The ILCA FEEL Program
Courses
The Feel Program
Redefine how you work with learners and clients.
Learn to confidently work with learners without following a book.
Increase your learner engagement, motivation, responsibility, and accountability.
Grow from language teacher to language coach.
Let go of lesson plans, syllabi, and detailed course curricula to collaborate with your learners effectively.
Grow your language coaching skill set with a community of your peers.
Participate in peer and demonstration language coaching.
Interested In Our FEEL Program?
We Know You're Curious
How It Works
Weekly Live Sessions Run Year-Round On The Following Schedule:
- Foundation and Expansion: Wednesdays @9:00am EST / 3pm CEST
- Elevate and Lead: Thursdays @7:00am EST / 1:00pm CEST
*Class days and times are subject to class participant and instructor availability and are subject to change.
Self Study
You may begin the self-study portion at any time.
Unique Training Formats
Delivered via self-study and synchronous online training formats.
Self-Paced
Self-paced with Live Sessions, Mobile and tablet-friendly, Lifetime access to course materials and community
The Breakdown
Part 1
For language teachers making the transition into becoming an active language coach or looking to incorporate language coaching techniques into their teaching tool kit.
Overall: Language coaching methodology, key learning concepts, toolkit, and practical application.
- Coaching history, relevance, and approach of language coaching; becoming a coach
- Learner preferences, learning theories, and approaches to support learning
- Tools, goal support; addressing learner issues and LC models
- Effective teacher communication, metacognitive focus, accountability.
The next step on your Language coaching journey after completing the Foundation level.
Overall: Deepening coaching skills, session dynamics, and closing the coaching process in a corporate environment.
- Coaching competencies and techniques for language coaching.
- Starting the coaching relationship, coaching contract, and coaching style.
- Group coaching, tools, starting and ending sessions.
- Closing sessions, assignments between sessions, gathering feedback, and getting new clients.
Part 2
Specifically designed with the business language professional in mind If you are a language professional working with corporate clients in any language, this course is for you.
Overall: empowering business language coaches in the corporate learning context by exploring key aspects of coaching, communication, client empowerment, and self-elevation.
- Understanding the corporate learning context and leveraging positive psychology in coaching to drive change and growth.
- Enhancing communication skills, including clear self-expression and cross-cultural communication, to create a positive coaching environment.
- Empowering clients through goal alignment, leadership support, and team coaching to maximize their potential.
- Developing coaching behaviors, including remaining open, curious, positive, and future-oriented, to save client time and foster progress.
- Working on the business of language coaching through effective marketing, branding, sales strategies, and stakeholder communication.
This final level is aimed to support language professionals managing large-scale projects and engaging with clients internationally. For those of you leading language service provider businesses and looking to scale your offering with guidance and ease. Upon completion of this program, you will have the skills and competencies of a fully-fledged language coach with ILCA language coaching certification.
Final level for language professionals managing larger-scale projects and international clients
- Designed for language service provider business leaders aiming to scale their offering
- Provides guidance and ease in expanding language services
- Completion of the program results in skills and competencies of a fully-fledged language coach
Completion of this level provides trainees with the full ILCA language coaching certification.
2024 Program Details
Get Started
Register at any time to begin the self-study portion of the program.
Weekly live sessions run year-round on Wednesdays at 9am EST / and Thursdays at 3 pm CET.
Duration of live sessions:
- Level 1: 60 minutes
- Levels 2,3 & 4: 90 minutes
Below are the 2024 and 2025 live session dates:
(Foundation) November 20th, 2024
(Foundation) February 19th, 2025
(Foundation) May 7th, 2025
Program duration: 16 weeks
- Exploring the path to full ICF coaching accreditation?
Discover accreditation options offered by Erickson Coaching International for FEEL Program graduates.
What Are The Key Outcomes?
Combining team coaching and communication training to offer a compelling 2-in-1 deal that appeals to individuals and businesses.
Equipping trainees with experiential tools to facilitate insightful communication and solution-driven discussions in 1to1 or international team scenarios alike.
Enabling trainees to easily achieve measurable improvements in target language communication for clients, resulting in their enhanced performance and (business) success.
The program ensures a continuous professional learning curve, covering areas such as performance measurement, leadership support, cross-cultural communication effectiveness, decision-making models, and client acquisition and retention strategies.
The ILCA FEEL Program
If you still have questions after this, don’t hesitate to reach out to us.
Testimonials
“4 ways this course has impacted on my class communication:
1. I now know better how to ask questions
2. I know that learners are the centre of the learning process
3. I share responsibilities with the learner
4. I try not to provide solutions.”