Course Outline & Objectives

Plenary 1: Overview of MCC Level Coaching

This session will open the world of higher-level 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!

Plenary 2: Foundation - Ethics and Coaching Mindset 

This session will focus on how we show up as coaches. Learning to pay attention to, and adjust, our posture as coaches has potential to powerfully impact how the client shows up. This session will also invite engagement around real-life coaching scenarios to highlight the the subtle ways we get pulled into ethical gray areas in our coaching. Having a solid foundation enables us to operate with greater confidence, compassion, and agility.

Plenary 3: Co-Creating - Agreements and Trust

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. 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. 

Plenary 4: Co-Creating - Presence

Coaching Presence 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.

Plenary 5: Communicating Effectively - Listening

Listening Actively is not primarily focused on what the client is saying but how they are sharing/reflecting. We’ll learn to listen more deeply and holistically; so that the listener and client connect to something much deeper than either of them was previously aware of. We’ll see that our listening has potential to invite clients into new spaces within themselves, which will transform how they show up externally with others. 

Plenary 6: Communicating Effectively - Awareness

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-instruments, making the invisible visible, working with emotions, and improving our direct communication as coaches. 

Plenary 7: Cultivating Learning - Growth

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). MCC coaches understand how to support the deeper and more long-term impact their coaching can have with the clients. 

Plenary 8: Extra Topics

This session will include some of the topics such as coaching difference, adaptive leadership, transactional analysis and voice dialogue, coaching supervision, and also be 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.

About this Course

Outcomes:

• Fulfill ICF MCC coaching education and mentor coaching requirements.

• Better understand and embody ICF Core Competencies at a higher level.

• Move into greater freedom and experimentation with your coaching.

• Better outcomes and transformation with real-life clients in your context.

Prerequisites:

• Be at a PCC level of coaching expertise. 
• To receive a Level 3 Certificate, participants must hold an active ICF PCC credential in good standing as a prerequisite to enter and complete the program. Without an PCC, you will instead receive core competency training hours, which can be used for an MCC through a Portfolio application. 

• Commitment to complete the program.

Course Delivery:

• All sessions are over Zoom.
• Plenary Sessions - 8 monthly, 6-hour sessions.
• Triad Application Sessions - 7 monthly, 2.5-hour sessions.
• Mentor Coaching - 7 group hours during some Plenary sessions and two 90-minute individual sessions.
• Homework.

Triad Application Sessions:

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 the 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.

Instructor:

Dr. Kim Zovak is an experienced team-leader, people developer, pastor, trainer, coach and strategic consultant with over 30 years of experience working globally with a variety of businesses, churches and not-for-profit organizations. 

After living abroad for 14 years (in Australia and China), she and her husband of 32+ years are currently based in both Los Angeles and Washington DC. She is an ordained pastor and works with Novo.

Kim holds an MCC credential with the International Coaching Federation and is a credentialing assessor, mentor coach, and coaching supervisor. She is known for her creativity in designing and facilitating learning environments that create community and catalyze deeper transformation, while simultaneously embodying the content.

ICF Credit Hours

75 training hours including 10 MCC mentor coaching hours, which will fulfills the ICF’s MCC training requirements.