Course Details
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Term 1
Applications Open
24 June 2025Applications Close
28 February 2026
duration
6 months
accreditation
Level 2 ICF Accredited COMENSA SILVER Training Provider Programme
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Why take this course
This programme builds on SACAP’s Coach Practitioner Programme by deepening coaching development. It enables you to journey with clients in multiple contexts, such as Personal Coaching and Executive Coaching.
The Advanced Coach Practitioner Programme is the second of SACAP’s two non-credit bearing short learning qualifications that, when combined, cover the same content and practical applications as the first year of our Postgraduate Diploma in Coaching.
The Advanced Coach Practitioner Programme is a part-time, six-month, short learning qualification designed with working professionals in mind and includes a strong practical component within a robust theoretical framework.
This second programme covers various models of change and adult learning principles so that participants can become conscious, competitive and confident professional coaches.
Throughout the programme, you will also receive customised feedback about your demonstrated coaching skills and mentor coaching from the International Coaching Federation (ICF) credentialed mentor coaches. The programme also includes a coaching competency performance exam.
Designed to fit around your work-life balance, the course comprises evening classes Online as well as intensive modules (made up of four consecutive days) that are held in-person at the campus where you’re registered (Cape Town, Johannesburg or Pretoria). Also chat to us about company sponsored payments.
What you can expect
- Be able to journey with a client from beginning to end of a coaching engagement.
- Explore and critically evaluate the application of theories and concepts from adult learning in the coaching context.
- Investigate models of change and their application within coaching.
- Identify your strengths and challenges in your application of coaching competencies to further your professional development.
- Examine how the richness of diversity can enhance coaching conversations.
- Explore ethical boundaries in depth for the scope of practice as a professional coach.
- Learn about the importance of supervision as an integral component of a professional coaching approach.
- Deepen your overall coaching competencies according to the International Coaching Federation (ICF) competencies required of a Professional Certified Coach (PCC) as well as the Coaches and Mentors of South Africa (COMENSA) behavioural standards.
- Receive customised developmental feedback about your application of these coaching competencies from an ICF credentialed coach.
Programme highlights
Become an internationally accredited professional coach practitioner.
Deepen your ethical understanding of coaching practice.
Expand your application of coaching models.
Who is this course for?
Do you:
- Seek a future career as a professional coach practitioner or want to work as an internal coach within your organisation.
- Want to deepen your professional coaching competencies.
- Want to discover how to effectively apply adult learning principles in coaching conversations.
- Want to learn how to facilitate learning, motivation and change in coaching conversations.
- Want to explore ethical coaching practice in-depth.
- Want to explore a variety of coaching approaches and models to hone your own coaching practice.
- Seek credentialing as an International Coaching Federation (ICF) Professional Certified Coach as well as the Coaches and Mentors of South Africa (COMENSA) behavioural standards.
- Seek customised developmental feedback about your application of coaching competencies from an ICF credentialed coach.
- This short learning programme equips you with an integrated understanding of adult learning and change, offers an in-depth exploration of ethical practice in coaching, and exposes you to a range of coaching models as well as an introduction to group and team coaching.
Career opportunities
- You can pursue a career as a professional coach practitioner.
- Apply enhanced coaching competencies for effective conversations to create sustainable change in clients’ personal and professional lives.
- Apply to ICF to credential as a Professional Certified Coach (PCC) and/or COMENSA to credential as a COMENSA credentialed Coach Practitioner (subject to also gaining the prerequisite coaching hours experience).
Additional information
Admission requirements
- A minimum of 3 years’ relevant work experience.
- Completion of SACAP’s Coach Practitioner Programme.
Intake / selection process
Acceptance into the Advanced Coach Practitioner Programme is subject to a selection process.
How can I apply
It’s easy, you can apply online. You will also need these docs:
1. Application form
2. Certified copy of your ID
3. Certified Highest Qualification
4. Proof of Application fee of R300.00
Apply Online HERE
Course details
Study options:
Designed to fit around your work-life balance, The course comprises Online evening classes and intensive modules (made up of 4 consecutive days) held on campus(Cape Town, Johannesburg or Pretoria). Company-sponsored payments accepted
Duration:
6 months
Evening classes
1 x Online evening module (3hr weekly sessions)
Full day intensives
2 x On-campus intensive modules (4 consecutive days each)
Observed sessions
6 Observed Sessions with customised feedback from an ICF credentialed coach.
Mentor coaching
3 Hours of Individual Mentor Coaching with ICF credentialed coaches.
7 Hours of Group Mentor Coaching with ICF credentialed coaches
Accreditation:
- Together with the Coach Practitioner Programme, accredited by International Coaching Federation (ICF) as an Accredited Level 02 Programme of 193 hours
- Coaches and Mentors South Africa (COMENSA) Approved SILVER Training Provider Programme
Delivery:
English
Programme vision and goals
Vision
SACAP’s Advanced Coach Practitioner programme builds on SACAP’s Coach Practitioner short learning programme to enable you to journey with clients as their professional coach in multiple contexts, such as Personal Coaching and Executive Coaching.
Goals
This is the second of our two non-credit bearing short learning programmes that together cover the same content and practical applications as the first year of our Postgraduate Diploma in Coaching. This second course covers various models of change and adult learning principles so that participants can become conscious, competent and confident professional coaches.
Learning goals
- Explore and critically evaluate the application of theories and concepts from adult learning in a coaching context.
- Learn two robust coaching models to apply with your coaching clients.
- Investigate models of change and their application within coaching.
- Receive customised developmental feedback about your application of these coaching competencies from an ICF credentialed coach.
- Explore ethical boundaries in depth for scope of practice as a professional coach.
- Explore how the richness of diversity can enhance the coaching conversations.
- Be able to journey with a client from beginning to end of a coaching engagement.
List of classes / parts / modules
- Applying Principles of Adult Learning & Change in Coaching
- Ethics, Values & Diversity in Coaching
- Coaching Models, Methods & Tools
List of lead instructors
Policies on payment of tuitions and fees
Policies on withdrawals and refunds
