ANZCAL Professional Membership Mentoring Programme

Elevate your coaching. Empower your practice. Embody best practice.

This Professional Membership Mentoring Programme (PMMP) is designed to support your journey from an Associate Level Coach to a confident, competent ANZCAL Professional Coach. It is not just a course—it’s a deep, hands-on, professionally guided mentorship that develops your skills, confidence, and business acumen in a safe, collaborative and inspiring environment.

Whether you’re a Life Coach, Team Leader, Business Manager, or Sports Coach, this programme will meet you where you are—and help you go further.

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🤝 Programme Expectations:

  • ANZCAL will assign you a mentor, a coach, and a coachee. You’ll also be paired with a peer for reciprocal coaching.

  • Full participation and commitment are required—including attendance at online masterclasses and weekly mentorship activities.

  • You will be expected to walk your talk, embodying the ANZCAL Code of Conscience and Conduct in every interaction.

  • Feedback is welcomed as a gift for growth—never personal, always constructive.

  • This programme embraces our best practice philosophy, meaning some elements may go beyond basic Professional level standards, setting you up for Master-level excellence.

  • You’ll have six months to complete the programme and all associated requirements.

🔍 Programme Components:

You’ll be working in three core development areas:

A. Coaching Others to Achieve

  • Weekly coaching sessions with your designated coachee (minimum of four weeks).

  • Mentor observation of at least one session.

  • Submit session reflections, intake forms, metaphor development, and technique breakdowns.

  • Collect testimonials and permissioned evidence from your coachees.

B. Coaching Yourself to Achieve

  • Choose a significant personal or professional goal (e.g. launching a programme, building a business, writing a book).

  • Maintain a weekly reflective diary (shared with your mentor).

  • Document action steps, personal insights, and self-coaching strategies.

C. Operating as a Professional Business

  • Submit a basic business plan and evidence of your promotional presence (website, flyer, etc.).

  • Provide records of past and planned professional development and examples of philanthropy.

  • Present your 12-month professional growth strategy.

🧭 Timeframes and Process:

  • Submit your application using the official ANZCAL form (places are limited to 8 participants).

  • Once accepted, you’ll be introduced to your mentor, coach, and coachee.

  • Attend a virtual “coffee chat” launch session.

  • Begin coaching sessions within 10 days of the programme start.

  • Sessions with your mentor will occur throughout and after your initial coaching experience.

  • All documentation and outcomes must be submitted within the 6-month timeframe.

📌 Additional Notes:

  • Your mentor will support you throughout, providing feedback, encouragement and structure.

  • Self-reflection and openness to growth are essential throughout this journey.

  • Any documents created must be your own original work (though inspiration and research are encouraged).

  • Completion of the programme will require current ANZCAL membership and proof of insurance.

  • Your final presentation will be a 60-minute masterclass on a coaching-related topic, delivered to your peers.

🌱 Ready to Grow?

This is a rich and rewarding opportunity for those ready to truly step into their next level as a coach. You’ll not only grow your skills—you’ll grow your confidence, your business, your self-awareness, and your impact.

Your mentor is here. Your coachee is waiting. Your journey begins now.

What’s the purpose?

  • Support both personal and professional growth for coaches moving toward Professional Membership.

  • Equip you with capabilities that align with the ANZCAL Capability Table

  • Provide relevant learning across coaching contexts, including leadership, personal development, performance, and wellbeing.

  • Encourage “best practice” business foundations, including ethical policies, sustainable structures, and reflective practices.

How does this help my coaching?

Learn to craft clear, professional coaching agreements that establish mutually understood boundaries and expectations, developing the confidence to value your work and set appropriate fees.

Cultivate a space of trust and confidentiality for clients by drawing on sensory acuity and a calm, grounded presence that helps them feel secure and heard. Refine the art of asking powerful, varied questions, identifying and compassionately challenging limiting beliefs, while communicating with precision and genuine empathy.

Gain the skills to structure coaching sessions with clarity and intention, manage time effectively, and navigate relational dynamics such as collusion or transference with professionalism. Explore clients’ identities, values, and beliefs through proven coaching tools, including the thoughtful use of metaphor, to facilitate meaningful, transformational change.

Partner with coachees to establish well-formed, meaningful goals, supporting them in uncovering and navigating internal barriers with clarity and purpose. Employ accountability strategies and tailored tasking to maintain momentum and ensure lasting, meaningful results.

Embody self-awareness and community spirit while building a sustainable business model and developing a clear, personalised strategy for ongoing professional growth.

Demonstrate competency through authentic coaching practice, careful documentation, reflective self-assessment, and the delivery of a peer-reviewed masterclass presentation.