ICF Level 2 Education Professional Certified Coach (PCC)

What is the ICF Professional Certified Coach (PCC) Credential?

The International Coach Federation (ICF) has three levels of Credentials. The second level is the ICF Professional Certified Coach (PCC) Credential. If you have completed the Associate Certified Coach (ACC) Credential and want to take your coaching skills to the next level and become an ICF certified coach, then ICF PCC Certification is for you. The ICF level 2 certification is designed to help you develop your core competencies at the advanced level and in various types of coaching. Coaches who have earned the PCC credential have achieved proficiency in their knowledge of and ability to apply the ICF Core Competencies and the ICF Code of Ethics as a coaching professional.

Learning Objectives of ICF PCC Certification

Core Coaching Competencies – Advanced

• Strategies To Develop A Coaching Mindset- Conducting coaching sessions with the highest level of integrity, honesty, and transparency is essential. A coach’s attitude and approach in these client engagements should include continuous self-development, awareness, reflective practice, and maintaining a client-centered coaching approach.
• Steps To Effectively Establish A Coaching Agreement- Set the parameters of the coaching relationship, including the identification and agreement on specific coaching objectives.
• Practical Tips For Building A Strong Coaching Relationship- Trust, openness, and psychological security, especially when navigating solid emotions in the coaching dynamic. 
• Improve Active Listening As A Coach- Methods that can be used with clients to help them understand themselves and their values and beliefs and to figure out any obstacles that they may be likely to encounter when pursuing their goals. A checklist of direct communication practice in coaching activity. Assist diverse clients at every phase of their coaching process to achieve the best version of themselves in their personal and professional lives.

NLP Master Practitioner

1. Advanced Language Patterns and their Applications, Six Steps Reframing, Instant trance inductions, Waking hypnotic patterns and Embedded Commands, Using metaphors for deep trance marking, Nested Loops for waking trance, Advanced Modelling skills for success.
2. Changing Beliefs subconsciously, Accelerated learning – mind mapping, Advanced Strategies for Modeling Excellence, Advanced Techniques for Exploring and Changing Identity and Self-Imagining, Advanced Techniques to Exploring and Changing the Structure of Subjective Experience.

Cognitive Behavioral Coaching

1. Cognitive Behavioral Coaching: Definition and explanation of the CBC process ABCDE Model, Socratic Questioning, Behavioral Change Model.
2. Use Cognitive Behavioral Coaching to help your clients get unstuck and overcome procrastination. Cognitive Distortions.

Transactional Analysis Coaching

1. Three areas of contracting, Clarity and thoroughness of contracting, Foundational frameworks of Transactional Analysis, Life positions, Windows on the world.
2. Three ego states of Parent, Adult, and Child, structural and functional ego states, OK-OK communication model, Challenges of communication, Development of script, Human hunger – recognition, structure, and stimulation.