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Virtual training programmes

Two certification tracks, one standard of coaching

Both programmes run as live cohorts on weekends, with 3 days offline in Mumbai. Choose Gold, or add the AI Career Strategist clinic.

Certification

Professional Coaching Gold Programme

₹45,000
one-time investment

Primarily for professional coaches, psychologists, army veterans, educators, HR professionals and seasoned industry experts who want to launch their own career guidance business and establish themselves as coaching professionals.

Cohorts
Saturdays & Sundays
Duration
10 days + 3 days offline (Mumbai)
Delivery
Live virtual + in-person
  • 13-day / 60-hour live training
  • 3-day offline training in Mumbai
  • Business planning, pricing & marketing sessions
  • Certification manual, pre-work & recordings
  • Unlimited attempts at assignments and evaluation
  • Development calls with detailed feedback
  • Co-branded psychometric reports for your clients
Certification + AI Clinic

Gold + AI Career Strategist Programme

₹55,000
one-time investment

The full Gold certification plus an exclusive 2-day AI clinic — India's first for career coaching professionals — teaching you to design agile career roadmaps using tools like ChatGPT, Claude, Replit and Runway.

Cohorts
Saturdays & Sundays
Duration
10 days + 3 days offline + 2-day AI clinic
Delivery
Live virtual + in-person + virtual AI clinic
  • Everything in the Gold Programme
  • 2 days of AI coaching across major LLMs and agentic AI
  • How the future of work is changing with AI
  • Guidance on agile, AI-assisted career roadmaps
  • Prompting, prompt chaining and deep research with AI
  • Edge to launch your own AI-enabled Career Discovery Centre
Trainee writing notes while working through a certification assignment

Meet your trainer

Every session — from Day 1 to certification — is led personally by Manisha Bapna, Mentoria's Master Coach and Chief Mentor.

Read her full story

The 10-day training schedule

Weekend cohorts, building from interest profiling through to live, supervised counselling sessions.

01

Interest profiling & the RIASEC model

  • Principles of psychometrics and a deep dive into the RIASEC model
  • Interest scales, subscales, and the 3-band interpretation system
  • Identifying genuine vs. skewed responses, and the Counselee Information Form
  • Assignment: interpreting a sample interest report
02

Core counselling skills

  • Verbal and non-verbal communication, and counselling terminology
  • Empathising and paraphrasing; handling issues that arise mid-session
  • Preparing for a career counselling session at Mentoria
  • Assignment: analysing a counselling script, quiz preparation
03

The counsellor process checklist

  • Quiz on interest profiling and counselling process
  • Rapport building, open vs. closed questioning, behavioural evidence
  • Handling parent and student doubts; medical, financial and other factors
  • Assignment: peer-to-peer mock counselling sessions
04

Personality & ability interpretation

  • Interpreting personality and ability assessment scales
  • How personality traits shape career choice, and how ability differs from interest
  • Practice case studies interpreting personality and ability scores
  • Assignment: thorough reading of the counsellor's kit and manual
05

Integrating the full report

  • Combining interest, personality and ability into career recommendations
  • The Advanced Process Checklist and validating behaviours with open questions
  • Identifying strengths, development areas, and building a development plan
  • Assignment: interpreting an advanced report and preparing a final presentation
06

Final presentations & assessment

  • Presentation of final sample reports
  • Quiz on advanced profiling
  • Sharing of certification assignments
07

Counselling graduates & professionals

  • Report interpretation for college graduates and early-career professionals
  • Report interpretation for professionals with 6–10+ years of experience
  • Matching purpose, personality and ability with career and workplace decisions
  • Assignment: analysing an Ascend sample report
08

Real-world application

  • Individual presentations on the Ascend sample report
  • Integrating reports with real-life career and education trajectories
  • Managing the inhibitions graduates and working professionals bring to counselling
  • Time management for this segment's sessions
09

Applied case studies

  • 5–6 case studies solved individually and as a group
  • Adapting language and examples for a corporate audience
  • Managing emotions during a career transition conversation
10

Live certification & sign-off

  • Live counselling session with the trainer, and peer-to-peer practice
  • Building action plans and pathways for Ascend clients
  • Mentoria's own Ascend counsellors share lessons from 100–300 live sessions
  • Assignment sharing and certification next steps

Choose your cohort

Weekend batches run through the year. Reach out for the next available start date.

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