Understand coaching
What coaching is, what it isn’t, and how it differs from mentoring, training, consulting and counselling.
Roots of ExcellenceCoaching Skills Scholarship
Better conversations grow from strong roots.
A foundation course in coaching skills, grounded in African experience. Learn what coaching is, practise the skills that help people think for themselves, and discover Coach Africa’s TREES model.
For banking professionals, managers and people leaders, and anyone exploring coaching for the first time.
What you can learn
Three foundations for better conversations.
Whether you manage client relationships, lead a team or are simply curious about coaching, these fundamentals apply wherever conversations shape how people grow.
Build the core skills
Begin developing the foundations of listening, asking questions, paraphrasing and summarising.
Explore African Brewed Coaching
Discover Coach Africa’s approach and the five steps of the TREES coaching process, seen through an African lens.
Inside the course
Six modules. One clear foundation.
An online course that moves from understanding coaching to practising its core skills.
The course opens with a welcome introduction and closes with a contact section for questions about your next step.
Apply for the scholarshipDemystifying Coaching
How coaching differs from mentoring, training, consulting and counselling.
The Case for Coaching
Coaching’s purpose, potential and measurable benefits for people and organisations.
African Brewed Coaching: the TREES Model
Coaching through an African lens, self-coaching and the five steps of the TREES process.
Basic Coaching Skills
Effective listening, asking questions, paraphrasing and summarising.
Professional Coaching
Professional standards, ethics and personal commitment, with a knowledge assessment.
Bonus Resources
Coaching demonstrations and a conversation about building a coaching career.
Coach Africa’s approach
African Brewed. Purposefully rooted.
African Brewed Coaching is Coach Africa’s approach to coaching, grounded in African experience. At its heart is the TREES model, a five-step coaching process created by Dr. Norah Njuba Bwaya, MCC, founder of the first coaching firm in Eastern Africa.
The skills are simple to name and take practice to master: listening fully, asking questions that open up thinking, and reflecting back what you hear.
Coaching begins when we stop rushing to give answers, and start helping others think.
Your learning pathway
The foundation is only the beginning.
Start with the scholarship course. If you want to keep developing your practice, there is a clear next step.
- Step 1
Foundation course
Work through Roots of Excellence and build your understanding of coaching, the TREES model and the core skills.
- Step 2
Certificate of participation
Receive a certificate of participation once you meet the course’s participation requirements.
- Optional next step
Monthly Impact Labs
Continue towards practice, feedback and further development through Coach Africa’s monthly Impact Labs.
A certificate of participation is not a coaching credential. It recognises your participation in the foundation course. It is not a professional coaching certification.
The Impact Labs are separate from the scholarship. They are not included automatically, and joining is your choice. Joining options and fees are listed on the Impact Lab page.
Visit the Impact Lab page (opens in a new tab)Scholarship application
Apply for the scholarship
The application takes about two minutes: eight short questions about you, your work and why you’re applying, followed by your name and email.
- Take your time with “Why are you applying?”Applications without a serious response to this question won’t be considered.
- Tick “Subscribe to our email list” at the endThis lets the Coach Africa team follow up with you about your application. You can unsubscribe at any time.
- Need help?Email [email protected]
