Complementing my nearly 30 years in education training and teaching, and after I gained your diploma in Cognitive Coaching and Mentoring, my wife Nikki (who also completed the same course) and I used the 'credentials' to devise and deliver a 'Coaching and Mentoring for Teachers' training half-day and whole-day options for school teachers, complete with full teachers' notes. This was added to our range of teacher training options at the time.
I completed the three-part course with you in March 2014 and we delivered four such teacher training days before the end of the following October - and earned £2,200. Not a bad return on investment in the IoC courses so quickly. A quick glance at the teachers' evaluations showed that almost all gave the day an overall good/excellent rating. Our aim is to receive excellent evaluations for all our work.
In the following years Nikki and I have drawn extensively on our IoC training and credentials. I use it with ‘coaching and mentoring’ private clients, and to help me write two books on a cognitive-behavioural approach to weight-loss, the first called ‘Diet Tricks - Heavyweight Ways to Use Your Brain and Behaviour to Help You Lose Weight (and Keep It Lost!)’, and then ‘Why Losing Weight Is Hard To Do: Why You Eat The Way You Do (And What You Can Do About It)’. I am also drawing on it in an on-going research and writing project about ‘Magical Thinking’ and how we can use it to achieve things in life. My wife Nikki is a practicing Medical Herbalist and partner in the Glasgow shop-clinic ‘Napiers the Herbalists’, and she continues to draw on her IoC training in the counselling aspect of her work with clients.
So thank you IoC! Your tutors were outstanding and your training has been pivotal in both our careers. We cannot recommend you all too highly.