
Diploma in Emergent Team Coaching
A journey towards self-discovery and team coach mastery
Discover what’s within yourself and learn skills to become a confident, highly skilled practitioner with a Diploma in Team Coaching.
Programme Overview
Course Fee: from £5,995 + VAT
Participants: 8 – 16 per cohort
Completion time: from 5 months
Delivery:
Virtual online or hybrid (face to face with virtual online elements)
Accreditations:
ICF Advanced Accreditation in Team Coaching (AATC) and AC Accredited Diploma in Team Coach Training (ADTCT)

The Diploma in Emergent Team Coaching is an immersive AC and ICF advcanced certification in Team Coaching
Designed by internationally renowned Master-certified coach Georgina Woudstra
In a high-support, high-challenge environment, we’ll go beyond competencies and frameworks, to focus on who you are as a practitioner.
You’ll develop the confidence and skills to ‘stand in the heat’ and observe the dynamics of a group, as they play out in front of you.
This is how competent Team Coaches create long-lasting change within teams and organisations.
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What if coaching leaders isn't enough to make real change happen?
How often have the leaders you coach shared that their challenges exist at the team level?
How much more of an impact could you make if you could confidently offer to coach their teams as well?
More and more organisations are seeing the power of Team Coaching, alongside 1:1 coaching, group work and team facilitation as a catalyst for long-lasting change and success.
You’ll learn to be confident and courageous in the moment through practice and experiential learning sessions.
You’ll be tuned into what’s going on in the room, and able to think on your feet, without defaulting to a fixed agenda or facilitation method.
This is a powerful skill for both your personal and professional growth and something that, after spending 20 years mastering, TCS founder and Diploma-lead, Georgina now passes on to the Diploma students.
The Diploma is
perfect for you if…
Tools, modalities and frameworks are important to you, but so is finding your own stance and philosophy as a Team Coach.
You’re a 1:1 coach, internal coach, facilitator, HR, OD or L&D professional looking to develop your capacity to support teams in a way that supports sustainable change.
You’re looking for an AC or ICF advanced certification in team coaching and/or you are wanting to apply for your Team Coaching accreditation with the ICF, AC or EMCC.
You‘re drawn to working emergently.
You want to work with a founder, faculty and community and the forefront of Team Coaching.
What’s the first step to joining the Diploma?
To secure your spot for the next cohort, pay a deposit of £995, which is fully refundable if you change your mind within 14 days.
Paying your deposit gives you instant access to our e-learning programme, Team Coaching Fundamentals, giving you the theoretical grounding you need to be a confident Team Coach. As well as a PDF copy of ‘Mastering The Art Of Team Coaching’ the best-selling book by TCS Founder Georgina Woudstra, MCC, ACTC.
From signing up until 1 month after your programme ends, you’ll also receive complimentary access to our online community with its extensive resource library, regular practice events, clinics webinars and access to faculty, founders and like-minded coaches.
After your journey through the Team Coaching Diploma you will be able to:
Show up authentically as who you are as a team coach, with your unique and aligned philosophy.
Confidently sell your value to potential clients and feel more established in your practice.
Go into a team coaching session without the need to default to a pre-planned modality.
Apply for Master Team Coach, the highest level of team coaching credential available.
Leverage the power of teams to innovate and drive businesses (and society) forward.

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What’s the return on your investment in the Diploma?
You’ll see a return in other ways too, as you embark on a transformative personal journey with support from a faculty of world-renowned Team Coaches.
Show up authentically as who you are as a team coach, with your unique and aligned philosophy.
Confidently sell your value to potential clients and feel more established in your practice.
Go into a team coaching session without the need to default to a pre-planned modality.
Apply for Master Team Coach, the highest level of team coaching credential available.
Leverage the power of teams to innovate and drive businesses (and society) forward.

What’s included in the Diploma?
Designed by renowned master-certified coach Georgina Woudstra, the Diploma in Team Coaching is available in a choice of two formats:
Virtual: 15 x four-hour sessions on Zoom
Hybrid: 3 x virtual sessions on zoom, plus 2 x 4-day in-person modules (in London)
The Diploma in Team Coaching is made up of:
Pre-reading: “Mastering the Art of Team Coaching” by Georgina Woudstra, our founder.
Self-study course “Team Coaching Fundamentals”. Where you will learn how to make your coaching practise your own.
Experiential learning sessions to develop the skill of flexibility, to think on your feet and read the room and making choices in the moment.
Coaching a real organisational client team (within 12 months from completing the Diploma).
Working as part of a small team on a project that makes a contribution to the profession.
Developing your own team coaching methodology and who you are as a team coach and being ready to share this with potential new clients.
Complimentary access to our thriving global community of team coaches, where you can join in practice sessions, team coaching clinics and inspiring webinars run by our faculty and guests
All the training hours necessary for ICF or AC team coaching accreditation.
An opportunity to opt into one of our supervision packages.
What our Diploma Graduates say…
"I feel more peace and confidence than ever before"
- Caroline Duffy
“You seamlessly created a sense of team in our group online, enabling us to connect with each other deeper than I thought was possible.
I found my team coaching ‘home’ in way of working, and I have felt more in the moment/present/grounded in my work since then.
I got so much from the Diploma, and more has settled with me over these past few months, thank you.”
- Alison, 2023 Diploma Grad
“You have helped us all find our voices as team coaches, underpinned by a rich and robust philosophy.
You have pulled together so many concepts, philosophies and perspectives into a meaningful and practical approach.
It has been a deep learning experience for which I will be forever grateful.”
- Alana Jossel
“The TCS Diploma difference is that it is so personal, it’s that Georgina and Allard are doing it personally”
- Maha Alusi
"I feel more confident in my coaching style now."
- Nick Regan
“I liked the ethos of the fact that it was emergent. You don’t take a team through a process.
It’s about being in the room with the team and dealing with what comes up and creating that
space for the team to deal with it themselves”- Emily Jones

Be in the top 2%
Become one of the few Masterful Team Coaches in the World
With the Team Coaching Diploma, you’ll get a pathway to professional accreditation with the two largest coaching professional bodies (ICF & AC).
Certification and Accreditation
Thanks to the pioneering work TCS Founder, Geogina Woudstra has done for the Team Coaching discipline over the past two decades, our Diploma programme was one of the first to be accredited for the ICF Advanced Certification in Team Coaching (ACTC).
Once you have fulfilled the programme requirements for attendance, participation and submissions, you will be awarded the Diploma in Team Coaching.
This will give you all the training hours and observed practice that you need to apply for your ICF Advanced Certification in Team Coaching ACTC or your AC AMTC. We also have supervision packages that students can opt into.
More details can be found on the ICF website or the Association for Coaching website

Who are your Team Coaching Diploma leaders?
The Team Coaching Studio was founded to provide a pathway to professional accreditation and mastery for coaches.
We give you the knowledge and confidence to be a catalyst for change and progress, as together we shift from doing team coaching to being team coaches.
Our CEO and Principal Georgina Woudstra, MCC and International Faculty Lead, Allard de Jong, have been pivotal in the team coaching movement from its inception, to discipline accreditation.
In 2022 Georgina & Allard became amongst the first coaches in the world to be awarded the ICF Advanced Certification in Team Coaching (ACTC).
Georgina Woudstra
Georgina has been coaching since the ‘80’s and is the author of the industry-acclaimed book, Mastering the Art of Team Coaching. Georgina passionately believes that teams need to work together brilliantly for organisations to thrive, today and in the future.
Allard de Jong
Allard has been coaching internationally since 2001, believing that we are slowly forgetting how to be together, think together and work together. And surely collaboration holds the promise of unprecedented human progress, real progress. Allard’s mission is to help people think and work together better. One team at a time.

Feeling ready, but still got a question?
Frequently Asked Questions
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It is ideal for executive coaches, OD professionals, facilitators, and consultants who want to provide a high quality and impactful team coaching service
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While other Team Coaching Diplomas focus on methodologies and frameworks, our Diploma goes deeper.
We have many years of experience in this discipline and understand that a coach’s true skill is to ‘stand in the heat’ and observe the dynamics of a group, as they play out in front of you.
It can be scary not to try to fix the problem, particularly when the team turns to you for answers.
Our Diploma has been designed to give you the confidence to use yourself as an instrument, so you can make the shift from facilitation to true team coaching. Whatever your background, learning these skills will benefit your whole practice.
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Typically after you’ve completed the Diploma, just getting one Team Coaching assignment will more than cover your investment.
In addition, Team Coaching can help coaches to build a much more substantial business.
Coaching 10 one-to-one clients at, say £3-5k per client, is very different to coaching 5 teams at, say, £20k each!
You’ll see a return in other ways too, as you embark on a transformative journey to greatly improve your confidence in working alongside teams of any size and level, and find the courage to take on new challenges.
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We ask that applicants:
have experience of working with groups and/or teams.
have a good understanding of the core competencies of coaching and be able to demonstrate these competencies in your practice
for those with formal coach training, these are defined by the International Coaching Federation (ICF), the Association for Coaching (AC) or those another credible coaching professional body
for those who are not formally trained coaches, you may have developed similar skills through other professional routes like counselling, psychology or leadership development
have completed or be willing to complete the e-learning course Team Coaching Fundamentals and read Mastering the Art of Team Coaching by Georgina Woudstra. Both are included in the Diploma programme materials.
have completed the Team Coaching Studio (TCS) Certificate in Team Coaching, or to have been awarded an exemption from this by a TCS Diploma course leader due to other training or experience
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You will be part of a small, multicultural cohort . Your programme will be run by TCS faculty, led by TCS Founder Georgina Woudstra (MCC/ACTC) and Director of Training Allard de Jong (PCC/ACTC)
Host to student ratios will not exceed 1:8
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As well as the advertised zoom dates for orientation, taught modules, practicums and final presentations we recommend you set aside:
1 hour per week for the duration of the programme for your small team activities.
1 hour per week for the duration of the programme for personal reflective practice and to complete your assignments.
Time as agreed with your small team for your team project work.
For an additional cost, you are also invited to opt into one of our supervision packages to access five hours of supervision with a competent team coaching supervisor
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We ask that all participants read Georgina’s book, “Mastering the Art of Team Coaching” and compete the self guided e-learning programme Team Coaching Fundamentals. TCF takes approximately 12 hours to complete.
You are also required to read and digest the Diploma Handbook and the code of ethics provided by your coaching professional body.
All pre-reading is contained within the resources section of your private online space for your cohort.
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You will integrate your learning by coaching a real-life client team. This will form the material for your team coaching case study essay, as well as support your development by applying your learning to a real-life team.
This might be paid work, a team in your organisation or completed pro bono. You are required to coach a real work team for a minimum of 3 x 90-minute sessions.
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The programme cohort will be organised into small teams (sub-groups within the cohort). Each team is charged with undertaking a small team project, with the goal of making a contribution to the profession.
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The Diploma is accredited for the new ICF Advanced Accreditation in Team Coaching (AATC).
For ICF accredited coaches, it means that you will have a straightforward, simple education path towards achieving your advanced certification (ACTC).
The Diploma has also been awarded the AC’s Accredited Diploma in Team Coach Training (ADTCT). Once you have the required team coaching experience, you will be able to apply for Accredited Master Team Coach (AMTC), the highest level of team coaching credential available.
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You are expected to attend, and fully participate in, all sessions and modules.
We understand that life happens so in exceptional circumstances, you may miss up to two sessions and still be awarded your Diploma. This is on the proviso that you watch the recordings and submit a reflection piece.
Please note, missing more than 30 minutes of any one session constitutes a missed session.
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We periodically run early bird discounts. Please enquire on your application for any discounts we are currently running.
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It is important to us, to you and your cohort that the Diploma is the right fit for you.
To learn more you are able to drop us an email, attend and intro, call a senior faculty member or arrange a conversation with a Diploma Grad.
You can secure your spot on any of your Diploma programmes by paying a £995 depost. Once your deposit is received, we will contact you to arrange a payment plan and to take down any details that will help us onboard you onto the programme.
If you haven’t trained with us before, we may ask you to attend a short, free online meeting with a Senior Faculty member in advance of the Diploma programme starting.
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ICF AATC training hours (ie. the TCS Diploma) can be used to apply for credentials and credential renewals. They are considered ACSTH/Level 1 in regards to credentials or all Core Competencies for renewing.
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Please secure your spot by using the link to pay a £995 deposit. We will be in touch once you pay your deposit to arrange a payment plan. Students typically choose to pay via a lump sum payment or 6 month installment plan.
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Once we receive your deposit, we will contact you to set up your payment plan and to learn a little more about you. If you haven’t trained with TCS before, we reserve the right to ask you to arrange a free discovery call with Senior Faculty to ensure the Diploma is the right pathway for you.
Your payment plan must be in place and all relevant information received within 14 days of receiving your deposit/of the programme starting.
Your deposit is fully refundable within a 14 day cooling off period (subject to terms).
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As Diploma Alumni, our support doesn’t just end once you get your certificate!
We welcome you into our community for further practice, to make connections, and to attend webinars on the topics that matter to our industry.
You will also have priority access to join Georgina, Allard and your fellow Team Coaches at our Retreats and masterclasses.
If you wish to share your insights with a wider audience, we sometimes offer our grads a chance to write our monthly column in Coaching at Work magazine
For more terms and conditions, including refund policies click here.
FREE Intro to Team Coaching
Want to see what we’re all about before committing to the Diploma?
Come along to one of our free 'Intro to Team Coaching’ sessions.
Discover how to elevate your skills in this free 90-minute session for individual, group or beginner team coaches.
We’ll share some of the techniques and team coaching methods that’ll give you the confidence to tackle team challenges. As well as answer all your burning questions on the Diploma, so you can make sure it’s a right fit for you.
Next Date:
Thursday, 8th May 2025 11am CT, 12pm ET, 4pm UK time

Diploma in Emergent Team Coaching
Upcoming Programme Dates
2025 October Cohort
Location: Grand Hotel, Dublin
Price: £5,995
Delivery: Virtual
Language: English
Course Leaders: Allard De Jong and Georgina Woudstra
Times: 1400 - 1800 UK time - Convert
Dates:
Mon, 06-Oct-2025
Mon, 13-Oct-2025
Mon, 03-Nov-2025
Mon, 10-Nov-2025
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Mon, 12-Jan-2026
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Please ensure you read the terms & conditions and cancellation policy before booking