Training & CPD · for coaches
Most coach training assumes the world stands still while your client thinks. Ours does not.
A psychology-led CPD pathway for coaches working with leaders, teams and organisations where technology, strategy and roles keep changing between sessions. Built by the two people who trained and supervised over a thousand coaching practitioners at national scale.
Booking now: two one-day online workshops, Self-as-Instrument on 30 October and Formulation in Coaching on 27 November 2026. See the workshops.
01Why this programme
The ground moves between sessions.
The coaches we meet are working in environments their training did not prepare them for. Strategy refreshing mid-engagement. Technology changing between sessions. A client whose role may not exist in eighteen months. Plug-and-play models do not hold when the ground shifts underneath them.
We have watched this across hundreds of practitioners and thousands of sessions. This programme makes what we learned available at a scale we cannot reach one engagement at a time.
Not coaches who decided to teach. The two people who built and ran a national coaching organisation.
Who teaches it
02Who teaches it
Both chartered at doctoral level, and both still coaching.
Project5, their free national wellbeing service for NHS staff, delivered more than 15,000 sessions and required a full training and supervision infrastructure for over 1,000 practitioners. This programme is built on what that taught them, supported by a faculty of proven coaches from the UXC network.
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BPS Chartered Psychological Coach, doctoral level
Dr Craig Newman
Chartered Clinical Psychologist and behavioural economist. Co-founder and CEO of Project5.
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BPS Chartered Psychological Coach, doctoral level
Dr Cordet Smart
Chartered Coaching and Occupational Psychologist. Co-founded Project5 and leads MDTsInAction.
More about Cordet
03The pathway
Foundation. Practitioner. Specialist.
Three stages. Enter at the one that fits the practice you are already running. Each stands alone as a complete CPD unit, and together they lead to UXC certification designed to BPS professional standards.
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Foundation
Formulation before model.
- Who it is for
- Coaches trained in a model-led tradition who keep meeting situations the model does not fit.
- What changes in practice
- You stop reaching for a framework first, and start building a picture of what is maintaining the client’s situation before choosing anything at all.
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Practitioner
Coaching across change cycles.
- Who it is for
- Experienced coaches whose clients’ strategy, technology or role keeps moving between sessions.
- What changes in practice
- You can hold a client’s development while their context shifts underneath it, and work with uncertainty as the medium rather than as an interruption.
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Specialist
The system around the client.
- Who it is for
- Senior coaches and supervisors working at team, board and organisational scale.
- What changes in practice
- You work with the organisational conditions holding a leadership problem in place, drawing on behavioural economics for how people actually decide under pressure and in groups.
04How it runs
Hybrid, and built around a practice you are already running.
Format
Online and in person
Core learning online, with deeper practice and supervision in cohort retreat settings.
Cohort
Small, deliberately
The learning depends on peer interaction and supervision quality, which need a group small enough to know each other.
Entry
New to senior
Each stage is entered at the right level. You do not start at the beginning if you are already experienced.
Pathway
Certification
Each stage stands alone as a CPD unit. Completing the pathway leads to UXC certification, designed to BPS standards.
05Start the conversation
Places are arranged by conversation.
Tell us about the practice you are running and what keeps not fitting it. We will send the prospectus, the next cohort dates and an honest read on which stage you should enter at. A person reads every enquiry.
Building coaching capability across a team rather than for yourself? Say so, and we will have the organisational conversation instead: what you are trying to build, what is possible, and a written read within 48 hours.
Foundation to specialist · BPS doctoral standard · Reply within 7 days
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