Financial coaching is a method of partnering with clients in a creative process that inspires them to maximize their asset building potential. The client is held as the expert of their lives, and the financial coach is the facilitator of an empowering process. Together the synergy created through this relationship can cause paradigm shifts that may lead to permanent behavioral change in how money is generated, used, managed, and accumulated. Financial coaching can benefit the client by helping them to see their own path to financial stability and growth while holding them accountable to themselves to follow through.
Financial Coaching for Prosperity ©Training
The Washington Asset Building Coalition and Burst for Prosperity are offering free financial coaching trainings for 150 coalition members statewide thanks to funding from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Administration for Children and Families. The training will be offered in four regions in the state: Spokane, Mount Vernon, Seattle, and Olympia.
The trainings consists of six, full days broken out into two modules, and three, 3-hour follow up, peer learning sessions. The peer learning sessions provide training participants with opportunities to refine their financial coaching skills as they integrate the knowledge and tools into their day-to-day work. By completing the training, participants will receive:
• A financial coaching training certificate from WABC and Burst for Prosperity
• 48 continuing coaching education units (CCE) that can be applied toward the 60 units required to become an International Coaching Federation (ICF) Associate Certified Coach (ACC)
All slots have been filled, and we are no longer accepting applications for this cycle of trainings. Get involved with your local asset building coalitions to stay abreast of future training opportunities.
Course Curriculum and Training Objectives