You’ve come a long way from your early, more clunky, coaching days, and yet… you wonder if there is something more? There is!

An MCC style of coaching is more fun, creative, and energizing; and will get even better results, more quickly for your clients. 

Through our cohort process, we will equip you on your learning and development journey… and also give you what you need to renew your PCC and fulfill requirements toward your MCC credential.

• Introduction: August 11, 9:00-11:00am PT
• Plenary Sessions: Sep 16, Oct 21, Nov 18, Dec 16, Jan 13, Feb 10, Mar 10; 8:00am-2:45pm PT

This course is geared toward those who already have a PCC and want to take their coaching to the next level. We have offered it primarily as a full 75-hour course (monthly plenary and triad sessions over 9-10 months) but can also offer it as interest emerges as a 3-part series (25 hours for each part) that can be done every 6-12 months. 

Since adults learn best through experience, each of these formats will provide lots of dynamic experiential learning (through plenary sessions, triad practice groups between sessions, and time for feedback and mentor coaching by an experienced MCC coach). 

• To receive a Level 3 Certificate, participants must hold an active ICF PCC credential in good standing. 
• Actively coaching – so you have opportunities to experiment outside the group times.
• Instruction is in English so comfortability listening and speaking in English is essential. Triad practice can be coordinated in different languages if other participants have other language preferences too. 

Note: It is best to take this course well before you get to your 2500 required hours for MCC. Most people find that their higher-level coaching skills grow with practice. You will have an easier time getting solid MCC-level recordings when you need to show MCC competency down the road if you start practicing with that posture now. Also, the hours from this course can be used to renew your PCC and to upgrade to an MCC credential when you are ready.

This session will open the world of higher-level coaching and provide an overview of some of the key distinctions of ICF MCC coaching. Participants will be inspired as they get a glimpse of a whole new world of coaching; building on what they know while inviting them into more agility, adventure, and potential to catalyze breakthroughs!

This session will focus on how we show up as coaches. After all, “who we are is how we coach.” Learning to pay attention to, and adjust, our posture as coaches has the potential to powerfully impact how the client shows up. 

This session will also invite engagement around real-life coaching scenarios to highlight the kind of ethical decisions that are always going on in our coaching. Not the black-and-white issues but the subtle ways we get pulled into ethical gray areas. 

While these foundational competencies are often taken for granted (and thus can get a bit sloppy), strengthening these areas in our coaching can be a game changer. Having a solid foundation enables us to operate with greater confidence, compassion, and agility.

This session will focus on the partnership we have with our clients, both within the session and beyond the session. The number one challenge of experienced coaches is mismatched expectations, which can undermine trust/safety.  Thus, strengthening this important area can provide coaches with the confidence and skills to have authentic conversations when setting up the coaching arrangement, and throughout their work together. This session will also be a good reminder of how we can apply these important competencies and values to our work and relationships beyond our coaching.

The session continues on the theme of co-creating the coaching relationship, highlighting the importance of Coaching Presence. This is the key skill for MCC coaching. It can’t be faked or worked around. We’ll do a variety of exercises to gain greater awareness of when we are in presence and when we are not, and learn to better be able to return to this state of being present as/when we slip away. We’ll see that our presence invites our clients into new spaces within themselves, and from the place of mutual presence new thinking, perceiving, and ways of engaging will emerge. Once we have experienced this power of working together we recognize why MCC coaches can achieve so much breakthrough or progress in a relatively short amount of time.  

The session begins our focus on Communicating Effectively by highlighting the importance of Listening Actively. The focus is not primarily on what the client is saying but on how they are sharing/reflecting. We’ll learn to listen more deeply and holistically; so that listening becomes much like a spiritual practice, connecting the listener and client to something much deeper than either of them was previously aware of. When we listen generatively like this, change can happen at deep levels (and often quite quickly). We’ll see that our listening, like our presence, has the potential to invite clients into new spaces within themselves, which will transform how they show up externally with others. 

The session explores the competency of Evoking Awareness at a MCC level. It isn’t our brilliant insights that bring value but our ability to catalyze the brilliance of our clients that brings true transformation. We’ll focus on making observations, using self-as-instrument, making the invisible visible, working with emotions, and improving our direct communication as coaches. Evoking awareness is at the heart of coaching, so being able to better embody this competency will bring better results for your clients immediately.

The session focuses on Facilitating Client Growth both within the coaching conversation and more broadly through the coaching relationship. We’ll look at various models of adult development to better understand how people grow and change (or not). Since the goal of coaching isn’t merely a solution to a problem or action steps to a current challenge, coaches need to be able to understand how to support the deeper and more long-term impact their coaching can have with the clients. Similarly, the value of coaching isn’t merely what happens in the coaching session but in the coaching relationship and the ongoing development that can happen for a client. Better understanding and embodying this competency can help deliver better immediate and long-term value to your clients.

We’ll also have time to engage with some of the topics we haven’t yet covered (e.g. coaching difference, adaptive leadership, transactional analysis, embodied transformation, ontological coaching, and coaching supervision), customized by the needs and interests of cohort participants. This session will also model finishing up a coaching series, as we wrap up the course and celebrate progress together.

Cohort participants will meet in groups of 3 people for follow-up processing and practice between plenary sessions. These smaller groups provide the opportunity for personalized processing and longer practice coaching sessions to experiment with new skills/ideas. The triad sessions will be recorded so participants can use the recordings (or portions of) for further input with their mentor coach.

• $5,100 Early Registration with full payment
• $6,100 Regular Price

All prices in US $ and do not include credit card or international wire fees. Scholarships are available for those working with clients from not-for-profit and charitable organizations. Payment plans can be worked out individually as needed. Please contact info@zovakconsulting.com to arrange.

Limited make-up ability (up to 5 hours, which assumes participation in the intro session) is available for those who miss an in-person experience (or a portion thereof), as the ICF requires face-to-face time with the ICF facilitator. After that, you’d need to pay an MCC-qualified instructor for the extra synchronous make-up time. 

Note: Instruction and group mentor coaching is in English, so comfortability listening and speaking in English is essential. Practice can be coordinated in other languages if other participants have other language preferences too.