The Art of Mentoring
1-Year Coaching Certification Program!
This year-long journey is for everyone who is in a position to mentor others:
Parents, Teachers, Coaches, Therapists, Leaders, Counsellors, Founders, Managers, and many others.
When you become a guiding light to others, you elevate yourself to your Higher Self and start living with High Integrity and Deep Self-Respect.
When you choose to empower others to take actions to better their lives, you feel empowered to make the necessary changes and start living an inspired life.
When you serve others with your heart and wisdom, you receive back love, connection and engagement that you share with others as your gift.
Hereby, we’re inviting you to the MOST REWARDING Journey of your Life!
Are you ready to embark?
We Offer a Personal Growth System!
Unlike other schools, our coaching program presents a framework, a template that you use to structure your sessions and help your clients go beyond their repressed fears and hidden desires for their ultimate personal freedom!
Such freedom is self-realization. During the program, you go through the following framework for you to realize your true nature, and live with joy and fulfillment. Such high attainment is directly derived from service to others and from helping people build a better, healthier and happier life.
Here’s the framework that you’re going to practice and then, coach others toward their highest potential:
Level 1: To rise above the matrix, you’ll learn an emotional regulation technique called 5-Step Power Method and its 7 Conscious Communication Strategies.
Level 2: Within months, you’ll be able to turn your emotional reactions to thoughtful responses and helps others do that as well.
Level 3: During the training, you’ll go through 7 Phases of Personal Transformation to finally meet your Authentic Self, first time in your life.
Level 4: This life-changing Journey Within will guide you to connect with your true nature and empower you to express your authentic voice
Level 5: Once you connect with the purpose of your life, you’ll start to understand the meaning of your life and claim your unique place in the world.
Level 6: This deep understanding will slowly lead you through the 7 Levels of Consciousness, where you rise toward your Higher Self.
Level 7: Through interactive and practical exercises, you’ll begin to embody the 7 High Competency Traits (CICILIA) and practice its 14 Coaching Tools.
Throughout the year, you connect, interact and bond with like-minded, growth-oriented, full-hearted, passionate group of seekers and explorers and get to experience the System of Life firsthand.
Plus .. your regular coaching practice sessions with peers will prepare you to launch your business and have paying clients immediately upon certification!
Our Coaching Program is a gateway for a profound transformation of your personal and professional life!
You have come to Life with a Purpose!
It’s Time to Answer your Calling and
Claim your Place in the World!
Certification Path
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Part I: Monthly Meetings
Monthly group meetings are designed to share and teach the technical aspects of the Rise 2 Realize Coaching Framework, namely the high competency model called CICILIA.
This acronym presents 7 attributes on how to become your Higher Self, the best version of yourself and stay present and in the flow in any given moment - an amazing life skill to develop for life.
During our monthly gatherings, in person and on zoom, we will practice 14 tools that help the coach attain the authority, authenticity and competency required to lead, inspire and guide.
Between monthly meetings, the participants will get plenty of chance to practice these tools with each other through weekly practice sessions.
All sessions will be recorded for reference.
IN PART I, YOU WILL:
Understand the multi-dimensional framework of the Power Method
Practice coaching tools, techniques and skills through weekly dyads
Experience a personal transformation in various areas of your life
Discover your heart values and align your life for more joy and fulfillment
Start coaching your family and friends with ease and confidence
DETAILS
Duration: 12 Months (Jan - Dec 2026)
When: Every 2nd Wed, starting Jan 14
Time: 7 - 8:30pm Pacific
Where: In-Person and Online -
Part II: Weekend Retreats
The weekend retreats are designed to deepen your coaching skills through in-person practice sessions.
When you take part in these real-life situations, and also observe others in action, you naturally enhance your coaching skills and gain confidence.
These retreats are also great opportunity for you to test your knowledge of the Rise 2 Realize system.
As you deepen your understanding of the 5-Step Power Method and 7 Communication Strategies during the 7-week Emotional Mastery workshop, it’s going to get easier for you to guide people toward their desired results.
To support your coaching journey, each weekend is scheduled between 7-week workshops, so that you can comprehensively learn, apply and experience the Rise 2 Realize System.
IN PART II, YOU WILL:
Embody the CICILIA core competencies framework in your life
Deepen your understanding of the Multi-Dimensional Coaching Framework
Use the integration process to create a robust presence
Further develop your innate gifts for authentic and creative expression
Master your coaching skills through triads and supervision
DETAILS
Duration: 2 Weekends
When: May 2-3 & Oct 3-4
Time: 10am - 5pm Pacific
Where: In-Person Only
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Certification Requirements
We are here for your success. After successfully completing Part I and Part II training, graduates will need to have practical real client experiences (see below) in order to become a certified Rise 2 Realize Life Coach and, if they want to be listed on Rise 2 Realize Institute’s website (R2R.org) as recommended coaching resource.
Based upon the success of our graduates from the last three years, we have determined that the following requirements support graduates to fully embody the coaching skills and competencies they learn in our Coaching Program.
Our Program has proven to be very experiential to allow graduates to have enough experience to feel confident to use our 5-step Power Method within the guidelines of our Multi-Dimentional Coaching Framework.
ADDITIONAL REQUIREMENTS:
Attend 100% of all monthly classes, and watch all recordings
Conduct and briefly document 9 coaching sessions in total with 3 different clients
Submit 1 session recording for each client for skills evaluation
Schedule 1 session with 3 different Certified Rise 2 Realize Coach for graduation
Workshop Details
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WHERE
Monthly Meetings:
Hybrid
Weekend Retreats:
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FOR WHOM
Coaches, Therapists, Leaders, Parents, Teachers, Counselors
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WHEN
Jan - Dec 2026
2nd Wed Monthly
Starts Jan 14 -

TIME
7 - 8:30pm Pacific
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FEE
3 OPTIONS:
Single Payment: $990
3 Payments of $330
10 Payments of $99
Guide others toward a happier life!
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Frequently Asked Questions
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Our Life Coaching School is designed for leaders, for couples, for parents, for professionals, and for many others who seek a fulfilling coaching career, as well as personal development and growth in their life.
Maybe you already felt called for this Program. We suggest that you look around the website, and read what we have shared with you. Do some of these words resonate with you? If so, take the first step, and at minimum, you will experience 9 weeks of personal and spiritual transformation via 5-step Power Method.
If you’re not so sure and have some questions, don’t hesitate to reach out to Arda for a 30-minute free consultation to explore what’s the right next step for you.
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Life coaching is not for everyone, but it is the most rewarding and fulfilling career for the right person. First, you determine your own schedule. Second, people seek your guidance for a better life. The warm and loving feedback you receive from the people you help brings so much meaning and fulfillment to your soul. Third, you become part of the world whose positive impact and influence keep expanding through every person whose life you touch.
In addition, your own personal and spiritual transformation fuels your success in your coaching practice, because the more you understand your Self, the more connected you feel with your clients. To that extent, you will experience incredible synchronicities where you attract clients who are dealing with the issues you have already dealt with. You are meant to go on this journey! Don’t delay your destiny!
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After successfully completing Part I and Part II of our Coaching Program, and meeting Arda in an one-on-one interview, you will be eligible to be listed as one of the life coaches on Ask Arda.
Note that all life coaches who are listed on Ask Arda Coaching Platform are independent contractors. They all have their own private coaching practice, and choose to list their coaching services on Ask Arda.
We highly recommend that you focus on developing your coaching skills and learning about the 5-step Power Method thoroughly, before planning next steps. Arda encourages everyone to be present and only work on what’s in front of us. The rest will follow your energy and intention. Arda’s philosophy has given him this success, and will certainly make you 100% successful, as long as you show up with genuine interest and curiosity to learn.
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You’re not alone. Everyone is nervous in the beginning. It’s a natural feeling, because you don’t know what’s ahead, and how you would be handling an unknown future. On the other hand, our Coaching Program is here to lift you up through weekly practice sessions and tight feedback loops. We will teach you everything you need to overcome your stress. Through our Coaching Program, you will learn to create a presence and show up in every situation, including your coaching sessions, with authenticity and sincerity. The rest will flow smoothly and guide you on your journey toward joy and fulfillment.
You may already know this from reading The Art of Becoming Unstuck that our coaching framework is designed to eliminate underlying fears. If you feel too anxious to sign up for the upcoming Program, maybe you would consider joining Arda at his Emotional Mastery workshop in January or in June. At this workshop, you will be able to process your fears and gain emotional mastery, which will help you tremendously in becoming one of the successful life coaches in the world.
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Arda Ozdemir is a spiritual mentor, executive life coach, relationship counselor and author of two books, The Seeker’s Manual and The Art of Becoming Unstuck. Over the last 15 years, working with 4,000+ clients, Arda has developed a practical, yet unique 5-step Power Process to guide clients to break free from the matrix, from their hamster wheel and discover a life outside of their comfort zone, a life, full of joy, fulfillment and meaning.
A former VP Finance turned executive and leadership coach, Arda Ozdemir is a valued resource for the top minds of Silicon Valley, whose client list includes leaders of numerous Forbes Top 100 companies. Having spent 20 years in the corporate world as a finance and accounting professional, Arda brings wealth of inside knowledge and experience that guide today’s executives and leaders to new heights in terms of their performance, achieving team goals, and effective communication strategies.
Qualifications & Certifications:
Reiki Master since 2007, certified by Reiki Mastery Institute, CA
Certified Hypnotherapist since 2008, certified by Palo Alto Hypnotherapy School, Palo Alto, CA
Qigong Master since 2008, certified by Master Zhao Institute, Fremont, CA
Vipassana Meditation Practitioner since 2010, Kelseyville, CA
Mikkyo Zen Buddhist Teacher since 2012, Saratoga, CA
Emotional Freedom Technique Practitioner since 2012, San Francisco, CA
Heart Math Coach and Trainer since 2016, certified by Hearth Math Institute, Boulder Creek, CA
Yoga Nidra Level 1 Practitioner since 2017, certified by Dr. Richard Miller, PhD, iRest Institute, San Rafael, CA
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We are one of the few coaching schools who have an established, proven, state-of-the-art Power Method, which provides a very clear framework on how to conduct coaching sessions. Our graduates find it immensely helpful to have such easy-to-flow instructions on how to run the sessions and help the clients to unblock their repressed fears and accomplish their goals.
Our unique 5-Step Power Method also helps our students to work on their Ego Self. We believe the best life coach is the one who has already traveled the path of personal transformation themselves. Time and time again, we see that the students who become self-aware and understand their psyche - which our Program provides every student with tools and techniques to do so - are the ones who pursue their calling to be a life coach till the end.
As you’re embarking on the most rewarding journey of your life, please note that your personal work will turn our Coaching Program into an enormous gift that you will benefit for the rest of your life!