Our Fifth 2-Year Gupta Program Coach Training Will Start in October 2022.
This training will start with level one online, you will do level one individually from the recorded version of the live London Level One in 2021. You can choose to do level one as soon as you've paid, see Instructions down this page.
You can follow level one as a 4 day workshop, you have to be ready with level one before half of October 2022.
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Please Watch Our Recent Video & Listen To Our Audio To Learn More About Becoming a Gupta Program Coach
It Is More Than Just Training...
We are delighted to be offering a 2-year Training to become a ´Gupta Program Coach´, and there is a real demand from our clients for more coaches at the moment, with many Coaches having waiting lists. This course is more than just a training. You start on a personal journey that deepens your understanding in healing yourself and assist others in their healing. An important part is self-experience and bonding with your fellow Trainees. The training will unfold the core of the issues that are important in healing; first in your own life and then in working with others. Following the Gupta Program ourselves made us deeply aware of what is needed for people with chronic illnesses. We made the Training flexible so you can design your own tempo to follow most of the parts of the Training, determined by your background and capacity to learn.
If you are interested in joining the 3 levels Training, please watch the video above that contains a lot of introductory information. If you still have questions, you can have a 20 minute chat with Fenna to pose questions and together we can explore if this Training fits into your life.
Testimonials From Gupta Program Training Attendees
To Fenna,Thank you so much for this amazing training program!I realize now I had no way of knowing what I was getting into when I began the coach training program. And I could not be more delighted and amazed at the depth and breadth of the growth and learning in these past years. It has been a real crucible for my own development - often uncomfortable as old patterns were flushed out by life and the program running in tandem - pace and priority distilling my being along the way.I never imagined I could be exposed to, changed by, catalyzed in so many different trainings within a training - different formats of learning, experiences, perspectives on growth and process work, neuroscience....So much, so rich and I feel so humbled and grateful beyond words to have had this very unique opportunity to learn and grow and change so deeply.Thank you from the depths of my heart.Love, Beth
What I loved most about training as a Gupta Coach was my journey of Self-Discovery, meeting the places inside me that needed awareness and healing. Growing into an authentic person, who learnt her self worth and how to set firm boundaries and how to have a voice too. It was also lovely to make connections with those training alongside me, people I respect and feel such a connection with as we explored the topics and what they triggered inside us, learning how to face challenges together and navigate through relationships, secure and lasting friendships build on mutual trust and respect. It was such a period of growth I will never forget it. The bonus, I am now able to meet my clients in my authentic self, and support each one with their own journey towards self discovery knowing that I am able to guide them because I allowed myself to go there first. I am able to work in a vocation which fulfils my purpose and passion. The training changed me, and I will be forever grateful for that.Best Wishes and Kind Regards, Julie
What an amazing process it was completing the learning, reflections and bearing witness to all my growth, healing, and expansion.
anonymous Junior Gupta Coach Level 2.
The 3 Levels Of Coaching
We have divided the program into 3 Levels to cover a range of levels of development as a Gupta Program Coach depending on where you wish to take it, and to what standard you are committed to developing in this work.
Gupta Program Coach Introductory Training Online:
The training will start in October 2022 and you will be listening to the recording of the online training in London in September 2021.
Level 2:
12 Months Training to Become an Official Junior Gupta Program Coach,
Oct 2022 - Nov 2023
Level 3:
Level 3: 12 months of Training to become an Official Gupta Program Coach with listing on the website. Starts Jan 2024
Description of The 3 Levels of Training
Level 1: Gupta Program Coach Introductory Workshop ONLINE: Can Be Commenced Anytime Between Now And Completed By 1st Oct 2022
The 4-day Workshop online is the first step in becoming an official Gupta Program Coach. The workshop is also designed for everyone who wants to use the tools for themselves and with others (not clients), but may not necessarily want to become an official Gupta Program Coach. After following this workshop you will be a local spokesman for the programme and able to give retrainers some basic support in the form of advice, You will not be eligible to work on a process of healing with a client.
After completing Level 1 you will:
- Be able to advise a person in using the Book, the Techniques used in the Gupta Program and improve your own use of the Program.
- Be able to say that you’ve attended an Introductory Gupta Program Coach Training.
- You can use your experience with the Gupta Program locally but you cannot be mentioned on the official international Website of the Gupta Program. Nor can you ask money for your advice.
If you want to join, please contact Fenna for payment at fjvdvijver@gmail.com. Costs are $595 USD or £495 GBP
Content of Workshop
Requirements To Attend The Workshop
-You have reached a 80% to 100% recovery level
-You have followed the entire Gupta Program
-You have followed a webinar series
-You have done at least one session with a qualified Gupta Program Coach
-You have filled in the questionnaire
-You have paid for attending the workshop
Level 2: 12-15 Months Training to Become an Official Junior Gupta Program Coach
(Amount of supervision sessions and personal sessions will vary according to your existing levels of qualifications & experience)
A Look At Some Of The Aspects We Will Cover
Minimal 8 Supervision Sessions
Requirements To Continue Level 2 (Which Can Run In Parallel To Training)
Minimal 3 – 5 Personal Sessions
Buddy-Groups (For Level 2 and Level 3)
Requirements for certification and Year Book (for Level 2 and Level 3)
Social Media (For Level 2 and Level 3)
*Note: If you are already an experienced coach or therapist we may decide you are ready for certification before completing all the supervision hours or other requirements that are listed above, which means the cost might be less.
Practical information
- Start: End-October 2022
- Senior Trainer/supervisor/psychotherapist: Fenna van der Vijver
- Trainer/Supervisor/GP Coach: Caroline van Lankveld, Deborah Mayaan
- Supervisor/GP Coach: Frances Goodall
- Business Administrator Julie Cody
- Google Classroom support: Tijni Pols
- Supporting Gupta Program Supervisors and certified GP Coaches:
Frances Goodall, Deborah Mayaan, Paulien Elzinga, Jennifer Evans, Shonna Stokowski, and Lisa Irwin - Costs: Approx $3500 (to be paid in two parts, at the beginning and mid year). This is for 9 group supervision sessions.
- There is a minimal requirement for 6 recorded supervision sessions and 3 personal sessions. That cost would be $1145 (one session is $127 per hour). In the case where a trainee requires more than this average number of sessions, the trainee is required to cover the costs of the extra sessions. It will be discussed with the individual trainee if supervisors believe it is necessary for them to receive more personal and/or supervision sessions. For example, costs may increase if you require 13 sessions. In this instance, your investment would be $1650 so your total investment would be $5150 for a year of training. In consultation with the individual, we will do a personal estimate based on their own personalized training program and their needs.
- Time schedule: 12-15 months (depending on the needs of the Trainee). If the trainee requires more time, this can be organized.
- Workload: 20 hours every week. 2 weekly Buddy get together sessions
- If indicated in Group Supervision Session (GSS), you will come together with the peer group.
- You will receive a Level 2 certificate of being an Official Junior Gupta Program Coach after fulfilling all requirements. Level 2 gives a Certification that gives you the possibility to use the Gupta Program in your own region and own practice.
- With certificate level 2 You will not be on the Gupta Program website. On your own website, you can name yourself a Level 2 Junior Gupta Program Coach. To be a Level 3 Certified Gupta Program Coach and be eligible to have your name on the website you have to finish Level 3 also.
- Requirements for Level 2 and 3 will be given as soon as you've paid your deposit (the first half of the costs for level 2).
- As you move through your Level 2 Training, a supervisor will determine when you have reached the stage where you are professionally proficient to start charging a ‘student rate’ fee for your coaching services.
- For payment for the first half of the cost, you can email at: fjvdvijver@gmail.com
- Prices may change according to the worldwide financial situation.
Level 3: 12-15 months Training To Become An Official Gupta Program Coach
(With your listing on the GP website)
A Look At Some Of The Aspects We Will Cover
Requirements To Continue Level 3
Minimum of 3 – 5 Personal Sessions With a Supervisor and Gupta Coach.
For insight on your own trauma/history/patterns/functioning/blind spots/projections/counter transference. Fenna and Caroline will discuss with you how many sessions you will need in their view. Costs for extra sessions are paid for by the Trainee. Starts Jan 2024.
Practical information
- Starts end of Nov 2023 until Nov 2024
- Senior Trainer/supervisor/psychotherapist: Fenna van der Vijver
- Trainer/Supervisor/GP Coach: Caroline van Lankveld, Deborah Mayaan
- Supervisor/GP Coach: Frances Goodall
- Business Administrator Julie Cody
- Google Classroom support: Tijni Pols
- Supporting Gupta Program Supervisors and certified GP Coaches:
Frances Goodall, Deborah Mayaan, Paulien Elzinga, Jennifer Evans, Shonna Stokowski, and Lisa Irwin - Costs approx $3500 (paid in two parts, half at the beginning and mid year). This includes 9 group supervision sessions and all material.
- There is a minimal requirement for 6 recorded supervision sessions and 3 personal sessions. That cost would be $1145 (one session is $127 per hour). If more sessions are needed (personal or supervision), the trainee is required to pay for the extra cost. For example, costs may increase if you require 13 sessions. In this instance, your investment would be $1650 so your total investment would be $5150 for a year of training. In consultation with the individual, we will do a personal estimate based on their own personalized training program and their needs.
- When the group is 5 persons or smaller, we have to raise the price. The prices for personal and supervision sessions will remain the same ($127 USD per hour). The cost of the Group Supervision Sessions will be increased and be the responsibility of the trainee to cover
- Time schedule: Minimum of 12 months. More time can be taken if necessary.
- Workload: 20 hours every week. 2 weekly Buddy get-together sessions. Peer meetings when indicated in Group Supervision Sessions.
- Level 3 leads to certification as a Certified Level 3 Gupta Program Coach and a profile on the international website www.guptaprogram.com
- You will receive the Curriculum and Requirements separately if you are interested in this Training and have paid half the fee of Level 3, the other half can be paid after half a year.
- As you move through your Level 3 Training we will suggest you can increase the ‘student rate’ fees for your coaching services according to the prices in your country (maximum $120 USD for an hour session).Usually starting at 60 % of the average country fee at the start of Level 3.
- For payment for the first half of the cost, you can email at: fjvdvijver@gmail.com,
- Prices may change according to the worldwide financial situation.
Your First Year As Level 3 Certified Gupta Program Coach
As a team, we also commit to yearly learning and meeting obligations. You will attend at least 4 to 6 of our monthly coach meetings. To connect to each other as members of a team and to update each other professionally. We also have different ´Hubs´, learning Hub, social Hub etc. and we expect you to step forward and take your place in one of them to support our team development and the Gupta Program.
Concerning your own development you are expected every year to do 24 hours professional development (courses, workshops, reading) + 12 hours personal development (meditation retreat or other).
In the first year after you finish your training you will be doing 3 Group Supervision Sessions with your peers with one of our Supervisors.
Later on when you see 12 clients a week we expect you to do 6 Supervision sessions a year with a Supervisor that knows the treatment of chronic illness and the trauma often behind it. Every year you fill in the form you will receive to send in to Ashok what you did that year. Once every 2 years you attend the Gupta Coach meeting in London that usually is connected to the Level 1 meeting in London. You are invited to help support during Level 1.
Your Supervisors
Fenna van der Vijver
Principal Supervisor Gupta Program Coach Training/Trainer / Gupta Program Coach/ Psychotherapist
My professional background and the Gupta Program Coach Training
I worked as a body-oriented trauma psychotherapist in my own practice (Inner-Focus) since 1990 (certified at the Free University, Amsterdam, Netherlands) and was a teacher (bodywork and holistic techniques) at University. I work also as a Gupta Coach since 2008 and developed the Gupta Program Coach Training where my role is Trainer, Supervisor and GPCoach. Since last year I do not take on any new clients but I do continue to work with the clients I know and those that come back for a deepening of their process.
My work now is running the Gupta Coach Training Level 1, 2 and 3. Support with brain retraining and all tools from the Gupta Program this process for persons that want to become a GP Coach. It is an intense journey to give a new meaning to your life.
Aspects of all of the GP tools I have brought into the 2 year GP Coach Training. So all trainees go through a process of opening up to whatever blocks their functioning as a professional GP Coach. They all have to experience their own process deeply before they can support clients.
My style of work.
I work from a holistic viewpoint so my view is that you have to grow in awareness on all levels of consciousness as a body-mind-energy organism, to really heal yourself and reach your own freedom and enjoyment of and connection to the mystery of life on this planet. So the spiritual awakening of the client/coach plays an active role in a certain stage of the healing process and the GPCoach Training.
I prefer to work in a psychodynamic way (accepting your childhood influences your present life to a high degree) using trauma body-oriented techniques and body/breathing awareness. And working with the senses, mindfulness, meditation, expressive bodywork and art forms like drawing, dancing and sculpting, The Work of Byron Katie, nonviolent communication, family constellations, working with re-scripting and Gestalt techniques and spiritual awareness.
And it is so important in all healing processes to include light therapy, diet, building up ´process healing movement´, learning about Circadian Rhythm and Hormesis etc
I love to create for clients the opportunity to go really deep into their consciousness to find the way to reconnect to their true Selves. And let go of the tight grip of the Ego (all your conditioning that is not you). We all know that often means a lot of pain to get there. But that is the journey to your own heart before you can identify with freedom! And in the end it always shows to be worth the pain.
My history of CFS and what it brought me
I myself had CFS for 11 years and therefore I understand the process of chronic disease deeply. One of the major things I learned is that every illness brings you a chance to deepen and clarify your journey towards yourself and so to freedom and self-love. (¨the longest journey is the journey from the head to the heart ¨ is a saying that I fully subscribe). The most important thing for me in healing is to befriend your illness and go way back into your history to get to the core of the origin of your patterns that have blocked your natural flow of life force energy. And blocking your energy flow can lead to illnesses. And then support the process to unfold to what you were meant to be and retrain all ´echos from the past´.
This is me now
I live in Spain with my partner and I enjoy life while growing towards retirement. I have children and grandchildren who all enrich my life in a deep joyful way. Mainly because of the way I look at life, at situations and at people. I feel deeply grateful for my life. And especially for the time of illness I went through.
I love my work, my journey, my life and accept all it brings to me! And an important part is my dedication to the Gupta Program Coach Training! The connection with other persons looking for their truth is a constant joy in my life.
As from Oct 2022 I will partly hand over my responsibility as the principal trainer of the Gupta Program training to our new team: Caroline, Deborah, Julie and Tijni & supporting coaches. Welcome all of you in this new structure and we will create a new special flavour to the Gupta Program training.
Caroline van Lankveld
Languages: Dutch and English
Guiding people to live more consciously, more friendly and to be more free: that is the passion of Caroline. By supporting clients to bring body, head and heart more into balance. In 2016 she started her practice for coaching, body-oriented psychotherapy and traumawork. She is also a mindfulness- and compassion trainer. In the Gupta Program she guides retrainers in their recovery and supports GP coaches in training by giving personal sessions and supervision.
Life itself has been providing her a learning journey. Caroline had several burnouts, diagnosed with chronic fatigue syndrome (ME) and cancer. In her recovery process she learned how to use her high sensitivity and focus on her body as a key to healing. As a result she was able to allow more strength, vibrancy and joy into her life.
In her approach she works with body and mind, creating space for relaxation, insight, vitality, focus and personal strength. She treats a variety of complaints and requests for help, including guidance with stress management and burnout, dealing with chronic illness, anxiety and depression, insecurity, mourning and loss, high sensitivity, personal development and career guidance.
Her strengths are the ability to create the right atmosphere of trust, kindness, acceptance and respect and the ability to get to the core of your issues easily. This will take you to a deeper and broader understanding of yourself, your life, your strength, your relationships. Clients call her involved, warm, curious, calm, firm and sharp in her perception.
In addition to insightful conversations, she uses proven methods such as body-oriented work, traumawork (Somatic Experiencing, rescripting), mindfulness and meditation, (self) compassion, Compassion Focused Therapy, relaxation techniques, positive psychology, breath work, Acceptance & Commitment Therapy (ACT), visualizations, systemic work (family constellations), gestalt and yoga.
The tradition of Thich Nhat Hanh is a big inspiration for her. She is also touched by the work of A.H. Almaas, of whom she is she student since 2005. Furthermore she practices kundalini yoga daily, which encourages her to fully live from her heart. She lives in the Netherlands next to the forest with her husband. They have three teenage children and a lovely dog.
Caroline supports clients over Zoom or Skype.
Email: info@centrumheartwork.nl
Dutch website: www.centrumheartwork.nl
Skype: carolinevanlankveld
Supporting Supervisors/Certified Gupta Program Coaches During Level 2 and Level 3 for supervision on recorded client video sessions and personal (supervision) sessions of Trainees Level 2 and 3
Frances Goodall
Deborah Mayaan
Supporting Certified Gupta Program Coaches During Level 2 and 3: For Personal Sessions of Trainees Level 2 and 3
Paulien Elzinga
Lisa Irwin
Shonna Stokowski
To learn more about our Gupta Program Coaches, please see here.
