Life Skills COACHING: Professional Integration Labs | Fall, 2026

Each semester, we host six(6) Coaching Professional Integration labs scheduled outside of regularly held class hours. 

As we have 3 statutory holidays in the semester, ALL of our online Coaching Professional Integration labs will serve as attendance Make-up Labs. Attendance at these labs will supplement missed attendance in Full-time Coaching courses that are affected by statutory holidays. See relevant holidays and designated make-up lab dates below:

Stats:

September 30: National Day for Truth & Reconciliation

October 12: Thanksgiving Day

November 11: Remembrance Day

Each lab provides 2 hours and 15 minutes of required make-up time for classes missed due to statutory holidays when the college is closed.

• WEDNESDAY, October 7th, 2:00 PM - 4:15 PM PT Coaching Professional Integration Lab (Make-up Lab)

• FRIDAY, October 9th, 2:00 PM - 4:15 PM PT Coaching Professional Integration Lab (Make-up Lab)

• WEDNESDAY, October 21st, 2:00 PM - 4:15 PM PT Coaching Professional Integration Lab (Make-up Lab)

• FRIDAY, October 23rd, 2:00 PM - 4:15 PM PT Coaching Professional Integration Lab (Make-up Lab)

• WEDNESDAY, November 18th, 2:00 PM - 4:15 PM PT Coaching Professional Integration Lab (Make-up Lab)

• FRIDAY, November 20th, 2:00 PM - 4:15 PM PT Coaching Professional Integration Lab (Make-up Lab)

All times shown are Pacific Daylight Time (Vancouver)
To understand our Attendance Policy & Make-up Lab offerings, please see the Student Hub on Moodle.

About this event

Rhodes semesters move quickly, often with very little downtime in between. Students have shared that this pace makes it harder to fully absorb and integrate everything they’re learning - the theory, the skills, and the personal growth that shape them into confident and integrated professional helpers.

To support this, we now offer Professional Integration (PI) Labs outside of regularly scheduled classes. These sessions provide intentional space to meet with peers in your program stream/semester, reflect on your experiences, and connect the dots between coursework, your personal journey, and your professional development in the coaching, counselling, and wellness fields.

Where a statutory holiday interrupts/affects a regularly scheduled class day, Professional Integration Labs will be assigned to "make up" for attendance for the affected course.

What to Expect

Facilitators will:

• Create a reflective and supportive space to pause from the pace of coursework.
• Invite you to step back and integrate your learning across classes and personal experiences.
• Encourage dialogue and connection, rather than content review.
• Help you link insights to your personal and professional growth.
• Support you in seeing the bigger picture of your development as a practitioner.

How They Work

Format: 6 Coaching PI Labs offered intermittently throughout each semester. For courses affected by a stat holiday, PI make-up Labs will be scheduled within 1–2 weeks after each statutory holiday. Attendance: Labs count toward attendance in each student's Coaching course impacted by statutory holidays. There are specific make-up labs assigned to count towards attendance for each statutory holiday (each providing 0.5 attendance time for the 'missed' class day).

Why Join?

PI Labs go beyond attendance! They are a chance to:

• Network with students from other cohorts who may become future colleagues or referral partners.
• Exchange perspectives and practice professionalism, empathy, and peer support.
• Build community and form long-lasting friendships and professional connections.

Each lab is two hours & 15 minutes long. Students can attend any or all sessions. Each lab is structured but also features organic space to address individual student needs.

Students can expect each lab to be facilitated with the following approximate schedule: Welcome & Framing • Briefly introduce the purpose of the lab: a space to integrate classroom learning into professional identity as a coach. • Acknowledge that participants are from different cohorts and stages; emphasize that the session is about shared themes relevant to all practitioners. • Invite each student to share (in 1–2 sentences) what they hope to get from today’s lab.

Mini-Lesson / Concept Spotlight • Facilitator introduces a universal theme relevant to professional life coaching • Keep the teaching brief, focusing on: o Core concept (theory or skill) o Professional relevance (why it matters in practice) o Reflective prompt (how it connects to students’ current stage of training)

Guided Reflection • Students individually write or journal in response to reflection questions connected to the mini-lesson. • Prompts should allow students to ground the concept in their own experience, regardless of training stage.

Group Engagement • Options: o Large group dialogue: Facilitator facilitates an open discussion of student reflections. o Small group breakout: Students share insights with 2–3 peers, then return to the full group. o Skill practice: If appropriate, students pair up and practice a short counselling skill connected to the theme.

Integration & Application • Facilitator helps students identify: o How today’s theme shows up in their coursework and client/practice work. o One specific action, mindset shift, or experiment they want to try before their next class.

Closing • Round of final reflections: “One takeaway I’m leaving with is...” • Facilitator thanks and reminds participants that labs are an ongoing space for integration, and encourages ongoing reflection.

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REGISTRATION:

Registration is required and closes 15 minutes before the start of the event. Ticket Tailor will send the event Zoom link upon registration and 3 days/1 day/10 minutes before the session.

WHO CAN ATTEND:

Rhodes students enrolled in our Life Coach Diploma program, Wellness Counsellor Diploma program, Professional Counsellor Diploma program, part-time Life Skills Coaching Certificate program, full-time Life Coaching certificate program, Professional Integrative Nutrition Diploma program, and Northern Indigenous Counselling Diploma program. Students who are currently in their Coaching semesters (Semester 1), and students who have passed Coaching (Semester 1) are also eligible to attend.