MentorCoach Training Programs

The MentorCoach Training Programs uses a wide range of modalities, including group instruction, hands-on coaching, supervised individual coaching and virtual group facilitation. Uniquely designed to empower helping professionals to successfully make the transition into masterful coaches, our Programs offer the structure and support needed to build a viable, thriving coaching practice. MentorCoach accepts only trained mental health practitioners.

All students begin their studies with our core program, The MentorCoach Training Program: Foundations (MCP). This six-month program is a stand-alone, multi-dimensional class designed to help accomplished helping professionals quickly develop the skills and business development strategies needed to add a coaching practice to their existing clinical or organizational work. Students graduating from the MCP enter into a vibrant national community of fellow MCP graduates that continues to support them after graduation.

In addition, some students choose to enroll in additional courses of study based on their individual interests or needs.

MentorCoach Training Programs include:

THE MENTORCOACH TRAINING PROGRAM:
FOUNDATIONS (MCP)

This flagship training program, the MCP, stands alone and is intended to be sufficient to support students in transitioning to both coaching and into the MentorCoach community of clinician-coaches. For those graduates wishing to go further, it also forms the foundation for all of our advanced training and is a pre-requisite for all other courses. Enroll in the MCP Now!

CERTIFICATION TRACK

The Certified Mentor Coach consists of the following programs:

REQUIRED: The MentorCoach Training Program: Foundations (25 hours), The Ethics and Risk Management Master Class (8 hours), and Master Classes in Intensive Individual Coaching Skills (24 hours) and in Individual Coaching Supervision (24 hours). These four classes total 80 classroom and supervision hours of coach specific training.

In addition, students are required to take at least two additional master classes. To meet the MentorCoach Certification Requirements, there must be a total of at least 125 hours of coach specific training. The two elective Master Classes may be chosen from the following:

• Executive Coaching Master Class (24 hours)
• Small Business Coaching Master Class (24 hours)
• Group Coaching Master Class (24 hours)
• Strategic Career Design Coaching Master Class (24 hours)

In addition, MCP certification requirements, include: (1) coaching a minimum number of clients; (2) receiving six hours of supervision/coaching from an ICF Certified Coach and (3) passing a final written and oral exam.

All MCP graduates are eligible to take master classes, regardless of their certification aspirations

• Ethics and Risk Management Class
  8 one-hour classes
  Meets two times per week for six months
  This is a two-track experience including both an in-depth seminar reviewing social science-based theory and research relevant to coaching, and an intensive weekly coaching practicum.
• Intensive Individual Coaching Master Class
  48 one-hour classes
  Meets two times per week for six months
  This is a two-track experience including both an in-depth seminar reviewing social science-based theory and research relevant to coaching, and an intensive weekly coaching practicum.
• Business and Executive Coaching Master Class
  24 one-hour classes
  Meets one time per week for six months
  Designed and led by senior executive coaches, this Master Class introduces helping professionals to key issues involved in working with both executives and small business owners and entrepreneurs.
• Strategic Career Design Coaching Master Class
  24 one-hour classes
  Meets one time per week for six months
  This essential Master Class, is of value to clinician-coaches both for use with their clients and in helping them design their own coaching careers.
• Intensive Group Coaching Master Class
  24 one-hour classes
  Meets once a week for six months
  Students are required and supported in understanding the theory of group coaching, both in-person and virtually. Students are required to co-lead a virtual coaching group as part of the curriculum.

If you need additional information about the MentorCoach Certification track, please contact our Certification Coordinator, Joan Clement by email at Joan@mcpcoach.com.

SPECIAL FOCUS SEMINARS

MentorCoach frequently offers special workshops for our students and graduates that go beyond the confines of theory and skill building. These free and moderately priced teleworkshops are not a required part of our curriculum, and students are free to pick and choose, guided by their areas of interest.

THE MENTORCOACH COMMUNITY
For most MCP graduates, the greatest benefits are the friends and colleagues we develop throughout the United States and Canada and, increasingly, internationally. We believe that belonging to a community of clinician-coaches is vital to building a successful coaching practice (and to having fun in the process!). Of course, all community members agree to follow certain ethical norms and guidelines in order to remain active in our community (e.g., no self-promotion on certain list serves, no "flaming" of colleagues, etc.).

MCP graduates in good standing are joined in a vibrant virtual community with 24-hour connection via unmoderated graduate-only list serves, a searchable archive of all past posts, virtual support groups, local face-to-face groups in an increasing number of cities, get-togethers at state and national conferences, free super star interviews on our teleconference bridges, the monthly MentorCoach News and MentorCoach Mall, and many virtual partnerships as increasingly graduates work together to build creative, cutting-edge coaching practices.

NOTICE:
MentorCoach LLC reserves the right to alter or modify its program offerings and/or certification requirements at any time; to offer courses in accordance with demand, availability and business dictates; to introduce or modify certification levels; and to make other changes as necessary or desirable in MentorCoach programs and activities.