Coaching is partnering with clients in a thought-provoking and creative process that inspires them to maximize their personal and professional potential (definition by the International Coach federation, www.coachfederation.org). Coaching as a method for personal and professional development has become more and more important in different areas of society and a lot of professionals either have a coach and/or coach themselves as part of their professional role. The popularity of coaching as a way of supporting the learning process is growing within E+/Youth in action and a growing number of youth workers and trainers are looking for a coaching education that is affordable and focused on the specific context of Erasmus+/youth in action and non-formal learning. After the first edition of the 'In-to-me-see' coaching training in December of 2014 we immediately got the question from the participants to have more training to go deeper into the coaching skills and to practice more. 90% of the participants wrote in their evaluation that they would participate in a more advanced level and 4 months after the training 70% of the participants said they needed and wanted more training to have a bigger impact with their coaching. The partner organisations also agreed on the need for a follow up training and a long term partnership between the 8 organisations in this application was set up. Last but not least we did a little research of the training that had a call on salto and we discovered that almost all the coaching trainings for youth workers are stand alone trainings and as a youth worker it is really hard to find an affordable training that goes beyond the basic level. Taking all of that into consideration we decided that we would try out a long term coaching training for youth workers, trainers and other supporters of learning within E+/YiA consisting of 2 trainings, an in between phase and an after the training implementation phase. Step 1, the first training and the in between phase are in this application submitted to the Icelandic NA and Step 2 consisting of the second training and the after the training implementation phase are in another application submitted to the Flemish NA. The general objective of this long term coaching training is to train educators (youth workers, trainers, coaches, teachers,... ) in a non-formal and experiential way in coaching skills and competences that they can implement to support the learning of the (young) people they educate. What? Training 2 of a 2 step long term training course for educators to learn the fundamentals of coaching as a way to support learning and development When? 24 (arrival) till 30 (departure) January 2016 Where? Belgium, either Dilbeek or Antwerpen For who? Educators who want to learn coaching skills and competences and who are ready and willing to implement their skills in their own non-formal context. Max 24 participants from 8 countries. Approach: non-formal and experiential learning approach in which the participants will be able to practise coaching and being coached themselves. Activities: for details please see the detailed program in annex Results: We assume that the participants have improved their coaching competences. After the step 2 training this means 1) the ability to coach using life purpose and values (fulfillment coaching) , 2) supporting the clients in discovering perspectives and making conscious choices (balance coaching), 3) using the coaching skills that support fulfillment and balance like deepening the learning and forwarding the action, acknowledgement, championing, use of methaphors, embodiment and geography, brainstorming in coaching, commitment and accountability. The participants are ready to implement their new or developed coaching competences in their own educational context. Impact: The educators who participated will be able to implement coaching techniques in their own educational contexts, are aware of the opportunities and challenges of it and can communicate about it with their colleagues and learners at home. This should enable them to spread the fire about coaching and its benefits in their own environment and inspire colleagues to also look into coaching as a way to support learning and development. The organisers will facilitate a NING-platform or facebook group till one year after the training to start a community of coaches in non-formal educational contexts within E+/YiA.