Professional development · Coaching
Developing a Coaching Mindset. A 20-hour course for dive professionals: five live online sessions, guided practice between them, and a certificate of completion. You learn to ask instead of tell, to listen for what a diver is not saying, and to hold the conversation that happens before the water and after it.
Sessions are recorded. To receive the certificate you attend or watch all five sessions and log the five practices.
Session 1
What you learn: The difference between instructing and coaching, and when each belongs. What a coaching mindset is: curiosity, no agenda for the other person, trust in their own resources.
Practice between sessions: In three conversations this week, ask one open question before you give any answer.
Mindful Diving™ companion: Pillar 3, Instructor Wellbeing
Session 2
What you learn: Your own state is the first thing a nervous diver reads. Arriving before you speak.
Practice between sessions: Prepare yourself before three briefings and note what changed in the group.
Mindful Diving™ companion: ARRIVE and the Attention Cycle
Session 3
What you learn: How safety to speak is built: clear agreements, no judgement, no pressure to prove anything. Scope: what a coaching conversation is and what it is not — not instruction, not therapy, not medical advice. Agency standards always come first.
Practice between sessions: One agreement conversation with a student or colleague, on land.
Mindful Diving™ companion: The Buddy Agreement
Session 4
What you learn: Three levels of listening: to the words, to the person, to what is not said. Reflecting back without interpreting.
Practice between sessions: Two debriefs in which you speak last.
Mindful Diving™ companion: FFLN and the surface interval
Session 5
What you learn: Questions that widen awareness instead of testing knowledge. Ending a conversation with one step the person chose. Your own next step.
Practice between sessions: One full 20-minute coaching conversation with a peer from the course, on land.
Mindful Diving™ companion: The Readiness Scan and Beyond
Divemasters, instructors, instructor trainers and course directors of any recognised agency; center owners, managers and crew leads. No coaching background needed.
Professional development — coaching
€777. One payment. Paid to the Mindful Diving Institute, an initiative of the World Happiness Foundation. Refunds follow the published refund policy. Refund policy
Professional development — coaching
Go further
Seventeen weeks online with the World Happiness Academy: ICF Level 1 accredited coaching education (102 hours, ACC pathway), practised on the conversations you already have before and after the dive. It adds a profession; it is not a diving level and grants no teaching rights.
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