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Mastering Spiral Dynamics and ValueMatch Assessments

Learn to understand the deeper layers that drive your clients. This course combines the fundamentals of Spiral Dynamics with the practical application of the ValueMatch Values and Change assessments.

You will learn to recognize how conflicting worldviews cause inner tension and relational friction, and how to use these insights to guide clients toward real transformation. You will gain a clear framework to understand human, societal, and organizational motivation, development, and change. We will provide you with the tools to make these dynamics visible in your coaching practice.

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After completion, you will be certified as a ValueMatch Coach, qualified to apply the ValueMatch assessments and Spiral Dynamics with your clients. You will also join our worldwide community of professionals, working with Spiral Dynamics every day.

Starts April 19, 2026, 16:00 CET/Amsterdam time. Other dates see below.

Discounts for individuals or small businesses apply.

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Depth in Coaching

Most coaching methods work with behavior, goals, or mindset, but these are only surface expressions of something deeper. Coaching with Spiral Dynamics helps you uncover the why behind behavior.

You learn to identify the hidden conflicts between a person’s values and their environment and guide clients toward alignment with what truly matters to them.

This approach enables faster, more profound breakthroughs because it connects to the client’s core motivation, not just their symptoms. You will learn to coach beyond personality or circumstance, addressing the dynamics that drive real, sustainable change.
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Coaching with Spiral Dynamics and ValueMatch

Understanding the Deeper Dynamics

Each coaching conversation contains more than what is said. By applying Spiral Dynamics, you will learn to hear what is really happening beneath the words, the tension between values, needs, and life conditions. You will be able to identify the developmental stage your client operates from and guide them to expand their perspective.

From Friction to Flow

Clients often get stuck because their values clash with their environment. Through the ValueMatch assessments, you will learn to visualize this friction and translate it into concrete coaching steps. By aligning inner motivation with outer reality, you help clients regain flow and purpose.

Coaching Across Worldviews

When a coach and client operate from different value systems, their perspectives can easily collide. Spiral Dynamics offers a map to bridge these gaps. You will learn to adapt your coaching style to your client’s worldview, making your interventions more precise, empathetic, and effective.

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Blended learning journey

The Coaching with Values training is a blended learning journey. The online environment contains lessons and assignments you can do at your own pace. Some exercises you do with a buddy that you choose at the start of the training. During 9 instructor-led sessions, there are lectures and Q and A sessions. The course fee includes assessments you can use to practice with.

ValueMatch Certified Coach

Upon successful completion of the course, you become a ValueMatch Certified Coach and part of our worldwide Community of Practice.

Without any further annual fees, this provides you with a discount on our assessments, access to our ValueBase with lots of information such as workshop structures and background materials, and free access to our Community of Practice meetings and update sessions.

After this training, we offer further add-on modules. A Spiral Dynamics certification module will allow you to become certified by the Don Beck Spiral Dynamics Integral Foundation, and for those interested in analyzing groups and organizational culture, we will offer a module to become a ValueMatch Certified Practitioner.

Dates and times

Besides the online learning material, there are 9 instructor-led online sessions of 2 hours, spread out over 3 months, you find the dates below. All session are recorded (only accessible to participants), so if you miss a session, you can catch up. Each session starts at 16:00 CET (Central European time).

Who benefits

This training is open to anybody with an interest to learn and is specifically designed for those who work as professional coaches. We guide you to implement a values-based approach and ValueMatch assessments into your coaching practice. We don't teach you to coach, assuming you have such skills.

If you know Spiral Dynamics but have not had in-depth training, we recommend doing the complete course. If you have good knowledge and experience working with Spiral Dynamics, we offer shorter training to become ValueMatch certified.

Prices

Price for the training is € 1075 for small companies and € 1275 for corporates. Prices exclude 21% Dutch VAT; however, participants in the EU with a valid VAT number and participants outside the EU don't pay VAT. Price includes a ValueMatch Values and Change assessment as well as two sets to practice with. 

What our learners say

Customer Relation Management Assistant, Value Consult, Jakarta

Very engaging and fun. Widens my perspectives about how people develop in community. For those who closely works with people, whether in organizations and/or community, Spiral Dynamics can provide insights into the interactions between people and their environment and how it shapes as well as affects each other.

Stephan Becker, Team Leadership Coach,  Canada

Undoubtedly, this course's distinctive advantage lies in its unparalleled approach to evaluating VALUES, both in personal and professional contexts. This unique perspective offers insights that are rarely found in conventional coaching methodologies.
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Karine Ségelke, YZA Coaching, France

I strongly recommend this course to any professional  who looks for a practical tool and enhanced skills about innovative management taking into account the dynamics between employees values and the culture and structure of the organization they work for.

Marc Mathys, Paradigm21, Switzerland

This training gave me a deeper access to working with spiral dynamics in organizational transformation.

David Martí Garcés, Coach. Barcelona, Spain

Since I wrote the foreword to Reinventing Organizations in its Spanish edition, I have often been asked "What do I have to do to become Teal?" Thanks to the window opened with this course, I invite all of you to change this question, and to focus, to begin with, on observing the value system from where we operate right now. And to enjoy the evolutionary journey.

Milos, organizational coach, 39, Serbia

Great instruments and model to work with leaders or for transformations, especially if culture change is desired or needed - in any culture as the model is not Western leadership/culture based or biased.

Vincent, 49, researcher in engineering and yoga teacher

A brilliant Spiral Dynamics training adapted to an on line format. Learn the levels and colors, with historical background, take the time to change your way of thinking, give a new sight to your life and the human situations you approach.

Jean Denys JOUBERT, consultant, France.

Great course, with an excellent balance between concrete cases, useful debriefing, and excellent material on the platform.


Mentor, Coach, Finance Manager, Monika, Poland

The course provides valuable insight and knowledge about the Spiral Dynamics model, how to interpret each value system, and how to enhance the ability to analyze various behaviors and decision-making drivers for mentees, coachees, or peers in the business environment. Additionally, I feel equipped with a tool for gaining a deeper understanding of people.

Massimo Lavelli, engineer and aspiring "integral being" - 35 - Italy

I enjoyed every minute of my training with ValueMatch. If you want to dig more into Graves' work, here's the place to start. A lot of nuances and historical materials complete a very profound journey into the Spiral, with yes, some work to do and lots of interaction and fun with the trainers and participants. Thanks, ValueMatch, for offering a so well-done training.

Hesti N. Lestari, Psychologist & Coach, Indonesia

This one-of-a-kind course provided me with in-depth knowledge of the Spiral Dynamics theory, how to use it to analyze individuals and groups, and taught the dynamics and unique perspectives of the value systems. A must-attend course for those who want to work with Spiral Dynamics, in any situation.

Roman Passarge, consultant and coach, Germany

From my point of view, this was a very applicable, practical training for the application of Spiral Dynamics and, above all, the online assessment developed by ValueMatch. The size and rhythm of the online group was great. I will be able to make good use of the knowledge and the assessment in my day-to-day consulting and coaching work.

Mirna Ghannam, MBA, Coach and Trainer, Lebanon

The course is an eye-opening journey packed with richness, practicality, and profound learning. It offers invaluable insights into human behavior and growth, making it a transformative experience for anyone looking to understand and lead more effectively. Highly recommended for both personal and professional development!

Petr Kraus, 47 years, life and team coach, Czech Republic

The course was an excellent introduction to this model. The study materials were very useful, the lecturers were professional, and the e-learning platform was well-functioning and supportive. I’m leaving with a comprehensive understanding of Spiral Dynamics, a perspective on myself through this model, and an introduction to perceiving teams and organizations through the lens of this model.

Joe Chahwan, Career & Skill Development Coach, Lebanon.

Spiral Dynamics was a life-changing experience from the perspective of how to perceive, analyze, and behave in front of different personalities and within different societies. Acquiring that knowledge leveraged a lot of my adaptive personality skills, and supported me a lot to see things from a different perspective.

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In each course you meet both instructors. One of them is the main trainer and conducts 6 session, the other one conducts the other two sessions.
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With years of experience in working for large multinationals, Jon is a top-down thinker, holistic in approach with a sharply pragmatic focus. Trained by Dr. Don Beck he is experienced in values-based cultural change. Jon is a founding director of several organizations, including the UK Center of Human Emergence.
Jon Freeman - Spiral Futures
Starting his career building large corporate IT networks and as a serial entrepreneur, Auke has a practical engineering approach, is a troubleshooter, systems analyzer and a connector. Since 2003 he consults and coaches people and organizations, trained by Dr. Don Beck in Spiral Dynamics and one of the founders of ValueMatch.
Auke van Nimwegen - ValueMatch