The Integral Coaching® Difference
Become a
Three-Dimensional Coach
Most coach training teaches techniques. We develop you as the instrument.
40 years of evolution • ICF Level 2 Accredited • 3,000+ graduates
At a Glance
| What You’re Getting | The NVW Difference |
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| 12-Month Journey developing three dimensions of coaching capacity | Most programs: 6-9 months, one-dimensional (cognitive only) |
| No more than 20 trusted developmental partners | Most programs: Drop-in modules, no sustained community |
| Embodied Mastery across body, relationship, and systemic perception | Most programs: Techniques and frameworks to apply |
| Level 2 ICF AccreditatedOver 190+ hours of training hours far exceeding minimal ICF requirements. Earn your PCC credential with ICF | Most programs: Only Level 1 or minimal ICF criteria met |
| $14,900 All-Inclusive: 12 months of mentor coaching, full curriculum and materials, peer community, and final certification assessment and credential. | Most programs: Base price + hidden fees for supervision/mentoring |
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Next Cohort: February 26, 2026 13 of 20 spots remaining |
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Start Risk-Free: 3-day Foundations experience ($895, 100% credited to full program tuition)
Your Path to Becoming an Integral Coach®
You’ve Hit a Ceiling. It’s Actually a Threshold.
You know the questions to ask or the techniques to use, yet depth and lasting change remain elusive. Clients get insights, teams feel inspired — momentarily. The transformation doesn’t stick.
Maybe you’ve attended inspiring workshops that created temporary breakthroughs, but the effects fade. You’re done with quick fixes. You’re ready for the real work.
Or perhaps you’re a senior leader who’s achieved success by conventional measures and you’ve hit a ceiling. Something is inviting you toward work that creates deeper, lasting transformation in your teams and organization.
Here’s what we’ve learned in 40 years: The coaches and leaders who create lasting transformation aren’t the ones with the most techniques. They’re the ones who’ve developed themselves as the instrument of change.
That means developing more than your thinking mind. It means training your body’s wisdom, your relational presence, and your capacity to perceive the larger system — three dimensions most training ignores entirely.
That development doesn’t happen in weekend workshops. It happens through sustained practice in a container of trust, over 12 months — long enough for capacity to move from concept to embodiment.
That’s the threshold we help you cross.
Who This Serves:
Our graduates come from senior roles across sectors and from various places within their life (eg. career transition, 2nd career, seeking transformation). What unites them: a calling toward depth, and the willingness to develop themselves — not just their skills.
- Aspiring coaches seeking in-depth development and a powerful methodology
- Leaders driving organizational and cultural change (VPs, Directors, C-Suite, OD Consultants)
- Professionals transitioning toward work aligned with deeper purpose
- Coaches and consultants seeking capacity beyond cognitive frameworks
What Makes Us Distinct
Beyond Techniques:
The Three-Dimensional Difference
Here’s what crossing that threshold actually develops.
What Most Programs Do: Teach you what to say and how to ask questions. You learn powerful models and coaching competencies. That’s one-dimensional development: upgrading your thinking mind.
You become competent. You can run a good coaching session. But something’s missing.
What We Do: Develop you across three dimensions so you can access wisdom beyond your thinking mind.
Dimension 1: Your Full Inner Capacity
Most programs teach you about emotional intelligence and body awareness. We develop your actual capacity to sense and work with your body, emotions, and spirit.
In practice: You learn to sense what’s happening in your body moment-to-moment. You expand your emotional range so you can stay present with grief, rage, shame, or fear — in yourself or your client — without collapsing or needing to fix it. You develop the capacity to regulate your nervous system under pressure.
The gift: Grounded presence. Your body becomes a guidance system you can trust.
Dimension 2: Your Relational Presence
Most programs teach you listening skills and rapport-building. We develop your capacity to feel and work with what’s happening in the relational field.
In practice: You learn to track the unspoken dynamics — when the energy increases, when it flattens, what’s happening in the space between you. You invite the client to show up fully through your presence, not just your words. You work with resistance and defenses with compassion rather than force.
The gift: The relationship itself becomes transformational. Clients feel deeply met — not just heard, but truly felt. Breakthroughs happen that cognitive work and technique alone cannot create.
Dimension 3: Your Wider Perception
Most programs teach systems thinking as a concept. We develop your capacity to perceive and work with the expanded context real-time.
In practice: You sense what’s happening in the larger field — organizational dynamics, cultural context, collective patterns. You perceive what’s emerging in a conversation that neither you nor your client planned. You help leaders see patterns they couldn’t see from inside their role.
The gift: You work at the intersection of individual transformation, systemic change and overall context. You don’t just help someone change behavior — you help them see and shift the larger field they’re part of.
Why This Creates Transformation That Lasts
You’re not analyzing from your head alone. You’re sensing through your body, feeling through the relationship, and perceiving through the larger field — accessing multiple sources of wisdom simultaneously.
This is what most training misses. This is what we develop.
The importance of commitment
Why 12 Months?
We’re often asked: “Why 12 months when other programs are 6-9 months?”
The honest answer: You can’t rush transformation and becoming.
What Actually Happens Across 12 Months
Foundation
You’re learning the practices. Starting to sense your body differently. Beginning to track relational dynamics. It’s conscious effort. You’re applying what you’re learning.
Practice
The practices are becoming natural. You’re coaching differently without thinking about it. Your body’s intelligence, your relational awareness, your systemic perception – they’re starting to work together. It’s becoming part of you.
Integration
You’re not thinking about three dimensions anymore. You’re coaching from them. Your whole being – body, heart, mind – works together fluidly. You’ve become the instrument.
Why This Depth Matters More Than Ever
Elements of coaching are commoditizing. More certified coaches than ever, offering similar services at similar prices. AI is handling more of the cognitive work — the questions, the frameworks, the accountability.
The coaches who thrive aren’t just competent. They’re operating at a different level of depth.
When you coach three-dimensionally, you’re offering something qualitatively different. Clients feel it in your presence immediately.
Transformation happens at a depth that surface coaching can’t reach. Results stick because you’re working with the whole system, not just the thinking mind.
The Unexpected Gift
The 12-month commitment brings life clarity. To dedicate this much time requires asking: What truly matters? What can I release to make space for what’s essential?
Many graduates say this clarity changes their entire life — not just their coaching.
Learn in community
The Power of Cohort
Transformation requires vulnerability. Vulnerability requires safety. And safety isn’t created in drop-in modules with ever-changing participants.
It’s created in a fixed cohort of approximately 20 people who travel the full 12-month journey together.
This is how trust gets built — not through ice-breakers, but through sustained practice, real risk, and witnessing each other’s growth over time. Many graduates describe their cohort relationships as among the most significant of their professional lives.
The structure supports this: time between intensives to integrate what you’re learning, small learning groups for ongoing practice, and access to faculty who’ve been developing coaches for decades.
Community isn’t a feature of the program. It’s the container that makes transformation possible.
“I am forever grateful that I had the opportunity to go through the PCC journey. It has changed how I view the world and what happens around us every day. “
Xiaomei Zhou
Shanghai, China
“At New Ventures West I experienced a respectful and tender holding of each participant—which had me cherish being vulnerable—and a blossoming transformation of myself which continues to unfold.”
Sajili Shirodkar
Mumbai, India
“NVW brings forward a unique space of rigorous coach development and truly supportive community. I have become a more compassionate person and shifted my coaching from a transactional approach to a place where real transformation is possible. “
Kathrin O’Sullivan
Redwood City, CA
“Whenever anyone asks me to characterize my training and experience at New Ventures West, I always use the same four adjectives: rigorous, meticulous, generous, and loving.”
Michael Scott
Sausalito, CA
Your Journey
How It Actually Works
Option 1: Start with Foundations (Recommended)
Think of Foundations as your discernment moment — three days to experience this work firsthand before committing to the full journey.
You’ll experience first-hand what we mean by three-dimensional coaching. You’ll learn powerful models, and practice coaching others. You’ll feel the three-dimensional quality — sensing through body, feeling through relationship, perceiving patterns. And you’ll know by the end: Is this calling me?
“Foundations was the most meaningful three days I’ve spent in professional development. I felt something shift in me. I saw what was possible. I knew this was my path.”
Your safety net:
- Continue to the full program → your $895 is 100% credited
- No pressure either way — this is designed to help you discern wisely
Investment: $895 (fully credited)
Upcoming Foundations
Option 2: Apply Directly to the Professional Coaching Course
If you already know this is your path, you can apply directly.
The Professional Coaching Course (12 Months)
Four in-person intensives (4-5 days each) — deep immersive work with your cohort, the kind of development that only happens face-to-face
Virtual sessions between intensives — ongoing cohort gatherings, small group practice, continuous connection
One-on-one mentor coaching — personal support and supervision throughout your journey
Practice with real clients — you’ll coach actual clients under expert supervision. Not role-play — real practice with real stakes.
Your own coaching — you’ll receive coaching yourself, because you can’t guide others where you haven’t gone
Curriculum drawing from: neuroscience and interpersonal neurobiology, attachment and relational psychology, somatic approaches, developmental psychology, systems thinking, contemplative wisdom traditions, and trauma-informed practice.
But here’s what’s different: We don’t just teach you about these fields. We train you to embody their insights.
There’s a difference between understanding the neuroscience of co-regulation and having a regulated nervous system you can use as an instrument.
Investment: $14,900 all-inclusive
(If you attended Foundations, your $895 is included in this amount)
Next cohort: February 2026 | Cohort size: 20 | Spots remaining: 13
FAQ
Yes — the program is designed for working professionals. Most participants maintain demanding careers throughout. The intensives require dedicated time (you’ll need to block 3-5 days, four times across the year), and you’ll invest roughly seven hours a week between intensives for coaching practice, small group work, coaching sessions, and your personal practices (eg. exercise, meditation, etc). Many graduates say the program actually made them more effective at work, not less — because they’re developing capacities that transfer immediately.
Most programs train your thinking mind — teaching you frameworks, questions, and techniques. That’s one-dimensional development. We develop three dimensions: your body’s wisdom, your relational presence, and your field perception. The difference isn’t just philosophical — it’s experiential. Graduates consistently report they coach in a qualitatively different way than technique-trained coaches. The 12-month cohort container, the emphasis on your own transformation, and the integration of somatic, relational, and systemic practices create something most programs don’t attempt.
No. We’ve trained complete beginners and 20-year veterans. What matters is your readiness for your own development and your calling toward this work. If you’re uncertain about your readiness, Foundations of Coaching will help you discern.
You join a global community of 3,000+ NVW graduates. Many cohorts maintain ongoing connection for years.
We offer advanced programs for continued development and a vibrant graduate community that gathers in different forms regularly. This is another distinguishing factor, the relationship doesn’t end at graduation.
Yes. The program is ICF Level 2 accredited (formerly ACTP). Graduates meet all requirements for ICF professional certification (PCC level) except for the required online exam and required coaching practice hours. More important than the ICF accreditation is the reputation of the individual school itself. What distinguishes NVW graduates isn’t the letters after their name — it’s their presence, their depth, and their capacity to create transformation that lasts.
Between intensives, expect roughly seven hours weekly: coaching practice clients, receiving your own coaching, small group practice sessions, virtual cohort gatherings, and personal practice. It’s consistent but not overwhelming. The rhythm is designed to let learning integrate rather than pile up.
It’s a fair question — and one we take seriously.
AI is increasingly capable of the cognitive aspects of coaching: asking good questions, offering frameworks, providing accountability, even pattern recognition across what you’ve shared. It will keep getting better. Coaches trained primarily in techniques and questioning models are right to feel the ground shifting.
This is precisely why three-dimensional development matters more than ever.
What AI cannot do: sense the tension in your chest before you’ve named it, feel the shift in the relational field when something important goes unspoken, stay present with you in grief or shame without rushing to fix it, attune to what’s emerging in the space between two people.
AI works with information. Three-dimensional coaches work with presence — with body, relationship, and field. That’s not a limitation AI will overcome. It’s a different category entirely.
Our view: AI will handle more of what coaching has often been. The coaches who thrive will be those who offer what coaching can uniquely be — the kind of transformational depth that requires a developed human instrument.
We’re not training you to compete with AI. We’re developing capacities AI makes more valuable, not less.
About a third of our participants aren’t pursuing coaching as a career. They’re leaders who want to transform how they develop others, consultants who want deeper impact, or individuals seeking their own transformation first. The capacities you develop — presence, relational attunement, systemic perception — apply far beyond coaching. That said, if you’re uncertain, start with Foundations of Coaching. Three days will tell you whether this path is calling you.
Designed to work with your life.
We have workshops and cohorts beginning every month. Find the one that works for you.
“NVW brings forward a unique space of rigorous coach development and truly supportive community. I have become a more compassionate person and shifted my coaching from a transactional approach to a place where real transformation is possible. “
Kathrin O’Sullivan
Redwood City, CA
“Whenever anyone asks me to characterize my training and experience at New Ventures West, I always use the same four adjectives: rigorous, meticulous, generous, and loving.”
Michael Scott
Sausalito, CA
“The Professional Coaching Course was the best education I’ve ever received. Not only did I learn the skills necessary to improve my coaching practice, it was a life-changing experience for which I will always be grateful.”
Amy Levine
Oakland, CA
“From clever to compassionate, from headstrong to a soft heart—the faculty of the Professional Coaching Course showed me the way. I will be forever grateful.”
Antje Berlin
Cape Town, South Africa
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Coaching Certification
Foundations of Coaching
01/13/2026 – 01/15/2026 9am-4pm (Day 1), 9am-1pm (Day 2&3) | Virtual (Pacific) | By Adam Klein
Our introductory program, Foundations of Coaching, gives you hands-on experience with the Integral Coaching methodology, with plenty of space for conversation.
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