Certified Holistic Life Coach · San Francisco, CA

Holistic Life Coach training in San Francisco.

Coaching is already part of working life in San Francisco, where engineering managers and founders often had an executive coach before they ever considered becoming one. The Certified Holistic Life Coach program gives those applicants what corporate coaching rarely covers: 18 in-person days on contracting, deep listening, and powerful questions, framed around the whole person rather than the next promotion.

Holistic Life Coach certification training in San Francisco, CA

San Francisco cohort at a glance

Tuition
$6,500

Same tuition in every city

Format
100% in person

In San Francisco, CA

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 San Francisco

Jun 4 – Nov 7, 2027

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

  1. Module 1Jun 4–6
  2. Module 2Jul 9–11
  3. Module 3Aug 6–8
  4. Module 4Sep 10–12
  5. Module 5Oct 1–3
  6. Module 6Nov 5–7

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

Seats

10 students

Enrolment closes

May 14, 2027

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Train where you live

Why Holistic Life Coach in San Francisco?

Graduates tend to choose a niche early, coaching people through a layoff, a post-startup exit, or the decision to leave tech entirely, and they meet those clients in Hayes Valley cafes or by video across the Peninsula and East Bay. Clients here are sharp and will compare your questions with every coach they've had. That scrutiny works in your favor: a competency-based foundation stands out in a crowded field, and a defined niche supports Bay Area rates.

The Bay Area's wellness market is shaped by tech wealth and tech burnout. Our San Francisco students disproportionately come from software, biotech, and venture capital — people whose work is highly cognitive and whose post-career pivot is often deliberately embodied. Pricing power for graduate practitioners is among the highest in our network.

For students of Holistic Life Coach specifically, San Francisco's scene is a particularly good match: tech-driven student profile. highest pricing power for graduate practitioners in our network. The local cohort runs in venue partners around Mission, Hayes Valley, SoMa, with public transit and parking accessible from across the metro.

San Francisco students are often 30-48, with backgrounds in tech (software engineers, product managers, venture capitalists in active career questioning), biotech, and consulting. They are highly educated, well-paid, and often have mature personal contemplative practices already. The post-tech pivot is real and growing — recent cohorts have included multiple students who have left FAANG or YC-backed startups to pursue holistic practice as a second career.

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 San Francisco: 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 San Francisco 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 San Francisco.

Bay Area cohorts run year-round; the climate makes scheduling unusually consistent. Cost of living shapes the cohort more than weather — many students commute from East Bay or Peninsula and we calibrate venue choice accordingly.

The right student

Who this San Francisco 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 San Francisco 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 San Francisco.

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

Tuition and financing details

$6,500

144h of teaching · 18 in-person days

Next step

Become a Certified Holistic Life Coach in San Francisco.

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