Deep Coaching Institute – Coach Training
The Deep Coaching Institute (DCI) is a transformational coach training organization committed to cultivating coaches who embody presence, relational depth, and ethical integrity. We believe the most powerful coaching emerges not just from what we do—but from who we are.
A Presence-Centered Approach to the Enneagram
We use an Enneagram-Based approach to the Practice of Presence to promote more expansive states of being, thinking and acting.
Small Class Sizes Create a Rich Learning Experience
Groups are made up of small cohorts of participants. The support and special friendships that are formed through the DCI community is very unique and special.
A Path for Those Called to Go Deeper
At DCI, we train professional coaches, therapists, spiritual directors, leaders, and internal coaches who are called to serve at a deeper level. Our approach is rooted in the understanding that real transformation is an inside-out process. Before we guide others, we must first walk the path ourselves.
Soul-Centered Inquiry and a Counter-Intuitive Approach to Change
Our methodology is grounded in courageous, soul-centered inquiry—the kind that touches what lies beneath the surface and opens space for what’s most true to emerge. We take a counter-intuitive approach to change: rather than rushing into action, we slow down to listen, sense, and attune. We trust that lasting transformation arises from presence, not performance; from depth, not quick fixes.
We hold that coaching is not a mechanical task, but a deeply creative and emergent process—one that unfolds uniquely in each session through attunement, imagination, and mutual discovery. The coach becomes a vessel—open, attuned, and aligned—through which presence flows. By anchoring in our own deeper intelligence, we naturally invite the client’s to awaken. Through this mutual presence, something greater becomes possible.
From Constriction to Expansion—First in Ourselves, Then in Others
Throughout the program, we engage the journey from constriction to expansion—first in ourselves, and then in how we hold space for our clients. This journey honors both the shadow and the light, the stuckness and the potential, the contraction and the unfolding. It is through this path that we develop the capacity to guide others with compassion, clarity, and soul.
Rigorous, Relational, and Rooted in Wisdom
Our curriculum weaves together somatics, developmental psychology, the Enneagram, contemplative practice, and relational neuroscience. You’ll gain both rigorous skills and intuitive wisdom—learning how to attune to the body, track the field, ask catalytic questions, and hold space for profound human transformation.
More Than a Certification—A Path to Coaching Presence
This is more than a certification. It is a sacred and rigorous path of becoming—one that aligns your inner evolution with your outer impact.
Since our founding in 2007, the Deep Coaching Institute has grown into a vibrant global community of faculty, mentors, graduates, and students across the U.S., Canada, Great Britain, Europe, South Africa, Korea, Australia, New Zealand, Ecuador, and beyond. We are proud to be part of a living ecosystem of coaches who carry this work into diverse cultures, languages, and industries—each one contributing to a more conscious and compassionate world.
The Impact of Our Graduates
Graduates of the Deep Coaching Institute are making a profound impact across sectors—from women’s leadership and executive coaching to team development, organizational transformation, spiritual direction, therapy, addiction recovery, and beyond. Many have gone on to build successful practices, lead change in mission-driven organizations, and carve out bold, authentic niches in the coaching and consulting field.
Our presence-centered methodology doesn’t just train great coaches—it cultivates leaders of depth, resonance, and influence. Alumni consistently share that DCI gave them the tools to take their clients deeper, faster—and to do so with greater ease, attunement, and trust in the moment-to-moment unfolding.
Whether guiding Fortune 100 leaders, holding space for trauma healing, facilitating men’s and women’s circles, or creating inclusive cultures in complex systems, our graduates are known for the depth of their presence and the transformational outcomes they help catalyze.
This is a presence-infused path that will change you from the inside out. If you walk this path, you won’t just receive a certification—you’ll emerge with the capacity to transform lives and lead from your most authentic, integrated self.
Accreditations for
Growth Development Programs
Growth-oriented professionals take DCI courses for accreditation from International Coach Federation (ICF) and International Enneagram Association (IEA). Our Deep Coaching Certification program (DCC) is an ICF approved coach training program with 100 hours of approved coach-specific core training hours (ACSTH). Students can submit their training hours, coaching hours, mentor coaching hours, and recorded coaching sessions with their ICF applications. Training hours can also count toward ICF Continuing Coach Education Units (CCE Units) for renewals. Separately, as the first Accredited Enneagram School through the International Enneagram Association (IEA), Deep Coaching Certification course hours count toward individual IEA accreditation tiers.
Learning Community
DCI fosters a deeply cohesive and supportive learning community. This community is a natural outgrowth of our shared DCI experience, our shared values of compassion toward self and others, living an awakened life, and having a commitment to our collective mission of “being a force for positive change, one practitioner at a time.” Ongoing online gatherings, master level courses and professional development groups, as well as informal gatherings and cross-pollination through referrals, promote a deep sense of belonging within the graduate community. As many grads express it, “I have found my people in the DCI community”.
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Information Call With Faculty
DCI faculty and graduates host a regular call for individuals interested in learning more about DCI and the Deep Coaching Certification program (DCC). These calls are designed to let you hear about the rich benefits of the DCC program from faculty who teach it, and from students of recent cohorts. You will have ample opportunities to ask questions. Please click the link below to register for our next call.
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