Become a Coach
Become a Certified Awakening Within Relationship and Sexuality Coach with Andrew Barnes.
The Awakening Within Foundation presents a professional Tantra training and mentoring program at the leading edge in Australia… Starts 28th June, 2011... Download your information pack now.
Enjoy your profession! Do something truly meaningful for a living. Help others lead happier, more fulfilling lives!
In a unique year-long educational immersion followed by 6 months of ongoing mentoring, learn the art and skill of guiding clients into a deeper and richer relationship with life—where openness, intimacy, sexuality, creativity, passion and love become the fundamental orientation to the world.
With this 18 month training and mentoring program you have the opportunity to commit to a powerful growth and transformation process within a safe and supportive environment. You can engage more deeply in your individual development while either expanding on your skills or learning and developing a new career and way of life.
Why become a Awakening Within Relationship and Sexuality Coach?
- Be uniquely positioned in the industry as a Certified Awakening Within Relationship and Sexuality Coach.
- Gain prominent listing in the forthcoming Coaches Directory on the Awakening Within website.
- Have use of the Awakening Within logo on your individual website and access to Awakening Within brochure, flyer, newsletter and business card templates for consistent and high-quality branding.
- Enjoy the support and inspiration of the Awakening Within community of Coaches and Instructors through an online message board and forum.
- Access ongoing annual training to update skills, gain new content and maintain current certification.
- You will be putting yourself at the leading edge of a new paradigm in coaching - guiding people to experience the fulfillment and relationship they are longing for.
- Together we will build a unique community of amazing people celebrating life.
- Deepen your own understanding and experience of relationships, sexuality and communication.
Innovative facilitating and teaching
Led by founder Andrew Barnes and AW facilitator and dance Instructor Yvonne Lumsden.
Who should enroll?
- Therapists, coaches, natural therapy practitioners and teachers who would like to specialize in the areas of relationship, communication, and sexuality.
- Educators, trainers and sex therapists.
- Bodyworkers and healers.
- For those who have an established practice as a therapist, coach, bodyworker, educator, or other certified or licensed professional, add profound depth and specialised practices to your existing body of work.
- Tantrikas, Dakini's, Daka's, Tantric practitioners, Tantra healers.
- Anyone wanting to expand awareness into sexuality, relationship, communication, intimacy and healing.
- For people on a path of personal opening and depth.
- Those who wanting to be fully present, living their truth and alive in every moment.
The enrollment procedure
First of all, you need to let us know that you want to become an Awakening Within Relationship and Sexuality Coach, then we will email you the full informational pack. All you need to do then is following the application procedure to be on your way to integrating cutting-edge coaching theory and practice, with a simple yet transformational sexuality practice, which is the next evolutionary step in the helping professional field.
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Mission statement
Our fundamental philosophy is to integrate evidence based research and clinical best practice with ancient healing philosophies from around the world. We also provide leadership in innovative teaching and learning methods.
Our practically based training is provided within the quality-training framework for Certified Awakening Within Relationship and Sexuality Coaches.
Our aim is to provide the industry and community with practitioners who have reached a proven standard of professional excellence, compassion and integrity. We achieve this by providing training through a team of likeminded, highly skilled and creative professionals who are open to sharing their experience, passion and artistic expression.
Our team has the enthusiasm and motivation to continue to evolve. We stay ahead of market requirements by constantly seeking knowledge and wisdom. We thereby offer a valuable cycle of experiential learning for the benefit of students, facilitators, the relationship and sexuality industry and the wider community.
Our education is more than just techniques – it inspires individual creative expression and personal growth.
Vision statement
The Awakening Within Foundation will set the highest standard of professional excellence in innovative teaching and creative learning in the relationship and sexuality industry for the 21st Century.
A career in relationship and sexuality coaching
This incredible growth is seeing professionalisation of the industry and, as a result, industry training has become increasingly scrutinised and subject to quality measures.
Our practically based courses teach a unique style of coaching approach and many dynamic styles of ancient bodywork that focus on the ‘whole’ person by taking a holistic approach that incorporates business principles and heath science while emphasising the emotional, spiritual and intuitive aspects of life.
To be a successful Relationship and Sexuality Coach requires skills in many areas of practice. So therefore as a part of our training program we ensure that you will learn all of what is required so that you will be ready for any environment before you graduate.
This ensures graduates will ‘stand out in the crowd’ as they are not just on a par with the average person that completes a few weekend workshops or a week long retreat, but that they are skilled and experienced in all of the areas of training that they need to be.
Our training therefore finds balance through combining the very best of “modern knowledge and ancient wisdom”.
The program encourages students to reflect on their own experiences and health to understand the impact their touch can have on clients physically, emotionally and energetically. As I have learnt from the many years of teaching during the past 14 years, this is a crucial step in making the leap from ordinary to extraordinary in offering people the very best treatment and opportunities for growth.
My life’s teachers who have shared their wisdom, knowledge and gifts from the heart have been the inspiration for founding Awakening Within so that such heartfelt knowledge can be passed on to a new generation of relationship and sexuality coaches.
Real life, flexible learning
As far as possible, we structure all learning so that it replicates work in industry conditions and to be above industry standards. This can be through the running of workshops and retreats where you get ‘hands-on’ contact with receivers or through setting assessment tasks that allow you to apply the theory to situations that you might face in your own practice.
Awakening Within Foundation is proud of its teaching standards which are based on the principles of flexibility and accelerated learning. Life does not set exams, nor do we. We give you problems to solve, everyday tasks to perform and opportunities to practice skills so that you learn ‘the language of the body’. It is this realism that accelerates your learning and gives you a foundation for adapting your work skills to new environments and new situations.
Our programs are ‘student-centered’ and as user-friendly as possible. The programs have been designed and written by Andrew Barnes. Many components of the program can be studied in your own environment and can be completed in time spans and sequences that fit in with the demands of your own life. However, this style of learning places a great deal of responsibility on the learner, which is why we provide support to help you ‘learn to learn’ and assistance to keep you ‘on track’.