Ready to become an amazing and transformational life coach?
So you can discover your true path (one that gives you satisfaction and joy!)…
And have the confidence and skills to live your best life AND help other people achieve their highest potential too!
If you’ve experienced big life changes and you’re feeling a bit lost. But now you’re ready to confidently move forward to a fulfilling and rewarding future…and make a positive difference then you’re in exactly the right place…
We’re dedicated to training you to become an amazing and talented life coach with the tools, the confidence and the world class communication skills to grow wonderful connections and relationships AND to reach your true potential…
An Exciting Opportunity For You To Make A Positive Difference In The World…
Hi, My name is Ed Lester.
I'm the Founder of New Zealand Life Coaching.
I have over 25 years experience of running successful practices and training schools. Our school offers you the absolute best in life coaching, and transformational personal and professional development.
All of our trainers have a passion for teaching and sharing the secrets of world class coaching.
And for helping our students become confident, skillful and highly impactful in the shortest time possible.
Are you ready to become an amazing coach and:
Help people achieve their true potential and live their best lives
Develop awesome communication skills that inspire and impact others and help you grow stronger connections and relationships in your life
Discover more about your own path and your unique gifts and strengths… Plus how you can unlock those talents fully to help others achieve their goals (and be truly rewarded for doing so)
Learn transformational skills and tools for creating natural, positive and exciting changes and breakthroughs which provide genuine and priceless value for others
If you’ve been feeling stuck or frustrated and ready to move forward into something new. Something more fulfilling and rewarding where you can have a real impact for others…
Then our world-class training course could be exactly the thing you’ve been searching for!
Our 5 Day Breakthrough Life Coach Training Is Fully Accredited By – ANZCAL
Our 5 Day Breakthrough Life Coaching course is accredited by the Australia and New Zealand Coaching Alliance (ANZCAL). As well as having the peace of mind that you are studying for an accredited qualification, you will also have the opportunity to join ANZCAL as an individual member too.
In summary, this means you can be assured of our course’s recognised quality and excellence in training standards, and the confidence and credibility that comes with a prestigious qualification like this.
What Kind Of Certification Does The Course Offer You?
What Kind of Certification does the course offer? On completion of the 5 day training, you will receive a professional Certificate in Life Coaching (accredited by ANZCAL) and the confidence and qualification to be able to practice as a Life Coach in NZ and overseas.
It’s a great way to learn the powerful skills of a professional coach very quickly and to enjoy your own personal transformational journey at the same time.
You will receive a certificate in Breakthrough Life Coaching. You will also receive a certificate in Abundance Coaching.
What Makes Our Training So Special?
Traditional life coaching covers all the training areas that one would expect to become a certified life coach.
What we offer gives you way, way more…
The transformational style of coaching you’ll learn is based around the idea of fully utilizing the imagination and the "full power of the mind" to create personal and professional transformation for yourself and others. It is a model of coaching and personal development which can be used not just to help other people, individuals or groups, but also to bring the very best out of yourself, to transform your own results, and to create your own successes.
It's also a method of coaching that you can actually teach to your clients and groups to give them something that they can actually use themselves. It's a wonderful way to coach and empower at the same time. To help people create a seemingly ‘impossible’ future (whether it’s clients and colleagues or even your own family members and friends)
It incorporates not just the conscious, conversational model of life coaching but also a deeper, unconscious process of helping others to harness the power of their imagination, their subconscious mind, and to get access to deeper resources. To gain more audacious, more ambitious and life changing results.
Structure Of The Breakthrough Training Program
The program is broken down into 5 individual modules.
Each is compact and accessible but with the power to develop your personal effectiveness as a coach, teacher, trainer, or leader.
Life Coaching is red hot right now.
It is an extremely popular skill set and is massively effective in helping others to optimize their results and levels of personal happiness.
In any profession the higher you progress up the career ladder, the more likely it is that you will be expected to become a coach.
Top executives, CEOs, managers and innovators in ALL areas of life, tend to naturally be great coaches.
You will impact on other people’s lives.
There's no doubt in my mind that the better you become at coaching, the more successful you will be in your life and the more you will impact on other people’s lives.
Ongoing Support and Follow Up – Our Online Resources Program
Many of our students love the intensive and transformative nature of the 5 day breakthrough program, but sometimes ask the question - where next? How do we keep up the momentum of the training week? Where do we go for further support, follow up and inspiration?
We’re delighted to announce that we have recently introduced a bonus online component to the Life Coaching course. This is comprised of two programs:
Life Coaching Masterclasses – A series of recorded live calls each focused in-depth on a particular coaching topic, technique or skill. These are led by Christine or Ed in combination with other coaching and change experts.
Life & Coaching Mastery: 10 Weeks to a Confident & Fulfilling Life – Ed’s own online program covering key life coaching and personal developments themes and skills.
All these resources are accessed through a membership site which includes Ed's three part webinar on marketing and attracting clients. You gain immediate access to this amazing resource upon enrolment to the life coaching program.
You will receive lifetime access and you can use the resources in the way that is best suited to you. For example, some students choose to use these as ongoing development and support after completing the course, while others use them to ‘jump start’ their learning and start listening before even attending the course.
ANZCAL also provides professional development workshops, networking opportunities and events, online masterclasses and support/mentoring.
If you’ve been disappointed with your opportunities to create real positive change and impact in the world, rest assured, you’ll soon be able to:
Help others who are struggling or stuck and unable to achieve their goals
Have a positive impact and coach others to improve their confidence, find their true path and get unstuck in their lives
Use transformational skills and techniques to improve peoples’ lives, relationships and results
Develop powerful communication skills that inspire and impact others, moving them to great results and breakthroughs
Bring out the very best in yourself personally and professionally and start achieving your own goals and dreams
5 Day Breakthrough Life Coaching Course Structure
Module 1 Zone of Excellence: Personal Strengths & Coaching Styles
Module 2 The Mindset of a Transformational Life Coach
How you can get other people moving and winning in life.
The decision to ‘be a coach’
Setting up a coaching relationship
Strengths & Leverage
The Coaching Mindset
Seeing more potential in people than they see in themselves
Coaching relationships
Client centered
Curiosity and filters
Breakthroughs and transformation are the goal
Continual improvement
Reframing
Module 3 Secrets of Strategic Motivation & Breakthrough Results
How powerful coaching techniques and strategies can allow your client to plan design and create a future which previously would have seemed impossible.
The Coaching Process
Static and Fluid Energy
Setting goals
Celebrating actions, milestones and successes
Breaking through plateaus
The Theory of Constraints
Challenging the Client
The Belief Bridge
Movable comfort zones
Commitment and accountability
Values and beliefs
Learning Styles
Action learning & Scaffolding
Module 4 Transformational Language & Masterful Communication
How exquisite mastery of language and communication will make you a world-class coach.
Presuppositions
Utilization language
Powerful Questions
Strategic & motivational communication
Pattern Interruption
Listening Skills
Creative Coaching
Modelling
Storytelling and metaphor
The Philosophy of Abundance
Motifs
Positive Psychology and ‘Flow’
Module 5 Becoming a Successful and Highly Effective Coach
How you can create quantum shifts and build upon the concept of unlimited potential to offer a coaching service unique to your audience.
Becoming a Professional Coach
ANZCAL Coaching
Referring Clients
Planning and Flexibility
Building Coaching Programs and Session Plans
Self-limiting beliefs
Life Coaching tools and resources
Types of Coaching
Supervision
Marketing
Fees and Enrolment Process
These fees are effective from 1st January 2025
Full course fee
$2995
Early Bird 10% discount course fee
$2695
The Early Bird is available for enrolment and payment in full within your initial 10 days of registering on our mailing list for the first time.
This may be followed by an informal telephone interview to assess that the course is the right fit for your goals.
Places on all courses are strictly limited.
Venues and trainers may be subject to change.
Hours for all courses: 9am to 5.30pm.
Upcoming Courses
Wellington
28th April to 2nd May
Auckland
12th to 16th May
Christchurch
11th to 15th August
Glowing Testimonials From Our Graduates And Coaches
Janine Langdon-Lee
The course was transformational for me on so many levels. I wanted tools and techniques to create my own coaching sessions and practice. The course delivered on this and reaffirmed I was on the right path.
The face to face coaching is the top most beneficial outcome of this course - it reiterated my calling to be a life coach by ridding myself of that imposter syndrome I carried with me. It was exciting, just what i was hoping to gain and more.
I was totally empowered, encouraged and supported. I faced fears and broke down barriers, I came away as a totally different person, with confidence, assurance and absolutely excited. I’ve learnt so much about myself and am ready to help others achieve similar breakthroughs.
I went with the intention to build my coaching skills and potentially get some personal growth along the way. I came away with a profound sense of self, an amazing new community of people to network with and the confidence to BE an even better coach.
Everything promised and more - true transformation personally, and practical skilled training that could be put into practice from the very first day. The learning environment was extremely supportive and empowered us to step to the edge of our comfort zones.
Wow what a difference five days can make! I was transported to a new world of deeply affecting coaching opportunities, heartfelt tips and ideas and course lessons led by an inspiring teacher. Inspirational, actually transformational!
By far the best course I have attended on a personal and professional level. The content and the learning we took from it was so impactful. I really got to the core of what I believe in and what drives me...
I felt empowered. Being with like minded people boosted me as a person, showing me that I am meant to be a coach. I discovered who I am, the breakthroughs that I can actually do this, by the lessons given in-class just took me to another level.
From the get-go, the learning environment was positive, motivating and inspiring. I most definitely feel part of a supportive and connected coaching community and highly recommend this training opportunity to anyone looking at becoming a Life Coach or wanting to add new tools to their belt.
I have learned so many things about myself…The course has helped me develop my self awareness further and I can see with clarity! For the first time in my life I feel free, creative and excited about what is next.
The amount of personal growth, resilience and resolution to grow and change left me breathless. I was mightily moved by the experience and have seen first hand how effective coaching is. An intensive 5 days of personal reflection and worthwhile experience.
The course was transformational for me on so many levels. I wanted tools and techniques to create my own coaching sessions and practice. The course delivered on this and reaffirmed I was on the right path.
The face to face coaching is the top most beneficial outcome of this course - it reiterated my calling to be a life coach by ridding myself of that imposter syndrome I carried with me. It was exciting, just what i was hoping to gain and more.
I was totally empowered, encouraged and supported. I faced fears and broke down barriers, I came away as a totally different person, with confidence, assurance and absolutely excited. I’ve learnt so much about myself and am ready to help others achieve similar breakthroughs.
I went with the intention to build my coaching skills and potentially get some personal growth along the way. I came away with a profound sense of self, an amazing new community of people to network with and the confidence to BE an even better coach.
Everything promised and more - true transformation personally, and practical skilled training that could be put into practice from the very first day. The learning environment was extremely supportive and empowered us to step to the edge of our comfort zones.
Wow what a difference five days can make! I was transported to a new world of deeply affecting coaching opportunities, heartfelt tips and ideas and course lessons led by an inspiring teacher. Inspirational, actually transformational!
By far the best course I have attended on a personal and professional level. The content and the learning we took from it was so impactful. I really got to the core of what I believe in and what drives me...
I felt empowered. Being with like minded people boosted me as a person, showing me that I am meant to be a coach. I discovered who I am, the breakthroughs that I can actually do this, by the lessons given in-class just took me to another level.
From the get-go, the learning environment was positive, motivating and inspiring. I most definitely feel part of a supportive and connected coaching community and highly recommend this training opportunity to anyone looking at becoming a Life Coach or wanting to add new tools to their belt.
I have learned so many things about myself…The course has helped me develop my self awareness further and I can see with clarity! For the first time in my life I feel free, creative and excited about what is next.
The amount of personal growth, resilience and resolution to grow and change left me breathless. I was mightily moved by the experience and have seen first hand how effective coaching is. An intensive 5 days of personal reflection and worthwhile experience.
If you need any help or have any questions please don’t hesitate to get in touch. You can call us on 0800 768368 or 020 413 05645. We’d love to hear from you.
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Terms and Conditions
Cancellation & Refund Policy
Fees once paid are non-refundable under all circumstances.
If you are unable to attend the course you are booked on, you can
transfer onto any future NZ Life Coaching course within the next 4 years
with no additional course or admin fees. Any request to postpone and
transfer to a future course must be made in writing.
Payment Terms
Payment of the full fee or deposit is required at the point
of enrolment to secure a place. Places on a course cannot be held
without payment.
Early Bird discount fees are only available for payment in full at time of enrolment.
Non-Early Bird fees must be paid in full 10 working days before the course start date.
Trainers & Venues
Trainers and venues are subject to change. NZ Life Coaching
shall provide such trainers to present the training course as it deems
fit and shall be entitled at any time to substitute any trainer with any
other person who it deems suitably qualified to present the relevant
course.
Every effort will be made to give attendees no less than 5 working days notice of any such change.
Ownership & Intellectual Property Rights
All NZ Life Coaching materials, whether on the NZ Life
Coaching website or at an NZ Life Coaching training course, are owned by
NZ Life Coaching (trading name "The Art of Optimism Ltd"). All
intellectual property rights in all materials available from NZ Life
Coaching, including the design, graphics and text of all printed
materials and the audio of all webinars and podcasts, are owned by NZ
Life Coaching. No NZ Life Coaching content may be copied, reproduced,
uploaded, posted, displayed or linked to in any way, in whole or in
part, without NZ Life Coaching’s prior permission. Any such use is
strictly prohibited and will constitute an infringement of NZ Life
Coaching’s intellectual property rights.
Confidentiality
Any personal information volunteered by participants during
training sessions, whether on the NZ Life Coaching website or at an NZ
Life Coaching training course, is to be treated with the utmost
confidentiality and not shared, discussed or published outside of those
training sessions, unless with the participant’s express approval in
writing. This includes written, audio, video and images.
Behaviour
NZ Life Coaching reserves the right to remove any participant
from a training course whose behaviour is deemed inappropriate by NZ
Life Coaching or its trainers. In these circumstances, NZ Life Coaching
will neither refund any fees nor reimburse any other costs.
Force Majeure
NZ Life Coaching will not be liable or responsible for any
failure to perform, or delay in performance of, any of our obligations
that is caused by events outside our reasonable control (Force Majeure
Event).
A Force Majeure Event includes any act, event, non-happening, omission or accident beyond our reasonable control.
Our performance is deemed to be suspended for the period that
the Force Majeure Event continues, and we will have an extension of
time for performance for the duration of that period. We will use our
reasonable endeavours to bring the Force Majeure Event to a close or to
find a solution by which our obligations may be performed despite the
Force Majeure Event.
Our Team and Trainers
Christine Walter Lead Trainer & National Training Director
Christine Walter is absolutely passionate about supporting people to achieve their goals in life, utilising her skills and knowledge along with her own life experiences. She firmly believes that everyone has the answers and resources within to achieve what they want.
As an experienced presenter and coach, and being of energetic nature, you will find Christine’s training lively and informative. Christine is a real advocate of “learning by doing”. Her training style is inspirational, engaging and energising.
Christine has over 20 years experience in the recreation industry, initially as a fitness instructor and managing children’s programs, progressing to staff management and becoming Director of Recreation for a well-known international organisation overseeing several sites with the responsibility of over 300 staff.
Christine is a Master Practitioner in NLP and Time Line Therapy and has a Diploma in Clinical and Advanced Hypnosis from the NZ School of Professional Hypnotherapy. She is a Master Coach with ANZCAL and a Certified mBIT Coach.
In her personal life Christine is the mother of two adult children and two dogs. She keeps a fit and active lifestyle walking and going to the gym. In 2013 she and her husband spent 8 months travelling to the UK and Europe, including walking the 330km Camino Portuguese from Porto, Portugal to Finisterre on the Spanish West Coast.
Josh Roche Senior Life Coach Trainer
Josh is a seasoned training facilitator and high performance coach having studied and taught a range of self-development approaches both in New Zealand and internationally.
Josh is also an experienced, highly sought after personal trainer, yoga teacher, outdoor instructor and is an expert in the field of mindfulness and meditation.
Josh is a former elite soldier who later went on a spiritual journey and became a monk (long story!). He is passionate about growing self belief, creating real, lasting change and clients and students making their dreams into a reality.
He has trained under some of the very best teachers in body, mind and spirit in the world and is one of the most talented teachers and coaches in the country.
Jordan Shearer Senior Life Coach Trainer
Jordan is an experienced Life and Career Coach. She comes from a background in management, facilitation, employment consultancy and teaching.
Jordan brings with her a fun, relaxed, motivational and encouraging environment and will support you to break down barriers, believe in yourself and create opportunities for transformation and development.
Anna Veale Senior Life Coach Trainer
Anna Veale is a High Performance Coach at Fresh Coaching and Author of the popular Self Development Book “Only Human”.
With over two decades of experience in the wellness industry, Anna has worked with a diverse range of high-performing clients, including elite athletes, marines, CEOs, and business owners.
Her approach is rooted in understanding and maximising human potential, leading to transformative changes in the lives of those she works with.
Ed Lester Co-Founder & Senior Life Coach Trainer
Ed is an experienced and globally respected coach and trainer who has helped thousands of clients to overcome problems and achieve their goals. Here are some of Ed's qualifications and achievements:
Certified Professional Life Coach through the International Institute of Coaching (November 2004)
Accredited Master Coach with ANZCAL.
Master Practitioner of NLP through the UK Academy of Therapeutic Arts and Sciences (February 2003)
Founder of NZ Life Coaching and the New Zealand School of Professional Hypnotherapy, creator of many personal growth and development products including The Abundance Index and Ultimate Abundance self-hypnosis series.
Ruth Lester Co-Founder & Enrolments Director
Ruth is the Co-Founder of NZ Life Coaching and has worked alongside her husband Ed developing the training school, 5 day course and online student programs, since its creation in 2013.
As a graduate of and advocate for the 5 day course, Ruth loves talking to prospective students about how it can align with and deliver on your goals, dreams and unique ‘source code’. Her passion is in bringing together a wonderful bunch of people with these transformational courses, and seeing the life-changing results.
If you have questions, want to know if the course is right for you, or simply want to ‘talk to a human being’ then please do get in touch with Ruth. She’ll be delighted to have a conversation, help you move forward and get clarity.
Ruth has a BA in English Language & Literature, and Post Graduate Diploma in Human Resources and Management.
Sarah Marshall Enrolments Consultant
Sarah grew up in Christchurch, New Zealand. She spent three years working as a database programmer in London and Paris, before returning to Christchurch to take up a business development and sales role in the GPS Agricultural sector.
After many successful years in this professional role, Sarah had a change in career direction to explore her passion for life coaching. Her first hand experience of the 5 Day Breakthrough Life Coaching Course, coupled with her talent for building relationships, makes her an ideal person to help you make the decision to explore this exciting path.
Sarah has a keen sense of adventure and her recent travels encompass walking over 800km across Spain with her husband and daughter, gorilla trekking in Rwanda, sailing down the Nile in Egypt on Fluka boats, and rafting down the Tirol River in Austria. She represented her region in both cricket and hockey and is always keen for a spot of friendly sporting banter.
Sara Wilson National Training Manager & Senior Life Coach Trainer
Sara is a coach and hypnotherapist with a passion for the mind/body connection and a vision for every person to be empowered to lead healthy, joyful lives free of unnecessary stress and anxiety.
Sara is an empathetic and dynamic trainer who focuses on a transformative, strengths-based approach to coaching that encompasses mind, body and spirit.
She is also responsible for managing the training school and will be your first point of contact, taking care of all your needs and questions, before, during and after the course.
