Small, live programmes taught by clinicians, chartered professionals and credentialled practitioners. Fixed start dates, marked assignments, and a tutor who knows your name. One honest price, all year.
Programmes
Every programme lists its real start date, its live hours, how much time it takes each week and how the work is assessed.
Train with a sleep neuroscientist to coach adults through poor sleep using methods that have evidence behind them, and to recognise the presentations that need a clinician.
Not for: Anyone seeking to treat diagnosed sleep disorders — that is clinical work requiring clinical training
£299or from £49.83/mo, interest-free
Learn to use cognitive behavioural techniques competently within a clearly defined scope of practice, taught and assessed by a chartered psychologist and BABCP-accredited therapist.
Not for: Anyone expecting to qualify as a CBT therapist — that requires accredited clinical training
£449or from £74.83/mo, interest-free
Use generative AI on real matters without compromising privilege, confidentiality or your SRA obligations — taught by a solicitor who led legal technology for a national firm.
Not for: Non-lawyers seeking legal training — this assumes you are qualified
£499or from £83.16/mo, interest-free
Build a copywriting business that survives AI, taught by a copywriter of fourteen years who is blunt about what has stopped being sellable and what now pays more.
Not for: Anyone hoping to compete on volume and price, which is the part of the market that has gone
£349or from £58.16/mo, interest-free
Get assessed on recorded career-coaching sessions by an ICF-credentialled former HR lead, including the labour-market honesty this niche usually skips.
Not for: Anyone promising job outcomes or salary figures they cannot source
£449or from £74.83/mo, interest-free
Learn to guide mindfulness practice live, with observed teaching and a personal-practice log, without pretending a short course is BAMBA teacher registration.
Not for: Anyone who needed BAMBA-aligned teacher training for NHS or commissioned work — see Mindfulness Teacher Training, which is still not BAMBA registration
£399or from £66.50/mo, interest-free
Not sure which one?
Four questions — goal, subject, weekly hours, start date — and a shortlist of at most three. Or an honest “none of ours fit”.
How it works
Every programme has fixed cohort dates and a published weekly timetable. You know exactly when you will meet before you pay.
Free live masterclasses are taught by the same specialists who teach the paid programmes. Judge them before you commit.
Weekly sessions, capped at 24, with recordings for catch-up. Instalments are interest free, and there is a 30-day refund.
Real assignments against a published rubric, marked by a named tutor with written feedback. Attendance alone never earns the credential.
Why this exists
You can already get the information free. What you cannot get free is a specialist watching you practise, telling you where you are wrong, and putting their name to the assessment. That is what the price pays for.
| Feature | The Study Guild | Typical self-paced library |
|---|---|---|
| Who teaches | A named specialist, live | Pre-recorded video |
| Group size | Capped at 24 | None — you study alone |
| Your work | Marked by a person, with written feedback | Rarely read by a person |
| Start date | Fixed cohort dates | Any time you like |
| Price | From £299, one price all year | Usually far lower |
Where a library wins — price and starting whenever you like — it genuinely wins. Read the sourced, dated comparison.
Our commitments
Every programme runs as a cohort with fixed dates and a tutor in the room. Sessions are recorded for catch-up, never used as a substitute.
We never discount. The price you see is the price everyone pays, so nobody who enrolled last week paid more than you.
Credentials are earned through marked assessment. A certificate from us means somebody qualified read your work.
Cohorts are capped so the tutor knows your name and your peers become your network.
Our guarantee. Attend the first live session and, if the programme is not what you expected, tell us within 30 days of the start date for a full refund. Or split the fee into six payments from £49.83 a month, interest free.
Who should skip us
Every programme publishes a not-for list before checkout. These are the cases where a different provider, or a different career, is the honest answer.
Centre of Excellence is the better instrument for browsing hundreds of recorded courses at a low price. That is a real product. It is not this one.
Sourced comparisonThe Coaching Academy already holds ICF Level 1. We do not, and we will not display a mark before it is granted. If the register is the goal, they are ahead of us.
Sourced comparisonCounsellor, dietitian, CBT therapist, solicitor — those routes are statutory or placement-based. We do not and cannot award them. The credential checker will say so.
Which credential?Assessment is the product. If you wanted attendance-only or a PDF certificate, a marketplace course is cheaper and more honest for that job.
Live vs self-pacedWho teaches
Every programme is led by a practising professional. Profiles go live when contracts are signed — we will not invent experts to fill this grid.
Placeholder names currently sit on programme pages so the curriculum and assessment can be reviewed. They are labelled, noindexed, and emit no Person structured data. That is slower than a catalogue of stock-photo tutors. It is also the only version that does not poison the trust graph we are building. See current status.
Answers
Whether a qualification is legally required, what the work really pays, and when our programme is the wrong choice. Reviewed and dated.
Careers
Honest pathways for the jobs our programmes lead to — including when the title is unregulated and when we omit a salary because no survey exists.
AI does not create a new accountancy career. It changes how professionals meet confidentiality, supervision and UK GDPR — and when ChatGPT fails.
What an ADHD coach actually does, why the title is unprotected, why you must not diagnose, and a realistic route into adult coaching.
How to work toward becoming a UK dietitian, why a short course cannot award the title, and what honest preparation looks like before an HCPC degree.
What a career coach actually does, whether the title is regulated, what buyers check, and a realistic route to a first paying client.
What becoming a UK counsellor actually requires, why placement hours cannot be skipped, and how a non-accredited diploma differs from BACP registration.
What a digital marketer actually does for specialist practices, why there is no licence, and why a module-quiz diploma is usually the wrong buy.
Compare
Every comparison names a case where the other provider is the better choice. Claims about them are sourced to their own site and dated.
A dated comparison of a self-paced UK course library versus live assessed cohorts — including when the cheaper catalogue is the better buy.
A dated comparison of a 12-week assessed coaching cohort versus an ICF-accredited diploma — including when the established academy is the better buy.
Yes. Every programme runs as a cohort with a fixed start date and weekly sessions with the tutor in the room. Sessions are recorded so you can catch up if you miss one, but the recording is a safety net, not the product.
It is an assessed credential: a named tutor marks your work against a published rubric and you pass or you do not. It is not an Ofqual-regulated qualification, and our accreditation applications are still in progress — we will not display a mark before it is granted. The credential checker explains what each tier means.
Yes. Any programme can be split into three or six monthly payments, interest free. The instalments total exactly the headline price — there is no surcharge for spreading it and no discount for paying up front.
Attend the first live session and, if the programme is not what you expected, tell us within 30 days of the start date for a full refund. Every programme page also lists who it is not for, so you can rule yourself out before paying rather than after.
Because a permanent sale means the list price was never real, and whoever paid it was overcharged. Our prices change only when the cost of delivering a programme changes. Nobody who enrolled last week paid more than you.
More in the pricing FAQ and the answers library.
Or join the Guild for £49 a month — access to every live programme, the practitioner community and the full answers library. Cancel any time.
