THE DIPLOMA IN
EMERGENT
TEAM COACHING
DEVELOPING TRANSFORMATIONAL TEAM COACHES
BECOME THE COACH
THAT TODAY’S TEAMS NEED
With our innovative, flexible approach to Diploma level Team Coach Training
Teams today face a level of complexity that individual leaders simply cannot solve alone. They are constantly navigating rapid change, deep uncertainty, and intense pressure to deliver. When they reach out to you, they are also likely dealing with systemic team dynamics that keep them stuck.
Traditional team interventions such as workshops, away days, and facilitated sessions all have value but they don't always create lasting transformation.
Why? Because sustainable change happens when teams unlock their own collective wisdom, not when they are forced to follow someone else's rigid framework.
At the Team Coaching Studio (TCS), we have evolved our training to match this modern landscape. Whether you are looking for a deep, immersive learning experience to instantly elevate your presence in the room, or you require a fully supported pathway to global credentials, our new two-part structure allows you to tailor your development to your exact professional goals.
IN A NUTSHELL
Part 1 only:
Self funded, Charity, NGO, Government: £4,995
Corporate: £6,295
Part 1 and Part 2 when purchased together
Self funded, Charity, NGO, Government: £6,495
Corporate: £8,295
Participants: 8 – 16
Delivery: Virtual online
Accreditations: The full Diploma (Part 1 + Part 2) is accredited with the ICF Advanced Accreditation in Team Coaching (AATC) and AC Accredited Diploma in Team Coach Training (ADTCT)
Next cohort: Starts January 2027
IS OUR DIPLOMA IN EMERGENT TEAM COACHING RIGHT FOR YOU?
This pioneering team coach training programme is meticulously designed for experienced coaches, as well as forward-thinking OD, L&D, and HR professionals who want to master a truly emergent approach to team coaching.
We recognise that every practitioner’s career path is unique. For some, securing a prestigious global accreditation is important. Some want expert support as they embark on a real team engagement. For others, the priority is simply finding a rigorous, trusted space for deep learning, cohort connection, and transformative practice. Our innovative two-part structure honours these distinct goals, allowing you to choose the exact level of depth and outcome your practice requires.
If you bring commitment and openness, you will not just complete a course: you will fundamentally transform your practice.
How the programme unfolds
Part 1: Immersive Learning and Practice
Part 1 focuses entirely on the deep learning, small-team collaboration, and cohort practice required to work confidently with senior teams. Ideal for practitioners who want a transformative learning experience.
Preparation & Pre-Work: Establish core concepts before live training begins with approximately 15 hours of self-guided pre-reading and e-learning (including full access to our Team Coaching Fundamentals course and Georgina Woudstra's book, Mastering the Art of Team Coaching).
Live Developmental Sessions: Join your intimate cohort for one 2.5 hour orientation, followed by seventeen 4-hour live online sessions via Zoom.
Independent & Small-Team Study: Dedicate 4 to 6 hours between live modules for self-reflection, assignments, and a collaborative small-team project designed to contribute to the wider profession.
Commitment to the cohort: Full attendance is essential to protect the cohort dynamic. Please see our FAQs for more information
Outcome: Upon successful completion, you will receive an official Certificate of Attendance. You can choose to stop here, or pause before progressing to Part 2.
Part 2: Fieldwork and Accreditation
After completing Part 1, continue to dedicated, end-to-end support from TCS while you work with your real client team. Secure a streamlined pathway to applying for your personal team coaching credentials with the ICF or AC.
Real-World Fieldwork: Fully integrate your learning by coaching a live client team for a minimum of four 90-minute sessions. You have up to one full year from your orientation date to complete this fieldwork.
Dedicated Group Supervision: Attend two 2.5-hour group supervision sessions specifically structured to support you through the live dynamics of your client engagement.
The Development Portfolio: Submit your final portfolio, including a 2,000-word personal learning journey essay, a personal development plan, your small-team project summary, and a formal letter from your client team's sponsor.
Outcome: Upon successful assessment, you will be awarded the full Diploma in Emergent Team Coaching and the accompanying graduation certificates, unlocking a streamlined education path toward global credentials (ICF AATC and AC ADTCT).
Accelerated AC Pathway: For those pursuing accreditation specifically with the Association for Coaching, you will benefit from our accelerated pathway straight to your individual credential.
Why an Emergent Approach?
Most team interventions follow a plan: assess the team, identify issues, deliver interventions, measure outcomes. It's logical. It's structured. Often, it misses what really matters.
Emergent team coaching works differently. Rather than imposing solutions, you learn to work with what's alive in the room. This requires presence over preparation. The confidence to trust the process rather than control it. The skill to hold space for what wants to emerge, even when it's uncomfortable.
With practice, it will become a more intuitive and impactful approach than simply following a framework.
A World-Class Environment for Growth
Whether you choose to stop or pause at level or or continue to complete level 2,
Led by Master Practitioners: You will be guided and mentored by highly accomplished faculty, led by MCC and Senior Coach-level experts who actively practice what they teach at the highest levels of global business.
Exceptional, Small Cohorts: To maintain an intimate student-to-host ratio (typically 1:8), we keep our cohorts small. You will learn alongside a diverse, deeply stimulating group of international peers who bring rich perspectives to every session.
High Challenge, High Support: The work of an emergent coach requires courage and vulnerability. While the training will push you to your growth edge, you will never walk it alone. Your faculty and your cohort will guide you, challenge you, and cheer you on every step of the way.
What You Will Need to Bring
To ensure the depth and quality of the dialogue, we ask that all applicants bring:
Established Experience: Existing coaching experience (ideally ICF ACC or equivalent) and/or a strong background in working with groups or teams.
True Commitment: A full commitment to attending live sessions, actively supporting your peers, and meeting programme milestones.
The Capacity for Self-Reflection: A willingness to look inward and explore your own presence as a coaching instrument.
An Open Mind and an Open Heart: The readiness to step away from rigid structures and trust what emerges in the room.
Get the breakdown
Click to get the full breakdown of what’s included, whatever route you choose
Secure your spot
If you would like to secure your spot on our upcoming cohort, please complete the enrolment form. Once the enrolment form is complete, you will be sent through to our secure payment system to pay your deposit.
When we have received both your form and the deposit we will be in touch to ensure you are enrolled on the right pathway for you and to set up your payment plan.
Deposits are fully refundable within a 14 day window.
Any questions? Email hello@teamcoachingstudio.com and we'll be happy to help
UPCOMING COHORTS
Jan 2027 Cohort
Host: Georgina Woudstra
Format: Online via Zoom
Orientation session: 25th January 2027, 4 pm - 5.30 pm UK time
Live online sessions: 1st February 2027 - 28th June 2027, 2 pm - 6 pm UK time
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Orientation: Monday, 25 January 2027 4pm - 5.30pm UK time
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Ongoing support
Team coaching is rewarding work. It's also demanding work that doesn't stop being complex once you have your Diploma. That's why from the moment you enrol on our programme until your programme ends, you have access to our wider team coaching community, events and resources.
Upon enrolment on the Diploma, you will be granted access to a private space just for your cohort and faculty. Here you can reach out for programme specific support any time.
Upon completion of part 1, those students continuing to part 2 will also get one year free membership to the Association for Coaching.
THE ALUMNI EFFECT
Our alumni don't just gain skills.
They transform their practice and their business.
What changes in your work
Confidence to take on more complex, senior team engagements. The ability to stay present and responsive when things get messy. Trust in your unique approach rather than relying on borrowed frameworks.
What changes in your business
Increased fee potential. A reputation for powerful, distinctive team coaching work. For many, team coaching becomes their primary income stream.
What changes in yourself
Deeper self-awareness. Greater trust in who you are. A sense of coming home to your authentic coaching voice.
YOUR FACULTY
By team coaches, for team coaches
The Diploma in Emergent Team Coaching is designed by our Founder Georgina Woudstra, MCC, ACTC - one of the first coaches worldwide to earn the ICF ACTC - and Course Director Allard de Jong, whose expertise in emergent practice shapes every aspect of the programme.
The majority of our cohorts are delivered by either Georgina or Allard, accompanied by members of our faculty. All our faculty are practising team coaches with successful practices of their own, bringing real-world insight to every session.
LOOKING FOR A TASTER?
Wednesday, 16th September 2026
10am CT, 11am ET, 4pm UK time
To experience the TCS emergent approach first-hand, join Georgina and Allard at one of our regular, free discovery sessions.
In this 90-minute live online session, we'll explore:
Why emergent coaching creates lasting transformation (not just temporary fixes)
How our ICF and AC accredited Diploma deepens your practice and credentials
The accreditation pathways available and how TCS supports mastery
Your questions about the programme, approach and whether it’s right for you.
FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS
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Please see the attached PDF for a full list of what’s included
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It is ideal for executive coaches, OD professionals, facilitators, and consultants who want to provide a high quality and impactful team coaching service. Already done some team coach training but still not feeling confident in the room? This is perfect for you too.
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While other Team Coaching Diplomas focus on methodologies and frameworks, our Diploma goes deeper.
We have many years of experience in this discipline and understand that a coach’s true skill is to ‘stand in the heat’ and observe the dynamics of a group, as they play out in front of you.
It can be scary not to try to fix the problem, particularly when the team turns to you for answers.
Our Diploma has been designed to give you the confidence to use yourself as an instrument, so you can make the shift from facilitation to true team coaching. Whatever your background, learning these skills will benefit your whole practice.
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Typically after you’ve completed the Diploma, just getting one Team Coaching assignment will more than cover your investment.
In addition, Team Coaching can help coaches to build a much more substantial business.
Coaching 10 one-to-one clients at, say £3-5k per client, is very different to coaching 5 teams at, say, £20k each!
You’ll see a return in other ways too, as you embark on a transformative journey to greatly improve your confidence in working alongside teams of any size and level, and find the courage to take on new challenges.
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You will be part of a small, multicultural cohort . Your programme will be run by TCS faculty, led by TCS Founder Georgina Woudstra (MCC,ACTC) and TCS Faculty
We aim for a student to host ratio of 1:8.
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As well as the pre-reading requirments and the advertised zoom dates for taught modules in Part 1, we recommend you set aside 4 - 6 hours self study time for your reflection, assignments and your small team work.
For those embarking on Part 2, you will need to coach a real team for a minimum of 4 x 90 minute sessions, complete your personal development portfolio and attend a minimum of 5 hours supervision. You have up until 1 year after the orientation to complete this work.
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Those embarking on Part 2 will need to find and work with a real client team. You have until 1 year from the orientation session to find and work with a team and submit a letter from your sponsor/leader.
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The programme cohort will be organised into small teams (sub-groups within the cohort). Each team is charged with undertaking a small team project, with the goal of making a contribution to the profession.
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If you successfully complete part 1 and part 2 of the Diploma, you will be awarded a Full Diploma Qualification from a programme and provider that have been accredited by the ICF and the AC.
You will also have the training hours, client work and supervision hours to ensure a streamlined route when applying for your personal team coaching accreditation with either the ICF or AC.
For those of you looking for personal accreditation with the AC, we are an accelerated team coach training provider meaning we can support you with much of your AC application.
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You are expected to attend, and fully participate in, all sessions.
We understand that life happens so in exceptional circumstances, you may miss up to two sessions and still be awarded your Diploma. This is on the proviso that you watch the recordings and submit a reflection piece.
Attendance at the orientation and final two live online sessions is mandatory for program completion.
Please note, missing more than 30 minutes of any one session constitutes a missed session.
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We periodically run early bird discounts. Please enquire on your application for any discounts we are currently running.
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You can secure your spot on the Diploma programme by completing the enrolment form and paying a £995 deposit.
Once your deposit is received, we will contact you to arrange a payment plan and to take down any details that will help us onboard you onto the programme.
Your payment plan must be in place within 14 days of the deposit being received.
If you haven’t trained with us before, we might ask you to attend a short, free online call with a Senior Faculty member in advance of the Diploma programme starting.
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ICF AATC training hours (ie. the TCS Diploma) can be used to apply for credentials and credential renewals. They are considered ACSTH/Level 1 in regards to credentials or all Core Competencies for renewing.
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As Diploma Alumni, our support doesn’t just end once you get your certificate!
We welcome you into our community for further practice, to make connections, and to attend webinars on the topics that matter to our industry. You are also able to join us for 121 supervision or as part of one of our supervision groups.
You will have priority access to join Georgina, Allard and your fellow Team Coaches at our Retreats and masterclasses.
If you wish to share your insights with a wider audience, we sometimes offer our grads a chance to write our monthly column in Coaching at Work magazine, to host community webinars or to contribute to our Podcast Teams Transformed
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You have lifetime access to team coaching fundamentals and your pre-reading.
Recordings are accessible to enrolled participants during the programme and for up to 12 months after the programme ends, upon request.
After 12 months, recordings are permanently deleted from participant-facing platforms.
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Yes, for Self funded places. We require the deposit amount and first instalment to have been paid before the first live online session.
For students embarking on part 1 only full payment must be made before the final live online session.
For students embarking on part 1 and part 2, full payment must be made by 6 months after the final live online session. However, please note that certificates will not be issued until full payment has been received. Similarly, documents will not be submitted for the AC accelerated accreditation route until full payment is received.
