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Growth Cohort - from Level 1 to 2 Program Overview

Designed for graduates of the CPC and CMC programs, or members of the ICF, this program will support those with 60 hours of coach training in completing the required training hours and the mentor coaching to apply for the PCC credential.

International Coaching Federation (ICF) Accredited Coach Training Program (Level 2)
Authorized International Accreditors for Continuing Education and Training (IACET) Certification Provider
Association of Image Consultants International (AICI) Continuing Education Unit (CEU)-Approved Program
Association of Coach Training Organizations (ACTO)

Growth Cohort Program Overview

The Growth Cohort, an ICF-accredited from Level 1 to 2 / formerly ACSTH & ACTP program, is designed for those who already have 60 hours of ICF-accredited training and provides the additional 65 hours of training, mentor coaching, and recording assessment required to earn the PCC credential with ICF, plus prepares you for the CKA exam.

To apply you must already have 60 hours of ICF-accredited coach training. Certificate is required.

The Growth Cohort includes the Certified Advanced Coach and Coaching Experience class, ICF-accredited coach training programs, and the Mentor Coaching per ICF requirements.

Per the International Coaching Federation, ICF, becoming a PCC credentialed coach requires the following:

  • 125 hours of coach training
  • 500 hours of coaching experience of which 450 or more hours must be paid
  • 10 hours of Mentor Coaching
  • Submitting two recorded coaching sessions that pass Growth Assessors evaluation for competency
  • Taking and passing the Coach Knowledge Assessment, CKA, exam
  • Live participation is required in all ICF-approved programs.

This program is intended for those who have already completed 60 hours of training.  Adding the following will complete your required training hours and mentor coaching.

Growth Cohort Program - from Level 1 to 2 / formerly ACSTH & ACTP

Select the boxes below for overviews of each segment.

Choose your focus and Designation: Academic Specialist, Addiction Specialist, Business Specialist, Career Specialist, Executive Specialist, Holistic Specialist, Leadership Specialist, Life Specialist, or Wellness Specialist.

Designed to deepen your skills with the competencies of coaching for PCC credentialing plus refine your offerings as a coach based on your area of specialization, this program includes six live, interactive online classes, group and individual coaching practicum, and a practicum debrief:

  1. Coach Competencies and Strengths: Discuss the blend of Strength Areas (a self-evaluation based on your area of focus is provided) for a Certified Advanced Coach - Specialist with coaching competencies serving the who and the what; define strength areas of the specialist coach; and self-evaluate knowledge areas.
  2. Engaging and Understanding Your Clients: Consider visibility, credibility, niche areas, approaches to an agreement, on-boarding different types of clients, planning for different types of coaching, and explore coaching models.
  3. The Coaching Relationship: Review how to co-create alignment; expand possibilities through the exploration of various basis options for coaching and creating meaningful change.
  4. Client Priority Management: Analyze different processes for prioritization, influencing factors, motivators, commitment, and follow-through. Discuss application in your area of coaching.
  5. The Client's Future: Explore planning for meaningful change including how to create change; discuss moving past obstacles and strategies for the long-term.  Review completing a coaching engagement.
  6. Challenges and Trends: Explore how to manage different challenges in coaching and plan how to stay current as a coach.
  7. Coaching Debrief: Discuss insights, techniques, and approaches during coaching.
  8. Independent Learning and Reports: Prior to each webinar there is assigned reading from the Coaching Perspectives series. Following each webinar there are assignments designed for you to think and reflect, research and review, and enhance your learning.

Group Coaching:

Six group coaching sessions as scheduled for the class involving collaboration with colleagues to develop and offer the group coaching program.

Individual Coaching:

Submit your coach bio, review the compiled bios of classmates, submit your order of preference for interviewing, and then interview three classmates.  Be interviewed by three classmates as a prospective coach.  Schedule five individual sessions each as coach and as client with your partner and trainer as follows: one 30-minute session for co-creating the relationship, five 40-minute coaching sessions, and one 30-minute closing session.  Listen to five recordings of your classmates coaching for your observations. Submit evaluations of your coach, yourself, and the coaches you observe via recording.

Final Report: Write about your coaching work

One-on-One Coaching Session: Schedule your one-on-one coaching session individually to review your progress with your coaching experience and strategize your efforts.

Learning Outcomes:

  • List the strengths important to successful specialized coaching.
  • Define and self-assess the knowledge areas important to successful coaching.
  • Consider visibility, credibility, niches, and different approaches to on-boarding and coaching different types of clients.
  • Discover different types of basis for coaching and creating meaningful change.
  • Co-explore and navigate with the client through a variety of prioritization processes.
  • Enhance awareness of influencing factors, motivators, commitment, and long-term follow-through.
  • Develop client’s ability to create change and strategies for long-term follow-through.
  • Strengthen coaching competencies for helping clients in identifying and establishing solutions for long-term adherence and self-management.
  • Create a plan for staying current and relevant as a coach.
  • Practice the ICF's Core Competencies and Strengths and demonstrate the PCC Markers in real time during the coaching practicum.

The Coaching Experience class focuses on application of the ICF's Core Competencies as a coach in group and individual coaching sessions.

Designed to provide focused practice coaching, the Coaching Experience class includes live participation in three 90-minute webinars plus full participation in individual and group coaching.

  1. Review ICF's Core Competencies and Evaluation Overview
  2. Group and Team Coaching: Explore definitions and application. Discuss processes and technologies.
  3. Group Coaching Sessions 1 - 6 (90 minutes each) Plan on being the coach for one of the assigned group coaching classes. Outline the format of your group and how to use your technology. Anticipate 60 minutes outside of class for choosing a technology and planning for your group and 30 minutes coordinating with your trainer. Actively participate in the group coaching sessions.
  4. Individual Coaching: 1-5 as Coach, Being Coached, Observing (60 minutes each) Plan to interview three classmates as prospective coach and to be interviewed by three classmates. When coaches are assigned plan to schedule five sessions as coach and five sessions as client. Plan to observe five sessions via recording. Update your coach bio for submission to the coaches in the group and email to your trainer. Review the bios of the coaches in the group and submit a list of everyone in your order of preference for coaches you want to interview. Interview 3 classmates (as assigned) as prospective coaches for 15 minutes each. Be interviewed by three classmates as a prospective coach for 15 minutes each. Submit a list of the 3 classmates interviewed in your order of preference for a coach. When you receive your assigned client, contact your client and using your trainer’s calendar schedule five 60-minute coaching sessions with your client and your trainer. Plan on scheduling the same series of five sessions as a client. Plan on observing the same series of five sessions via recording. Participate fully as coach and client, observe with focus, and submit the evaluations.
  5. Coaching Debrief (90 minutes) Be prepared to share your learning from the coaching practicum and to ask questions.

Learning Outcomes:

  • Review the ICF's Core Competencies.
  • Differentiate between Group Coaching, Team Coaching, Facilitation, and Training.
  • Plan for and coach a group session.
  • Participate in group coaching and observe different formats.
  • Experience using different technologies.
  • Plan for and coach in keeping with the Code of Ethics and ICF's Core Competencies.

Designed to create a laser-focus on your demonstration of coaching competencies, the Mentor Coaching includes a 360 Assessment on the ICF's Core Competencies with a self-assessment plus evaluations from 3 to 6 clients.  Plan also to submit recordings of 20 to 60 minutes of you coaching a client along with the client’s permission to share with ICF and your Mentor Coach. The 10 hours of Mentor Coaching includes:

  • Three individual sessions totaling 3 hours.
  • One following completion of the 360 assessment with yourself and 3 to 4 clients
  • One or two following submitting a recording of you coaching a client for 20 to 60 minutes
  • If your first session with a recording results in having recordings you can submit, the topic of the third session is open - it must focus on your coaching.
  • Five 90-minute group sessions focused on discussing the coaching competencies and their application in your coaching work.
  • Mentor Coaching Group 1: Introductions, Review the Group Coaching Format, Explore Ethics and Agreements in Coaching then Define Your Action Plan
  • Mentor Coaching Group 2: Explore Co-Creating the Coaching Relationship then Define Your Action Plan
  • Mentor Coaching Group 3: Explore Communication – Listening, Clear and Direct Language, and Powerful Questions then Define Your Action Plan
  • Mentor Coaching Group 4: Explore Creating Awareness then Define Your Action Plan
  • Mentor Coaching Group 5: Explore Challenges, Tools, and Techniques then Define Your Action Plan

Outcomes:

  • Earn 10 hours of mentor coaching for ICF's ACC, PCC, or MCC credential.
  • Strengthen your ICF's Core Competencies
  • Build confidence
  • Deepen active listening, rephrasing, and reflecting
  • Enhance clear, direct communication
  • Polish powerful questioning

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The ICF-accredited Foundational Cohort - Level 1 / formerly ACSTH, Growth Cohort - from Level 1 to 2 / formerly ACSTH & ACTP, and Advanced Cohort - Level 2 / formerly ACTP include the training hours, Mentor Coaching, and recording assessment to support you earning the associated credential.

By paying in full at one time, you will save! Programs include all class materials, classes, group sessions, and coaching sessions required for each certification.

  • The full program fee for the Foundational Cohort - Level 1 / formerly ACSTH is $5890.
  • The full program fee for the Growth Cohort - from Level 1 to 2 / formerly ACSTH & ACTP is $5890.
  • The full program fee for the Advanced Cohort - Level 2 / formerly ACTP is $9780.

Prior to earning certification, applicant understands and agrees to complete the course work, attend all hours of training and fully participate, complete research, practice, and report assignments, fully participate in all segments of the coaching practicum, submit all evaluations, and complete the case study or final report assigned. Certification is possible within offered schedules; applicant has up to three months after the last pre-scheduled date of the program to complete the deliverables or transfer to a different class with the associated transfer fee. A certificate is issued upon completion showing the program approvals and accreditations for hours. Applicant agrees and understands that any opportunity for make-up work is at the discretion of the trainer. Transferring to a different class before starting is based on space available. If you attend part of the program with one class and part with another class, there will be an additional fee of $350.

The International Coaching Federation, ICF, has accredited all Center for Coaching Certification programs as (formerly ACSTH, ACTP), Level 1, Level 2, or CCE. Partial hours of Level 1 or Level 2 programs are available as well as the complete cohorts.

The International Accreditors for Continuing Education and Training, IACET, and Association of Image Consultants International, AICI, have accredited offering CEUs as follows:

  • The Certified Professional Coach program: 30 hours = 3 CEUs, is $1995.00.
  • The Certified Master Coach program: 35 hours = 3.5 CEUs, is $2195.00.
  • The Certified Advanced Coach program: 35 hours = 3.5 CEUs, is $2195.00.
  • The Coaching Experience class: 30 hours = 3 CEUs, is $1995.00.
  • The Mentor Coaching meets the ICF requirements for the ACC, PCC, or MCC credentialing = 1 CEU, is $2195.00.
  • Foundational Cohort: = 7.5 CEUs, Level 1 is $5890.
  • Growth Cohort: = 7.5 CEUs, from Level 1 to Level 2, is $5890.
  • Advanced Cohort: = 14 CEUs, Level 2, is $9780.

AICI CEUs may be earned. Please note that while these courses are accredited by the Association of Image Consultants International (AICI) certification earned through the trainer upon completion of this course is entirely independent from AICI’s certification programs. If you wish to pursue AICI certification, please refer to AICI's website. http://www.aici.org.

The International Coaching Federation, ICF, and International Accreditors for Continuing Education and Training, IACET, have accredited offering CCEs or CEUs as follows:

  • 10 CCEs or 1 CEU for the Coaching Supervision group, is $2095.
  • Coaching Skills for Professionals: 12 hours of Core Competency = 12 CCEs or 1.2 CEUs, is $895.
  • Diversity and Equity in Coaching: 8 of Core Competency and 2 of Resource Development = 10 CCEs or 1 CEU, is $595.
  • Science of Positivity: 12 hours: 8 of Core Competency and 4 of Resource Development = 12 CCEs or 1.2 CEUs, is $595.

The program is owned by the Center for Coaching Certification LLC, parent company Effect Services LLC, and its founder Cathy Liska. Other trainers are independent contractors with no proprietary interest.

The program and materials are the intellectual property of the Center for Coaching Certification LLC. Participant hereby agrees that there shall be no sharing, replicating, duplicating, or otherwise reproducing the materials for the use of anyone other than the course participant, and no using the content for training programs.

Classes are recorded for the participants. Recordings are also used for internal training of trainers, periodic audits by accrediting organizations, and occasionally for students in other classes when their recordings are defective. Registering for a class means agreeing to these uses of recordings.

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Cancellation Policy: In the event you must cancel participation, up to seven days prior to the start of the first program webinar you may request a refund of the amount less a twenty percent processing fee; six days or less prior to the start of the first program webinar you may request a refund of fifty percent of the registration. You may transfer your full registration to someone else up to three days prior to the start of the first webinar. Transferring to a different class before starting is based on space available.

Transfer Policy: If you attend part of the program with one class and part with another class, there will be an additional fee of $350.

The Center for Coaching Certification is focused on the integrity of all coach training programs. To ensure the student experience is honored and certification standards held true, payment or the registration fee must be paid to hold a space in the program and the full amount is due in before the start of the program. Payment in full is the best rate and payment plans of two or three payments are available at an additional cost.

Any Certification earned through the Center for Coaching Certification upon completion of a course is entirely independent from other certifications or credentials. (If you wish to pursue an ICF credential, this program will provide required training hours and mentor coaching - for the application please refer to ICFs website at coachingfederation.org; for AICI Certification, please refer to AICI’s website at aici.org/certification)

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