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What Is Self-System Life Coaching?
Self-System Life Coaching is a transformational and integrative approach to personal and professional development that views each individual as a dynamic living system. At its heart is the Syntegrity approach, which emphasizes structural balance, coherence, and resilience, enriched by Vedic wisdom, systemic awareness, transpersonal psychology, ecopsychology, positive psychology, psychosynthesis, and other integrative perspectives.
This path supports clients in aligning the many facets of the self — including subpersonalities, thoughts, emotions, body, values, purpose, and presence — into an integrated whole. By harmonizing these inner dynamics, individuals cultivate clarity, authenticity, and resilience, enabling them to live with greater coherence and integrity.
Central to this approach is Self-leadership: the ability to act from the Self as an inner compass, rather than being fragmented or driven by external pressures. Through reflective inquiry, embodied presence, and systemic awareness, clients learn to transform tension into balance, paradox into creativity, and intention into sustainable action.
The goal is deep and lasting transformation — a shift where life becomes a reflection of one’s inner truth and a meaningful contribution to the greater systems we inhabit, both personal and ecological.
SCA’s international program combines the holistic and transformational vision of Self-System Life Coaching with the ethical and professional framework of the International Coaching Federation (ICF), including its Global Code of Ethics, Guidelines, and Core Competencies. It provides a bridge between spiritual orientation and practical application, enabling practitioners to achieve excellence in coaching while reconnecting with their inner source of wisdom and power — the Self.
The Self is not a distant goal but an ever-present reality within. In today’s fast-paced world, however, it is often obscured by external noise and inner fragmentation. This training offers unique tools to govern the inner dynamics of the psyche, integrating its multiplicity into coherence and wholeness, and unlocking the regenerative power of authentic Self-leadership.
The Self-System Coaching Path
Guided by a compass of integrity, purpose, and presence, the Self-System Coach emerges as a practitioner of a living framework where paradox gives birth to synthesis, where the natural tensions of life become a source of resilience, and where coaching unfolds as the art of authentic presence in service of life itself. Rather than offering a fixed set of techniques, this program cultivates a dynamic orientation to wholeness — a way of being that can meet the complexity of human experience with openness, creativity, and depth.
Within this program, you will develop a holistic and systemic perspective on coaching while acquiring the essential skills required to work effectively in professional contexts. Rooted in the Self-System framework, your training will help you understand not only the mechanics of coaching but also the deeper dynamics of transformation — how true and sustainable change arises from the harmonization of inner diversity. You will learn how to attune to the many dimensions of the Self and hold them in relationship, allowing new coherence, vitality, and clarity to emerge naturally.
As a Self-System Life Coach, you will learn to form a transpersonal partnership with your clients, grounded in the inner wisdom of the Self. This partnership goes beyond performance or goal oriented approach: it is a process of awakening to authentic essence and cultivating the conditions for its expression in life, while reaching their goal. You will guide clients to strengthen their connection to their deepest Self and to embody their ideal model of being — a fuller, more integrated expression of their highest ontological identity. By helping clients release unconscious identifications with transient subpersonalities, you empower them to reshape their personality in alignment with their inner truth, creating lives that reflect coherence, integrity, and ecological responsibility.
This approach is at once distinctive and integrative — a discipline and an art, a method and a mystery. It calls coaches into congruence, inviting them to meet the world with authenticity and courage while bringing their full presence to the evolving complexity of each moment. Through this journey, you will learn to navigate the inner landscape with greater awareness, refine your methodology with precision and compassion, and align your deepest values with your outer actions. In doing so, coaching itself becomes a Self-infused path — a living practice in which awareness, purpose, and practice evolve together in resonance with the living systems of your clients.
Ultimately, this training is more than professional development: it is a transformational journey into the heart of who you are and who you are becoming as a coach. It is an invitation to embody and radiate the love, clarity, and essence revealed through your own inner work, making these qualities visible and tangible in every coaching encounter. By uniting these profound teachings with the rigor of the ICF framework, the program offers a deeply transformative experience that empowers you to generate lasting, meaningful impact while remaining grounded in a practical, professional approach.
In this program, you will learn to weave together psychosynthesis, positive psychology, ecopsychology, Vedic teachings, Self-System management and other profound concepts into a practical and transformative framework for coaching at the transpersonal level. As your journey unfolds, you will deepen presence and embodiment, discovering how grounded awareness becomes the foundation of authentic and sustainable coaching practice.
You will also be guided to transform inner complexity into coherence and structural integrity, bringing harmony to the multiplicity of thoughts, emotions, values, and subpersonalities, and applying this awareness directly within your coaching practice. This inner work expands outward into systemic Self-awareness, as you align your coaching with both ecological and transpersonal perspectives, recognizing the interconnection of personal and collective growth.
The training supports you in moving from the skilled use of core competencies to a Self-guided practice, where technical proficiency evolves into a deeper, Self-infused way of coaching. Here, coaching becomes not only a profession but a living path—an integration of presence, intuition, and authentic service.
You attain Self-Leadership.
Program Outline
Two levels of certification are available, opening the doorway to professional practice at ICF ACC or PCC levels.
Meeting the new ICF Level 1 standards, the 80-hour Practitioner program consists of a minimum of 60 hours of live, highly interactive online sessions divided into 5 study modules introducing tools and methodologies of Self-System framework in a coaching context built on the Core Competencies of the International Coaching Federation (ICF). You will begin coaching practice right away and are expected to complete 15 hours of peer coaching of which 5 will be observed coaching sessions. In addition you will have 10 hours of professional coaching supervision, an ICF credentialing requirement. You will demonstrate coaching competence in a final, formal performance assessment. Graduates earn a Practitioner Certificate in Self-System Life Coaching, certifying their abilities as competent, professional coaches. You’ll be solidly grounded in both Self-System and application of the ICF Core Competencies in coaching and ready for a fulfilling coaching career.
For those who intend to move ahead with ICF Associate Certified Coach (ACC) credentialing the ICF now requires mentoring and performance assessment as an integral part of their coach training program. The Practitioner/ACC Package provides you the course hours, formal performance assessments, certification, and mentoring prerequisites necessary for ICF ACC credentialing, all in one convenient package.
Coaching hours required for ACC accreditation are up to the coach to complete, as are all other prerequisites.
Registration will open this Fall for the 2026 academic year.
The 125-hour PLC Advanced Practitioner program consists of 10 study modules, including and building on the Practitioner curriculum and deepening your skills at applying Self-System to Transformational Life Coaching, while introducing highly effective coaching tools derived from other disciplines including ecopsychology, psychoenergetics, resilience, NLP, Syntegrity, Vedic concepts, Human Systems, aspects of Executive Coaching, and more.
Students completing this program earn an Advanced Practitioner Certificate in Self-System Life Coaching. You will complete another 15 hours of peer-coaching, 7 of which will be observed sessions, and you’ll have 10 hours of professional coaching supervision. You will also receive training on defining and building your own coaching business, and more.
For those who intend to move ahead with ICF Professional Certified Coach (PCC) credentialing, the Level 2-accredited Advanced Practitioner/PCC Package provides the course hours, formal performance assessments, certification and mentoring prerequisites necessary for PCC credentialing. This means when you complete the full Level 2 accredited program you will be eligible to apply for credentials from the ICF using the ACC or PCC Level 2 Applications. These applications do not require your participation in the ICF Performance Evaluation Process, but you will need to pass the ICF coaching knowledge exam and meet the coaching hours requirements.
Coaching hours required for PCC accreditation are up to the coach to complete, as are all other prerequisites.
Home study is supported by on-demand webinars providing additional insights into key elements of Self-System Life Coaching and other coaching skills within the ICF framework. You can see an example here.
Graduates from the 80 hour Practitioner program are professionally qualified as Self-System Life Coach Practitioners. Graduates from the 125 hour Advanced program are qualified as Self-System Life Coach - Advanced Practitioners.
Program Deliverables
SCA’s Transformational Leadership programs are accredited Level 1 and Level 2 Coach Training Programs by the International Coaching Federation. These programs provide you with the training prerequisites you need for the ICF’s new credentialing requirements.
Graduates of the Practitioner Program are certified as Self-System Life Coach Practitioners. Those opting for the "ACC Package" will have completed mentoring and performance assessment requirements and are prepared for credentialing as an ICF Associate Certified Coach (ACC) through the ACC Path provided the coaching hour and other ICF credentialing prerequisites are met.
Graduates of the Advanced program receive professional certification as Self-System Life Coach-Advanced Practitioners. If you have opted for the 'PCC Package' you will have completed the mentoring and performance assessment requirements and are ready to apply for credentials with the ICF as an Associate Certified Coach (ACC) or Professional Certified Coach (PCC) via the ACC or PCC Path, provided that the coaching hour and other ICF credentialing prerequisites are met.
You will receive certification for all hours of co-coaching (peer-to-peer) carried out during your course of study. As an ICF Accredited Coaching Education Provider, our certification is applicable to both your ICF credential and, depending on the program, any further coaching education you wish to undertake.
Self-System students and graduated are eligible for discounts in SCA's mentoring program which meets the requirements for credentialing or ICF ACC or PCC credential renewal.