The following coaching courses are available as part of Life Coach Training Switzerland:

• Life coach training (life coach with school diploma e.g. NGL)
• Life coaching training with an association qualification or association diploma (e.g. Coach bso from the Swiss Professional Association for Coaching, Organizational Consulting and Supervision as a widely recognized national quality standard or ECA - Professional Association of Professional Coaches in Europe or SCA Swiss Professional Association of Professional Coaches and Company Mentors)
• Life coach training with hybrid teaching (mix of online and face-to-face learning)
• Life balance coach training (focus on work-life balance)
• Life Coach Course
• Life Coach Seminar (mostly weekend seminars)
• Life coach training online
• Life coach course online
• Coaching training in conjunction with EASC certificate (European Association for Supervision and Coaching or ICF International Coach Federation - internationally recognized)
• Further training for the federal diploma for counselors in the psychosocial field (higher professional examination for the federal diploma, the preliminary stage is usually the professional examination for company mentors with a federal certificate) or federally certified supervisor/coach

The professional titles of life coach, life counselor, life coach or personality coach are not protected in Switzerland. Therefore, in contrast to other professional groups, there are hardly any legal barriers - not even a duty of confidentiality (secret, particularly sensitive personal data or personality profiles are, however, subject to the duty of confidentiality). In principle, therefore, any life coach in Switzerland can call themselves a life coach and offer a corresponding service - regardless of whether they work as a life coach without training. Legally, however, this creates a relationship of trust. Trust in life coaches is certainly greater if they have completed further life coach training or life coach training. Anyone who is aiming for a serious life coach career should therefore also learn life coaching.

In a life coach training course you learn the following about life coaching:

• Starting work as a life coach
• Life Coach Meaning, coaching others
• Definition and differentiation from business coaching, psychosocial counseling, therapy, life coaching, etc.
• Life coaching topics such as work-life balance, sensi
• Core topics of life coaching - clarifying and shaping life plans
• Life Coach Methods
• Learning areas and success factors
• Tools for life coaching
• Behavior and attitude
• Life mission
• Working with the inner child
• Energetic groundwork
• Practice management

In order to be able to work as a life coach, we recommend coaching training:

• Personality and life coach (certified)
• Psychosocial counselor (certified)
• Life counselor (certified)

In personality coaching training, you usually learn:

• Process support in emotional topics of personality development
• Relationship coaching
• Shadow coaching
• Conflict coaching and crisis coaching
• Insight coaching
• Suppressed personality traits
• Resonance fields
• Transformation of patterns and imprints
• Explore needs
• Build self-confidence & self-esteem
• Self-love
• Making life issues and solutions visible
• Manifesting plans for the future

The Emotion Coach (Personality & Life Coach) course provides you with the in-depth skills you need to support and strengthen clients in their development processes and in emotionally tense situations in life. In the emotion coaching course, you will deal with topics such as searching for meaning, healing old injuries, resonance fields and their realignment, self-worth and strengthening self-confidence, personality development, forgiveness, shadow topics, systematic relationship coaching, inner child (transactional analysis), biographical coaching, vocation coaching, happiness strategies, group and family coaching, design therapy coaching (painting coaching), crises and conflict situations as well as values coaching. You can obtain comprehensive information on the modules and content of continuing education, further training in Emotion Coaching directly from the training providers and schools.

The content of a coaching course is as varied as the courses themselves. You can focus on business, coaching children and young people, personal development, career counseling and a variety of other fields, all of which have different target groups and therefore pursue different goals. This also means that you need to find out more about the individual coaching courses in order to find the right one for you. Basically, in a training course you will first learn the terms and definitions, which you will then use to get to know yourself better, recognize your own potential and tackle change. It is therefore important that you are prepared to work on yourself in order to achieve the best possible results. You will then gain in-depth knowledge of how to prepare, conduct and conclude a coaching session, learn about different techniques and tools and hone your counseling and communication skills.

Coach training can take place in very different ways. For example, there are seminars, courses and training sessions that fully train you to become a professional coach, as well as short introductory courses or basic courses that introduce you to the basics of coaching and consulting. Anyone seriously considering working in this field in the future, either as an independent consultant or as a supplement and second pillar to their existing work, should be aware that sound training and regular continuing education, further training are required. After all, in order to become a consultant, it is important both to know the theoretical approaches through coaching training and to be able to apply them usefully in practice.
This means that a short seminar lasting a few days will not be enough to provide you with the necessary technical, leadership, social and coaching skills for professional training, but it will if you just want to gain a first impression. Such coaching seminars are also extremely useful if you want to expand your skills portfolio, whether for private or professional purposes.
More extensive coaching training is also possible at postgraduate level at Colleges of Higher Education and Universities of Applied Sciences. The federally recognized diploma Advanced Federal Diploma of Higher Education (CHE) in Business Coaching is one of these options, as are postgraduate studies leading to a Certificate of Advanced Studies in Career Coaching (UAS) or a Master of Advanced Studies in Coaching & Organizational Consulting (UAS).

This question is difficult to answer, as there are a large number of coach training courses that train you in very different areas. A further training course to become a career coach, for example, cannot of course be compared with a coach for children and young people, for business, resilience training or human resources. All training or continuing education, further training courses have different content and duration, so we cannot recommend a course that you can complete quickly. Basically, you can say that a CAS, a Certificate of Advanced Studies, is a short continuing education course. It usually lasts one semester, i.e. half a year, and is completed alongside your job. Nevertheless, these CASs are usually aimed at people who are already working in the field of supervision, consulting, training or coaching and want to continue their education, training or coaching. As a newcomer, you need basic training that will enable you to help other people and support them in a wide variety of life and work situations. In this case, four hours a week for one month while working is not enough to give you the skills you need. You should therefore expect a longer training period and contact the individual schools, who will be happy to present their different training models to you. Full-time training or compact seminars may also be a sensible alternative for you. Simply use the contact button to get in touch with the individual coach schools and let them advise you.

The profession of coach does not require any specific training, so that anyone who wants to can adorn themselves with this title. This approach is very dubious, as people without a sound education and continuing education, further training do not have the skills required to be able to professionally advise other people in a wide variety of life situations. It is therefore particularly advisable for people who are not involved in counseling or supervision to undergo intensive training. Look for a provider who can teach you the skills you need and who is themselves recognized or certified, whether by quality labels such as eduQua or the industry association. Only with professional training will you be able to work independently as a coach and provide support. After all, to be successful and survive on the market in the long term, others must be able to benefit from you, not the other way around.