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Every Study Guild programme runs live with a fixed cohort, a named tutor and assessed work. Browse start dates across wellness, AI, coaching and business.

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AI for Professionals

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  • AI for Professionals
    Starts 6 Oct 2026Intermediate

    AI for UK Solicitors

    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

    Live hours
    16h live
    Duration and weekly load
    8 weeks · ~5h/week
    Cohort size
    max 20

    £499or from £83.16/mo, interest-free

  • AI for Professionals
    Starts 3 Feb 2027Intermediate

    AI for UK Accountants

    Redesign your practice workflow around AI tools that actually hold up under client confidentiality, ICAEW obligations and a real audit trail.

    Not for: Anyone wanting to learn bookkeeping or accounting from scratch

    Live hours
    16h live
    Duration and weekly load
    8 weeks · ~5h/week
    Cohort size
    max 20

    £499or from £83.16/mo, interest-free

Business & Creative

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  • Business & Creative
    Starts 13 Oct 2026All levels

    Freelance Copywriting Business

    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

    Live hours
    20h live
    Duration and weekly load
    10 weeks · ~6h/week
    Cohort size
    max 22

    £349or from £58.16/mo, interest-free

  • Business & Creative
    Starts 17 Nov 2026All levels

    Interior Design Practice

    Take a residential brief to a client-ready scheme, critiqued live by a designer who still runs jobs, not a mood-board diploma.

    Not for: Anyone seeking to practise as an architect — that title is protected

    Live hours
    20h live
    Duration and weekly load
    10 weeks · ~7h/week
    Cohort size
    max 18

    £399or from £66.50/mo, interest-free

  • Business & Creative
    Starts 18 Nov 2026All levels

    Digital Marketing for Practitioners

    Run a measured campaign for a specialist practice, marked by someone who still buys ads, not a module-quiz diploma.

    Not for: Anyone seeking a protected marketing licence — there is not one

    Live hours
    16h live
    Duration and weekly load
    8 weeks · ~6h/week
    Cohort size
    max 20

    £399or from £66.50/mo, interest-free

Coaching & Psychology

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  • Coaching & Psychology
    Starts 1 Oct 2026Intermediate

    CBT Practitioner Skills

    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

    Live hours
    22h live
    Duration and weekly load
    10 weeks · ~6h/week
    Cohort size
    max 20

    £449or from £74.83/mo, interest-free

  • Coaching & Psychology
    Starts 20 Oct 2026All levels

    Career Coaching Practitioner

    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

    Live hours
    20h live
    Duration and weekly load
    10 weeks · ~6h/week
    Cohort size
    max 18

    £449or from £74.83/mo, interest-free

  • Coaching & Psychology
    Starts 27 Oct 2026All levels

    ADHD Coaching Practitioner

    Coach diagnosed adults on executive function with assessed recordings, and a hard line you will not diagnose, prescribe or replace a clinic.

    Not for: Anyone who wanted to diagnose ADHD or replace a psychiatrist

    Live hours
    16h live
    Duration and weekly load
    8 weeks · ~6h/week
    Cohort size
    max 18

    £449or from £74.83/mo, interest-free

  • Coaching & Psychology
    Starts 3 Nov 2026All levels

    Relationship Coaching

    Coach couples and individuals on agreements and repair, with assessed two-client sessions and a therapy boundary that can fail you.

    Not for: Anyone seeking a counselling, psychotherapy or Relate qualification

    Live hours
    20h live
    Duration and weekly load
    10 weeks · ~6h/week
    Cohort size
    max 16

    £449or from £74.83/mo, interest-free

  • Coaching & Psychology
    Starts 11 Nov 2026All levels

    Counselling Skills

    Learn listening, reflecting and stopping from a BACP-registered counsellor, without a back door into being a counsellor.

    Not for: Anyone who needed BACP or UKCP registration — start from those bodies' accredited lists

    Live hours
    16h live
    Duration and weekly load
    8 weeks · ~6h/week
    Cohort size
    max 20

    £349or from £58.16/mo, interest-free

  • Coaching & Psychology
    Starts 22 Jan 2027All levels

    Life Coaching Accreditation

    Get properly assessed on recorded coaching sessions by an ICF-credentialled coach, and learn the business side that decides whether a coaching practice survives.

    Not for: Anyone unwilling to be recorded coaching — assessment depends on it

    Live hours
    30h live
    Duration and weekly load
    12 weeks · ~7h/week
    Cohort size
    max 18

    £499or from £83.16/mo, interest-free

  • Counselling
    Starts 12 Jan 2027All levels

    Counselling Diploma with Placement

    Live counsellor training with a supervised placement log you arrange, without pretending the Guild is BACP-accredited or hosts the hours.

    Not for: Anyone who needed a BACP- or UKCP-accredited diploma the Guild does not provide

    Live hours
    32h live
    Duration and weekly load
    16 weeks · ~7h/week
    Cohort size
    max 16

    £499or from £83.16/mo, interest-free

Fitness & personal training

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  • Fitness & personal training
    Starts 16 Jan 2027All levels

    Personal Training Practitioner

    Live assessed coaching of movement for apparently healthy adults, without printing CIMSPA endorsement or an Ofqual Level 3 the Guild does not award.

    Not for: Anyone whose first employer named CIMSPA-endorsed or Ofqual-regulated Level 3 training

    Live hours
    24h live
    Duration and weekly load
    12 weeks · ~6h/week
    Cohort size
    max 16

    £449or from £74.83/mo, interest-free

  • Hypnotherapy
    Starts 10 Nov 2026All levels

    Hypnotherapy Practitioner Skills

    Practise hypnotherapy live under observation, with marked sessions, without pretending a short course is CNHC education-provider training.

    Not for: Anyone who needed CNHC-register-eligible training from an approved education provider — see Hypnotherapy Register Pathway, which is still not eligibility

    Live hours
    20h live
    Duration and weekly load
    10 weeks · ~6h/week
    Cohort size
    max 16

    £449or from £74.83/mo, interest-free

  • Hypnotherapy
    Starts 4 Feb 2027Intermediate

    Hypnotherapy Register Pathway

    Longer observed hypnotherapy with a supervised case log, without claiming CNHC education-provider status or core-curriculum eligibility we do not hold.

    Not for: Anyone who needed CNHC-register-eligible training from an approved education provider

    Live hours
    32h live
    Duration and weekly load
    16 weeks · ~8h/week
    Cohort size
    max 16

    £499or from £83.16/mo, interest-free

  • Mindfulness
    Starts 21 Oct 2026All levels

    Mindfulness Facilitation

    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

    Live hours
    16h live
    Duration and weekly load
    8 weeks · ~6h/week
    Cohort size
    max 20

    £399or from £66.50/mo, interest-free

  • Mindfulness
    Starts 1 Feb 2027Intermediate

    Mindfulness Teacher Training

    Observed teaching of an eight-week form, with a practice and retreat-planning log, without printing BAMBA-registered teacher status we do not award.

    Not for: Anyone who needed BAMBA-registered teacher status from a quality-assessed affiliate

    Live hours
    24h live
    Duration and weekly load
    12 weeks · ~9h/week
    Cohort size
    max 16

    £499or from £83.16/mo, interest-free

  • Nutrition
    Starts 4 Nov 2026All levels

    Nutrition Coaching Foundations

    Coach healthy-eating change inside a non-clinical scope, with marked case work and a hard stop at disease, medication and the title dietitian.

    Not for: Anyone who needed an HCPC dietetic degree — see Dietetics Career Preparation, which is still not that degree

    Live hours
    20h live
    Duration and weekly load
    10 weeks · ~6h/week
    Cohort size
    max 20

    £399or from £66.50/mo, interest-free

  • Nutrition
    Starts 11 Jan 2027All levels

    Dietetics Career Preparation

    Map the HCPC dietetics degree, the assistant-support lane and the criminal offence of using the title, without pretending a short cohort is the degree.

    Not for: Anyone who needed an HCPC-approved dietetics degree or an AfN-accredited register pathway

    Live hours
    24h live
    Duration and weekly load
    12 weeks · ~6h/week
    Cohort size
    max 18

    £449or from £74.83/mo, interest-free

Special educational needs

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  • Special educational needs
    Starts 14 Jan 2027All levels

    SEND Practice for School Staff

    Code of Practice literacy and support-staff practice for people already in schools, without printing QTS or the NPQ for SENCOs on the certificate.

    Not for: Anyone who needed QTS or the NPQ for SENCOs

    Live hours
    20h live
    Duration and weekly load
    10 weeks · ~6h/week
    Cohort size
    max 20

    £399or from £66.50/mo, interest-free

Wellness & Therapy

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  • Wellness & Therapy
    Starts 29 Sept 2026All levels

    Sleep Coaching Practitioner

    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

    Live hours
    16h live
    Duration and weekly load
    8 weeks · ~6h/week
    Cohort size
    max 24

    £299or from £49.83/mo, interest-free

  • Wellness & Therapy
    Starts 19 Jan 2027All levels

    Menopause Wellness Coaching

    Train with a menopause specialist GP to coach women through perimenopause and menopause safely, credibly and within a clear scope of practice.

    Not for: Anyone looking for a medical qualification — this programme does not licence you to diagnose or prescribe

    Live hours
    20h live
    Duration and weekly load
    10 weeks · ~6h/week
    Cohort size
    max 24

    £449or from £74.83/mo, interest-free

  • Wellness & Therapy
    Starts 20 Jan 2027All levels

    Massage Practice and Licensing

    Observed massage practice plus a plan for your own council's special-treatments rules, without issuing a licence only that council can grant.

    Not for: Anyone who needed a council special-treatments licence issued by us

    Live hours
    20h live
    Duration and weekly load
    10 weeks · ~6h/week
    Cohort size
    max 16

    £449or from £74.83/mo, interest-free

Workplace wellbeing

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  • Workplace wellbeing
    Starts 28 Oct 2026All levels

    Workplace Wellbeing Practitioner

    Design a workplace wellbeing offer an employer can defend, starting from job design and referral, not from a gratitude journal.

    Not for: Anyone seeking Mental Health First Aid instructor licensing from MHFA England

    Live hours
    16h live
    Duration and weekly load
    8 weeks · ~6h/week
    Cohort size
    max 20

    £449or from £74.83/mo, interest-free

  • Workplace wellbeing
    Starts 22 Jan 2027All levels

    Workplace MH First-Contact Training

    Design and practise first-contact conversations at work, without passing the cohort off as MHFA England instructor licensing.

    Not for: Anyone seeking Mental Health First Aid instructor licensing from MHFA England

    Live hours
    16h live
    Duration and weekly load
    8 weeks · ~6h/week
    Cohort size
    max 18

    £399or from £66.50/mo, interest-free

Calendar

Every upcoming start date

All open cohorts across every subject, soonest first. Each one has a fixed timetable and a capped room.

Upcoming cohort start dates for every programme
StartsProgrammeLive sessionsPriceAction
Sleep Coaching PractitionerWellness & Therapy · 8 weeksMondays 19:00–21:00 UK, 8 weeks£299Reserve →
CBT Practitioner SkillsCoaching & Psychology · 10 weeksThursdays 19:00–21:00 UK, 10 weeks£449Reserve →
AI for UK SolicitorsAI for Professionals · 8 weeksTuesdays 17:30–19:30 UK, 8 weeks£499Reserve →
Freelance Copywriting BusinessBusiness & Creative · 10 weeksTuesdays 19:00–21:00 UK, 10 weeks£349Reserve →
Career Coaching PractitionerCoaching & Psychology · 10 weeksTuesdays 19:00–21:00 UK, 10 weeks£449Reserve →
Mindfulness FacilitationMindfulness · 8 weeksWednesdays 19:00–21:00 UK, 8 weeks£399Reserve →
ADHD Coaching PractitionerCoaching & Psychology · 8 weeksTuesdays 19:00–21:00 UK, 8 weeks£449Reserve →
Workplace Wellbeing PractitionerWorkplace wellbeing · 8 weeksWednesdays 19:00–21:00 UK, 8 weeks£449Reserve →
Relationship CoachingCoaching & Psychology · 10 weeksTuesdays 19:00–21:00 UK, 10 weeks (no session 22 or 29 December)£449Reserve →
Nutrition Coaching FoundationsNutrition · 10 weeksWednesdays 19:00–21:00 UK, 10 weeks (no session 23 or 30 December)£399Reserve →
Hypnotherapy Practitioner SkillsHypnotherapy · 10 weeksTuesdays 19:00–21:00 UK, 10 weeks (no session 22 or 29 December)£449Reserve →
Counselling SkillsCoaching & Psychology · 8 weeksWednesdays 19:00–21:00 UK, 8 weeks (no session 23 or 30 December)£349Reserve →
Interior Design PracticeBusiness & Creative · 10 weeksTuesdays 19:00–21:00 UK, 10 weeks (no session 22 or 29 December)£399Reserve →
Digital Marketing for PractitionersBusiness & Creative · 8 weeksWednesdays 19:00–21:00 UK, 8 weeks (no session 23 or 30 December)£399Reserve →
Dietetics Career PreparationNutrition · 12 weeksMondays 19:00–21:00 UK, 12 weeks£449Reserve →
Counselling Diploma with PlacementCounselling · 16 weeksTuesdays 18:30–20:30 UK, 16 weeks£499Reserve →
SEND Practice for School StaffSpecial educational needs · 10 weeksThursdays 19:00–21:00 UK, 10 weeks£399Reserve →
Personal Training PractitionerFitness & personal training · 12 weeksSaturdays 10:00–12:00 UK, 12 weeks£449Reserve →
Menopause Wellness CoachingWellness & Therapy · 10 weeksTuesdays 19:00–21:00 UK, 10 weeks£449Reserve →
Massage Practice and LicensingWellness & Therapy · 10 weeksWednesdays 18:00–20:00 UK, 10 weeks£449Reserve →
Life Coaching AccreditationCoaching & Psychology · 12 weeksThursdays 18:30–21:00 UK, 12 weeks£499Reserve →
Workplace MH First-Contact TrainingWorkplace wellbeing · 8 weeksFridays 12:00–14:00 UK, 8 weeks£399Reserve →
Sleep Coaching PractitionerWellness & Therapy · 8 weeksMondays 19:00–21:00 UK, 8 weeks£299Reserve →
Mindfulness Teacher TrainingMindfulness · 12 weeksMondays 18:00–20:00 UK, 12 weeks£499Reserve →
AI for UK AccountantsAI for Professionals · 8 weeksWednesdays 12:30–14:30 UK, 8 weeks£499Reserve →
CBT Practitioner SkillsCoaching & Psychology · 10 weeksThursdays 19:00–21:00 UK, 10 weeks£449Reserve →
Hypnotherapy Register PathwayHypnotherapy · 16 weeksThursdays 18:30–20:30 UK, 16 weeks£499Reserve →
AI for UK SolicitorsAI for Professionals · 8 weeksTuesdays 17:30–19:30 UK, 8 weeks£499Reserve →
Career Coaching PractitionerCoaching & Psychology · 10 weeksTuesdays 19:00–21:00 UK, 10 weeks£449Reserve →
Freelance Copywriting BusinessBusiness & Creative · 10 weeksTuesdays 19:00–21:00 UK, 10 weeks£349Reserve →
Mindfulness FacilitationMindfulness · 8 weeksWednesdays 19:00–21:00 UK, 8 weeks£399Reserve →
ADHD Coaching PractitionerCoaching & Psychology · 8 weeksTuesdays 19:00–21:00 UK, 8 weeks£449Reserve →
Hypnotherapy Practitioner SkillsHypnotherapy · 10 weeksTuesdays 19:00–21:00 UK, 10 weeks£449Reserve →
Workplace Wellbeing PractitionerWorkplace wellbeing · 8 weeksWednesdays 19:00–21:00 UK, 8 weeks£449Reserve →
Nutrition Coaching FoundationsNutrition · 10 weeksWednesdays 19:00–21:00 UK, 10 weeks£399Reserve →
Relationship CoachingCoaching & Psychology · 10 weeksTuesdays 19:00–21:00 UK, 10 weeks£449Reserve →
Counselling SkillsCoaching & Psychology · 8 weeksWednesdays 19:00–21:00 UK, 8 weeks£349Reserve →
Digital Marketing for PractitionersBusiness & Creative · 8 weeksWednesdays 19:00–21:00 UK, 8 weeks£399Reserve →
Interior Design PracticeBusiness & Creative · 10 weeksTuesdays 19:00–21:00 UK, 10 weeks£399Reserve →
Workplace MH First-Contact TrainingWorkplace wellbeing · 8 weeksFridays 12:00–14:00 UK, 8 weeks£399Reserve →
Massage Practice and LicensingWellness & Therapy · 10 weeksWednesdays 18:00–20:00 UK, 10 weeks£449Reserve →
SEND Practice for School StaffSpecial educational needs · 10 weeksThursdays 19:00–21:00 UK, 10 weeks£399Reserve →
Personal Training PractitionerFitness & personal training · 12 weeksSaturdays 10:00–12:00 UK, 12 weeks£449Reserve →
Dietetics Career PreparationNutrition · 12 weeksMondays 19:00–21:00 UK, 12 weeks£449Reserve →
Mindfulness Teacher TrainingMindfulness · 12 weeksMondays 18:00–20:00 UK, 12 weeks£499Reserve →
Counselling Diploma with PlacementCounselling · 16 weeksTuesdays 18:30–20:30 UK, 16 weeks£499Reserve →
Hypnotherapy Register PathwayHypnotherapy · 16 weeksThursdays 18:30–20:30 UK, 16 weeks£499Reserve →