A clearer way to work out what matters first.
Foundations helps established coaches see more of the person behind the presenting goal, organise the wider context and make better decisions about what deserves attention first. You keep your specialism. You develop a stronger way to use it.
The person in front of you is carrying more than the goal you are working on.
Your specialism still matters. The skill is bringing enough of the wider person into view to use that expertise well.
The goal is clear, but progress has stalled.
A golfer’s technical work is affected by travel, fatigue and a saturated mind. You want to understand what else is shaping their ability to move forward.
The advice makes sense, but not for the week they are living.
A health client knows what to do, yet work, sleep, confidence or the support around them has changed. The next step needs to fit their current capacity.
Another part of life is influencing the result.
An executive may understand the plan and still lack the resources to act on it now. You need a consistent way to explore the wider context without losing your own role.
See the wider picture.
See more. Ask better questions. Choose the next step with greater clarity.
Foundations develops the judgement to see the wider picture without losing your specialism. You learn to organise what you hear and make your expertise more useful through better context and timing.
See beyond the presenting issue
Widen the conversation when the stated goal does not explain the whole picture.
Organise the wider picture
Bring relevant strengths, pressures, resources and circumstances into a coherent view.
Make sense of what matters now
Develop a useful current understanding with the person while staying open to what changes.
Agree the next useful step
Choose one proportionate action that fits the person’s priorities, resources and available capacity.
Learn from what happens next
Review the person’s real experience and use that feedback to guide the next conversation.
Use your expertise with better timing
Apply your own discipline with a clearer sense of what will help this person now.
Look beyond the loudest issue.
The aim is not simply to explain why progress stalled. It is to notice the wider pattern earlier, help the person understand the direction they are moving in and agree a useful step before the latest problem takes over the conversation.
Learn through your own experience first.
You learn the principles, use the working resources on yourself and reflect on what changes. That first-hand experience helps you understand the method before bringing it into real coaching conversations.
Learn properly
Clear video and written teaching makes the thinking understandable without stripping away its depth.
Apply personally
Guided reflection lets you experience the work from the other side of the coaching relationship.
Use thoughtfully
Working resources help you prepare, organise context and think more clearly within your own role.
Research, experience and the person in front of you.
Evidence-based practice is more than attaching references to a lesson. It brings together the best available research, practitioner experience and the individual person’s goals, preferences and context.
Foundations was developed inside 360’s own client work, refined through real coaching conversations and structured so other experienced practitioners can use it through their own expertise.
Curated research references gathered across the connected domains of health, wellbeing and performance.
Direct practice across health, fitness, nutrition, professional sport, private healthcare and corporate wellbeing.
Years of use and refinement inside 360 before the method was made transferable to other coaches.
Everything you need to learn, experience and apply the method.
You receive the complete Foundations learning, guided exercises and working resources, together with a structured reflection that brings the method into your own experience.
Self-paced digital learning
Video and written teaching you can work through around your existing practice.
Guided exercises and working resources
Practical tools for reflection, preparation and clearer coaching conversations.
Reflection and Integration
A guided exercise that helps you apply the learning to yourself and bring the method together.
Certificate of Completion
Recognition that you have completed the Foundations learning and personal integration work.
Professional development with a clear next step.
Foundations includes a Certificate of Completion and gives you a practical methodology to use within the role you already hold.
Practitioner authorisation, the App, the Private Member Platform and the right to operate the complete 360 OS™ system follow through the Level II Practitioner Programme, separate Practitioner Assessment and current Authorised Practitioner status.
Valuable on its own. The first step into the complete 360 OS™ system.
Your specialism remains yours throughout. The pathway adds methodology, applied skills, infrastructure and standards around the work you already do.
Foundations
Learn the whole-person methodology, apply it personally and receive your Certificate of Completion.
Practitioner Programme
Develop the applied skills and add the App, Private Member Platform and practice infrastructure needed to build premium individual services and small participatory cohorts.
Practitioner Assessment
Demonstrate the knowledge, judgement and applied capability required by the practitioner standard.
Authorised Practitioner
Maintain the annual requirements and operating rights for the complete 360 OS™ system.
A practical method, made transferable.
360 began on the gym floor and developed through 25 years of work across health, fitness, nutrition and high-performance sport.
Again and again, excellent specialists were doing good work while important context sat in the space between disciplines. The earliest version of the method began on paper: a clearer way to understand the person, organise what mattered and make a better decision about where to begin.
Foundations now gives other experienced coaches that same organising method—so they can make more of what they already know while the person in front of them feels seen, supported and able to move forward.
Justin Buckthorp MSc
Founder, 360 Health & Performance
“The whole structure of the training makes you ask much better questions as a practitioner.”
Before you begin.
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Become the coach who sees more of the person.
Learn the method, apply it through your own experience and bring better context, questions and timing into your next coaching conversation.