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.