Is the Flow Trainer Accelerator an online training?

The Flow Trainer Accelerator is fully digitally delivered. That means you can do it from anywhere. However, it’s nothing like your usual “online course”. Most online courses have a 3% completion rate. Flow Trainer Accelerator has a 100% completion rate. This is because it involves live engagement with incredible experts and leaders from all across the world. It’s not just a big, empty video library.

What’s the purpose of “booking an interview” for the Flow Trainer Accelerator?

One of the important features of the Flow Trainer Accelerator is the group coaching and community. What makes this so great, is that everyone in the Flow Trainer Accelerator is an inspiring, mission driven coach, consultant or facilitator. The interview process allows us to curate this kind of community and ensure it’s a good fit for both sides.

When does the Flow Trainer Accelerator start?

You can join as soon as you’re accepted into the Flow Trainer Accelerator after your interview. However, we do reach coaching capacity, so if you’re interested, we recommend you apply right away.

When does the Flow Trainer Accelerator start?

You can join as soon as you’re accepted into the Flow Trainer Accelerator after your interview. However, we do reach coaching capacity, so if you’re interested, we recommend you apply right away.

Who will my coach be?

You get to choose your own coach based on a description of their expertise and background! They’re all incredible so choosing can be tough so we can help advise you if you’d like. You’ll also work with more than one coach over the duration of the training.

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Zero to Dangerous: Our Flagship Peak Performance Training (8 weeks)

This is our flagship peak performance training done before "High Flow Coaching" where you'll go through 8-weeks of intensive training within a cohort of peers. You'll also work 1:1 with our PhD-level neuroscientist and psychologist coaches to unblock any sticking points, limiting beliefs, or self-sabotaging behaviors you have.

Week 1 — Building a Dangerous Mindset

This week you'll get oriented into your cohort, learn the difference between "Zero" and "Dangerous," and scope a vision for your goals.

Week 2 — Becoming a Time Jedi for Super Fluid Work

In this week we’ll shatter any preexisting notions you have around the concept of time. Then we’ll rebuild your perception of time from the bottom up so that you can unlock time abundance once and for all.

Week 3 — Building Grit to Develop Monk-like Focus

This week is where you steal your sanity back from the technological overlords. We’ll be helping you undo the brain melt and dopamine addiction. All so you can unlock a laser like focus so powerful you’ll have to be careful where you look.

Week 4 — Stress Proofing, Flow Hygiene, and Burnout Immunity for Consistent Flow

This week you’ll evolve into an executive athlete. That means learning how to sleep better than you ever have, dialing in your recovery practices, and making yourself immune to burnout.

Week 5 — Consistently Triggering Flow States with the Flow Cycle

This week we’ll teach you how to get your biology to work for you, not against you. You’ll master the non-negotiable habits that science says every human being needs to be performing to max out performance.

Week 6 — Productivity 2.0 & the One-Day Month

This week will involve you finding that electricity running through your veins level motivation that fuels the world's top performers. You’ll also learn the keys to 10xing what you currently get out of a workday.

Week 7 — Mindset, Strengths & Group Flow Fundamentals

By now, you’ll have a lot of the peak performance tools under wraps. Here we integrate it all with a lens on your mindset, strengths, and influence on others so you can start to live at the upper edge of your potential.

Week 8 — Finding Your North Star for Limitless Motivation & Preventing Self-Sabotage

Most performance programs result in a short spike in performance for two to three months. Then behavior returns to baseline. Zero to Dangerous strives for the opposite. Your results should compound aggressively over the long term. This week shows you how.

HFC MODULE 1 — The Craft Of Coaching

Defining The Craft of Coaching

Here you’ll learn the fundamental essence of what coaching is, how it’s different from other modalities, and the ultimate purpose of a coaching interaction.

Becoming A Craft Focused Coach

Here we’ll give you the roadmap needed to succeed as a coach in the 21st century. Hint: it’s more about craft mastery than Instagram followers.

A Coaching Modality Meta Analysis

This module provides a synthesis of every coaching modality we know of. All broken down visually in a matrix. This will give you a crucial overarching view of the entire coaching landscape so you can use the best elements of each modality.

The Little Known History of Coaching

Here we cover the history of how coaching came to be; it's surprising origins, the different influences which make it the global industry it is today, and what you need to do to succeed as a coach in today's marketplace.

Meeting the Parents of Modern Day Coaching

Deep dive into the key thinkers who contributed to coaching, their key works, and gain insight into areas that are calling you.

HFC MODULE 2 — Framework for Coaching Flow

The Battle Between Science and Frameworks

Most frameworks are not scientifically validated. We’ll cover the pro’s and con’s of frameworks and the tension between the practitioner and the researcher so that you and your clients are fully informed.

An Overview of The FRC Coaching Framework

Here we’ll walk you through the five core elements of the FRC Coaching Framework. First, science and research. Second, the style of coaching. Third, models and exercises. Fourth, protocols. Fifth, key coaching questions.

Mastering Self-Directed Coaching For Flow

Here we give a breakdown of the style of coaching we recommend when trying to coach flow, along with exactly how to implement it.

Flow Science

Each week, we layer in the science behind flow and how it will set you apart as a coach. In this module: Foundational Neuroscience and a Tour of the New Brain.

HFC MODULE 3 — Mastering the Skills: Coaching Mindset

Sequencing Flow Coaching

Steven talks about how you would sequence a coaching engagement from principles of flow science; stacking our intrinsic motivators so we don't need to rely on will power alone.

Mastering Growth Mindset Protocols

Practicing tools that help gauge client locus of control to move them into a growth mindset for change.

Flow Science

Each week, we layer in the science behind flow and how it will set you apart as a coach. In this module: Brain Anatomy and Networks, the Language of the Brain and the ANS.

HFC MODULE 4 — Mastering the Skills: Motivation & Goals

Mastering Motivation Protocols

Learn what motivation is and how to coach from the inside out: building an Intrinsic Motivation Stack and Passion Recipe for your clients.

Mastering Goal Setting Protocols

Learn how to work with your clients on designing their Goal Stack towards their MV-MTP.

Coaching Positive Psychology Basics

Diving deeper into one of the modalities that underpins our coaching frameworks: Positive Psychology, and why it is so powerful in helping clients move towards their vision.

Flow Science

Each week, we layer in the science behind flow and how it will set you apart as a coach. In this module: Flowy Neuroanatomy and Brain Networks with Flow.

HFC MODULE 5 — Mastering the Skills: Flow Blockers

Mastering Flow Blocker Coaching

We’ve identified 10 key flow blockers. Here we show you what they are and give you practical tools to help your client overcome each flow blocker.

Mastering Cognitive Load Training

All flow triggers either reduce cognitive load or increase flow-priming neurotransmitters. Here, we show you how to reduce cognitive load in your clients so that flow can be triggered more effectively.

Flow Science

Each week, we layer in the science behind flow and how it will set you apart as a coach. In this module: Flowy Neurochemistry & Neuroelectricity.

HFC MODULE 6 — Mastering the Skills: Flow Cycle

Flow Cycle Education

Learn how to educate your clients in the Flow Cycle so they can self-diagnose where they're blocked on, being able to harness more flow.

Mastering the Flow Cycle

Working with tools to get practical with accessing flow on demand, no longer relying on it as a haphazard state but one that can be designed into each day.

Flow Science

Each week, we layer in the science behind flow and how it will set you apart as a coach. In this module: Major Hubs of Flow Research & Last 70 Years of Flow Science to help steer your upcoming Magnum Opus!

HFC MODULE 7 — Mastering the Skills: Flow Triggers

Mastering the Flow Triggers

Learn about the 22 flow triggers (for individual and group), layered with your flow cycle education, the scientific underpining, and how to coach it!

Flow Science

Each week, we layer in the science behind flow and how it will set you apart as a coach. In this module: Deep Dive into Flow Resources (Books & Research Papers) and Flow Trigger Neuroscience.

HFC MODULE 8 — Mastering the Skills: Grit

Coaching Grit

Understanding why it's important to cultivate grit with your clients as a way of sustaining flow and peeling away the layers of what grit is about.

Mastering the Habit of Ferocity

Learning the six different types of Grit and specific tools you can use to cultivate grit in different ways to develop this habit!

Flow Science

Each week, we layer in the science behind flow and how it will set you apart as a coach. In this module: Double Clicking on Flow & Stress and Review.

MAGNUM OPUS MONTH — Creating your Flow Playbook

Here you’ve got to get your hands dirty. The High Flow Coaching Certification is not just about passive learning, to really transform you into an expert on flow science we insist that you produce an original piece of work. This could be a new coaching framework, an article or a keynote speech. It’ll crystalize your knowledge and you’ll leave the High Flow Coaching Certification having created something you can immediately use in the real world.

The Magnum Opus Overview

We’ll give you an overview of your research project, the steps involved and why it matters. You’ll learn our simple, frictionless approach to producing research backed content.

Magnum Opus Topic Selection

Here you select a topic about flow science and research that’s been of interest to you in the past. It can be whatever you want—breathwork and peak performance, flow and parenting, adversity, and the science of resilience—take your pick.

The Science of Research

Here we show you how to conduct research, in a simple step by step fashion. This will allow you to investigate any practice or protocol and see if there’s research that validates it.

The Purpose of Scientific Validity

Here we talk about why research even matters and what the point of being “backed by science is”.

Presenting Your Magnum Opus

Once you’ve completed your Magnum Opus, you’ll present it to your cohort for feedback. This is an amazing opportunity to show off your work and learn how to improve your process.

The Work Of Those Who Went Before You

Here you get access to all of the incredible research projects of previous participants.

Applying Your Magnum Opus In The Wild

Now it's time to take your research project and turn it into something you can immediately use in your business or practice! This way you walk out of the training with something you can immediately put into use.

BONUS MATERIAL

If you're someone who wants even more, you'll find all sorts of never before seen goodies here: Intimate interviews with the world’s best coaches from across domains. Quizzes to test your process. Coaching demonstrations on the flow tools. This is a course for people serious about coaching as a skill!

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What is the Flow Research Collective?

The Flow Research Collective is a peak performance research and training institute. On the research side, we’re partnered with universities like Stanford, UCLA, USC and institutions like Deloitte, attempting to understand what happens in the brain and body when human beings are performing at their best. On the training side, we build training programs that help business leaders improve their professional performance by accessing flow states more consistently.

Is The High Flow Coaching Certification an online training?

The High Flow Coaching Certification is fully digitally delivered. That means you can do it from anywhere. However, it’s nothing like your usual “online course”. Most online courses have a 3% completion rate. The High Flow Coaching Certification has a 100% completion rate. This is because it involves live engagement with incredible experts and leaders from all across the world. It’s not just a big, empty video library.

What’s the purpose of “booking a strategy session” for The High Flow Coaching Certification?

One of the important features of the High Flow Coaching Certification is the group coaching and community. What makes this so great, is that everyone in the program is an inspiring, mission driven coach, consultant or facilitator. The application process allows us to curate this kind of community and ensure it’s a good fit for both sides.

When does the High Flow Coaching Certification start?

You can join as soon as you’re accepted into the High Flow Coaching Certification after your strategy session. However, we do reach coaching capacity, so if you’re interested, we recommend you apply right away.

Why does the High Flow Coaching Certification exist?

As far as we could tell there is no comprehensive neuroscience based coaching program that focuses specifically on teaching people to coach flow states. We thought we ought to create one!

Where does the High Flow Coaching Certification happen?

The whole training is delivered through our world class learning management system. This means you start the course at the top, and everything from the coaching sessions to the videos to the exercises, are laid out simply for you. No hunting for links or trying to find times!

Who are the main instructors in the High Flow Coaching Certification?

The content will be taught by 3X New York Times bestselling author and world renowned peak-performance expert Steven Kotler and Rian Doris, Kotler’s Co-Founder here at the Flow Research Collective. You’ll love their complimentary styles! We also have other world-leading experts and master coaches teach certain modules.

"Flow Research Collective is bringing a great data set to the table. They combine and integrate the research to find optimal solutions for individuals and groups. They help to amplify the returns of flow states."

- Matthew Reibling Founder of Techsyn

"We are all starting to formalize the structure in which to implement flow. This is super exciting and has the opportunity to change the world."

- Jason Bissel CEO at GainInsights Solutions

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Are you a coach or service provider with a passion for flow, peak performance and higher states of consciousness, wanting to coach your clients to achieve flow state?

The High Flow Coaching Certification is the world’s leading training for service providers who want to coach, teach and train others in the science of peak performance and flow states.

How Does The High Flow Coaching Certification Work?

There Are Four Phases To The Program:

The High Flow Coaching Certification has five main elements…

Daily Content & Exercises

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Lifetime Group Coaching & Community

The Flow Research Collective Coaching Framework

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We've used our methodology with over 25,000 clients and taught it to over 200,000 students.

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