The following is an excerpt from David’s Independent Report on Coaching Training and Certification.

You don’t actually require a certification from your school to get your ICF certification. For example I (David) didn’t. I did 50% of a course, and then resigned so I could build my own training school. I then added up the training hours I had done, and combined those with the hours I had done with Landmark Education (not their normal courses, but actually training to be a coach with them), and submitted it to the ICF accompanied with a barrage of documents. In other words, it’s possible to piece together your training from different schools, as long as it’s coach specific, and you clock up enough hours.