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ISEMI Secure Base Coach

From presence to transformation: coaching from a secure base

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Marcel den Hartog

What you will learn

  • Design and hold a professional coaching process within a clear framework — contract carefully, clarify roles and responsibilities, and maintain professional boundaries.

  • Recognise and work with patterns in coaching questions, including scripts, attachment dynamics and systemic patterns, in a way that fits the client’s capacity, context and developmental needs.

  • Guide a complete coaching process — from intake and goal clarification to session structure, interventions, practical assignments, evaluation, completion and integration.

  • Combine NLP, Transactional Analysis, Systemic Work, body-oriented and energetic awareness, and philosophical perspectives with care into a coaching approach that is professional, congruent and attuned to the client and context.

  • Recognise transference, countertransference, projection and shadow dynamics — distinguish what belongs to you, what belongs to the client, and what is emerging in the relationship, so that you remain professionally present and role-clear.

  • Deepen your awareness of attention, intention and inner stance and explore how these influence choices, action and the developmental process, without falling into magical thinking or simplistic claims about change.

  • Develop your professional identity as a Secure Base Coach — gain clarity about your target group, offer, boundaries, responsibilities, fees, and appropriate forms of collaboration and referral.

  • €25/month for 12 months

This Course Includes

  • Weekly lessons in the ISEMI app with video, exercises, reflection and in-depth learning.
  • Monthly live training for practice, deeper learning, case discussions and personal questions
  • Peer intervision group to learn together, share experiences and reflect.
  • Personal guidance tailored to your learning process and level of development.
  • Small-group contact and development days for communication practice, feedback and deeper integration.
  • A certification pathway leading to the ISEMI Secure Base Coach Certificate at post-bachelor professional level, with additional certification as a Usui Reiki GrandMaster upon successful completion of the relevant training, practice, initiation and integration criteria.