What Our Graduates Have to Say

Meet the brave souls, the courageous hearts, the world-changers
who experienced the life transformation that comes with the
Awaken Coach Institute
learning journey.  

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“I am so encouraged, and I can't tell you how much I am enjoying learning how to coach. And one of my practice-coachees just told me that she wants to hire me to continue after we finish our 6 practice sessions. I could hardly believe it! Thanks again!”

Brave, Spiritually-grounded World-Changer | Sunbird Bookkeeping Services | https://www.facebook.com/sunbirdbookkeeping/

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Joanna Clark - Brave, Spiritually-grounded World-Changer

“Whenever I think of the vibe of Awaken Coach Institute, I feel very loved and accepted in areas that I didn’t realize needed acceptance. There is this openness in Awaken that makes me feel loved and accepted”

Brave, Spiritually-grounded World-Changer

Abi Johnson
Brave, Spiritually-grounded World-Changer | Awaken Coach Institute Graduate

"I'm getting a sense of believing that I will bring value as a coach, and therefore that that is an exciting reason to do it, along with the intellectual excitement of what it involves. I can't imagine this happening in any other kind of learning environment that I've experienced, so thank you very much, and thank all of you very much. It's just wonderful."

Chrystal Kelly

Brave, Spiritually-grounded World-Changer | Awaken Coach Institute Graduate

''I just love the brave space created. It's helped me think so much more about who I am in my personal life, but also I'm really still exploring what's my place as a coach, where's my place as a coach. My heart is just really full! Thank you, all of you.''

Awaken Coach Institute

“My gratitude for Awaken Coach Institute is endless. The top tangible outcomes I’ve experienced include finding a community that I will forever cherish, finding a deeper connection with my own being than I knew possible, finding the knowledge, the safe space and tools that I needed to advance my (very new) coaching skills, and courage to launch my own coaching practice. My experience was completely positive so my review follows suit - HIGHLY recommend!!”

Brave, Spiritually-grounded World-Changer | Awaken Coach Institute Graduate | www.authenticandwhole.com

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“I love this course so much. The learning is energizing me and putting it into practice is growing me. It feels so good and alive. I am committing to being intentional about putting myself in a space of learning and growing in the future. Trusting the coaching process and being gentle.”

Brave, Spiritually-grounded World-Changer

Hedaya Mundia
Brave, Spiritually-grounded World-Changer | Home-maker and Educator | ICF Certified Coach | Operations Directo at Pied Pipers Services | www.piedpipers.net

''I am enjoying the training I am receiving very much. I am enjoying the interactions with my fellow classmates and faculty. They are really great people (we could be divided by space, culture, environment, experiences but we really do have great synergy together - I suppose this is thanks to the atmosphere that has been created by Christi as CEO of Awaken Coach Institute). I am finding it very useful because it is helping me be more mindful of who I am as a person and of others including their identity, environment, experiences, values and beliefs.''

Michelle Wiegers

Brave, Spiritually-grounded World-Changer | Life Coach
and Advocate 
for Chronic Pain Sufferers at
Michelle Wiegers Coaching | www.michellewiegers.com

''My world has gotten so much bigger. You just need someone to say, “Go!” I feel expanded. When we started, I still had so much fear, but the gift of being believed in has been so healing. It’s given me the strength to step forward. I have changed and my poetry has changed, it needed the space and it’s growing up with me. I’ve been given so much more than I could have imagined.''

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“ From the first moment I saw the website, and I read the write up, I had a great feeling that Awaken Coaching was the school I was being called to. When I went with the interview with Christi, felt her presence, and learned that she was also I spiritual director apart from a life coach. I had a great feeling that was it. What really solidified everything was the question Christi asked - It went along the lines of do you promise to love and accept each person regardless of their background, beliefs, etc. When she asked that I knew it was the course I needed to take.”

Brave, Spiritually-grounded World-Changer

Awaken Coach Institute

“I am so encouraged, and I can't tell you how much I am enjoying learning how to coach. And one of my practice-coachees just told me that she wants to hire me to continue after we finish our 6 practice sessions. I could hardly believe it! Thanks again!”

Brave, Spiritually-grounded World-Changer

Jennifer Vancil
Brave, Spiritually-grounded World-Changer | Awaken Coach Institute Graduate

"In coaching or in training, a lot of people see me as the expert, and so being here has really allowed me to not be the expert, to put on that learning hat, to embrace that curiosity and to learn new ways of doing things. This coaching is less about having answers and it's more about bringing out the answers from the client, helping the client to sort through the challenges that they're facing and the actions they wanna take; being more client-directed than coach-directed."

Leanne Marega

Brave, Spiritually-grounded World-Changer | Awaken Coach Institute Graduate

''I had a strong sense that I was to attend the Awaken coaching course. Before the training I didn't believe that I could be a coach, I joined with a desire to become a better leader. And I think I am a better leader as a result of this course. However I'm also now a coach and I believe in myself as a coach. The methodology of this course is phenomenal. It is experiential and your entire body gets to feel the material with new insights and understanding happening throughout. For me, this has been a profound time - a personal retreat and a coaching training. I am a better person, more insightful and thoughtful because of this opportunity. Thank you.''

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Evelyn Wolf - Brave, Spiritually-grounded World-Changer

“For me, the core of Awaken Coach Institute is this view of a person as being whole and even if the person cannot see it yet, or they might be stuck in thoughts or behaviors that are not really helpful for them, we still see people as being whole and having all the resources and the full potential within them, and helping them to unleash or uncover all that’s already there.”

Brave, Spiritually-grounded World-Changer

Awaken Coach Institute

“I am forever changed by this training.”

Brave, Spiritually-grounded World-Changer

Raymond McGhee
Brave, Spiritually-grounded World-Changer | Awaken Coach Institute Graduate

"I did not know if coaching would be for me. I was doing this as an exploration to determine if this was something I might want to jump into. After the first week of training, I really feel like there's a place for me in coaching, and that part of that is a change in me as well. The generosity you all have shown me, and the things I've learned from you, thank you, all of you. Each of you has contributed something, and that has been powerful to me. You've cared for me, and you've reached out to me, and it's touched me! I really feel like all that is changing me, so thank you. Thank you."

Shawntee Reed

Brave, Spiritually-grounded World-Changer | Awaken Coach Institute Graduate

''I love to witness the different coaching sessions that happen with others because that allows me to be in the space untethered to the way that I would normally do things in, but to learn from others. I have given myself grace to be in a new headspace, so just slowing down because I feel like it's a departure from who I normally am, -and I'm ok with that, I'm grateful for it. It's very special to start this journey with all of you. To be able to go back knowing that I've discovered these new relationships and this new community. I feel like I have a source of love and strength in this community that will continue to carry me forward.
I am truly grateful.''