day.
But a coaching conversation can change the direction of their life.
That is why coach education is structured, supervised, and competency-based.
It is not about inspiration alone.
It is about consistency, ethics, skill, and practice.
Coaching is not easy.
It requires restraint.
It requires patience.
It requires you to stop performing and start being present.
It requires you to trust that the answer does not come from you—it comes from the client.
That is why coaching certification programmes exist.
Not to make coaching complicated.
But to make sure it is done responsibly.
Because when coaching is done well, it changes lives.
When it is done poorly, it creates confusion.
You don’t just learn “how to coach.”
You learn how to:
Ask powerful questions instead of giving advice
Hold silence without discomfort
Listen beyond words into emotion and intention
Build trust quickly and deeply
Help people set meaningful goals
Create accountability without pressure
Work with mindset, behaviour, and identity
Guide transformation, not instruction
These are not soft skills.
These are human performance skills.
Once you learn coaching, it shows up everywhere:
In leadership conversations
In sales meetings
In parenting
In friendships
In team management
In personal relationships
In business decisions
Because coaching is not what you do.
It is how you relate.
Right now, there are two paths:
One path is consumption.
More content.
More advice.
More learning.
More watching.
The other path is contribution.
Where you take what you know and learn how to help others grow from it.
Coach training is that bridge.
It turns insight into influence.
It turns knowledge into transformation.
It turns experience into impact.
You don’t need to have all the answers.
You don’t need to be the most confident person in the room.
You don’t need to be the most successful person in your field.
You need only one thing:
A willingness to learn how to help others think better.
Everything else is built through professional coach training, practice, feedback, and experience.
At some point, every great coach realises something simple:
Helping people find clarity is one of the most meaningful things a human being can do.
Not because you give them answers.
But because you help them find their own.
And in that moment, something shifts:
Confusion becomes direction
Doubt becomes confidence
Stuckness becomes action
Fear becomes awareness
And you realise:
This is not just coaching.
This is transformation work.
So the question is not:
“Should I do coach training?”
The real question is:
“What kind of impact do I want to have on people’s lives?”
Because if the answer is impact…
Then coach training is not an option.
It is the beginning.
