Each PCLC program is open to a maximum of 12 participants. This means you are in a small and intimate group where in-depth sharing and learning can take place. Each participant is as dedicated to their personal development and spiritual path as you are to yours. It is an environment where all spiritual traditions are honored and no one tradition is held as the only way to be. Coach For Life utilizes certified and highly trained facilitators for all coach training & certification courses.

The PCLC program has been designed to make sure that your first week as a new coach is filled with all the information, forms, structure, experience, and support you need to start coaching now. The following weekly webinar sessions are focused on integrating and expanding all that you have learned during the first 4-day session. You also learn how to attract, market to, and enroll clients into your coaching practice. The built-in, real-life, peer-coaching relationships that continue over these months allow you to experience how a coaching relationship evolves and begins to mature.

Part I – ICF Approved Coach Training Program

During the 4-day 100% live, highly interactive, experiential coach training, you are totally immersed in the unique and honoring Inspired Learning Environment™ where you receive a week of coach training along with real-life practice sessions of coaching and being coached. No role-play coaching takes place during this program – only real-life coaching!

This is a great way to get started coaching. You receive all the core coaching skills, structures, coaching forms, philosophy, and firsthand experience, as well as start the conversation of filling your coaching practice, all at one time. It’s a great jump-start to put your dream to become a professional coach into practice now!

Part II – Building Your Coaching Practice Webinar

The transformative power of weekly coaching is attributed to the real-life, real-time support that is provided.  A training followed up with weekly coaching support provides an integration of up to 80% more of the principles covered in a training than a training with no followup coaching being provided. That’s why Coach For Life provides these integrative weekly sessions, so that you actually can put what you have learned in the 4-day session into practice real-time, in real-life while having a trainer to support you along the way.

So, now that you can see the larger picture and have all the pieces, the same group of participants continues into the next six (6) 2-hour Building Your Coaching Practice Webinar. Coach For Life supports you in integrating these pieces into your real life. You will receive guidance to personalize your coaching practice and how to begin to consciously design how you choose to serve the world through the profession and philosophy of coaching. Throughout this course, you are provided with a peer-coach and a peer-client as well as the facilitated group training sessions.

Each PCLC Part III program has a maximum of 8 participants that have the same dedication as you do, to live in alignment with their most authentic self while achieving the professional designation of a Certified coach.

Lead by an ICF -Trained PCC Assessor and/or a Master-Level Certified Coach the group will interact each week in a 1.5-hour session via a visually enhanced webinar that shares insights and inspires each participant to know their strengths and learn from each other as well as being mentored by an ICF -Trained PCC Assessor and/or a Master-Level Certified Coach. The smaller group size contributes to the safety of group sharing while forming bonds that have lasted a lifetime for past participants.

This PCLC 5-month program is designed with the latest and most up-to-date ICF requirements. You will also benefit from the most advanced learning techniques and environment that creates ease, insights, and joy during this 5-month journey toward your coach certification.

Included for you – This Part III Program completes the PCLC Program that has been fully accredited by the ICF as a Level 2 Program. Parts I, II & III together have been designed in concert with the ICF Level 2 Application requirements for ACC and PCC. The Level 2 Applications for ACC and PCC recognize several of the “Built-in” Program design elements and therefore do not need to be provided to the ICF separately. This results in an easier, faster, and less expensive ACC and PCC application process versus the “Portfolio” or “Coaching Education & Experience” ICF Credentialing Applications.

ICF Credentialing Application requirements included for an applicant qualified to use an ACC Level 2 Application:

1. 60-hours minimum of Coaching Education – Part I, II & III (Level 2) provides a total of 125 hours.
2. An Audio recording to be submitted for ICF assessment – Included
3. 10 hours of mentoring on your coaching skills – Included
4. Mentor’s name, credential, and time of mentoring – Not required with a Level 2 completion

Additionally required by an ACC Applicant:

1. Complete (passing score) the ICF Credentialing Exam.
2. Attest to coaching 8 clients minimum, 100 hours of coaching minimum (minimum of 75 hours paid)
3. Read and agree to abide by the ICF Code of Ethics and Standards of Conduct.

ICF Credentialing Application requirements included for an applicant qualified to use a PCC Level 2 Application:

1. 125 hours minimum of Coaching Education – Included.
2. Two recorded coaching sessions with transcripts to be submitted for ICF PCC Marker Assessment – Included
3. 10 hours of mentoring on your coaching skills – Included
4. Mentor’s name, credential, and time of mentoring – Not required with a Level 2 completion
5. 6 observed coaching sessions with specific feedback on your coaching – Included

Additionally required by a PCC Applicant:

1. Complete (passing score) the ICF Credentialing Exam. (If not taken already for an ACC)
2. Attest to coaching 25 clients minimum, 500 hours of coaching minimum (minimum of 450 hours paid)
3. Read and agree to abide by the ICF Code of Ethics and Standards of Conduct.

Most Advanced Adult Learning Environment

This program is also based on the Inspired Learning Model and goes further into adding proven teaching methods that make your learning easier and faster. It is so effective that since instituting these techniques 100% of our participants have passed their official PCC-Marker Assessment. (Not a guarantee – just bragging rights!)

1. A positive reinforcing feedback model – you not only receive positive feedback from the ICF -Trained PCC Assessor and/or the Master-Level Certified Coach Facilitator you additionally receive positive feedback from the other participants in the class. And that is only positive feedback. The secret extra bonus is that means you will be expanding your listening and acknowledgment coaching skills as you listen to other coaches coach their clients as well to learn to look for what is working.
2. Listening to real coaching sessions – You get to be the fly on the wall – a highly sought-after opportunity in the coaching profession. Each participant will present recorded coaching sessions. No more wondering what a coaching session actually sounds like. This aspect alone will exponentially accelerate your learning curve. And then to observe an ICF -Trained PCC Assessor and/or a Master-Level Certified Coach to support the participants in utilizing their ICF -Trained PCC Assessor and/or their Master-Level Certified Coach-Level coaching skills – priceless!
3. You are an active observer – You will be asked to listen for what you would like to acknowledge and celebrate while the other participants are coaching. This one learning technique alone will create so many benefits.
   1. Holds your attention throughout the class.
   2. Makes it so much easier to stay engaged and learn.
   3. Makes you an integral part of the learning for the other participants in the class.
   4. Helps you identify the styles and skills of other coaches that you would like to assimilate.
4. Do-Overs Allowed – one of the most beneficial unique learning tools is the post-learning do-overs that improve your coaching mastery, deepen your skills integration and elevate your coach confidence.
5. Additional PCC Marker Assessment completed mid-term to demonstrate your strengths, build your confidence and clarify areas to strengthen to set you on your direct course to complete certification.
6. Written very specific detailed feedback on all three areas of focus – ICF Competencies, PCC Markers, and The Fulfillment Coaching Model.
7. Real-Time Mentoring In the moment real-time verbal feedback specific to a real coaching session just listened to. No role-playing or hypothetical situations to be contrived.
8. 10 Mentoring Sessions as required for an ICF Credential are included in your tuition for the Part III program. The ICF -Trained PCC Assessor and/or the Master-Level Certified Coach targets the areas of coaching most pertinent to the class as well as answers your questions LIVE.

Coach For Life Grad Community

The very nature of this program calls forth the most magnificent you as well as your classmates. At this Spiritual level of interaction, there is a bonding and cross-fertilization of skills that you will be amazed at the expanded you. The positive environment breeds celebration, openness, and vulnerability while building your confidence as a professional. So positive and life-changing that past participants have said “5 months have gone too fast! I am really going to miss this class.”

But it doesn’t end there. Or at least it doesn’t have to – your choice. All Part I & II graduates are invited to join the Coach For Life Grad Community so if you haven’t joined yet, Register at the given link and get connected!

As a PCLC Part III graduate, you now have additional benefits and opportunities. You can post a listing on the Coach For Life website under Hire A Coach. And you get lower cost (often FREE) admission to the Coach For Life Grad Café webinars that offer CCEUs.