Coming this Autumn 2006: The Ascent Coach licensing program. Become a licensed Ascent Coach and run your own unique adventure coaching experiences.

Available both to independent coaches and mountain leaders and also to corporate HR/D departments to run Ascent experiences with their own teams.

There is also a simple referral scheme if you want to use Ascent in your work but don't want to become fully licensed to run it yourself.

Ascent is truly tapping into something special; a compelling need for people to find more meaning in and to have more control over their lives.

There is nothing else in the world like Ascent, combining the natural environment with personal exploration in a way that leads to such a degree of congruence and personal leadership. As a result of Ascent, people have literally changed their lives and pursued their lifelong dreams.

Do you want to be a part of the adventure?

You might be a coach or development professional who is looking for a way to add excitement and adventure to your work

You might be a coach or development professional who has been looking to combine your love of the outdoors with your love of developing people

You might be new to coaching and you're looking for a more exciting career than 'life coaching' because you don't want to sit at home and coach, you want your new career to be a life changing adventure for you as well as for your clients

You might have a lot of outdoor activity experience and you're looking for something new to bring to the group work you're doing, perhaps to really delve deeper and bring out meaningful and lasting results in the people you work with

You might be working within a company and you're looking for something new and exciting to bring to your team building events.

And of course, you might have other reasons for wanting to become an Ascent Adventure Coach!

Ascent helped me discover a path I had neglected, ignored and was trying hard not to see. The mountain is a great teacher, helped by the guides who have been blessed by great insight. Ascent opened me up to a 'most excellent adventure'. David Nicoll

The licensing program does not include Mountain Leader or First Aid training, because you may or may not choose to run your own Ascent programs in the mountain/outdoor environment. If you do want to run Ascent outdoors, we can help you to source the other technical training that you may need. We would not advise you to run Ascent in mountain regions if you are unfamiliar with the area. Alternatively, a licensed Ascent coach may choose to partner with a Mountain Leader to run Ascent experiences.

With the Ascent Adventure Coach program, you choose the location and the format for you to run your own Ascent experiences. The Ascent process is proven to transform people's lives, and the environment is vital in bringing about that transformation, so it's important that you choose an inspiring location for your own experiences.

Ascent doesn't depend on the mountain, you can use any physical metaphor. Caves, lakes, boats, scuba diving, skiing, flying, parachuting and almost any activity can be used as the canvass for an Ascent experience.

At a point in the hero's journey, a guide appears to help the hero through the darkest night of his path to enlightenment. The guide takes many forms; the gas station attendant in 'Way of the Peaceful Warrior', the Oracle in the Matrix, the King and the Alchemist in Paulo Coelho's 'The Alchemist', Yoda in 'Star Wars' and of course the Ascent coach during the Ascent Experience.

"It was a fantastic journey and now I've had a day to reflect, am amused and deeply satisfied that I came back with results different from what I expected but so much bigger, better, deeper than I could have possibly imagined" Will Izzard