Description
Mentor Coaching Program: Becoming a Mentor Coach
10 ICF CCE hours · Mentor Coach Specialization (MCS) pathway
Why this program?
Mentor coaching is now a recognized specialization of its own. With the ICF Mentor Coach Specialization (MCS), the ICF has confirmed that mentoring coaches toward their credentials needs more than being a competent coach. A mentor coach listens with an evaluative ear, maps what they hear against the ICF competencies, and gives feedback that is precise, fair and developmental, while protecting each coach’s own style.
This program gives you the 10 hours of mentor coaching education required for the MCS Credit for Prior Learning pathway. More importantly, it helps you become a mentor coach that coaches truly grow with. You practice the craft step by step, using real recordings, real feedback and the same criteria ICF uses for credentialing.
What makes it different
- Learning from real practice: you work with your peer’s recorded session, from self-assessment to group feedback to mentoring a peer.
- Real sessions, not scripts: you listen to real coaching and mentoring sessions and see how each is documented, word for word.
- Coaching vs. mentor stance: you practice moving between client-led coaching and competency-based feedback.
- A Jungian lens: “The Mentor as Mirror” explores persona, shadow and individuation in feedback.
- Live practicum: you mentor a peer under supervision and receive feedback on your mentoring.
- Ready-to-use tools: you get ACC BARS and PCC Markers templates, plus observation and reflection forms.
Faculty
Sessions are led by Dalia Nakar, MCC, Klavdija Novak, MCC, Vicdan Merter, PCC and Nino Beruashvili, PCC.
Program schedule (all sessions 19:00–20:40 CET)
Session 1: Foundations & Ethical Contracting
Tuesday, November 10 · Klavdija Novak, MCC
What mentor coaching is and is not, the ICF Code of Ethics and Mentor Coaching Competencies, the group agreement, and each participant’s development goals.
Session 2: The Learning Environment & Development Planning
Saturday, November 14 · Vicdan Merter, PCC
Building a reflective learning space, drafting your personal development plan, listening to a real mentoring session, and an introduction to reviewing your own recording with the ACC BARS or PCC Markers.
Session 3: The Mentor as Coach: Same Foundation, Different Craft
Tuesday, November 17 · Vicdan Merter, PCC
What mentor coaching shares with coaching and where it differs, plus switching between coaching and mentor stance in triad practice.
Session 4: Formative Appraisal & Feedback Practice
Saturday, November 21 · Klavdija Novak, MCC
Formative appraisal and feedback practice: listening to real coaching and mentoring sessions, and giving competency-based group feedback on participants’ recordings.
Session 5: The Mentor as Mirror: A Jungian Lens on Mentor Coaching
Tuesday, November 24 · Nino Beruashvili, PCC
Persona and the coaching self, the shadow in feedback, mirror practice in pairs, and individuation as a path to each coach’s unique style.
Session 6: Group Mentor Coaching Practicum & Closing
Saturday, November 28 · Dalia Nakar, MCC
Live mentoring demonstration, mentoring practice with a peer, supervised feedback on your mentoring, a review of development plans, documentation of hours, and a closing reflection.
Who is it for?
This program is for experienced ICF-credentialed coaches who:
- hold an active PCC or MCC credential, or a renewed ACC credential
- plan to apply for the ICF Mentor Coach Specialization (MCS) through the Credit for Prior Learning pathway
- want to strengthen the quality, structure and ethics of their mentoring, even if they don’t plan to apply for MCS yet
Note: For the MCS Credit for Prior Learning pathway, ICF also requires evidence of mentoring at least five coaches within the past three years and completion of ICF’s own evaluation training (ACC BARS and/or PCC Markers). These are separate from this program.
Fee
- Early bird: €340 (until November 1)
- Standard: €390
