Zen Leadership Coach

You’ve experienced the power of integrating mind and body in your coaching. How can you further lift and liberate your clients using the flips of Zen Leadership and the energy patterns of FEBI? How might your clients or practice grow when you invest in this profound growth in yourself?

Here’s your path to certification
as a Zen Leadership Coach

Take your coaching to new levels of insight, agility and breakthrough possibility for clients.

Zen Leadership (ZL) Coach certification builds on your foundational coaching skills and adds:

  • the reframing flips of ZL, as taught in Zen Leader 1, 2 and 3 (or their HEAL equivalents), with opportunities to coach and applications to your coaching practice

  • the agile energy patterns of FEBI, put to work for you in FEBI-4U and applied to clients in FEBI Certification, where you learn to coach individuals and facilitate teams with FEBI

  • a regular Zen practice with our sister organization, Chosei Zen, including at least one intensive training (in-person sesshin or online keishin)

  • your first year of participation in our annual Master Class, where you have a chance to coach and learn with others

  • greater interaction with and guidance from our teachers

  • being part of a like-hearted community of coaches in discussion and practice groups as well as monthly gatherings

Is This for You?

YES! if

You’re you’re a somatically-oriented coach with ICF PCC or equivalent experience, and/or a FEBI-certified coach who wants to go deeper.

You’re motivated to train in Zen and want to integrate the transformative “flips” of ZL into your coaching.

Ask us if you have questions about qualifying.

Transformation and Impact:

“Some of the highlights of this journey include: I am learning to make more requests. If I don't ask for the business, I can't serve as a coach. I’m also receiving more requests to serve as an ICF Mentor Coach…I’m finding it easier to follow intuition and back out of projects don’t feel right… I’m experiencing more opportunities for fun.”

Stacey Bevill, PCC, BCC, Golden Career Strategies

“I am much bolder in the ways that I interact with clients. I hold back less. I am free to be more challenging, even intentionally provocative, and yet I have a strong sense that I am doing so from a place of service and compassion. I'm way more authentic and willing to be vulnerable. It seems like this really helps clients feel safer in our work together.”

Scott Lillich, Executive Coach, Trainer and Facilitator, ZL Coach

Pathway Structure

Enroll in each program separately or scroll down for how you can commit to the whole ZL Coach pathway at significant savings.

FEBI-4U: Engage Your Inner Team of Energy Patterns

Learn go-to patterns of your personality, how to read the patterns in others, and how to access any pattern as you need it. This is a great starting point for your journey, or take this program any time before FEBI Certification.

Zen Leader 1, 2 and 3

Experience and apply the reframing flips of ZL in this trio of 4-day programs including Leading with Energy and Connection, Leading Fearlessly and Transforming Relationships, and Leading Transformation. Each program includes opportunities to coach and apply learnings to your coaching practice and business.

Alternatively, you can enroll in the equivalent HEAL programs if you’de like to earn CME.

FEBI Certification

Add the mind-body personality tool, FEBI, to your coaching and help people discover not only their go-to patterns, but where each pattern is essential and ways to cultivate any pattern they want easier access to. FEBI certification will equip you to coach individuals using FEBI, facilitate FEBI-based team sessions, and run FEBI-based programs. 

Master Class

Join with our community of ZL practitioners, coaches, and instructors in this annual opportunity to ever-improve and expand how we apply this work to what’s needed in the world, and bring out the best in our coaching, clients, and one another. The first year of attendance in Master Class is included in the ZL Coach pathway.

Zen Training with Chosei Zen

Accompany and deepen your entire journey with a regular practice in Zen meditation (Zazen) and you’ll be able to bring this transformative depth into your coaching. Participating in at least one intensive Chosei Zen training in person (sesshin) or online (keishin) is a requirement of this pathway. All training with Chosei Zen is on a donation basis.

How it Works

You can enroll in each of the 6 programs one at a time, or enroll in the ZL Coach Pathway below and we’ll honor your commitment with our largest discount. You can also set up a 3-part payment plan and still receive the pathway discount. Contact us if you’d like to do this.

Once you enroll in the pathway, we’ll confirm with you when you’d like to attend each of the 6 programs. If something later comes up where you can’t make a program, we’ll roll your registration forward to the next offering over a period of three years.

In your first Zen Leader (or HEAL) program, you’ll be introduced to Zen meditation and to the Chosei Zen community, which you can continue to train with regularly online.

In addition to program requirements, one must demonstrate proficiency in ZL coaching, and IZL reserves the right to determine when this proficiency has been met. All training with Chosei Zen is offered on a donation basis apart from the fee for this pathway.

Your Investment

  • Approximately 150 hours of training over 6 programs plus Zen training

  • Can be taken over a period of your choosing, from 6 months to 3 years

  • Regularly $3694; if purchased separately with discount: $2744

  • Special pathway price: $1999

Scholarship Opportunities

We want to make our programs available to all who are eager to join. If resources are a barrier, you may apply for a partial scholarship.

If you can help make our programs more available by donating a little extra or gifting a program, we and those whom it benefits thank you!

Frequently Asked Questions

  • The pathways differ in the prior experience required; i.e., coaching vs teaching experience. Both pathways include the full ZL and FEBI curriculum. They also require regular Zen practice with Chosei Zen and attendance at one (for ZL Coach) or 2 (for ZL Instructor) intensive trainings (in-person sesshin or online keishin). ZL Instructor further requires training in how to run a sitting group; i.e., jiki training.

  • Prior coaching experience at the level of ICF PCC or equivalent is required for FEBI Certification and the ZL Coach pathway. No prior experience in Zen is required. Ask us if you have questions about qualifying.

  • We recommend taking the programs in the 1-2-3 order, with FEBI-4U coming before or after Zen Leader 1 and before FEBI Certification. If it works better for your schedule to start in Zen Leader 2 and pick up Zen Leader 1 later, that is also possible. You have to have taken at least one Zen Leader program before attending Zen Leader 3 and complete all ZL programs before attending Master Class.

  • If you’re committed to making a positive difference in your personal or professional life, you fit our definition of leader, and we’re here to help you do it better.

  • We design our online agendas with options, so that they work with time zones around the world. We also record sessions so that no one has to attend beyond midnight local time.

  • No worries, we can transfer your registration forward to a future offering or you may be eligible for a refund. See our cancellation policy here.

  • No. Our training is compatible with any religion or none at all. We introduce physical Zen training, including meditation, to help you break through barriers and free the mind.