Make coaching part of your professional identity.
Opportunities for professional development enhance quality of coaching services and leadership possibilities. The webinars listed below are opportunities that count toward the continuing education requirement of 40 clock hours every three years to maintain certification at the Center for Coaching Certification (with the exception of the monthly webinar explaining coaching certification).
Introduction to Coaching: 4-Hour Course!
Available online on your schedule! Earn .4 CEUs – the Center for Coaching Certification is accredited by IACET to offer CEUs - this program is only $25.
Designed for people who are considering becoming a coach or who hire coaches in their organizations: Explore what coaching is and is not, ethics, competencies, group and team coaching, coaching models and processes, communication in coaching, goal setting, and the journey to becoming a coach.
4-Hour Course! Introduction to Coaching online - Click Here to Register
ICF - Staying Present When Strong Feelings Arise: Building capacity through Coaching Supervision
Thursday November 12, 2026
1:00 PM - 2:30 PM New York US and Canada, ET
10:00 AM - 11:30 AM PST
6:00 PM - 7:30 PM GMT
Join us for the ICF Coaching Supervision Community of Practice webinar, Staying Present When Strong Feelings Arise, with Leanne Lowish, where you’ll explore how coaches and coaching supervisors can remain grounded when strong feelings arise and gain practical approaches to strengthening presence, resilience and reflective capacity.
Who Is This For?
- Coaching supervisors and professional coaches who want to remain present when strong emotions arise in themselves or others.
- Internal, external, team and group coaches who are looking to support clients and teams through emotionally complex situations.
- Coach educators, mentor coaches and ICF assessors who want to support the development of other coaching practitioners.
- HR and organizational leaders and managers who are looking to navigate emotionally charged conversations using coaching skills.
- Coaching professionals who want to respond to strong emotions with greater awareness, regulation and relational presence.
What You Will Learn:
- Recognize how your nervous system can influence your presence as a coach or coaching supervisor.
- Practice embodied techniques that support regulation during emotionally charged coaching and supervision.
- Apply grounded presence to support reflection, learning and ethical awareness.
- Develop a practical strategy to support your ongoing professional development.
Course Details
Strong emotions can arise in coaching and coaching supervision as clients, coaches and supervisees navigate complex situations, ethical tensions, uncertainty, conflict, loss and change. Remaining present in these moments requires more than applying coaching models and techniques. It also requires coaches and coaching supervisors to develop the awareness and internal capacity to remain grounded while supporting reflection and learning.
Join the ICF Coaching Supervision Community of Practice and Leanne Lowish for an experiential webinar exploring how your internal state can influence the coaching or supervision relationship. Through guided reflection, embodied exercises, paired conversations and group dialogue, you’ll examine how awareness, nervous system regulation and relational presence can support you when strong feelings arise.
You’ll practice approaches for regulating under pressure and explore how parallel process can influence coaching and supervision. The session will also examine how a grounded presence can create conditions that support deeper reflection, ethical awareness and learning while helping clients and supervisees remain connected to their own agency.
Throughout the session, you’ll have opportunities to consider how these practices apply to your own work and professional development. You’ll leave with practical approaches you can use before, during and after coaching and supervision sessions, along with a greater understanding of how coaching supervision can support reflective capacity, resilience and sustainable professional practice.
Whether you are a coach, coaching supervisor, coach educator, mentor coach or leader using coaching skills, this session offers an opportunity to strengthen how you respond when emotions become challenging and develop practices that support greater awareness and presence.
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Free for ICF members and a fee for nonmembers.
After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the webinar.
ICF Mentor Coaching – Competencies in Action
Thursday November 19, 2026
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM New York US and Canada, ET
8:00 AM - 9:00 AM PST
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM GMT
Join us for the ICF Mentor Coaching Community of Practice session, Mentor Coaching – Competencies in Action, with Carly Anderson and Lerae Gidyk, where you’ll explore real-world mentor coaching dilemmas and gain practical insights into providing supportive, non-judgmental, competency-based feedback.
Who Is This For?
- Mentor coaches who want to apply the ICF Mentor Coaching Competencies to real-world coaching situations.
- Mentor coaches who are looking to strengthen their approach to individual and group mentor coaching.
- Mentor coaches who want to navigate the Mentor Coach Specialization (MCS) transition and strengthen their competency-based practices.
- Coach educators and program leaders who want to improve mentor coaching experiences and support coach development.
- ICF assessors and experienced coaches who are looking to explore mentor coaching dilemmas and exchange insights with peers.
What You Will Learn:
- Identify common dilemmas in individual and group mentor coaching and examine their impact on coach development.
- Apply the ICF Mentor Coaching Competencies to real-world scenarios through case-based discussions.
- Evaluate approaches for delivering clear, supportive, non-judgmental, competency-based feedback.
- Examine how trust, psychological safety, and group dynamics influence mentor coaching relationships.
- Develop practical strategies for navigating ambiguity, supporting individual growth, and managing the mentor coaching process with integrity.
Course Details
The ICF Mentor Coaching Competencies provide a framework for supporting coach development through effective, ethical, and competency-based mentor coaching. However, understanding these competencies is only the beginning. Applying them in real-world situations requires awareness, flexibility, and the ability to navigate complex developmental conversations.
In this interactive ICF Mentor Coaching Community of Practice session, Carly Anderson and Lerae Gidyk will guide participants through practical case studies that explore the challenges of providing supportive, non-judgmental, and corrective feedback. Participants will examine how mentor coaches can meet coaches where they are in their development while encouraging growth and maintaining alignment with the ICF Core Competencies.
The session will focus on the four domains of the ICF Mentor Coaching Competencies: Foundation, Process Management, Client Development, and Group Mentor Coaching. Through real-world scenarios, participants will explore how these domains inform mentor coaching relationships, guide developmental feedback, and support effective learning environments.
Using composite, anonymized case studies from individual and group mentor coaching settings, participants will examine the tensions that can arise when balancing encouragement with direct feedback. Discussions will address how mentor coaches can maintain trust and psychological safety while identifying opportunities for growth, honoring each coach’s unique style, and offering observations grounded in the ICF Core Competencies.
Participants will also explore how these challenges differ between individual and group mentor coaching. In individual settings, mentor coaches may need to balance direct feedback with maintaining a supportive developmental relationship. In group settings, additional considerations include confidentiality, varying levels of experience, and creating an inclusive environment where feedback supports both individual and collective learning.
Rather than relying on a traditional lecture format, this session emphasizes active participation and shared learning. Participants will engage in two rounds of small-group breakout discussions, each focused on a different mentor coaching case. These conversations will provide opportunities to reflect on practical challenges, exchange perspectives, and explore approaches to applying the competencies.
A whole-group discussion will bring participants together to share observations, identify common themes, and consider how the insights gained can strengthen their mentor coaching practices.
Whether you are an experienced mentor coach, a coach educator, an ICF assessor, or a coach navigating the Mentor Coach Specialization transition, this session offers an opportunity to deepen your understanding of the ICF Mentor Coaching Competencies and learn alongside peers.
Join this collaborative learning experience to explore meaningful mentor coaching dilemmas, strengthen your approach to developmental feedback, and gain practical insights you can apply in your own mentor coaching relationships.
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Free for ICF members and a fee for nonmembers.
After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the webinar.
ICF - The Science of the 3 Brains in Coaching
Tuesday November 24, 2026
10:00 AM - 11:30 AM New York US and Canada, ET
7:00 AM - 8:30 AM PST
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM GMT
Join the ICF Coaching Science Community of Practice and presenter Christoffel Sneijders, MCC, for an interactive webinar exploring the science of the Head, Heart and Gut Brain and how the 3 Brains model can offer new perspectives on decision-making, awareness and lasting change in coaching.
Who Is This For?
- Professional coaches who want to explore how the Head, Heart and Gut Brain may influence decision-making and behavior.
- Newer and experienced coaches who are looking to incorporate body awareness and neuroscience-informed perspectives into their coaching practice.
- Mentor coaches and coach educators who want to explore the relationship between neuroscience, coaching awareness and client growth.
- HR and organizational leaders who are looking to better understand how people experience decisions and organizational change.
- Internal and external coaches who want to explore practical approaches to supporting meaningful and sustainable client change
What You Will Learn:
- Explain research findings about the nervous systems of the heart and gut and their interactions with the brain during decision-making.
- Describe the objectives, strategies and proposed functions of the Head, Heart and Gut Brain within the 3 Brains model.
- Recognize verbal and nonverbal cues that may indicate different perspectives, emotions and responses during coaching conversations.
- Identify potential internal conflicts that may influence a client’s readiness for change.
- Apply introductory techniques from the 3 Brains model to encourage client awareness and support meaningful action.
Course Details
What if the decisions we make involve more than the thoughts in our heads? Expressions such as “follow your heart” and “trust your gut” reflect experiences that many people recognize, but what can neuroscience tell us about the relationship between the brain, heart, gut and decision-making?
Join the ICF Coaching Science Community of Practice and Christoffel Sneijders, MCC, for an interactive exploration of the science behind the Head, Heart and Gut Brain. Drawing on research into the nervous system and his 3 Brains model, Christoffel will introduce a perspective on how bodily signals, emotions and cognitive processes may influence decisions, behavior and personal change.
The session begins by examining research into the heart’s intrinsic nervous system, the enteric nervous system and the ways signals from the body interact with the brain. Participants will consider findings related to emotional processing, heart rate variability and the relationship between physiological responses and decision-making. Through thought-provoking questions and examples, the discussion will challenge assumptions about how people make choices and respond to change.
Building on this foundation, Christoffel will introduce the 3 Brains model, exploring the proposed objectives, strategies and characteristics of the Head, Heart and Gut Brain. Participants will learn how this framework interprets different patterns of thinking, feeling and responding, including how these patterns may contribute to internal conflicts or hesitation when individuals consider meaningful changes.
Drawing on findings from more than 6,000 3 Brains Dominance Tests conducted within his framework, Christoffel will discuss patterns he has observed and how coaches might use these insights to explore client experiences. Participants will consider how to recognize verbal and nonverbal cues, notice potential barriers to change and invite clients to examine different aspects of their decision-making processes.
The session will also connect these concepts to relevant ICF Core Competencies, including Listens Actively, Evokes Awareness, Maintains Presence and Facilitates Client Growth. Through a short experiential exercise, participants will have an opportunity to observe their own physiological responses and reflect on how greater awareness of bodily signals may inform their coaching presence.
Whether you are a professional coach, mentor coach, coach educator, internal coach or organizational leader using coaching skills, this session offers an opportunity to explore the relationship between neuroscience and coaching practice.
Discover a practical framework for approaching client awareness, decision-making and change while considering how to integrate these concepts within the scope of professional coaching.
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Free for ICF members and a fee for nonmembers.
After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the webinar.
ICF - The Power of Play in Group Coaching
Wednesday December 2, 2026
8:00 AM - 9:30 AM New York US and Canada, ET
5:00 AM - 6:30 AM PST
1:00 PM - 2:30 PM GMT
Join the ICF Team & Group Coaching Community of Practice and presenters Betsy Salkind, PCC, and Amy J. Warshawsky, MCC, for an interactive workshop exploring how play and improvisation can strengthen group coaching design and facilitation.
Who Is This For?
- Team and group coaches who want to incorporate play and improvisation into their coaching practice.
- Newer and experienced coaches who are looking to strengthen their facilitation and listening skills.
- Internal and external coaches who want to build trust, connection and community within groups.
- Coach educators who are looking to explore interactive approaches to learning and development.
What You Will Learn:
- Apply playful design techniques to encourage positive emotional engagement and support learning and growth.
- Use improvisation exercises to strengthen presence, active listening and responsiveness in group coaching.
- Incorporate humor and playfulness to build trust, strengthen relationships and foster a sense of community.
- Practice improvisational techniques that create new possibilities during group coaching sessions.
Course Details
Discover how play and improvisation can create meaningful opportunities for connection, learning and growth in group coaching. In this interactive session, Betsy Salkind, PCC, and Amy J. Warshawsky, MCC, explore how coaches can incorporate playful approaches into group coaching design and facilitation while strengthening essential coaching skills.
Playfulness can help participants engage more fully, connect with others and explore new perspectives. Drawing on the concept of the Positive Emotional Attractor (PEA) state, the presenters will examine how designing with play can encourage positive emotional engagement and support sustainable learning and growth.
Through practical demonstrations and experiential activities, participants will explore how improvisation can strengthen active listening, presence and responsiveness. Rather than focusing solely on techniques, this session invites coaches to experience the activities themselves and consider how these approaches might translate into their own coaching environments.
The session will also explore how humor and shared experiences can foster trust, safety and connection within groups. Participants will consider ways to introduce playful activities that encourage engagement while remaining attentive to the needs and dynamics of the group.
Whether you are an experienced team or group coach, a newer coach exploring facilitation techniques, or a coach educator interested in experiential learning, this session offers an opportunity to expand your approach to group coaching.
Join us to experience the power of play, strengthen your improvisational skills and discover new possibilities for creating engaging and meaningful group coaching experiences.
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Free for ICF members and a fee for nonmembers.
After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the webinar.
Free: Coaching - Past, Present, and Future
Thursday December 3, 2026
12:00 PM New York US and Canada, ET
9:00 AM PST
5:00 PM GMT
Altaf, Rafael, and Cathy share their thoughts on coaching as a profession, how it has evolved, where it is at now, and where it is going. Together they consider what coaching is, the self-regulation, standards, ethics, and the impact of technology.
An Invitation - Build on Your Expertise and Become a Professionally Trained Coach
A free webinar to explore whether coaching makes sense for your career. Learn about coaching mastery and how to choose which coach training to support earning a professional credentialing. Review the ICF-accredited programs offered at the Center for Coaching Certification.
Thursday December 3, 2026
4:00 PM New York US and Canada, ET
1:00 PM PST
9:00 PM GMT
Free: Q&A and Discussion Time on All Things Coaching
Thursday December 3, 2026
6:00 PM New York US and Canada, ET
3:00 PM PST
11:00 PM GMT
Come with questions and thoughts to explore - coach training, credentialing, coaching mastery, and building a coaching business.
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Free: A Leader in Academia on Coaching as a Skill
Thursday January 7, 2027
12:00 PM New York US and Canada, ET
9:00 AM PST
5:00 PM GMT
Leaders in Academia are moving fast; a coaching stance supports thinking and an organic generation of ideas. Additionally, as a professor, a coaching approach helps students develop their own leadership ideology. Coach training is leadership development and a skill that serves in all capacities.
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For the a-la-carte approach to becoming a coach, here are the coach training programs in order:
- Certified Professional Coach Program Overview, Certified Professional Coach Schedule, and Coach Training Application
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- Mentor Coaching Program Overview, Mentor Coaching Schedule, and Coach Training Application
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- Level 1: Foundational Cohort: Foundational Cohort Program Overview, Foundational Cohort Schedule, and Application
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