Become a certified Integral Coach®
Blaze a new path
to fulfillment.
The world needs your skill, your compassion and your presence. At every step of your journey, New Ventures West helps you awaken your greatest possibilities.
Skills for your whole life
What would it be like to step into a deeper calling?
We train coaches to nurture inner freedom and outer effectiveness, for themselves and their clients.
Our Certified Integral Coaches embody a unique blend of holistic understanding and pragmatic action. By expanding their perception of what’s possible, they experience personal liberation and gain the tools to guide clients towards both fulfillment and tangible results.
The path to certification
Build a body of experience.
Our programs are structured to help you step into our methodology with knowledge and practice at every stage.
Start with fundamentals in Foundations of Coaching
Explore a hands-on introduction to the Integral Coaching methodology in a supportive, virtual environment. Over three days, you’ll learn practical, immediately relevant skills through a blend of practice, reflection, skill building, and theory.
Expand your possibilities in Coaching Certification
The Professional Coaching Course, our signature ICF Level 2 accredited program, immerses you in Integral Coaching™ methodology. Develop the presence and skills to effect transformative change, graduating as a Certified Integral Coach® ready to make a lasting impact.
Advance and deepen your practice
Your certification is just the beginning. The PCC prepares you for many possible paths, including accreditation and advanced certification. Step onto a pathway of learning that nurtures your growth and enhances your competence.
How it works
Shaped by interdisciplinary wisdom.
In fact, it’s the very basis of the Integral Coaching approach. Our curriculum and methodology draw from a deep and evolving wellspring of the latest scientific inquiry and wisdom traditions from across the globe.
Find practical and powerful ways of expanding your client’s capacity and skillfulness, rooted in trauma-informed knowledge from neuroscience, polyvagal theory, somatic movement, process work, attachment theory, established wisdom traditions and many more. Learn More.
Learn in community
Develop your understanding with support along the way.
Our cohort-based approach is unlike any other. Many of our students and graduates forge lifelong relationships and networks that last long beyond your training.
We design our programs with spaciousness and community in mind, so you can reflect on what you’re learning, experience hands-on practice and ask questions of our diverse, expert faculty.
“Whenever anyone asks me to characterize my training and experience at New Ventures West, I always use the same four adjectives: rigorous, meticulous, generous, and loving.”
Michael Scott
Sausalito, CA
“Foundations of Coaching was the best coaching class I have ever taken!”
Linda Denton
San Juan Capistrano, CA
“NVW was transformative for both my coaching and my sense of agency in my own life: I moved from goal-setting and achieving to actively shaping the experience I want to be living.”
Jo Ilfeld
Berkeley, CA
“Engaging with the Professional Coaching Course was like having an instant community that valued depth and presence. NVW met my need for a curriculum that prioritized my development as a human being.”
Matt Sloane
Portland, OR
Your whole self is welcome in this work.
We greet the complexity of human beings with curiosity and compassion. Our programs are designed on the principle that power is dynamic, and our global faculty helps you unfold your unique genius and beauty. The integration of our individual experience and our collective trajectory is key to helping human beings become more of who they are. Our methodology is beyond technique, process or tips. In a manner of speaking, you are the method.
Professional Coaching Course
Embark on the year that will change your life.
Develop the capacity, presence, and skill to meet people where they are. Our yearlong Integral Coach® certification program connects you with a community of industry-leading facilitators and the support of like-minded peers.
Designed to work with your life.
We have workshops and cohorts beginning every month. Find the one that works for you.
“New Ventures West is life changing! To me, the PCC was much more than a coaching program: it was a rebirth. I am forever grateful to James and the fabulous work he put into the world.”
Simone Writer
San Francisco, CA
“My training with NVW has been life-changing. Of the many learning and professional development activities over the years of my career, this one is the standout: powerful and transformative. “
Gayle Nelson
Vancouver, BC
“The PCC was one of the most life-shifting and transformative experiences I’ve been through as an adult. I highly recommend it as a way to understand yourself and others in a deeper and richer way.”
Sarah Cunningham
Chicago, IL
“Thwarting the Inner Critic is such a powerful class. It helped me and still helps me serve clients years later.”
Angie Fox
El Sobrante, CA
Get Started Today
Coaching Certification
Foundations of Coaching
04/15/2025 – 04/17/2025 | Virtual (Pacific) | By Adam Klein
Our introductory program, Foundations of Coaching, gives you hands-on experience with the Integral Coaching methodology, with plenty of space for conversation.
Take your learning deeper.
