What you'll learn
Understand the role of The Life Garage in relation to other wellbeing works available.
Demonstrate the necessary skills and knowledge to be able to facilitate use of The Life Garage as an Assistant Life Mechanic.
Appreciate the differences between guidance, therapy and the coaching foundation to The Life Garage.
Critically apply the concepts covered to your own practice as an Assistant Life Mechanic.
This course includes:
1 hour on-demand video
1 practice test
50 articles
15 downloadable resources
Access on mobile and TV
Full lifetime access
Certificate of completion
Course content
8 sections • 75 lectures • 1h 20m total length
Introduction2 lectures • 3min
IntroductionPreview02:37
Accelerate your learning00:30
Life garage concept and content15 lectures • 18min
Life garage conceptPreview03:09
Section overview00:23
Who's the mechanic?00:14
Question break00:05
Fixer or understander?01:09
Question break00:05
Workshop familiarisation - Part 105:01
Becoming your own life mechanic01:15
The flourishing self00:40
Relational living00:41
Workshop familiarisation - Part 203:46
Changing habits00:39
Practical hopefulness00:32
Growth for life00:28
Question break00:06
Coaching foundation10 lectures • 9min
IntroductionPreview01:19
Section overview00:19
The ACE coaching model01:44
The ACE coaching model (notes)00:52
Question break00:05
Coaching, mentoring and counselling01:43
Coaching, mentoring and counselling (notes)00:51
Differences between approaches01:42
Differences between approaches (notes)00:46
Question break00:05
End of section quiz5 questions
Working with individuals14 lectures • 15min
IntroductionPreview01:04
Section overview00:18
Active listening06:02
Active listening (notes)02:00
Question break00:12
Active listening starters01:05
Active listening starters (notes)00:27
Question break00:03
Non-judgemental questioning01:17
Non-judgemental questioning (notes)00:34
Question break00:06
Non-judgemental questioning starters01:01
Non-judgemental questioning starters (notes)00:25
Question break00:04
End of section quiz4 questions
Working with groups: Facilitator skills14 lectures • 14min
IntroductionPreview01:05
Section overview00:22
Working with groups01:14
Working with groups (notes)00:34
Question break00:02
Personal disclosure04:37
Personal disclosure (notes)00:14
Disclosure and risk of harm (notes)01:11
Question break00:05
Disclosing personal information (notes)01:07
Question break00:05
Shared reflections and ideas02:33
Shared reflections and ideas (notes)01:13
Question break00:04
End of section quiz4 questions
Working with groups: Group dynamics8 lectures • 9min
IntroductionPreview01:05
Section overview00:20
Group boundaries02:36
Group boundaries (notes)01:15
Question break00:05
Group life and identity03:11
Group life and identity (notes)00:20
Question break00:06
End of section quiz4 questions
Self-care10 lectures • 9min
IntroductionPreview01:17
Section overview00:22
Perfection, performance, and proficiency01:29
Perfection, performance, and proficiency (notes)00:47
Self-care and self-expectations01:14
Self-care and self-expectations (notes)00:39
Question break00:06
Confidentiality and unloading01:41
Confidentiality and unloading (notes)00:57
Question break00:05
End of section quiz3 questions
Assessment2 lectures • 2min
End of course assessment20 questions
Congratulations and accreditation01:30
Guidance for registering your accreditation00:58
Requirements
No prior experience required, just an open mind and a willingness to putting your learning in to practice. You will explore everything you need to know.
Description
Our Level 2 Accredited Assistant Life Mechanic Training has been designed to support individuals, community groups and organisations to make best use of our free to access Life Garage resources. The course will provide participants with familiarisation with the content and its intention. It will also cover the skills and tools participants need to engage others with the materials in an effective and ethical manner.
Whilst anyone can access and use The Life Garage free of charge, we have developed our Level 2 Accredited Assistant Life Mechanic Training to ensure a consistent, theoretically grounded, approach for those who want to use the materials with other people.
Our training comprises self-guided study sessions, all with questions to develop the participants knowledge and skills. These sessions explore coaching as a fundamental approach to being an Assistant Life Mechanic, communication skills, working with groups and self-care.
We have partnered with the Institute for Training and Occupational Learning (iTOL), to offer our Assistant Life Mechanic Training as a Level 2 accredited course. iTOL is an independent professional body with an expertise in external benchmarking, validation, and accreditation of occupational courses.
This course has been mapped and benchmarked at Level 2 of the UK learning levels descriptors. Level 2 courses are designed to provide learners with a basic level of knowledge and understanding of a subject to equip them to undertake a variety of tasks.
Who this course is for:
This course is intended for those who want to learn how to best use our free course, The Life Garage, with others.

Metanoeo Coaching and CIC

Group Theory

Active Listening

Level 2 Accredited Assistant Life Mechanic Training
Be better equipped to support other people to become their own life mechanic using The Life Garage tools.

Level 2 Accredited Assistant Life Mechanic Training

General Admission

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The Life Garage is based on the concept that people service their cars as a regular activity regardless of how well they are working, so why not their life?
Comprising six central concepts, theoretically grounded in psycho-social theory and positive psychology, but presented in a non-technical practical way, The Life Garage will provide you with an opportunity to develop the tools you need to become your own life mechanic and help tune up your life.
The simple idea at the heart of The Life Garage is that most people who own a car think nothing of signing up to a regular package of maintenance and servicing, but that few of us do the same thing for our own lives. For a car to run well, and not breakdown, having a planned and regular servicing and maintenance schedule are critical.
The Life Garage takes this concept and translates it into the world of everyday living. Well-being doesn’t need to be for people who have broken down (struggling with life). It also doesn’t need to be just for those who like meditating, yoga, and vegan food (although there is nothing wrong with those things). Because the word well-being can have some of these associations for people, and therefore put some people off, at The Life Garage we prefer to talk about living life well. The Life Garage is designed to take some of the best psycho-social principles for living life well and make them relevant for all.
Who this course is for:
Anyone who is interested in living life well and likes the idea of developing a service pack and tool box for life maintenance and improvement as they might in relation to maintaining a car.
Instructor
Dr David WoodLife Coach, Trainer, Community Theologian and Academic

4.8 Instructor Rating
2 Reviews
264 Students
2 Courses
I am a former Senior Probation Officer and lecturer of Psychosocial Analysis of Offending Behaviour with over 20 years experience working with people struggling with a variety of complex issues. In addition to my work as a life coach I am the founder and director of a social enterprise, Metanoeo CIC, which trains and supports life coaches to transform communities.
My qualifications include; PhD (Theology and Community Justice), MA Criminal Justice, BA(Hons) Community Justice, BA Bible and Theology.
I am also a Fellow of the School for Social Entrepreneurs, Fellow of the Higher Education Academy and Fellow of the Institute for Training and Occupational Learning.
The Life Garage
Build your toolkit for life
Identify the skills, concepts and tools needed to live life well.
Practice a variety of communication tools designed to improve your quality of life.
Develop an awareness of the individuality and ongoing commitment to development required to live life well and with authenticity.
Explore the boundaries of life improvement DIY.
Requirements
No prior experience required, just an open mind and a willingness to work on change. You will explore everything you need to know.

Mindfulness

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Influence

Positive Psychology

Happiness

Assertiveness

Attention

Life Skills

Communication Skills

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