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Your Certification Options

The following is an excerpt from David’s independent report on coaching training and certification.

Let’s summarize your choices:

A. Forget about accreditation until you have 1,000 hours of paid coaching under your belt (by which time you may not care if you’re accredited or not).

B. Pick a school whose training inspires you and get their accreditation

-If they are rubber-stamped by the IFC – great! At the end of the day you should end up with both certifications.

-If you choose Coachville, then no ICF accreditation (at least yet), but you’ll have a CV accreditation, and an IAC accreditation. (Is this IAC accreditation worth anything? More in the next chapter.)

C. Go the other way around, and set your heart on the ICF accreditation, and pick a school accredited by the ICF – and whose training inspires you – to end up with a school accreditation AND ICF accreditation.

How to Get ICF Certification

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

OK – suppose you’ve decided you want to be an ACC (Associate Certified Coach) or a PCC (Professional Certified Coach). How is it done?

The ICF accreditation for Associate Certified Coach (ACC) requires the following:

60 coach-specific training hours. Training must be aligned with the 11 ICF competencies, and at least 48 hours must be interactive with the trainer – either live, or via telephone.
250 coaching hours, of which 225 hours must be paid.
Letters of reference from 5 clients.
Two letters of reference from ICF accredited coaches who have heard you coach.
Passing of an oral examination.