ILM Level 5 Coaching and Mentoring
Developing Neuroscience-Informed Coaching Capability
Whether you are seeking to build a resilient coaching culture within your organisation, enhance staff development, or unlock the potential of your teams, our accredited ILM Level 5 qualification provides the definitive framework. Thinking Through Academy transforms standard coaching practice by blending rigorous, practical coaching skills with cutting-edge neuroscience-informed insights.
- Format: Online (in-person options available)
- Duration: 9 months
- Course runs: February and October
Learn Online
Delivered face-to-face or online.
At Your Own Pace
Flexible training to fit your timeline.
Tutor Support
Support from an expert coach.
Payment Plans
Spread the cost with our payment plans.
Your unique coaching toolkit
By combining ILM’s comprehensive coaching framework with practical models and techniques supported by neuroscience, we equip coaches to move beyond theory and master the mechanisms of coaching:
- Work with Threat & Reward: Recognise and navigate the brain’s fundamental threat/reward responses to reduce defensiveness and build trust in the coaching relationship, enabling you to go deeper.
- Engage the Thinking Brain: Utilise language and questioning techniques that bypass emotional triggers and engage higher cognitive function, leading to deeper insights.
- Create Lasting Change: Align coaching strategies with how habits are formed in the brain, helping clients create sustainable behavioural changes.
Benefits for You (The Individual Coach / Leader)
- Professional qualification: Gain a recognised ILM Level 5 qualification to significantly enhance your career prospects.
- Master practical skills: Build and refine coaching and mentoring skills you can apply immediately in HR, managerial and leadership roles.
- Neuroscience edge: Understand the brain science that makes your coaching conversations more powerful and effective.
- Unlock potential: Learn how to build trust, rapport, and psychological safety, empowering individuals or teams to excel.
Benefits for Your Organisation
- Foster a Coaching Culture: Drive engagement, innovation, and performance by embedding coaching at every level.
- Improve Professional Capability: Enhance managerial, organisational and HR effectiveness that supports talent retention and career progression.
- Evidence-Based Capability: Build an internal coaching function backed by robust ILM standards and the latest evidence-based practice.
- Sustainable Support: We offer robust ongoing support, including Supervision & CPD, to ensure your internal coaches remain confident, capable, and compliant with professional standards.
Why Choose TTA’s ILM-Accredited Level 5 Certificate in Coaching and Mentoring?
An ILM Level 5 qualification demonstrates credibility, professionalism, and a commitment to excellence.
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Feature
The TTA Difference
Value Proposition
Neuroscience-informed
The TTA Difference
We weave brain-based insights into every module, helping you understand how people think, learn, and change.
Value Proposition
Your coaching conversations become more effective and meaningful, resulting in effective change and lasting transformation.
Accredited expertise
The TTA Difference
Our facilitators are practicing executive coaches and supervisors, members of the European Mentoring and Coaching Council (EMCC), and we are an ILM-Approved Centre.
Value Proposition
You receive training backed by decades of practical experience, professional standards, and academic rigour.
Practical & applicable
The TTA Difference
The course focuses on real-world coaching scenarios, providing a toolkit you can immediately deploy with coachees or groups.
Value Proposition
You graduate ready to implement and measure the impact of your coaching, essential for corporate ROI justification.
Bespoke training
The TTA Difference
We can tailor the course content, unit selection, and delivery specifically for your organisation’s strategic priorities and context.
Value Proposition
Ensure maximum relevance and immediate application across your leadership teams.
Programme structure and delivery
Our qualification is offered as a flexible ILM Level 5 Certificate.
ILM Level 5 Coaching & Mentoring training days overview:
Training Day Focus
Key Learning Areas (Summary)
Day One: Core Coaching Skills
Key Learning Areas (Summary)
Principles of coaching, coaching models (e.g., Skilled Helper), establishing trust, communication, values, and goal-focused approaches.
Day Two: Organisational Context
Key Learning Areas (Summary)
Managing the coaching process ethically, contracting, creating a coaching culture, and planning sessions within a workplace setting.
Day Three: Supervision & Reflection
Key Learning Areas (Summary)
Reflective practice, providing feedback and constructive challenge, Socratic questioning, measuring impact, and applying neuroscience in coaching.
Day Four: Coaching for Wellbeing
Key Learning Areas (Summary)
Psychological safety, the SCARE model (Threat to Reward), motivational interviewing, resilience strategies, and solution-focused coaching.
Day Five: Team and Group Coaching
Key Learning Areas (Summary)
Understanding the differences, managing group dynamics (Forming / Storming / Norming / Performing), and building a shared team identity.
Entry Requirements & Assessment
There are no formal entry requirements, though candidates must demonstrate the ability to write at an academic level. Successful completion requires candidates to:
- Attend all compulsory live class sessions.
- Complete a minimum of 18 hours of coaching practice in a genuine workplace context.
- Complete assignments that involve critical reflection on your practice and analysis of coaching literature.
The coaching helped me unlock
leadership potential I didn’t
know I had. The practical
strategies tailored to my needs
were truly transformative.
Why choose Thinking Through Academy?
With some of the most qualified experts in the fields of leadership and neuroscience, you’ll get an unrivalled educational experience that drives career progression.
Learn from Leading Experts
Our expert trainers hold some of the most well-respected qualifications in coaching, leadership and neuroscience. You’ll be learning from the very best. With over 20 years’ experience in creating successful coaches, ThinkingThrough Academy gives you the tools to make meaningful change and excel in your career.
ILM & CPD-Accredited Excellence
When investing in your career, you need to know that your training provider is reputable. We’ve been accredited by the ILM and the CPD Certification Service for over 12 years, so you can trust in the quality of our education.
Dave Palfreyman
Head of Coaching and Applied Neuroscience | Adv Dip (Ongoing), Neuroscience of Leadership, PG Cert in Transformational Leadership , ILM7 Coaching and Mentoring Supervision
Dave is a highly experienced Executive Coach and Coaching Supervisor, operating with an ethical framework as a dedicated member of the European Mentoring and Coaching Council (EMCC). He spearheads ThinkingThrough Academy’s coaching division, distinguished by its experience in leading public and private organisations and the professional application of neuroscience insights to leadership development.
