Undercurrents: Advanced Coach Training for Helping Clients
Navigate Resistance
Become known as the coach who can help clients go beneath the surface of resistance.
Transform the way you coach when clients push back, stall out, or shut down.
Coaching isn’t about quick fixes or clever questions. It’s about meeting the whole human in front of you—even when what they’re bringing feels like resistance.
If you’ve ever walked away from a session wondering if you pushed too hard, backed off too soon, or missed the real undercurrent beneath your client’s words—this course is for you.
Why This Work Matters
Every coach has felt it: the moment when a client resists.
The client says, “It’s not a big deal,” but their voice tightens.
They tell you they’re ready for change—but week after week, the client doesn’t take action.
You sense something deeper, but aren’t sure how to bring it into the conversation.
It can leave you wondering: Did I miss something? Did I push too hard? Not enough? Is this client just “uncoachable”?
Undercurrents is an Advanced training for coaches who want to stop second-guessing and start working skillfully with resistance, defenses, and incongruence—so that client sessions become deeper, clearer, and more transformative.
Important: Clients often can’t articulate why coaching isn’t “working.” When stuck, they’ll just discontinue coaching.
You, the coach, are the one who holds the container for this transformational process.
With advanced coaching skills, everyone wins. Your clients rave about the work, and you get more clients.
The Transformation
Undercurrents gives you the tools, language, and confidence to navigate resistance directly—without losing rapport or momentum. By the end of Undercurrents, you’ll:
Feel confident holding space when clients resist change, grounded in your own presence.
Know how to surface and name hidden incongruences—that mis-match between what clients say and what they do—without breaking trust.
Accrue renewal hours for your ICF credential and get feedback on your coaching skills.
What You’ll Learn
Across the Undercurrents course, you’ll gain practical skills to work with the real undercurrents that shape change for your clients—skills you can immediately start using in your coaching sessions.
Process over outcome – Coach clients to focus on who they’re becoming, rather than clinging to rigid goals—so they build lasting change instead of short-term fixes that leave them disappointed.
Holding tension – Help clients sit with contradictions during a process of change, instead of collapsing into either/or thinking. Result: more breakthroughs happen, where the client used to get stuck.
Somatic inquiry – Understand somatic awareness and so that clients can surface emotions and insights that just talking-talking-talking alone will keep hidden, all while practicing ethically.
Spotting defenses – Recognize when a client is avoiding or rejecting something that threatens their identity—and learn how to name it gently, so they stay in the process, with you.
Vision clarity – Support clients in telling the difference between what’s true for them and what’s conditioning—so they can pursue goals that actually feel aligned.
Agency – Guide clients to define freedom and choice on their own terms—so they walk away feeling empowered, and rave about the results they’re getting with you.
Pacing and consent – Learn how to respect the client’s timing without losing momentum. Ethical practice walks a fine line between challenging a client and respecting their pacing, and Undercurrents shows you how to help clients feel safe, trusting, and willing to go deeper.
