Coaching Essentials Cohort Agenda
Here is the full flow of the 6-week cohort, from your evening orientation through the final in-person skill-building day, plus the mentor coaching and self-paced hours that run alongside it.
The Flow of Your Cohort
Each week is one full day of live training, delivered in sequence. The week between sessions is yours for asynchronous/self-paced learning, practice coaching, reflection, and self-paced learning. Here is what happens on each training day.
Orientation & Cohort Kickoff
Meet your cohort and facilitators, walk through the ICF ACC pathway, and set the foundation for everything that follows.
Coaching as a Practice
Understand what coaching is and how it differs from consulting, managing, and mentoring, then practice the foundational skills behind every coaching conversation.
Having Impactful Coaching Sessions
Lead powerful, structured conversations using Appreciative Inquiry and the PEC (Partner, Explore, Commit) Model.
Leadership & Executive Coaching
Develop the specialized capabilities required to coach senior leaders and build meaningful coaching agendas for complex challenges.
Using Assessments During Coaching
Ethically integrate MBTI, LPI, and 360-degree feedback into your engagements, interpreting results and delivering growth-focused feedback.
Creating a Thriving Coaching Business
Build the business foundation behind a successful practice and leave with a 90-day action plan.
Skill-Building Day
A full day of focused practice on the moments that matter most in every coaching engagement, with supervised skill practice and peer feedback.
Advanced Skill-Building Session
Delivered 30 days after the core weeks, so you can integrate and refine your skills after coaching real clients.
What Runs Throughout Your Cohort
Beyond the eight live sessions above, three requirements run in the background from the early weeks, everything you need to complete the ICF ACC pathway.
18Hours ยท 10 Modules
Completed during the off-weeks between training days, about 2 to 3 hours per off-week. Modules are sequenced to reinforce the live session that came before.
10Hours ยท PCC Mentor
Personalized development with a PCC-certified mentor coach, tracked through the program LMS to ensure ICF alignment.
- 7 hours of small-group case study and live practice
- 3 hours of one-on-one recorded session reviews
- Begins after core training and continues through Day 30
25โ30Hours ยท Real Clients
Real coaching with real clients, beginning in the early weeks of the cohort.
- Counts toward the 100-hour ICF ACC requirement
- Recruit and coach clients between training days
- A significant head start on credentialing
How the off-weeks work
Between each full training day you have a full week to coach clients, reflect, and complete self-paced modules. The final cluster of modules is completed during the 30-day window leading up to the Advanced Skill-Building Session.
Program at a Glance
Every hour you complete across the cohort, mapped to the ICF Associate Certified Coach requirements.
Ready to Join the Next Cohort?
Your path to becoming an ICF-certified coach starts with a conversation. We will answer your questions and help you confirm the 6-week cohort is the right fit.
