SAVE ON CATHOLIC LIFE COACH TRAINING
Do you sense you could be having a greater impact, but aren't sure how? Could God be calling YOU to become a life coach?
At its core, life coaching is empathetically walking with others like Jesus did, helping them to overcome both internal and external obstacles, and accompanying them into fully embracing God’s call on their lives.
Coaching skills aren't just for life coaches. Learning how to empathetically walk with others like Jesus did is quickly becoming THE essential skillset for parish leaders, teachers, executives, managers, and ALL Catholics striving to build the Kingdom.
If you are a...
Parish or Diocesan Leader
Teacher, Coach, or Youth Mentor
Ministry Leader or Speaker
Executive or Manager
There’s a new cohort of Catholics from all walks of life forming to learn these coaching skills—is God calling you to be one of them?
This program is designed to guide you on a transformative journey, regardless of your background or experience. Whether you're an established professional or leader seeking to expand your impact or an individual driven by a strong desire to make a difference in this world, this comprehensive, ICF-accredited coaching education program will equip you with the skills and expertise to step into your purpose, masterfully lead, and create meaningful change.
Christopher McCluskey, PCC
"The Father of Christian Coaching"
President & Founder
Professional Christian Coaching Institute
We've trained over 4,000 coaches world-wide since 1999
Our students come from all walks of life, including business leaders and professionals, counselors/therapists, pastors and missionaries, nurses, and more. We train you in the coaching skills necessary to provide the highest quality coaching services while also equipping you to establish and grow a thriving coaching business.
Register today and save $350 on this unique Catholic offering!
This offering of The Essentials of Life Coaching course is uniquely Catholic - both instructors are practicing Catholics and successful coaches, Catholic spiritual practices are integrated throughout the course, the course content is taught from a Catholic perspective, and all students in the course share in the Catholic tradition together.
You don't have to do this alone.
"Professional Christian Coaching Institute is pioneering the way for faithful Catholics to train and transition into this powerful new field."
-Michael Aquilina
Executive VP, St. Paul Center for Biblical Theology
Author of more than 60 books!
"The Essentials of Life Coaching Catholic class was more than a class for me. It was an opportunity to explore, grow, and understand more about myself and the life coaching path God has chosen for me. HIGHLY RECOMMEND!"
-Marge Steinhage Fenelon
Author, Speaker, Spiritual Life Coach
“Now, more than ever, the world needs what Catholic life coaches have to offer. If you are thinking about using your talents in this way, the best starting point is the Catholic Essentials of Life Coaching Class. This course provides the very foundation required to know how to best serve your clients by learning how to utilize the ICF Core Competencies, formulate powerful thought-provoking questions, and listen for the promptings of the Holy Spirit. The instructors both guide and challenge you to become the best coach possible. If you think Catholic Life Coaching is what God is calling you to, then the Essentials class is your next step."
-Melissa Ford
Life Coach at Confidence Key Coaching
"As an experienced management consultant and successful entrepreneur, I thought I knew how to coach executive leaders to have an elevated level of life, leadership, and legacy. Boy was I wrong! I thank God for Professional Christian Coaching Institute and The Essentials of Life Coaching Catholic class that enabled me to see how to better engage and empower the executives I work with on a daily basis. I highly recommend this course for anyone who works with leaders, regardless of your background or area of expertise. It will bless you and those God leads you to serve!"
-Rick Newton
Consultant, Entrepreneur, Executive Coach and Founder/Owner, Newton Institute
Where Can Coaching Skills Help?
In the Workplace
As a manager or executive, you desire to be a leader who inspires not just professional, but also personal growth. Without even discussing religion, coaching skills can allow you to show your employees and mentees the love of Christ in action through dynamic and person-centered leadership.
In the Classroom
Your students can't hear the truth about the world until they know the truth about themselves...and we can be assured the world isn't telling them. Coaching skills help teachers, youth ministers, and education professionals minister to their students, breaking through the lies to foster self-confidence and discern their future.
In the Church
Pastors, spiritual directors, diocesan professionals, and lay leaders of Catholic ministries are all called to be shepherds - but no one's really taught you how. The skills of coaching will allow you to accompany those under your care and lead them to heaven, teaching them how to discern and confidently live out the call of the Holy Spirit.
In Your Home
These skills are crucial even in your personal relationships, creating a Domestic Church of understanding and peace that invites and attracts. People with coaching skills are able to better understand and manage conflicts with their spouses, react calmly to their children, and provide a place of peace noticeable to anyone who enters their home, from family friends to the repair man.
And Here's What Else Coaching Skills Can Do For You...
- Help you advance in your current career with sought-after leadership skills.
- Provide a foundation for a career change into a flexible and deeply fulfilling career in coaching.
- Improve your personal relationships and impact volunteer roles.
- Bring to light the internal obstacles and mindset holding you back - and how to adjust them for greater personal peace.
Even if you don't work in a Catholic environment (but especially if you do!), learning these skills through a Catholic lens is crucial.
Plus, when you learn in a Catholic cohort like this, you not only grow your own network of fellow Catholic leaders, but also discover how these skills apply to your pursuit of faith.
Course Dates & Instructors
The Essentials of Life Coaching
March 2025
DAY: Mondays
DATES: March 17 - June 30, 2025
TIME: 7:00 – 9:00 PM ET
INSTRUCTORS: Lisa Mladinich, PCC and Gary Roney, ACC
Lisa Mladinich, PCC
Lisa Mladinich is an ICF-Certified Life Coach and Gallup-Certified CliftonStrengths® Coach dedicated to helping clients glorify God by living powerfully in their natural talents.
Gary Roney, ACC
Gary Roney an ICF-Certified Coach and has over 20 years of experience working with youth, college, young adults, and their leaders throughout the Roman Catholic Diocese of Pittsburgh.
"It was such a blessing to be a part of the Catholic Essentials of Life Coaching cohort and I can’t express enough how transformative the experience has been for me. The instructors are incredible examples of coaches and every session was inspiring and engaging. Through the program, I have developed lifelong friendships and we continue to support and encourage one another spiritually and professionally. The peer groups were especially invaluable in helping me gain confidence as a coach. I not only developed my coaching skills but also grew as an individual. I highly recommend Catholic Essentials of Life Coaching to anyone who is seeking personal growth or coaching skills."
-Roxsan de Vera
Catholic Lifestyle Coach at Meek and Humble
“The Essentials of Life Coaching Catholic class helped me appreciate the skill of coaching to help others make meaningful and lasting change they own because it is coming from them, not from us. One challenge ministers often experience is not knowing what to say in certain pastoral situations. This course teaches coaching skills ministers can use to help others discover paths toward greater flourishing far beyond the limitations of the minister’s pastoral training.”
-Reverend Kevin M. McQuone
Director of the Propaedeutic Program at St. Vincent de Paul Regional Seminary
"Enrolling in the Catholic Essentials of Life Coaching Course, and getting to know the PCCI Community, was absolutely one of the best self-development investments I made in my adult life. It’s a game changer for how I lead, coach, and live."
-Pat Molyneaux
Successful Entrepreneur, Executive Coach, and Co-Founder of the Human Formation Coalition
“The Essentials of Life Coaching offering provided me with a strong foundation of coaching skills and competencies that are directly aligned with Catholic values and professional standards of the ICF ethics and competencies. The Catholic track takes us to the next level with a specific cohort to increase opportunities for specific engagement and applications prayerfully discerned. This class has further developed my skills to better equip leaders and their teams in creative and professional ways that draws out the best of them."
-Sandra Black, ACC, Dual CPLC
Executive, Leadership, and Team Coach
The Essentials of Life Coaching has been carefully designed and tested to help you...
- Master critical distinctions between coaching, counseling, consulting, mentoring, and discipling.
- Learn the Core Competencies of Coaching as established by the International Coach Federation (ICF).
- Integrate your Catholic faith and worldview into your work with both Christian and non-Christian clients.
- Develop the skills, tools and techniques necessary for effective coaching practice.
- Explore Catholic coaching principles in Scripture, using these as your basis and mandate for practice.
- Learn to form a strong coaching alliance with your clients.
- Study the latest research behind remarkable personal growth and lasting change.
- Hear live role play demonstrations and case examples by your instructors – two ICF-certified coaches.
- Process readings from three exceptional texts and get direct answers to your questions.
- Practice coaching skills live in lab sessions with peer groups, and in class, receiving real-time feedback from instructors.
- Learn to structure questions in a genuinely exploratory manner to avoid ‘leading’ your clients.
- Develop the ability to hear beyond your clients’ words through their inflections, pace, energy, and even silence.
- Become comfortable in confusion, embracing questions in a true spirit of curiosity and discovery.
- Help clients operationalize their visions, setting measurable goals and timelines.
- Learn empowerment skills to place clients more in-touch with their abilities and resources for dramatic life change.
- Foster accountability that really works – through you, not to you.
- Marshal pain and passion – the two great human motivators for change.
- Understand the stages of personal and spiritual growth, and meet your clients in their own unique stages.
- Learn what to do with resistance to change, and how to help a client get ‘unstuck.’
- Identify and work with core values, vision, purpose, & mission.
- Develop self-monitoring skills in your ‘use of self’ in this contractual, designed relationship.
- Explore several major niches in Catholic coaching to begin specializing in your areas of greatest passion.
- Experience dramatic personal growth as you work through the very exercises you will use with clients.
- Catch vision for the future of Catholic coaching and how to position yourself in this explosive new field.
And much, much more...
Your coaching journey starts as soon as you register and reserve your seat, plus you'll get access to this bonus package:
BONUS 1: Create Your Coaching Business Plan, a 3-hour master class taught by President & Founder Christopher McCluskey, PCC, that enables you to understand the inner workings of the coaching profession and what it takes to build a truly successful coaching practice. This course will serve as a lab in which you will 'count the cost' of growing a coaching practice that can sustain you the rest of your life.
BONUS 2: Professional Christian Coaching 2022 Virtual Summit, a 3-day live event conducted last year where 12 ICF-credentialed Christian coaches presented new perspectives to propel coaching forward. Topics include The Coaching Process, Coaching in Higher Education, Coaching for Resiliency in Difficult Days, and many, many more!
BONUS 3: Christian Coaching: Answering the Call to a Worldwide Movement, a series of talks Christopher McCluskey, PCC presented at the 2016 PCCI Family Retreat. Chris masterfully presents a foundation and vision for Christian coaching that will inspire you to raise the standard of coaching, and change the world in your own practice. Foundational teachings for every Christian coach!
BONUS 4: Access to the Power Lunch Library, an archive of hundreds of hours of training and Q&A with Christopher McCluskey, PCC and various team members, specifically geared toward students, on every topic imaginable under the sun - coaching challenges, various assessments, marketing ideas, growing your practice, coaching models, and much, much more!
You'll get access to this bonus package soon after registering so you can get a jump start on your training!
The ICF has accredited our institute as both a Level 1 and Level 2 education provider...
...which means that you can enroll in The Essentials of Life Coaching class having FULL CONFIDENCE that this course, as well as any other PCCI course, is fully accredited by the ICF. Additionally, this is your first step toward earning your ICF credential, as well as our internal Certified Professional Life Coach (CPLC) certification.
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Traditional tuition for The Essentials of Life Coaching is $2,250. During our Christmas Sale, students are provided $350 off tuition, which is reflected in the pricing table below, valid only through December 16th.
Full Payment
$2,250 full pay
$1,900 full pay
NO monthly payments
3 Payments
$760 monthly
$642 monthly
$2,280 $1,962 total
6 Payments
$385 monthly
$325 monthly
$2,310 $1,950 total
9 Payments
$260 monthly
$220 monthly
$2,240 $1,980 total
NOTE: All payment plans include a monthly service charge.
The people God has placed in your life to lead?
They're Worth Accompanying Well.
Come learn how coaching skills can prepare you to show Christ's love to others in your current and future personal and professional roles.
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Frequently Asked Questions
Will I be a certified coach after taking The Essentials of Life Coaching course?
Not Yet, but you'll be well on your way! The Essentials of Life Coaching is the FIRST STEP on the path toward certification AND credentialing. It's the first (and largest) in a series of 4 courses required for life coaching certification from Professional Christian Coaching Institute. It's also the first course required for ICF credentialing. Click here to view a table of requirements for certification and credentialing.
Is your program ICF accredited?
Yes! The ICF has accredited Professional Christian Coaching Institute as both a Level 1 and Level 2 coach education provider. Every course at Professional Christian Coaching Institute is aligned with ICF standards and all of our instructors are successful ICF-credentialed coaches.
What technology is required in order to take classes from PCCI?
Classes are delivered via Zoom. At the very least students need a phone and access to a computer with Internet in order to access the Student Center. This is the hub where students can view and print all course documents, listen to required course audios, obtain Zoom information for classes, and access other essential resources.
Do I have to attend classes live, or can I pace my learning?
All training at Professional Christian Coaching Institute is LIVE, requiring students to participate on a specific day/time by phone or computer. This allows for rich interaction between our faculty and students. Courses generally range from 10-15 weeks in length.
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