Certified Holistic Life Coach · Chicago, IL

Holistic Life Coach training in Chicago.

Holistic Life Coach candidates in Chicago tend to arrive mid-career — West Loop professionals in their forties leaving corporate roles for something they can run themselves. The competency-based certification covers contracting, deep listening, and powerful questions, built for people used to interrogating a curriculum before they commit to it.

Holistic Life Coach certification training in Chicago, IL

Chicago cohort at a glance

Tuition
$6,500

Same tuition in every city

Format
100% in person

In Chicago, IL

In-person teaching
18 days · 144h

8-hour days, two 4-hour half-days

Personal study
~115h

Between sessions, on average

Cohort size
10 students

Fixed cohort, start to finish

Credential
CHLC

Private certification, not a state license

Download detailed program (PDF)

PDF — modules, hours, faculty notes, and a typical week's schedule.

Your dates in Chicago

Oct 15, 2027 – Mar 12, 2028

Fri–Sun · 9 am–6 pm · 18 teaching days in 6 monthly modules · 10 seats per cohort

  1. Module 1Oct 15–17
  2. Module 2Nov 12–14
  3. Module 3Dec 10–12
  4. Module 4Jan 14–16
  5. Module 5Feb 11–13
  6. Module 6Mar 10–12

Every teaching day runs 9 am to 6 pm, in two four-hour half-days. You receive the Chicago venue and the full timetable with your enrolment agreement.

Seats

10 students

Enrolment closes

September 24, 2027

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Train where you live

Why Holistic Life Coach in Chicago?

Coaching graduates find clients across the West Loop's professional crowd and among educators and social-services workers rethinking their careers. Much of the work happens by video, so your reach extends to Milwaukee and Indianapolis clients who commute in for other reasons. One caveat worth stating plainly: coaching is unregulated and crowded, so a clear niche matters more here than the certificate itself.

Chicago has been a quiet capital of expressive arts and somatic education in the U.S. for half a century. The city's relationship with the arts — its theater, dance, and visual-art communities — has shaped a wellness scene that is more lineage-aware and less trend-driven than either coast. Our Chicago cohorts tend to be educators, social-services adjacent professionals, and artists in mid-career.

For students of Holistic Life Coach specifically, Chicago's scene is a particularly good match: strong somatic and expressive-arts traditions; lower trend volatility than the coasts. The local cohort runs in venue partners around Wicker Park, Lakeview, West Loop, with public transit and parking accessible from across the metro.

Chicago students are often 35-55, with backgrounds in education, social services, healthcare, or the arts. They tend to ask harder questions during admissions than students in trendier markets, want more substantive curriculum content, and value faculty who can speak about lineage with depth. Many of our Chicago cohorts include licensed clinical social workers (LCSWs), educators with master's degrees, and visual or performing artists — students who bring intellectual rigor to holistic practice.

The modality

What you'll be training in.

For a deeper introduction to Holistic Life Coach as a practice tradition, see the full program page.

Life coaching is a goal-directed professional partnership in which the coach supports a client in clarifying what they want, identifying what is in the way, and taking specific actions toward what they want to create. The work is forward-focused (rather than dwelling in the past), client-centered (the coach asks more than they tell), and structured (clean contracts, defined arcs, measurable outcomes). It is non-clinical: clinical mental-health work belongs to licensed professionals.

What distinguishes a "holistic" coach from a purely cognitive coach is the willingness to work with the whole person — body, energy, emotion, and reflection — rather than only the conceptual mind. A holistic coach may begin a session with a brief somatic check-in, may use breath or simple movement to support a client through a stuck place, may use reflective writing or imagery as part of the coaching arc. The work is still coaching (forward-focused, goal-directed, client-centered) but the toolkit is broader than talk alone.

The program, day by day

The Holistic Life Coach curriculum in Chicago: 18 in-person days.

Eighteen days from your first question to a coaching practice with your name on it.

Teaching days
18

days, 7h each

Teaching hours
144h

in the room

Cohort size
10

in your Chicago cohort

See every day in detail
Certified Holistic Life Coach (CHLC) · 18 days · 144 hours
DayTheme
Chapter 1 · Days 1–4Presence
01What coaching is, and what it asks of you
02The coaching mindset and the art of presence
03Deep listening and reflecting back
04Powerful questions that spark awareness
Chapter 2 · Days 5–8The session
05The coaching agreement and the discovery call
06Trust, safety and the client's values
07From insight to action
08The complete session and the GROW model
Chapter 3 · Days 9–13The whole person
09The whole person, every dimension of a life
10The body in the session: awareness and breath
11Emotions, stress and sensitive moments
12Reflective and creative tools
13Life transitions and career change
Chapter 4 · Days 14–18Your practice
14Your niche and the clients you serve
15Launching your coaching business
16Ethics, legal scope and professional growth
17Real sessions with volunteer clients
18Final assessment and certification

Signature moment of the program

Cohort schedule

When Holistic Life Coach cohorts run in Chicago.

Chicago cohorts adjust around the city's pronounced winter. Most students prefer May or September starts; January cohorts are smaller. Weather rarely cancels classes (Chicagoans are used to it), but the cohort schedule includes one snow-day buffer per month from November through March. The deep winter creates unusually strong cohort cohesion — the shared experience of trekking through January slush to attend training builds bonds that summer cohorts do not produce.

The right student

Who this Chicago cohort is for.

Career-changers and wellness practitioners who want a serious, competency-based coaching foundation that complements other holistic skills.

Career outcomes

Where your Chicago training leads.

  • Open a private holistic coaching practice (CHLC)
  • Specialize in career, transition, wellness, or relationship coaching
  • Combine coaching with NLP, hypnosis, breathwork, or energy work
  • Map your next step toward a professional coaching credential, if you want one
Tuition

$6,500 for the full 18-day Holistic Life Coach program in Chicago.

Same tuition whether you study in Chicago or any of our other U.S. cities. Monthly payment plans without interest. A 25% deposit confirms your spot in the Chicago cohort.

Tuition and financing details

$6,500

144h of teaching · 18 in-person days

Next step

Become a Certified Holistic Life Coach in Chicago.

Talk with our admissions team about the next Holistic Life Coach cohort starting in Chicago, IL. Free, online, one hour.