The Practitioner's Academy

No. Some people join with years of coaching experience. Others come from a completely different field and feel called to this work for the first time. What matters more than your background is whether you're ready to do the inner work alongside the outer skill-building. Both are part of how this container is built.

This isn't a beginner's program dressed up as something deeper. Even people who have coached for decades find that the more advanced work is in how present they can stay, not how many tools they know. If you already have the fundamentals, the Academy asks you to work at a different layer: presence, discernment, and effectively helping your clients bridge insights with new outcomes and results.  Many experienced coaches find that layer harder, and more valuable, than anything they learned early on.

This work applies wherever you're helping people grow, whether that's client sessions, leadership conversations, or how you develop a team. If coaching is already part of how you lead, train, or support others inside an organization, the same capacities apply. You may not build a "Your Work in the World" offer in the traditional sense, but that pillar will still shape how you bring your role, leadership, and presence into your organization.

Yes. One of the four pillars, Your Work in the World, is devoted to this: your offers, positioning, pricing, and how you bring your work to the people you're meant to serve. We approach it the same way we approach everything else, from alignment first, not strategy alone. If you're looking for a purely tactical marketing program, this isn't that. If you want to build something that comes from your own aliveness and holds up over time, this is designed for that.

The Academy is built on what Aila and I have learned over decades of doing this work ourselves and with the people we've served, not a licensed technique or a borrowed framework. At its center is an understanding that the capacity people are looking for is already there, and our role is to create the conditions for it to become visible and trustworthy. 

Our work is inspired by the teachings of Sydney Banks which has deeply impacted both our lives and our work with others, along with exposure to and backgrounds in psychology, an understanding of the mind, spiritual psychology and the role embodiment plays in creating sustained change. 

We have been passionate learners of change, transformation, consciousness, the mind, and how our internal world shapes our lives and our expression.

Each month includes two 90-minute teaching sessions, a 3-hour lab, and an optional 1-hour office hour, along with your own practice and any client work you bring into the container. Most participants plan for somewhere around 6 to 8 hours a month of live time, plus whatever time you give to integration between sessions.

All sessions are recorded and available for replay. Real-time attendance is strongly encouraged, especially for the retreats and labs, because so much of the learning happens in live practice and interaction. If you're pursuing certification, there are attendance requirements to be aware of, so it's worth planning your calendar around the retreats and labs in particular.

No. Every participant who completes the six-month program receives a Certificate of Completion. Certification is an optional, deeper pathway for those who want a more comprehensive process and a professional designation, but it isn't required to get full value from the Academy.

No. The Practitioner's Academy certification is issued according to our own methodology and standards, not through an external accrediting body like the ICF. We built it this way intentionally, based on what we've seen actually develops a practitioner, rather than designing toward an outside credential.