Professional Coaching & Human Development
Program Course Descriptions
 

PCH 600   The Essential Foundation of Coaching
This comprehensive and foundational course covers a wide range of competencies and best practices in coaching methods and models.

PCH 601   Theories of Counseling
This course introduces students to the underlying theories of counseling for the purpose of deepening a coach's capacity to work with clients. The bulk of the course focuses on the acquisition of basic helping skills necessary for working with clients, such as: basic response skills, relationship-building, empathic listening, and sensitivity.

PCH 602   Human Development & Personality Theory
The processes and significant transition points in child, adolescent, and adult development are considered in this course and can be of immeasurable assistance in when coaching clients. This course also examines various theories and research focusing on intrinsic motivation, emotions, locus of control, pro-social behavior, self-concept, and personality change.

PCH 607   The Spiritual Dimension of Coaching
This course offers an experiential exploration into the positive impact of letting go of the limiting, suffering and fear-based state of being completely identified with the mind, and what lies beyond that contracted state. Students are guided toward the opportunity of having a direct experience of being truly present — in the Now, and how being present can transform one’s experience of life. In addition, the course addresses the essentials of self-inquiry, covering the teachings of some of today’s finest consciousness teachers, including Eckhart Tolle, Byron Katie and more.

PCH 608   Awareness of Cross-Cultural Issues
This course acquaints students with the importance of taking into account and respecting the individual client's cultural experience. Topics covered include the psychological implications of being a member of a minority group, questions about the universality of the human experience, and implications of a multi-cultural society, and the phases of acculturation clients may be experiencing.

PCH 609   Psychopathology
Exploring the paradigms of mental and emotional dysfunction is the focus of this course. The emphasis is on the evaluation of psychological disturbances, using case studies to examine different disorders for the purpose of knowing why and when to refer certain clients to qualified mental health practitioners.

PCH 670   Legal and Ethical Issues in Coaching
All coaches face risks. Those who face the greatest risks are those who are the least informed and educated. This course will provide: (1) an understanding of ethics as defined by a variety of codes applicable to coaches, including a focus on the ICF Code of Ethics; (2) an overview of the legal issues of which coaches should be aware; and (3) information about risk management techniques.

PCH 675   Research Methods in Coaching
This course assists students in preparing for their dissertation project by examining research methods that can be employed.

PCH 680   Fieldwork & Practical Application
Students are required to do case presentations based on their experience in coaching clients (professionally or under supervision), effectively demonstrating the core competencies of coaching.

PCH 690   Dissertation Research Project
Students are required to produce original experimental or heuristic research, or a work of excellence project, of publishable quality.
 

ELECTIVES
Students enrolled in the Ph.D. program are required to take a 40 elective credits. In the combined M.A./Ph.D. program, students are required to take 70 elective credits. Elective courses may be recommended by the university to ensure the student receives a well-rounded education and students are encouraged to take electives that focus on their core areas of educational interest.

Alternative electives to the courses below may be designed by students and submitted to their mentor and the university for approval, truly giving students to opportunity to customize their education. A sample syllabus can be provided to interested students. In addition, with prior university approval, students can receive course credits for certain relevant workshops and conferences attended.

PCH 610   Advanced Career Coaching Skills: The Life Purpose Process
This telephone training is designed for experienced coaches who want to develop a specialty in career coaching.  The training takes place weekly for 1 hour at a time, over 24 weeks.  The training is divided into two Parts for the convenience of the student.  Part I is a prerequisite for Part II but Part II does not need to be taken immediately following completion of Part I.  The training combines teleconferencing calls, written exercise and practice sessions for you to complete on your own.  Beginning with class 2, you will be practicing your skills with a practice client you’ve found who is interested and willing to serve in this way.  Participating during an extended period week will allow time for students to absorb the material from the extensive manual, practice the exercises, and receive coaching for the full training.

PCH 611   Advanced Course In DISC and PIAV Assessments
This 8-week class will emphasize the 'how to' value and strength associated with using both the DISC and the PIAV assessment vehicles.  It will prepare class participants to become Professional Analysts both in the DISC Behavioral Language and the Personal Interests, Attitudes and Values (PIA&V) programs.  Whether you're working as a Coach, Consultant, HR Staff, Internal Coach, Therapist, or Entrepreneur, this training will prepare you to sit for both the Certified Professional Behavioral Analyst (CPBA) and Certified Professional Values Analyst (CPVA) exams.

PCH 612   Advanced Personality Theory
This course offers students an opportunity to explore at a deeper level, the work of personality theorists of their choosing (Freud, Jung, Adler, Fromm, Skinner, Maslow, Rogers, Frankl and May, etc.)

PCH 613   Advanced PeopleMap For Coach Trainers
This is an advanced course designed for participants who have already completed the basics of coach training.  In this course, participants learn to use the Peoplemap Personality Type assessment concepts in their coaching practices as a training tool for coaching groups and/or corporate groups.  They then are licensed to use the Peoplemap with training groups.  

PCH 614   Advanced Practice Development
This teleclass is designed for relatively new coaches Participants will be coached and encouraged to create a personal 'recipe for success' that moves them 'from mediocre to meteoric' in eight short weeks! With the help of a Master Certified Mentor Coach, they will learn to move from 'marketing to relating', from 'selling to attracting', and from 'closing to creating'! This course is a must for anyone who wants to overcome their inner gremlins and take their professional practice to a higher level!  Whether you are just starting a practice or need a new boost, this class is for you! 

PCH 615   Advanced Transpersonal Studies
This advanced course delves deeply into the work of the leaders in the field of Transpersonal Studies, including Ken Wilber, Roger Walsh, Frances Vaughan and others.

PCH 616   Alignment and Embodiment of Values and Ethics in Business
Studies the cognitive, social, behavioral, and corporate processes affecting individual, group, and organizational judgments in morally questionable situations. Through analysis, students understand what factors give rise to and influence ethical issues and how organizational values precipitate ethical behavior among employees.

PCH 617   Body-Centered Psychotherapy
This course covers Body Centered Psychotherapy, which deals with information stored in the body in the form of images, memories and emotions. Blocked feelings get stuck in the physical body and block a person's energy flow. Held-in or stuck emotions not only cause emotional suffering, but physical pain, glandular imbalances, tension and often disease.

PCH 618   Clinical Neuropsychology
This course focuses on major neurological syndromes with an emphasis on differential diagnosis. Common or significant neurological conditions are presented to allow a recognition of psychological manifestations of neurological diseases. Other topics include the neurological examination, various syndromes and disorders, and neuropharmacology.

PCH 619   Coaching the Mid-life Transition: Coaching The Soul
If you serve mid-life clients, you'll coach them through the great midlife transition, where spiritual questions and issues come to the forefront.   This class is designed for both experienced and relatively new coaches who are either working with mid-life clients in career coaching or on other goals  This course will serve as a workshop where we inquire into midlife and soul-coaching as they occur during the ages of 35-55.  Taught by Diane Menendez.  The training combines reading, teleconferencing calls, written exercises,  case discussion and role plays

PCH 620   Coaching Skills Practicum – An Integral Part of Getting Certified
This is an advanced course designed for participants who have already completed the basics of coach training.  Students will take their coaching skills to a new level through focused practice of 30 specific coaching skills, including coaching with a real client during each session of the class.   The same client will return for each class, so participants will have a chance to observe the continuing impact of the skills and coaching work over time.  This class will be taught in a supportive, small group environment and include job aids for each of the 30 skills.

PCH 621   Coaching With The Enneagram
The Enneagram is a century-old tool used in the spiritual direction tradition that has been newly rediscovered and applied to spiritual and personal development.  Learn how to use it for your own development as a coach as well as how to use it with your clients.  Discussion, self-assessment, case practice included.  Diane has been working with the Enneagram for self-development since 1989 and has studied with Helen Palmer and Tom Condon.

PCH 622   Communication & Team Building
This course examines major theories and approaches to building effective work teams, and their application to current management theory and practice. Students explore the role and effectiveness of work teams in today’s organizational culture and communication climate.

PCH 623   Community Psychology
This course covers principles of psychology applied to real-life, community issues. Methodologies and techniques are explored, with emphasis upon the transpersonal approach. Review and understanding of actual programs addressing a variety of community issues such as youth violence, traffic safety, and productivity in the workplace are covered.

PCH 624   Conflict Resolution
Explores the skills and techniques necessary for conflict mediation. Students study communication techniques, problem identification and disagreement management skills, techniques for achieving agreement or settlement, and intake skills.

PCH 625   Conscious Parenting
Building a more complete understanding of self, the child, and the web of family relationships is fundamental to this course. It begins by exploring parenting as a partnership in personal growth. Using a family systems model, it focuses on an understanding of personality development and how that helps parents work more easily with their children. Nine different coping styles are applied to parenting, covering an expanded view of communication, information gathering, and the creation of positive family interactions.

PCH 626   Conscious Relationships
This experiential course teaches how to coach couples in creating a conscious loving relationship — a powerful and meaningful way to significantly improve health, love-life and overall well-being. Learn how to assist two people couples to consciously agree to relate on a "higher" level, while utilizing clear communication methods.

PCH 627   Consulting Skills
This course explores the nature of consulting as a learning and helping process between an individual and a group, focusing on the interpersonal skills and processes that make up the helping process. Using classic works from Peter Block, Ronald & Gordon Lippitt, and Edgar Schein, this course is designed for anyone who does consulting, even though they may not call themselves a consultant.

PCH 628   Cross-Cultural Coaching
This is an advanced course designed for participants who have already completed the basics of coach training.  In this course, participants learn to recognize differences among cultures, cultural assumptions of coaching, the coach’s own cultural background, and how these factors impact cross cultural coaching.  Practicalities, resources, and creating a global coaching practice will also be covered. Classes take place weekly for 1 hour, over 4 consecutive weeks.  The training combines teleconferencing calls, practice on case examples from participants; practices, written exercises, and role plays

PCH 629   Death and Dying – Grief and Loss
This course explores students’ own relationships to death,grief, and loss. Presents issues and techniques for counseling and care of self as counselor.

PCH 630   Eco-Psychology
This course explores the consequences of the split between person and planet and how healing this split may take place.

PCH 631   EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization & Reprocessing) Certification
This course provides credit for students who successfully complete both parts 1 & 2 of the EMDR basic training program. EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing) is a complex approach to psychotherapy that integrates many of the successful elements of a range of therapeutic approaches in combination with eye movements or other forms of rhythmical stimulation in ways that stimulate the brain’s information processing system.

PCH 632   Enneagram: Path to the Soul
This experiential course teaches the Enneagram, an ancient nine pointed figure mapping of nine fundamental personality types and their interrelationships. The modern Enneagram has been synthesized from many different spiritual traditions, teaching about fundamental truths of the universe. Many find the Enneagram an indispensable tool for understanding and overcoming the limitations of their personality. This course is an opportunity to study each point of the Enneagram in depth.

PCH 633   Family and Marital Therapy
The family is the central building block of modern life although its nature and form are continually changing. One of the primary tasks of human services is to help families adapt to these changes. This course explores the nature of families and human systems and some of the approaches to therapeutic change within them. The theoretical works of Bateson, Satir, Haley, Hoffman, Minuchin, and Nagy are highlighted. The goal of the course is to offer a framework for thinking about families and understanding the nature of family processes.

PCH 634   Family Business Coaching
This course is designed to serve the needs of coaches who have already completed their basic coach training and who want to apply their coaching skills to coaching the family business.  While an understanding of basic issues in the family business will be useful to participants, they will not be necessary for someone who joins this course.

PCH 635   Gestalt Therapy
This course explores Gestalt therapy a a holistic therapy with a great spiritual foundation based, in part, on teachings from Buddhism and Taoism. The basic experiment of Gestalt therapy, attending to our awareness moment by moment, is rooted in Buddhist mindfulness. In neither Gestalt therapy nor Buddhist meditation is awareness considered merely a mental activity; rather it is a complete creative experience in the present that can include a focus on feeling the actual, coming to our senses, listening to our bodies and attending to our breathing.

PCH 636   Human Sexuality Counseling
This course on human sexuality presents an investigation of sexuality within the larger context of the human experience. Emphasis is placed on the study of human sexual development, dimensions of sexual behavior, sex education, pleasure, health issues, sex therapy, ethical and legal aspects of sexuality, and art & sexuality.

PCH 637   Hypnotherapy Certification
This course provides credit for students who successfully complete a hypnosis certification training program approved by the university.

PCH 638   Introduction To Adult Developmental Coaching
This is an advanced course designed for participants who have already completed the basics of coach training. This class will focus on the changing reality that adults face and explore the developmental challenges that traditionally appear in each decade of life from the 20s to 100 and beyond.  Learn how the developmental spiral helps explain the fact that so many challenges seem to appear time and time again.    Discover how coaching can help adults successfully navigate through their challenges while creating a life of excitement, fulfillment and joy.

PCH 639   Introduction To Coaching the Entrepreneur and the Small Business
This teleclass is designed for new and experienced coaches who want to achieve success and mastery in the skills and strategies required for successfully coaching the entrepreneur and the small business. Classes take place  weekly for 1 hour, over 4 consecutive weeks.  The training combines teleconferencing calls,  practice on case examples from participants; practices, written exercises,  and role plays

PCH 640   Introduction To Executive Coaching and Development
This teleclass is designed for new and experienced coaches who want to achieve success and mastery in the skills and strategies required for successfully coaching executives and corporate managers.    Learn the basics of executive coaching and development:  kinds of coaching you can do, special issues facing executives and their coaches, how performance coaching and executive development differ, how assessments and data gathering support the efforts, contracting with clients, etc.  This course will discuss practical issues and use outside readings as well as case studies and assigned practice to boost your skill as an executive coach.  Classes take place weekly for 1 hour, over 4 consecutive weeks.  The training combines teleconferencing calls, practice on case examples from participants; practices, written exercises,  and role plays

PCH 641   Introduction To Group Coaching
This teleclass is designed for new and experienced coaches who coach individuals currently but want to add group coaching to their practice. Classes take place weekly for 1 hour, over 4 consecutive weeks.  The training combines teleconferencing calls, written exercises,  and role plays

PCH 642   Introduction To Transpersonal Coaching
This is an advanced course designed for participants who have already completed the basics of coach training.  This class will explore ancient traditions within a contemporary context and discover truths that have transcended time and still amaze us. A variety of techniques that you can use to extend your own spirit-filled journey and use with your clients will also be taught.  Join this journey into ancient wisdoms where east meets west, the past meets the present and in so doing we travel to wholeness. 

PCH 643   Intuition in Business
This experiential course teaches students how to apply their intuitive abilities specifically to business issues, whether in large corporations, small businesses, or sole proprietorships. Students explore the application of intuition to organizational mission, personnel matters, staff training and development, new product development, mergers, downsizing and bankruptcy, and other areas of business making.

PCH 644   Maximizing Strengths Through Coaching
This class will direct you on ways to dramatically identify, utilize, re-position and enhance the strengths of your clients. You will walk through the process yourself, allowing you to identify and magnify your own strengths as you hone skills on working with your clients in this area.  This will be an interactive class, with practice and discussion by participants required. Field Work must be emailed to the instructor weekly (between sessions) in order to receive credit for this course.

PCH 645   Organizational Psychology
Explores the theory and practice of industrial and organizational psychology. You will examine the dynamics of organizational life and develop an understanding of the individual, interpersonal and group behaviors in work settings. Methods of assessment and intervention will be covered.

PCH 646   PeopleMap Coach Training
This is an advanced course designed for participants who have already completed the basics of coach training.  In this course, participants learn to use the Peoplemap Personality Type assessment concepts in their coaching practices with individuals and couples.    They then are licensed to use the Peoplemap with individual clients and when coaching couples.   This course does not train nor permit coaches to be licensed to use the Peoplemap in training classes nor with corporate groups; licensure for that is given only on completion of the 25 session trainer certification.

PCH 647   Strategies for Transformation
This course will review strategies that allow for transformation and covers exercises on designing a life, the six cognitive stages of change, the prerequisites for transformation, and spiritual aspects of transformation — all integrated for a deep understanding of the transformation process.

PCH 648   Stress Management
Principles for working with the physiological basis of stress by heightening kinesthetic awareness of the stress response and utilizing focused intentionality, imagery, and non-habitual movement to reduce physical tension are covered in this course. This is an experientially-based learning experience, integrating the approaches of Moshe Feldenkrais and F.M. Alexander with transactional analysis, Gestalt therapy and Ericksonian hypnosis.

PCH 649   The Art Of The Question
These are advanced courses designed for participants who have already completed the basics of coach training.  The heart of coaching lies in providing clients a way to discover their own best answers – because their own answers are the best (and perhaps only) source for creating the lives they want.  Therefore, the central skill for coaches is expert question asking, whether they are doing personal, professional, or executive coaching.  The purpose of both parts of these two four-week classes is to introduce coaches to a specific methodology of expert question asking that will allow them to guide their clients to think more clearly and strategically, communicate more effectively and gracefully, and reach their goals more easily and efficiently.  In Part I, participants learn the basic methodology of expert question asking.  In Part II, the four sessions provide a clinic/laboratory where they practice with clients and receive feedback on their question asking and coaching practice.

PCH 650   The Practice Building Game
This teleclass is designed for relatively new coaches. It will provide an intensive practice building experience, through twice-weekly calls over the course of a month. Coaches will design specific actions each week to complete tasks assigned daily, be coached on their success and strategies and coach each other.  At the end of the course, participants will have a practice building plan in place which they have begun to implement.  It is designed to provide a very strong focus on task, action, accomplishment and accountability and to demonstrate the value of these to coaches on the calls.      

PCH 651   Using Learning Successful Life Lessons With Adolescents, Young Adults and Others
This class teaches coaches how to use the Life Lessons manual, which contains 66 life skills, assignments and suggestions for creating a fulfilling life. It will let you coach adolescents and young adults as well as older adults for the life lessons that should be taught in school but aren’t: how to create a fulfilling and rich life.

PCH 652   Wellness Coaching

PCH 653   Coaching the Entrepreneur and the Small Business

PCH 654   Distinctions between Coaching, Counseling, and Consulting

PCH 655   Framing, Reframing, and Deframing in Coaching

PCH 656   The Work of Byron Katie in Coaching

PCH 657   The Sedona Method Applied to Coaching

PCH 658   Present Moment Awareness in Coaching

PCH 710   Coaching Executives for Global Interdependence

PCH 711   Coaching Executives to Become Global Leaders

PCH 712   Diversity and Cultural Issues in Global Business

PCH 713   Global Human Resource Management

PCH 714   Global Transition Coaching

PCH 715   High Awareness Coaching™

PCH 716   High Impact Teaming Certification

PCH 717   Understanding Global Organizations

PCH 718   Coaching Global Executives

PCH 750   Workshops / Retreats / Conferences
Workshops and retreats are held on varying topics in desirable locations such as Maui and San Diego. Students are notified of upcoming opportunities. Students are also encouraged to attend workshops, retreats and conferences relevant to their coursework. With prior approval and subsequent papers written on that which is gained from such events, students can receive credits toward their coursework.