The Wisdom Bridge Academy

Harvest your career experience, and develop your consulting, mentoring and coaching skills. Learn exciting ways to bring your wisdom to the table whilst managing your own life transition.

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Xenergie’s Wisdom Bridge Academy is for change agents, both within organisations and those acting as external change practitioners, who are charged with transforming businesses and societies. This is an accelerated programme where you learn systemic coaching, consulting and transformation skills in a new world paradigm, over a series of stages, geared for those who like to think and act strategically:

Develop 21st c Leadership and Coaching Skills

Transform yourself and your own leadership as you learn to coach.

Learn at your pace with our blended action learning approach

Self-paced, online and face to face meetings plus project work to practice what you learn with immediate application.

Underpin the success of strategic transformation projects

Radically de-risk high value projects and strategically enhance their impact.

Measurably increase employee engagement and retention

Harness the power of human connection in your organisation, or your client’s organisation, to create sustainable change.

Align to Global Coaching Standards

Professional development accredited by the Association for Coaching and compatible with other coaching accreditation paths.

Join a global advisory network and form teams with others

Access to work, guidance, community and supervision.

Secure your future and discover a toolbox and way of working that will help you quickly add value and navigate the complexity of change in today’s chaotic world.

  • Stage 1

    Navigator Level 1:

    Releasing Social Energy through Coaching (Xenergie Award in Coaching)

    Executive Leadership Development (Accredited Certificate in Executive Coaching)

  • Stage 2

    Navigator Level 2:

    Team Coaching in the Modern World (Certificate in Team Performance Coaching)

  • Stages 3a and 3b

    Pathfinder Level 1 and 2:

    High Performance Teaming (Accredited Diploma in Systemic Team Coaching)

    Fundamentals of Systemic Analysis (Certificate in Systemic Analysis)

  • Stage 4a and 4b

    Transformer:

    Advanced Diploma in Systemic Transformation of Organisations (Accredited Advanced Diploma in Coaching - Mastery)

    Diploma in Organisational Coaching Management and Supervision (Xenergie Diploma in Supervision)

The Wisdom Bridge Academy Experience

The programme contains four progressive Movements of Energy creating a journey of transformation. Most participants aim to graduate within 18 months of starting and have a clear sense of how they will be applying their learning, however, some decide to take longer in order to fully digest their experience and fit in with other commitments

The programme requires time, energy and presence and will support and enable your day to day work-life rather than impinge on it. Think of this as your “Camino”, your learning and reflective practice for the times ahead. Whatever pace you choose, you will join a worldwide community of like minds who are keen to connect and share their experiences. Participants enjoy networking with people around the world from walks of life they may not usually meet.

John Hannigan

CEO Circle Voluntary Housing Association

Carolina Corradi

Independent Consultant, Ex-COO Bank of New York Mellon

Tony Keaveney

Executive VP, Regulatory Affairs, Merit Medical

Stage 1: Navigator Level 1

Xenergie Award in Coaching and Certificate in Executive Leadership Coaching

  • Learn core coaching competencies

  • Understand the requirements of 21st Century leadership and leading through disruption

  • Discover a range executive profiling tools for assessing leadership, EQ, teamwork, transformation potential and digital readiness

  • Equip yourself with a range of coaching approaches for career development, managing transitions, increasing leadership capability and presence

  • Develop a roadmap for strategically developing talent within an organisation context

  • Receive individual executive coaching and role development from an experienced executive coach

  • Develop your coaching presence, your understanding and practice of coaching ethics, the journey of being a coach and how to maximise the relationship with a coaching supervisor

  • Undertake personal practice and receive feedback on your practice

  • 7 workshop days + self-paced learning + personal study and application (total 120 training hours over 3-4 months)

  • 30 hours of 1-1 coaching practice

  • 1 x client case study reference

Stage 2: Navigator Level 2

Certificate in Team Performance Coaching

  • Understand why teams are so important in 21st Century leadership and transformation

  • Unpack the fundamentals of team behaviour and how groups can easily fall into dysfunction

  • Discover the journey of becoming a performing team, rather than a group of motivated individuals

  • Learn how to create psychological safety and energise authenticity in teams, building a new language for team conversations

  • Understand how to cultivate resilience in teams in order to recover quickly from setbacks

  • Get to grips with some leading team profiling and assessment tools, including Belbin Team Roles, and how these can leverage diversity, accelerate project performance, reduce recruitment risks and much more

  • Learn how to coach and facilitate teamwork, by being part of a team yourself

  • Receive guidance and supervision on your team coaching

  • 6 classroom days + self-paced learning totalling 63 supervised training hours over 4-6 months

  • Personal study and application – 30 hours

  • 1 x team coaching practice case reference (6 sessions)

Stage 3a: Pathfinder Level 1

Accredited Diploma in Systemic Team Coaching

This is the beginning of a mastery stage in Team Coaching (which requires accreditation at the previous levels).    In this stage we become strategic about the application of teaming and coaching in a transformation context.

  • Discover how to design and implement a cultural risk analysis of an organisation using an integral and systemic analysis approach that assesses an organisation’s transformation potential and readiness for change

  • Equally, learn how to use the above approach for capturing learning and reflection on previous events (wanted and unwanted)

  • Learn how to engage stakeholders in change and contribute to being part of the transformation they seek or resist

  • Learn how to deliver the analysis in a co-creative and inclusive way with clients and lay the foundations for a transformation change journey, in which all stakeholders can find their feet

  • Learn some key frameworks for analysing the conscious and unconscious aspects of organisational operations including psychodynamic aspects of group behaviour, the impact of purpose on behaviour, and how to map the impacts of thought processes, values, beliefs and needs, and other forms of diversity that generate gridlocks, in an authentic and engaging way

  • Apply your learning in a real-life case study and receive feedback

  • 3 days blended learning

  • 40hrs personal study, research and strategy development

  • Achieve 20 hrs team coaching practice involving systemic tools to analyse and work with gridlocks and achieve change readiness, which must include the delivery of a Systemic Analysis

Stage 3b: Pathfinder Level 2

Certificate in Systemic Analysis

Fundamentals of Systemic Analysis is the first Module of the Advanced Diploma in Systemic Transformation of Organisations, the purpose of which is to help leaders and organisations build their capacity to transform and establish better ways of working, suitable for a changing world, in which the ability to keep evolving with the context is key.

  • Leading transformation: The Systemic Coach; Success factors for sustainable change; Burning platform and ambition,

  • Change and Gridlocks: The Theory U change model; Cultural Gridlocks

  • System Mapping: Group Dynamics Theory; Limiting and Empowering Beliefs; Drama Triangles

  • Exploring the System: Belbin Team Roles; Lencioni Team Dysfunctions

  • Releasing Energy: Why people won’t change; Immunity to Change; Shadow work

  • 3 workshop days plus online self-paced learning

  • Practical application of analysis tools in an organisational setting

Stage 4a:  Transformer

Advanced Diploma in Systemic Transformation Consulting

This next stage takes the previous phases further to work over-time with the challenge of transforming teams, groups and organisations, looking notably at how learning and change is led by change teams, and ripples and cascades from leaders. Participants undertake a strategic development or transformation project involving diverse stakeholders to embed their learning and submit their case work.

  • Inspiring and managing change systemically – thinking in systems, working energetically with resistance, interpreting situations and finding a language for what is happening, leading from the balcony and dancefloor, incorporating Theory U (Scharmer et al), Oscillation and Transforming Experience theories ( Grubb Institute).

  • Working connectively and with stewardship – leading change across the organisation, engaging stakeholders in contributing to and being part of change

  • Thinking from the future – understanding the leapfrog of an AI-driven future and how to engage teams in learning expeditions, and developing and strategising future scenarios, opportunity creation and risk-mitigation

  • Working with competing polarities and dilemmas  - working with extreme resistance and conflict and how to harness human connection and retain resilience

  • Reframing accountability – the power of story, influence, presence and pro-activity and impact as a leader

  • Reflective practice, coaching supervision and self-care as change coach

  • Becoming a strategic value contributor – developing business acumen and “intrapreneurship” through application in development projects

  • Share the learning in a showcase to inspire and engage more understanding of systemic transformation coaching

  • Role Reflection:   participants receive 5 x 1-1 reflection partnering sessions from a qualified systemic coach supervisor.

  • 8 workshop days (56 hours) + group supervision (12 hours) + peer reflection (9 hours) +23 hours strategy planning, making 100 hours classroom and self-guided practice

  • 70 hours of coaching practice, of which 25 hours 1-1 practice and 45 hours group coaching (can be built up through previous courses)

  • Note: time spent on Fundamentals of Systemic Analysis counts as recognition of prior learning if participants have completed Stage 3b, and is reduced from the above requirements.

Stage 4b: Transformer

  Diploma in Organisational Coaching Management and Supervision

Coaching Supervision provides a reflective and professional space for coaches to explore their practice, enhance their self-awareness, and ensure the highest standards of ethical and effective coaching. It allows coaches to examine their client work, decision-making, and emotional responses in a confidential and supportive environment, promoting continuous growth and resilience.

Supervision is about improving skills and also about safeguarding the wellbeing of both coach and client, maintaining objectivity, and ensuring accountability to professional standards.

Working with a qualified supervisor helps coaches remain grounded, effective, and aligned with best practice throughout their professional journey.

  • 20 hours self-paced learning and strategy planning

  • 21 hours of class group action learning and reflective practice

  • 15 hours supervision practice.

  • + 6 hours own 1-1 supervision

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