AOTC Level 1 Certification
Begin your journey. Lead with purpose.
The starting point for transformational coaching. Whether launching a new career or integrating coaching into your current role, this programme builds core capability, ethical foundations, and practice habits that turn inner clarity into real-world impact for you and those you serve.
Associate Organic Transformation Coach
(AOTC) Level 1 Certification
Begin your journey. Lead with purpose.
Behind every breakthrough, there’s a coach who can see potential and shape it. The AOTC Level 1 programme builds that capability anchored in the OTC Model, where inner evolution meets outer impact.
Ready to catalyse meaningful change?
This foundational certification equips you to coach through the OTC lens moving from current possibilities to future opportunities. You’ll develop the core competencies of a transformational coach: presence, conscious listening, values aligned questioning, and ethical practice. With practice rich labs and observed feedback, you’ll learn to translate insight into habits, relationships, and routines that create visible results.
Who it’s for
Aspiring coaches, leaders, facilitators, and change agents seeking a human centred, authentic approach to coaching rooted in the OTC Model and designed for confident, responsible impact.
Programme Objectives
- Ground in the OTC model: Build a robust foundation in roots → fruits (inner evolution to outer impact) mindset.
- Master core competencies: Presence, conscious listening, purposeful inquiry, and evoking awareness into action, demonstrated to professional standards.
- Strengthen the coaching instrument: Deepen self-awareness and embodied presence as the primary resource in the coaching relationship, with disciplined reflection.
- Adopt an inquiry-led stance: Cultivate a compassionate, collaborative perspective that creates psychological safety and trust.
- Coach ethically across contexts: Uphold clear boundaries, create the agreement, and confidentiality; know when to refer; apply OTC principles effectively in personal and professional settings.
How You’ll Learn
A transformational, hands-on journey that blends rigorous practice with real-world application. You’ll build solid OTC foundations and ICF-aligned habits from day one.
Synchronous Instruction
Live, interactive classes that turn core OTC concepts (presence, attention, inquiry, contracting, ethics) into usable protocols with demos, micro-lectures, and Q&A.
mentor coaching
Targeted group and 1:1 mentoring with strengths-based feed-forward. You’ll set a simple development plan and get precise guidance to accelerate your growth.
Partner Practise Lab sessions
Weekly labs in pairs/triads with rotating roles (coach/client/observer). Time-boxed drills, realistic scenarios, and quick debriefs convert insight into reliable skill.
observed coaching and feedback
Short, live observed sessions using clear rubrics. Receive calibrated feedback on presence, questions, structure, and outcomes with actionable next steps.
Done-for-you materials
Client-ready templates and tools: intake & contracting, session design, values & alignment worksheets, action trackers, and reflective journals.
Various Multimedia Formats
Access live sessions plus an on-demand library of short demo videos, audio practices, annotated transcripts, and printable checklists available in English and/or Arabic.
You leave Level 1 confident and ethically grounded, with a dependable session structure, a starter portfolio of tools, and measurable progress across ICF-aligned competencies ready for real client work and Level 2.
Programme Outcomes
On completion of the AOTC Level 1 programme anchored in the OTC Model (roots → fruits) you will be able to:
- Coach the OTC way: Linking inner evolution to outer impact.
- Demonstrate core competencies: Presence, conscious listening, purposeful questioning, and evoking awareness translated into actions and experiments.
- Build trust & safety: Contract clearly, create psychological safety, and sustain strong coaching relationships grounded in presence and integrity.
- Facilitate transformative dialogue: Work with values, emotions, and coherence so insights convert into commitments, habits, and routines.
- Reframe limits: Surface and reshape restrictive beliefs, patterns, and narratives; design on-the-job experiments that build new capability.
- Hold ethical standards: Manage boundaries, confidentiality, consent, and conflicts of interest with clarity and courage; know when to refer.
- Develop your signature approach: Craft a personal coaching style aligned to authenticity and purpose, consistent with OTC principles.
- Start client work professionally: Engage at a foundational level with confident contracting, documentation, and reflective practice tracking simple adoption metrics (usage, proficiency, behaviour frequency).
AOTC Purpose & Path
Program Vision
To cultivate a new generation of transformational coaches anchored in the OTC model, where inner evolution meets outer impact. Coaches who lead with presence, authenticity, and purpose, enabling people and systems to grow organically, align with their values, and create meaningful, sustainable change. This vision goes beyond performance to awaken awareness, resilience, and conscious action in every conversation moving from roots to fruits across individuals and systems.
Program Goal
To develop competent, ethical, and self-aware Associate Organic Transformation Coaches who can confidently facilitate transformational coaching using the OTC approach. Through experiential learning, observed practice, and reflective discipline, participants build core competencies and embodied presence, applying roots → fruits (inner evolution to outer impact) mindset to support real, lasting change in individuals, teams, and organisations.
Program prerequiste
This certification is designed for newcomers to coaching. To participate fully, applicants should meet these simple prerequisites:
- Language: Functional proficiency in the programme language (spoken and written).
- Time commitment: Ability to attend live sessions and complete practice between classes.
- Technology: Reliable internet, webcam, microphone, and a quiet space for live practice.
- Readiness to learn: Willingness to be coached, give/receive feedback, and reflect between sessions.
- Ethics & confidentiality: Agreement to the programme’s code of conduct, confidentiality, and consent guidelines.
- Practice clients: Ability to source a small number of volunteer clients for early practice (we’ll guide you).
- Age & education: 18+ with basic secondary/tertiary education (or equivalent).
Recommended (helpful but not required): prior exposure to people development (e.g., mentoring, facilitation) and comfort with basic note-taking and scheduling tools.
Synchronous training hours:
- 40 hours of instructor-led training
- 10 hours of mentoring
Asynchronous training hours:
- 15 hours of documented coaching practice
- 10 hours of self study
Total program Contact Hours 75
Programme Modules
A Journey Designed for Deep, Lasting Change
More than training this is a transformational path. Each module in the Organic Transformation Coaching (OTC) programme is intentionally crafted to move you from inner evolution to outer impact. Aligned to professional coaching standards and enriched with embodied, organic learning, the curriculum blends live practice, observed feedback, and reflection in a rhythm that supports sustainable integration and growth.
Guided by the OTCmodel and the roots → fruits (inner evolution to outer impact) mindset you’ll progress from foundational competencies to advanced transformational presence. Every stage is sequenced to match your development as a coach, so you don’t just learn coaching you become it.
Module 1: OTC Foundation
- Adopting the OTC Coaching Mindset
- OTC Model, Skills & ICF Core Competencies
- OTC Contexts, Fundamentals & Principals
- The OTC Coaching Cycle
- OTC coaching practice and observation
Module 2: OTC Individuation (Associate)
- Reveal organic parts
- Regulate and alien organic system
- Reframe to serve organic truth
- Reintegrate to achieve organic wholeness
- Rehearse to sustain (action & accountability).
Module 3: Associate OTC Mentoring
- Coach & Receive Feedback
- Learn & Practice OTC + ICF Competencies and code of ethics
- Mentor Coaching (1:1 & Group)
- Competency-based mentoring on your coaching abilities and style.
- Recording Reviews & feedback on session recordings.
Graduation & Certification
- Complete all modules.
- Complete all homeworks and readings.
- Document required coaching hours .
- Document required coaching hours .
- Passing Performance evaluation
- Passing written exam
