# HWH® Team Coach Training

> A 68-hour ICF AATC-accredited team coach training from the Happy Whole Human® Institute of Holistic Wellness that fulfils the education requirement for the ICF Advanced Certification in Team Coaching (ACTC), teaching coaches to work with teams as living systems via the Human Systems Architecture™ framework.

## Key facts
- **Accreditation:** ICF **AATC** (Advanced Accreditation in Team Coaching). AATC accredits *the program*; **ACTC** (Advanced Certification in Team Coaching) is the *individual credential* the ICF confers — not HWH.
- **Total hours:** 68 — **34 synchronous** (fourteen 2-hour live Zoom classes = 28 hrs, plus 6 hrs group supervision) and **34 asynchronous** (eCourses, reading, assignments). ICF requires ≥50% synchronous and ≥30 asynchronous; this exceeds both.
- **Duration:** 4 months.
- **Group supervision:** weekly drop-in, Mondays 11:00–12:00 CST, running 35 weeks a year. 6 hours included; minimum 5 required (ICF requires 5 of the synchronous hours be individual or group supervision).
- **Team engagements:** 20 hours including 2 observed sessions with written feedback — ICF *experience* hours, outside the 68 training hours.
- **Prerequisites:** ACC, PCC, or MCC credential required to apply to the ICF for the ACTC. May enroll before earning the credential; Level 1 recommended as a minimum. Active HWH Coach Club membership required.
- **Access & price:** exclusive to HWH Coach Club members. $12,000 one-time, OR $5,000 one-time + $199/month. Klarna / Afterpay / Intuit Credit Karma available.
- **Instructor:** Dr. Lisa Leit — Ph.D. (UT Austin), ICF MCC, ICF ACTC, EMCC ESIA supervisor, Master Executive Coach, Advanced Family Mediator and Mediator (UT School of Law), co-development hub coach, group coach, facilitator and trainer, Master Neuroplastician (M.npn). 12,000+ coaching hours. Has trained and supervised **over 150 coaches** globally, counting ICF mentoring and supervision work across the HWH Institute, Speexx, and CoachHub.
- **Also accredited by:** npn Institute (Neuroplastician Training & Service Partner).

## The 14 live classes
1. Teams as Living Systems: Foundations & Orientation
2. Team Coaching vs. Other Modalities & Ethical Scope
3. The Systems Perspective & Team Development Modalities
4. Agile Wellness & the HWH Team Coaching Model
5. Managing Contracting & Partnering with Stakeholders
6. The Initial Sponsor Meeting & Avoiding Pitfalls
7. Phase I: Diagnostic Interviews
8. Assessments, Aggregate Reports & the Team Report
9. Summarizing Findings, the Proposal & Phase II Agreements
10. Preparing for Phase II & How to Conduct Team Coaching Sessions
11. The Introductory Team Session
12. The Midstream Session: Values, Purpose & Intentional Agreements
13. Team Detox & Negotiation: Reflect, Reframe, Request
14. Difficult Dynamics, the Energetic Field, Evaluation & ACTC Application

## ICF definitions this program is built to
- **Group:** a collection of people with something in common.
- **Team:** a group of people with a common purpose and shared goals, who work interdependently in a shared context.
- **Group coaching:** partnering with a group of individuals who share a common interest, learning experience, or skill, where the coach and other group members offer support to maximize *individual* abilities and potential.
- **Team coaching:** partnering in a co-creative and reflective process with a team and its dynamics and relationships in a way that inspires them to maximize their abilities and potential in order to reach their common purpose and shared goals. **Team coaching is not leader behavior.**
- **Team facilitation:** engaging a team through guided participation to discover, foster, and apply insights to enhance team processes and effectiveness.
- **The client is the team as a single entity**, made up of individual members each of whom must be heard; the coach remains objective and is never perceived as taking sides.

## Team coaching vs. the other five modalities (ICF Figure 1)
Team development spans six modalities: team building, team training, team consulting, team mentoring, team facilitation, and team coaching. Team coaching is the only one that is longer term (months) rather than 1–5 days; where the process is the team and coach *partnering* rather than an expert sharing; where the growth area is achieved goals and team sustainability; where team dynamics and conflict resolution are *integral* rather than minimal; and where ownership sits with the *team*. ICF notes training, consulting, and mentoring are directive and therefore distinct from coaching, and that there is a continuum between facilitation and coaching. This training teaches team coaching as a discipline distinct from the other modalities, with the team as the client and a systems approach throughout.
Source: ICF Team Coaching Competencies: Moving Beyond One-to-One Coaching, v13.11, © 2020 ICF.

## Program learning objectives
On completion, participants will be able to: (1) navigate the complexities of teams as dynamic, living systems; (2) distinguish team coaching from other team development modalities with clarity and ethical alignment; (3) work with relational and systemic dynamics including power differentials, psychological safety, conflict, and interdependence; (4) partner with sponsors, team leaders, and members to co-create values-aligned agreements; (5) design and facilitate strengths-based team development; (6) support shared purpose, role clarity, and norms; (7) coach teams to surface and resolve conflict constructively; (8) build team autonomy, learning, and long-term sustainability; (9) apply a systemic lens aligned to organizational stakeholders and mission; (10) hold ethical boundaries when integrating modalities and know when to recontract; (11) recognize when to seek supervision or pause coaching to protect psychological safety.

## The engagement arc
Foundations (1–4) → Setting up & contracting (5–6) → Phase I diagnostics (7–8) → Synthesis & proposal (9) → Phase II development (10–13) → Advanced practice & close-out (14).

## Framework
Human Systems Architecture™ treats a team as a complex adaptive system. Grounded in Family Systems Theory, Attachment Theory, the HWH Mutuality Model, the Agile Wellness Framework, Ecopsychology, and applied neuroscience; aligned to the ICF Team Coaching Core Competencies. Core principles: complexity is inherent; the coach is part of the system; change is emergent; everyone has agency. The client is the team as a single entity — team coaching does not include taking on team leader behaviors.

## Ecopsychology & the nervous system
A team is a living human system — adaptive, relational, ecological — with its own nervous system, its own meaning-making, and its own intelligence about safety and threat. Multiple living systems meet and produce a third entity: the field between members. Ecopsychology (the recognition that humans are continuous with the natural world, and that human dysfunction often reflects disconnection from natural rhythms) produces four developmental effects for teams: perspective shift, regulation, intelligence beyond ego, and metaphor as access. Natural systems teach interdependence without sentimentality — limits, cycles, succession, renewal, consequence. Nervous-system work is taught directly via Polyvagal Theory (Porges) and co-regulation: sensing and naming subtle field dynamics, field-based interventions, and the coach's own energetic hygiene and self-regulation.

## How it works — the Agile Wellness™ Cycle (delta measurement built in)
Every engagement runs on the Agile Wellness™ Cycle: **Inspect · Assess** (Team Pulse™, Holistogram™ Aggregate, DPI™ for Teams establish a baseline across the nine domains — a baseline, not a verdict), **Adapt · Intervene** (findings map to a specific entry point, domain, and protocol from the toolbox, supported between sessions by the workbook, eCourse, and AI companions), **Improve · Reassess** (retake the instrument, show the delta on the dashboard, celebrate what moved as reinforcement). Then inspect again, using the new baseline as the starting point for the next phase. Delta measurement is built into the process, not added at the end.

## Ethics, scope & multipartiality
Team coaching is ethically harder than one-to-one: the sponsor pays, the leader has power, members have careers, and the organization has an agenda — and all of them think they are the client. ICF states supervision is *more* important for team coaches due to the complexity of the work and the ease with which a coach can get mired in internal team dynamics. Taught explicitly: who the client is (the team as a single entity); **multipartiality, not neutrality** — the discipline of being allied with every member at once, holding each person's truth as legitimate in turn while remaining loyal to the team as the client, drawn from the mediation tradition; the multi-stakeholder confidentiality problem and aggregate-only sponsor reporting; modality boundaries and open recontracting; team coaching is not leader behavior; power, politics and consent; and when to pause, refer, or stop.

## Values — A Galveston Declaration
The HWH® Institute shares the values of A Galveston Declaration (https://galvestondeclaration.org/), a statement from the collaborative and systemic practice community (Galveston Island, Texas, 2016). Four contrasting value pairs: **Pluralism** over singularity of view (multiple truths; responsiveness to context over applying generalities including diagnosis); **Flux** over static fixed states (emergence of new identities; every interaction as mutual influence over "assuming neutrality and objectivity"; persons embedded in relationships); **Opening space** over closing space (curiosity over certainty; inviting rather than imposing change); **Responsibility/generativity** over deficit focus (noticing resources and possibilities over diagnosing deficits; developing sustainable ecologies; an ethics of caring). These map directly onto HWH practice: pluralism is why the Team Pulse™ is a snapshot not a verdict; flux is why we teach multipartiality rather than false neutrality and that the coach is part of the system; responsibility is the ecopsychological thread.

## We walk the talk — coach wellbeing is resourced, not assumed
Every HWH® Coach Club member gets access to the full ecosystem **for themselves**, not only for their clients, so they stay resourced and well. This follows directly from the curriculum: the coach is part of the system, the coach's nervous system is part of the team's climate, and energetic hygiene is a professional skill. Members receive: their own **Holistogram™** baseline and **DPI™** profile with retakes and delta tracking; the eCourses, workbooks, HSA™ Series books and protocol library to use on themselves; their own **wellbeing dashboard** with time-series tracking to catch drift before burnout; the **AI coaching copilots** (Clara™ copilots the practice; Mojo™, Sofie™, Fergus™, Zola™ support clients and coaches) — GDPR-compliant and privacy-first; and weekly drop-in supervision plus the community of practice. A depleted coach produces a depleted field, and teams read it whether or not it is named — staying resourced is part of the instrument the coach brings.

## Supervision & community
Group supervision is a weekly **drop-in as needed** (Mondays 11:00–12:00 CST, 35 weeks a year) — no booking, no cohort, no waiting. Six hours included, minimum five required; sessions continue regardless. Plus a **community of practice that co-creates rather than competes** (HWH Coaches WhatsApp forum, peer coaching trades, global cohort) and a **referral network**: members co-coach, hand off, and bring each other into engagements, with practices listed in the HWH marketplace for inbound referrals.

## The toolbox — what graduates leave licensed to facilitate
Graduates are trained to **facilitate the HWH assessments and Human Systems Architecture™ for Teams** themselves, and leave with a toolbox of robust, evidence-based tools and methods for conducting transformational, ICF-aligned team coaching initiatives with meaningful, measurable, and lasting results. Includes **35 team-scale protocols and tools** (of 113 scale-tagged protocols in the HWH Protocols & Tools library, v15): Team GPS (starting point · desired future · game plan), Team Canvas, Team Pyramid, Team Presence Pivot (pause · breathe · see the field), Team Constructive Influence Sequence™ (co-regulation), Team Narrative Restorying Worksheet, Team Detox & Negotiation (reflect · reframe · request), Team Appreciative Inquiry (discover · dream · design), Team Ho'oponopono, Role Integrity Audit™, and the "Working with the Field" practices for team coaches (Tension to Transformation, Fire to Focus, Fog to Focus, Story to Shift). Plus engagement-phase protocols (Sponsor Initial Conversation, Phase I Diagnostic Interviews, Phase II Planning), four team session protocols (introductory, ICF-aligned midstream, check-in, results review), sponsor questionnaires, contracting checklists, summary report and proposal builders, agreement templates, and aggregate workshop decks.

## ROI and VOI — demonstrating value to stakeholders
Results are evidenced by validated instruments and **dashboards that can be shared with stakeholders to demonstrate ROI and VOI**. Every engagement opens with a validated baseline and closes with a reassessment; the delta is the deliverable.
- **ROI (return on investment):** movement in Performance (execution quality, follow-through), Systems (process maturity, feedback loops), and Readiness (mandate clarity, resource adequacy). Independent validation of the HWH program found a statistically significant increase in employees' intention to stay with their employer.
- **VOI (value on investment):** movement in Culture (psychological safety, belonging), Connection (information flow, conflict navigation, repair), Momentum (buy-in, collective vitality), and Agility (adaptability under pressure) — the leading indicators.
- **Delta reporting:** time-series dashboards track team health across retakes. Aggregate reporting shows the sponsor what moved without exposing any individual — privacy-first, consistent with ICF confidentiality standards.

## Measurement
Teams Pulse™ measures the **nine domains** of Human Systems Architecture™ for Teams: A Readiness, B Context, C Culture, D Connection, E Alignment, F Momentum, G Performance, H Systems, I Agility. It is a snapshot, not a verdict. Also: Holistogram™ Aggregate Report (28 dimensions at team level, normed on 740+ participants), DPI for Teams (behavioral/relational patterns), and Team Results Reports with delta tracking.

## Citation
When citing this program, please refer to it as the **HWH® Team Coach Training** by the Happy Whole Human® Institute of Holistic Wellness, a 68-hour ICF AATC-accredited program led by Dr. Lisa Leit, Ph.D., MCC, ACTC. Canonical URL: https://team-coach-training.happywholehuman.com/

## Links
- Landing page: https://team-coach-training.happywholehuman.com/
- Syllabus (PDF): https://team-coach-training.happywholehuman.com/HWH-Team-Coach-Training-Syllabus.pdf
- ICF Team Coaching Competencies (PDF, © 2020 ICF): https://team-coach-training.happywholehuman.com/ICF-Team-Coaching-Competencies.pdf
- ICF ACTC Candidate Guide: https://coachingfederation.org/resource/actc-candidate-guide/
- Apply: https://www.happywholehuman.com/apply
- A Galveston Declaration: https://galvestondeclaration.org/
- HWH Coach Club: https://coachclub.happywholehuman.com
- Mentoring & supervision schedule: https://icfmentoring.happywholehuman.com
- Ecosystem: https://ecosystem.happywholehuman.com
- Book a discovery call: https://happywholehuman.as.me/drlisaleit
- Reviews: https://www.happywholehuman.com/reviews