This program is innovative, challenging, and designed to satisfy your coach training needs, no matter where you are in your professional development or career. It’s perfect for experienced professionals who want to add coaching certification to their credentials as well as aspiring coaches who are just starting their coaching business. The extensive supervised coaching practice helps to reinforce the learning deep into “muscle memory.” This program completely satisfies all but one of the application requirements for ICF certification: 75 hours coach training including 10.5 hours mentor coaching and final ACC performance evaluation. In addition, we do everything we can to assist you with the only remaining requirement--gathering 100 coaching experience hours. We actively look for and refer coaching opportunities to our students, both pro bono and paid. 

In this highly successful and tightly designed program, all ICF required hours of coach training is delivered in an intensive, highly interactive 7-day live experience. Both virtual and in-person classes are available. About 20 hours of pre-work is required (reading ICF Competencies, Code of Ethics, ICF Whitepaper regarding referral to Therapy, and selected chapters in the textbook, plus a few short videos, and review of Credentialing Requirements). These hours are included in your training hours. Then students are totally immersed in coaching philosophy, skills, and observed practice with individual feedback by certified professional coaches. This program delivers a deep understanding of the ICF coaching competencies combined with powerful coaching tools derived from neuroscience and neuro-linguistic programming (NLP). 

After you submit your application to ICF, you must also pass the written ACC Exam. We offer a quarterly hands-on ICF Exam Preparation class which is FREE to all graduates for 18 months after the conclusion of the live training. Positive Coaching has an impeccable track record of graduates passing this exam with flying colors. We’re confident you will too.

And there is GOOD NEWS for our Prior Graduates! 

If you graduated from one of our Core Coach Certification Programs prior to July 2023 when we became Level 1 accredited, we can apply your training and mentor coaching with us to a new Level 1 certificate. This will significantly expedite your ICF application through the Level 1 pathway. Specifically, we can now approve your formal Performance Evaluation which otherwise would have to be submitted to ICF for approval. Our goal is a two-week turnaround compared to what we know is a "slow boat to China" with the ICF. Once your pass your performance evaluation, and we confirm your mentor coaching, we will issue a new Level 1 certificate.

If this is something you want to take advantage of, it costs $450 which includes one re-evaluation just in case your first recording doesn't pass. Just add it to your cart here. Then you will send us the recording along with a time-stamped, verbatim transcript. We are excited to be able to finally support our graduates in this way!