ICF Level 1 Education

LEARNING GOALS 

Demonstrating ethical behavior: To succeed in coaching, a thorough understanding of the ethics and standards of the profession is vital. Coaches should display integrity and honesty while interacting with customers, sponsors and other stakeholders. It is critical to be sensitive to clients’ identities, backgrounds, reports, values, and ideals, use respectful and appropriate language, and cling to the ICF’s Code of Ethics and Core Values. Coaches should keep patron information private, by stakeholder agreements and relevant laws, and refer clients to other help professionals if necessary.

Developing a coaching mindset: Mindset entails cultivating and preserving an open, curious, adaptable, client-oriented perspective. Mindset also involves understanding that clients make decisions, are constantly learning and developing, and engage in constant reflection to enhance the coaching process. Coaches should be mindful of how context and culture influence people and each other. Realizing the value of intuition and self-awareness to assist clients, maintaining emotional control, preparing psychologically and emotionally for sessions, and consulting outside sources when necessary are also important.

Creating and maintaining agreements: Clear agreements between the client and the relevant stakeholders help to build and maintain a positive coaching relationship. These agreements should include a discussion of the coaching process, knowledge of the partnership’s rules and constraints, and agreement on the overall coaching strategy and objectives. Furthermore required are the client’s compatibility with the coach, the identification and reconfirmation of their session goals, and client collaboration to design or validate success criteria for their goals in their one-on-one or coaching engagement. Unless the client requests otherwise, coaches should maintain control over the duration and focus of the sessions, ensuring they remain focused on the intended goal. Furthermore, coaches should end the partnership in a manner that respects the client’s experience.

Building Trust and Safety: Coaches must collaborate with clients to create a safe and secure environment in which clients can express themselves without being constrained. Coaches should tailor their coaching to the client’s needs, taking into account their identity, surroundings, values and beliefs. Through openness and transparency, coaches should support their clients’ feelings, perceptions, concerns, beliefs, and suggestions, thereby attesting to their unique talents and insights. They should also actively participate in the coaching process, demonstrating support, empathy, and care for the client.

Maintaining Presence: Effective coaching depends on maintaining attendance, which one can accomplish by concentrating on the client, being wise and sympathetic, and attending to their needs. To remain in the present and create a space of silence, pause, or contemplation, coaches should show curiosity and control their emotions.
Active listening means analyzing the client’s background, identity, surroundings, experiences, and beliefs and then reflecting on or summarizing what they are saying to ensure it is clear and understood. To find themes and designs, coaches should also observe trends in the client’s behavior and emotions over time.

Evoke Awareness: Through tools and tactics that include robust questioning, silence, metaphor, or analogy, this approach helps clients develop understanding and learning. When choosing what could be most helpful, coaches should take the client’s experience into account, challenge them to generate awareness or insight, probe their way of thinking and values, and ask questions outside of their present perspective.

Facilitate Client Growth: Working with clients helps convert knowledge and insight into action. In the course of coaching, coaches should inspire client autonomy and assist them in introducing fresh knowledge, experience, or learning into their perspective of the world and their conduct. When working with customers, they should create goals, activities, and responsibility systems that combine and extend their expansion.

BECOME A BASIC PRACTITIONER OF NEURO-LIGUISTIC PROGRAMMING:

An Introduction to Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP) and Its Records. The neurolinguistic communication model. The model involves the broadening of senses and the application of sensory-based absolute language. Build and hold multi-stage rapport at a subconscious level. This ensures that symbolic structures and the eye have access to appropriate cues. Use submodalities to alter unwanted emotions. Metamodeling and asking the right questions. Anchoring and developing creative states. To change the perspective, you can use reframing. Develop self-appreciation and address complaints. Rapid phobia treatment can help you overcome your fears. Strategies for establishing and pursuing dreams. Time-based total strategies in NLP training.

Leadership coaching: Effective leaders strive to anticipate creatively and adapt to changing conditions. Creative thinking entails coming up with new ideas, techniques, and strategies for troubleshooting, similar to being able to project current beliefs. Reactive thinking, on the other hand, entails being able to respond quickly and efficiently to unexpected activities, such as crises, demanding situations, or modifications within the corporation’s surroundings.

How to Obtain Level I Education

The Path to Obtain Level I Education The adventure to Obtain Level I Education involves several steps:

1. Finish Coach Training: Coaches must complete at least 60 hours of ICF Coaches-Particular Training. Coaches should complete their education using an ICF-approved or ICF-accepted  Level I Education.
2. Acquire Coaching Experience: Coaches must have completed at the very least one hundred hours of client Coaching, which includes at the very least 75 hours of professional paid Coaching, following the completion of a coach training application and within the preceding 18 months.
3. Submit an application: After obtaining the necessary education(Level 1) and experience, coaches can prepare to apply with ICF.
4. Coach Knowledge Assessment: Pass a written exam designed to test your understanding of and ability to apply the ICF definition of coaching, ICF Core Competencies and ICF Code of Ethics.
5. Certification Renewal: Every three years, Coaches must complete 10 hours of mentoring and forty hours of coach continuing education every three years, as well as follow the ICF Code of Ethics.

PROGRAM DETAILS  – ICF LEVEL 1  EDUCATION