What is a LifeCare Coach?

LifeCare Coaches help people make progress in life and business in order to attain greater fulfillment. As they work with you, clients will improve relationships, careers, and generally gain greater satisfaction in their day-to-day lives. Clients will identify the obstacles holding them back, come up with strategies for overcoming each obstacle, and rely on you to help them implement those strategies over time.

Is This For You?

Everyone has the potential to grow and develop emotionally, relationally, spiritually and professionally. This course will give you what you need to competently and responsibly help others unlock their full potential. With this course, you'll get the concentrated training and support you need to begin changing lives within a few short months of dedicated effort.

  • You want to serve others and create meaningful impact now, but you don't want to enroll in graduate school to get a counseling degree and go through a licensure process that would take years and cost over 40 thousand dollars

  • Your faith and life experience already have you in a position of helping others grow, and you're passionate about it, but sometimes you're not sure how to help people take next steps.

  • You are ready to set aside a little time each week to learn pro-level skills as you become a successful professionally accredited Life or Executive Coach.

How does this work?

The LifeCare course involves training with a cohort of other students and leads to a Professional Life or Executive Coach Accreditation with The Association for Coaching.

By the completion of training, you will have developed greater awareness of your values and an increased competency in coaching, caring-for and leading others in your context - whether at home, professionally or in your church community. All graduates are given free entry to our private Facebook group where you can continue networking and sharing best practices! The Accredited LifeCare Coaching course satisfies the training requirements for Professional Coach Accreditation with the Association for Coaching. Graduates receive free coach mentoring from The Forward Foundation as they complete the remainder of accreditation requirements such as the coaching experience, supervision and essays required by the AC for accreditation.
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Finally, a Professional Coach Training that's Practical & Accessible.

Accredited by the internationally recognized, Association for Coaching

Included in the course

  • Modules

    16 recorded training modules you can watch at your own pace before each week's class.

  • LifeCare self-guided study book and training manual

    You will receive a hard copy manual and self-guided study that reinforce what you learn via video. The books teach the micro-skills necessary to build trust and rapport with clients, how past contextualizes present, tools to monitor and modify thought life, emotions, and behaviors, how to confront difficult circumstances to help clients find the joy and purpose of abundant life, and much more.

  • Example Sessions

    Also included are example sessions that show how to use your new coaching tools with real clients. These sessions help you go beyond an academic understanding of a technique and better grasp how a tool 'looks' when properly used with a client.

More Course Graduate Testimonials...

“I’m often the one helping others. The training gave me a chance to talk to someone about my own life who wasn’t there to judge me or fix me. It helped me grow, and made me want to help others grow as well.”

Course Graduate

“Even in the first session, I started to learn how important it was to not try to fix people, to not try to give them the answers, but to bring them to the place where they can understand that there is an answer, and that nothing they’ve done is too much to separate them from God, or a healthy restorative life.”

Course Graduate

Course curriculum

    1. 1.1 - Welcome and Overview

      FREE PREVIEW

    2. External Video 1 - Grandmothers

    3. 1.2 - Global Code of Ethics

    4. 1.3 - Contracting

    5. 1.4 - Core Conditions

    6. 1.5 - Core Conditions Pt.2

    7. External Video 2 - Empathy

    8. 1.6 - Core Conditions Pt.3

    9. External Video 3 - Nail

    10. External Video 5 - Stop it

    11. 1.7 - Working Inductively

    12. 1.8 - Triad Structure

    13. 1.9- LifeCare Exercise #1

    1. 2.0 - Appendix 1

    2. 2.1 - PROPER IV pt.1

    3. 2.2 - PROPER IV pt.2

    4. 2.3 - PROPER IV pt.3

    5. 2.4 - LifeCare Exercise #2

    1. 3.0 - MIC Intro

    2. 3.1 - Spiritual Reflections on Change

    3. 3.2 - Status Quo

    4. 3.3 - Considering Change

    5. 3.4 - Research and Resource

    6. 3.5 - Conviction

    7. 3.6 - Action

    8. 3.7 - Regression

    9. 3.8 - LifeCare Exercise #3

    10. Intrinsic Vs Extrinsic Motivation Video

    11. Client Feedback Form

    12. Observer Feedback Form

    13. Client reflection

    1. 4.0 - Personal History Journal

    2. 4.1 - Personal History Journal Pt.2

    3. 4.2 - Personal History Journal Pt. 3

    4. 4.3 - Personal History Journal Pt. 4

    5. 4.5 - LifeCare Exercise #4

    6. Module 4 Client Feedback Form

    7. Module 4 Observer Feedback Form

    8. Module 4 Client reflection

    1. 5.0 - Letter From The Lord

    2. 5.2 - LifeCare Exercise #5

    3. Observer Feedback Form

    4. Client Feedback Form

    5. Client reflection

    1. 6.0 - Cognitive Behavioral Coaching

    2. 6.1 - CBC - Auto Thoughts, Intermediary Beliefs, Core Belief

    3. 6.2 - CBC - Actions and Context

    4. 6.3 - Identifying Auto Thoughts

    5. 6.4 - LifeCare Exercise #6

    6. 6.5 - Identifying Intermediary and Core Beliefs

About this course

  • 95 lessons
  • 12.5 hours of video content

Instructor

Solome Skaff

Co-founder

- Church Staff 15 years - Missionary 5 years - Non-Profit Leader 5 years - Creator LifeCare Coach Curriculum - Masters Degree in Counseling from Dallas Theological Seminary - Masters by Research in Counseling and Psychotherapy from the University of Edinburgh, Scotland. - Licensed Professional Counselor Supervisor - 20+ years of experience in pastoral and professional counseling and coaching.

Hill Skaff

Co-founder

- Married 19 years – mother to 3 fantastic kids - Accredited LifeCare Coach Training Course Graduate - Organizational member of the Association for Coaching - Over 1,000 coaching hours in the USA, UK, and Europe - 5 years of service as a missionary in Europe and the UK - 6 years of experience as a 12-step recovery ministry leader - 17 years working in churches and ministries - 18 years of experience as a Writer & Editor for businesses, charities, and magazines - MFA in Writing, Columbia College Chicago I offer a safe, confidential space for women to work through challenges and build a life worth living! Together, we can address issues like relationships, transition, fear, shame, forgiveness, amends, reconciliation, boundaries, and more. We can also address spiritual issues, your sense of identity, and how to live it all out. I love working with women, and have a special affinity for those who are passionate about pursuing their calling in the arts. I understand how challenging it can be to confront a lack of motivation, direction, and confidence. Together we can find your true ‘voice’ and make a plan for you to achieve your goals and accomplish your projects, whatever your mode of artistic expression. As a wife and mother, I understand and can help you confront challenges related to marriage, parenting, life change, communication, worry, and all that comes with daily family life. At the same time, we’ll make sure you attend to your own healthy needs. Life has many seasons. Whether you’re processing a difficult situation, struggling with an issue, wanting to set and achieve a new goal, or seeking some healthy tools to benefit your day-to-day life, I’d be honored to walk alongside you in your journey.

Trudy Loofs

Senior Instructor

About Me: - Married 33+ years - Mother to 4 boys and 3 daughters-in-law - Advanced LifeCare Coach Training Graduate - Certified in SYMBIS and SYMBIS+ - Certified Adventures in Marriage (AIM) Instructor - 8+ years of marriage enrichment programs and offering coaching to couples in crisis - 10+ years leading women in personal discipleship and mentoring relationships - 6+ years equipping ministry leaders - Educator with 15+ years classroom experience - Certification in early childhood development Seeing people discover newfound joy in their lives and relationships has sparked my passion for life coaching. I believe every person to be capable of living a richly abundant life (John 10:10). It is my mission to help others navigate the path to claim this reality for themselves. I am naturally an empathetic and trustworthy individual and have had the privilege of walking closely with others through times of great trial and distress. In this life there will be struggles, however, I genuinely believe that God does not want us to walk through these seasons alone. No matter where you find yourself today, I would welcome the chance to help you rewrite your story and claim the abundance that God has purposed for you. As a wife, mother, and experienced marriage coach, I understand the challenges that accompany the demands of the many roles we play as women. I provide a safe place to unpack the realities of the present and identify direction and life patterns to assist you in moving forward. Over the years, God has allowed me to witness incredible transformation in the lives of those he has placed in my path. I have a vast array of experience leading and developing people, including children, teens, and women of all ages. I would consider myself blessed to journey with you through whatever season you find yourself to a place of increased peace, fulfillment, and joy. Contact Information: For your convenience, I offer meetings in person, via videoconference, and phone. Clients can book a complimentary confidential intake session with me to determine whether coaching will meet your needs.

Pricing options

Pay all at once, or in installments!

Who is The Forward Foundation?

The Forward Foundation provides individual and marital coaching and counseling from a faith-based, research informed perspective. Our goal is to provide a safe environment where you can explore challenges, discover and build on strengths, and find your passion.


We also provide the accredited, professional, internationally-recognized LifeCare Coach Training to help others unlock their full coaching potential. Whether you are working in private practice as a Coach, using coaching skills as a line manager to help develop those you lead, or using coaching skills as a volunteer caring for others in your community, we have a training program to help you.

We offer several different levels of training to support your goals, and are committed to supporting you after you complete training as you pursue those goals. LifeCare Coach Training is accredited by the Association for Coaching (www.associationforcoaching.com).