The gold standard for being a coach is membership and credentialing in the International Coaching Federation (ICF) and this happens through accredited training.   The ICF requires 60 hours of training to become a member. In addition to membership, the ICF offers credentialing – think about it this way: becoming a member of the ICF is much like getting an associate degree, and then earning a credential is much like getting a degree or master’s level degree.
- To become a member of the ICF requires 60 hours of coach training – at the Center for Coaching Certification, CCC, that means taking both the CPC and the CMC classes.
- To earn the ACC credential with ICF requires that same 60 hours of training, plus 100 hours of experience coaching clients, plus working with a mentor coach for 10 hours, plus passing assessment by submitting a recording of you coaching a client used by trained assessors to determine if you are demonstrating the coaching competencies at the ACC level, and then applying to ICF and passing their exam. The Foundational Cohort at CCC provides all the training hours, mentor coaching, and the recording assessment for the ACC credential.
- If you earn the ACC and then want to continue to the PCC, you can enroll in the Growth Cohort for the remaining training hours, mentor coaching, and assessing at the PCC level.
- To earn the PCC credential with ICF requires 125 hours of training, plus 500 hours of experience coaching clients, plus working with a mentor coach for 10 hours, plus passing assessment by submitting two recordings of you coaching clients used by trained assessors to determine if you are demonstrating the coaching competencies at the PCC level, and then applying to ICF and passing their exam. The Advanced Cohort at CCC provides all the training hours, mentor coaching, and the assessing for the PCC credential.
- To earn the MCC credential with ICF requires first that you have the PCC credential for three years, 200 hours of training, plus 2500 hours of experience coaching clients, plus working with a mentor coach for 10 hours, plus passing assessment by submitting two recordings of you coaching clients used by trained assessors to determine if you are demonstrating the coaching competencies at the MCC level, and then applying to ICF and passing their exam.
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