The Coaching Institute

It makes me feel sick when I think of the elderly woman who was on a zoom call, telling us she was $6,000 in debt and her daughter had to pay for her credit card debt from the weekly coaching course fees. The trainer had no answer and said you will find a way.

I saw many students getting pressured into signing up to extra courses that were an extra $5,000 or more on top of the already expensive weekly fee.

If you didn't sign up to the many extra trainings and courses you were made to feel like you wouldn't succeed.

The Meta Dynamics model is just a copy of NLP, "I copied the GROW model (NLP) and made it the DARE model (TCI trademarked model)".

I heard on a training call, how is that allowed I thought?

It's a true money-making scheme not about education or the students learning at all.

Do you research on 'The Coaching Institute' and 'The International Coaching Institute' new and old names. You will have no real qualifications only the ones they made up which mean nothing on your resume.

Research ICF accreditation which will get you coaching qualifications, not the ICG that they made up themselves, which is not accredited.

When you are feeling alone, this company are all encompassing as they reel you in with nlp marketing strategies and promises. From the start I told them I was broke, couldnt make mortgage, on a disability pension, before I knew I was in deep.

I kept telling them im broke, they promised i would have clients within 3 months hang in there.

that didnt happen i said i hadnt touched much of the course as it not right i cant pay, they kept delaying payment and telling me i can do this, before i knew it i was well out of withdraw time, they then started taking 175 a week, this was almost half my pension. I havent touched the course for 7 months, i am now homeless, sick and distressed, these guys are strategic clever, and get real nasty when you dont comply.

i told them it was my food money, they ignored me and kept doing it.

I dont want anything to do with them

what company in their right mind tangles vulnerable people with no money up into 25k courses gives them the whole 3 yrs worth of material when they can't pay, I told them its to much, overwhelming I dont want it,

I have talked to so many others going through the same yet they tell you that you are an isolated incident making you feel at fault

TCI over promises and under delivers! Follow up calls and cards with chocolates enclosed are frequently delivered during the initial sign up period. This then stops quite abruptly.

Much of the course content is plagiarised. Complete tests can be found freely on the internet.

Backend products (sold at in-house training) are horrifically over-priced. A complete set of products from the world's no 1 performance coach can be purchased for less than the cost of 1 of TCI's products.

Communication between the so called 'WOW' team and the accounts department appears to not exist - you can talk to a member of the WOW team one day and two days letter receive notification from the accounts department that you have not contacted them.

Their Facebook sight is strictly monitored and any derogative comments are hastily removed.

I undertook this course at the same time as studying an on-line coaching program. The online program, which was less than a third of the cost of TCI's program, was much more comprehensive, offered more support and had none of the backend sales included.

I urge anyone interested in becoming a life coach to look beyond TCI for training.

I attended a hyped up presentation. I was persuaded by an over zealous sales person who offered me a free trial of a product.

The product was never delivered .

There was no invoice , no confirmation, email , no link to where it could be accessed. In fact zero communication. 4 weeks later I am being billed $155 with out authority from me. Not having reviewed or trialled the product.

I am $800 in debt and rising .

TCI strategy is to keep me on hold or transfer me to another section . E.g. Admin to wow team , wow team to accounts . The issue is avoided and not resolved.

I have no access to the free trial thats cost me $800 so far. No resolution.

They dont invoice properly, dont receipt properly. No onboarding process .

No Normal business practices happen at TCI.

Feels like scam . Service Delivery is poor.

I worked behind the scenes as a technician a few years ago , witnessed there call centre manipulating customers anyway they could to squeeze money out of the client , you name it laying down guilt trips , asking clients to to borrow from there parents , these are very cunning people who know how to pull your strings , avoid at all cost! They target the vulnerable , I noted they even had a white board with $$$$$$$ targeted sales More more , these people are in it to milk you all they can , a classic conversation I heard was a client telling the consultant they were not interested in the next level of there brain wash session , the sales consultant replied how disapointed they were and had spent so much of there valuable time on them , yukkkkkkkkkk!

Currently, fighting this company through Consumer Affairs because of their Breach of Duty of Care. Fees are ridiculous, they take advantage of vulnerable people and all they do is try and dig up your fears.

If youve gotten over your fears, why did it up again.

Total brainwashing scam. If anyone else has gone through Consumer Affairs with this mob, Id love to hear about it.