Build your confidence and depth as a coach and prepare for your ACC credential in Coacharya’s interactive, ICF-accredited Level 1 program, supported by experienced mentors and a global community.
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Those beginning a professional coaching journey who want to build solid coaching skills, develop confidence in working with clients, and be supported by internationally recognized training.
You’ll leave with: the skills, confidence, and ICF-accredited foundation to begin coaching clients professionally.
Coaches already working with clients who want to further develop their coaching competence and expand access to clients seeking credentialed coaches.
You’ll leave with: a more intentional coaching practice, stronger coaching presence, and greater confidence in working with clients.
Anyone navigating a career transition who wants people-centered abilities that strengthen personal confidence, interpersonal communication, and professional options.
You’ll leave with: a versatile coaching skill set that strengthens your professional profile and opens new opportunities.
Leaders and managers who want to develop coaching, communication, and emotional intelligence skills to strengthen team performance and grow their leadership impact and career.
You’ll leave with: practical coaching skills to develop your people, lead more effective conversations, and build stronger teams.
By the end of the program, you will demonstrate coaching skills at and beyond the ACC standard by:
Deepening client awareness by inviting insight, reflection, and perspectives that open new possibilities.
Coaching with an integrated approach rooted in Eastern philosophy, coaching science and Coacharya models.
Building the confidence to coach across personal, professional, and organizational contexts.
Building strong coaching relationships grounded in ethical and professional practice.
The Coacharya Distinction
At Coacharya, we see you as an advanced coach from the beginning. Our curriculum goes beyond certification requirements, cultivating the discernment, presence, and professional excellence that distinguishes exceptional coaches.
Our approach draws on both coaching science and Eastern wisdom traditions. Through theory, reflective inquiry, embodied practice, and practical skills, your growth extends beyond coaching conversations into lasting personal and professional development.
Coaching doesn't happen in a vacuum. Whether you're in leadership, healthcare, education, or another field, you'll learn to apply coaching in your own professional context and the teams, organizations, and communities you support.
You'll learn with a peer cohort in an interactive environment, supported by a robust learning platform and global peer coaching. Your growth continues through live masterclasses, on-demand learning, and an international community.
| 80 hours of accredited coach education (40 live + 40 asynchronous) |
| 10 hours of group and individual mentor coaching |
| Performance evaluation administration & feedback |
| Experience hours supported on free peer platform |
| Exam preparation support |
| 60+ hours of coach-specific training from an ICF-accredited program |
| 10 hours of mentor coaching |
| Performance evaluation |
| 100 hours of coaching experience (75 paid) |
| Passing score on the ICF credentialing exam |
Your Journey
The program combines live learning, self-paced study, mentor coaching, and peer coaching. The curriculum below illustrates the topics and skills explored throughout the journey. Specific session sequencing and activities may vary slightly between facilitators and cohorts while maintaining the same learning outcomes and ICF requirements.
The curriculum is delivered across 13 live sessions, structured in two halves. The first half focuses on building the foundations of professional coaching through live demonstrations, guided practice, group discussion, and feedback. In the second half, you’ll deepen your coaching skills and learn how to apply them in leadership, your area of expertise, and the broader systems in which you work.
Throughout the program, you’ll have regular opportunities to practice coaching, receive feedback, and build confidence through mentor coaching, peer coaching, self-paced learning, webinars, workshops, and a supportive global community.
Program orientation and overview. The cohort and facilitator get to know each other, set expectations, and map out the learning journey ahead. You'll also begin exploring what draws you to coaching and what you hope to bring to your practice.
You'll explore what it means to coach ethically, what distinguishes coaching from other helping professions, and how to cultivate the curiosity, flexibility, and self-awareness that support a coach's way of being.
You'll learn how to create the kind of relationship where clients can share honestly and openly, and how to stay grounded, curious, and fully present with your client through the conversation.
You'll learn about and practice partnering with clients and multiple stakeholders to co-create clear and meaningful agreements. You will focus on establishing an overall coaching plan and specific goals, helping the client engage with their objectives in a meaningful way while identifying their potential obstacles.
You'll develop your ability to listen at multiple levels and to use open-ended questions, silence, and reflection in ways that open up new insight, energy, and motivation to drive the change you want. You’ll also learn to notice, acknowledge, and explore the client’s emotions and non-verbal cues, and support the client in reframing perspectives. You'll explore how to invite a deeper dive into values, beliefs, culture, context, needs and more.
This is why clients come to coaching. You'll explore how to support clients in identifying what they have learned, carrying that forward to reach their goals, and sustaining their progress. Throughout this process, you will focus on promoting client autonomy to ensure success and long-term ownership of their growth.
You'll receive feedback on your coaching in alignment with the ICF Core Competencies, and learn from observing and reflecting on the coaching of your peers.
This is where we consider coaching skills from the lens of your specific context, whether that's life coaching, leadership, education, healthcare, or another field.
We move beyond the one-to-one coaching session into the wider systems we all operate in: teams, organizations, families, and communities.
An open module led by your facilitator, drawing on their specific expertise. Topics vary by cohort and may include leadership coaching, team coaching, somatic practice, or other specialties that deepen your coaching range.
A second open module that continues to draw on collective participants' needs and facilitators' specialties, exploring tools, techniques, and approaches, and expanding your exposure to focused coaching approaches you can bring into your own practice.
A second live group mentor coaching session, building on the feedback and reflection from earlier in the program as your coaching continues to evolve.
Credentialing pathways, next steps, and the business of coaching. You leave with a clear understanding of how to apply for your ACC and how to begin building (or evolving) your coaching practice within ethical and professional boundaries.
Your Community
Coaching is learned in relationship. From enrollment through credential, Coacharya surrounds every participant with ongoing support, applied learning, and community.
Learn from PCC- and MCC-credentialed, practicing coaches with deep expertise in ICF core competency development, Coacharya's whole-person approach, and their own coaching practice and areas of expertise.
Receive individual and group mentor coaching sessions that observe and develop your live coaching practice with targeted, specific feedback. Mentoring also extends beyond the coaching room into conversations about building and sustaining a coaching practice.
Practice coaching through Coacharya's free peer coaching platform, where you can connect with fellow participants and coaches around the world to build your skills, log practice hours, and learn through real coaching conversations.
Join a living, active community of Coacharya learners and graduates worldwide, offering ongoing connections, referrals, and collaborative opportunities.
The most important asset for a coach is their mindset and way of being. Throughout the program, you'll be supported in deepening your self-awareness, empathy, patience, and presence through self-coaching and reflective practice.
This program is delivered by highly qualified Coacharya faculty, all of whom hold International Coaching Federation (ICF) MCC or PCC credentials and bring diverse professional backgrounds and global experience to their coaching.
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Coacharya develops the coaching skills defined by the ICF Core Competencies and goes further, drawing on Eastern philosophy, somatic awareness, and positive psychology alongside coaching science. There’s a strong emphasis on developing the coach’s mindset and self-awareness as much as their technical skill, which is what allows our graduates to coach with real depth.
No. Our cohorts are a mix of people who already coach and people starting fresh. Neither puts you at an advantage or a disadvantage, because everyone is learning a different way of communicating and engaging. Learning from one another, both the fresh perspectives and the existing practice in the room, is one of the most valuable parts of the cohort experience.
Sessions are three hours long and run live on Zoom. They’re interactive by design, and every one is a little different depending on the needs of the cohort and where you are in the program. A session might involve exploring a core competency with your facilitator, watching a live coaching demonstration, practicing in breakout rooms, or working through tools and techniques as a group. Group mentor coaching is built in at specific points, where you receive feedback on your coaching alongside your peers.
Plan for about 3 hours of live class plus 3 hours of self-paced reading and viewing each week. A few weeks in, we’ll encourage you to start coaching outside of class if you aren’t already, ideally 1 to 2 hours a week, so you begin building practice and logging hours toward your ACC. Our free global peer coaching platform gives you people to practice with from the start.
Between live sessions, you’ll have Coacharya’s learning platform, with reading materials, videos, and reflection exercises that deepen what’s covered in class. You can also join our live webinars and coaching discussion forums, meet one-on-one with your mentor coach, and connect with other participants for practice.
From day one. Once your coaching education begins, every qualifying conversation you have with a coaching client outside of class counts toward the 100 hours required for your ACC credential.
Of the 100 hours the ICF requires for your ACC, at least 75 must be paid and up to 25 may be pro bono. Paid hours include direct coaching for payment, barter arrangements like peer-to-peer coaching or coaching in exchange for goods or services, internal coaching at work, and third-party coaching provided through an organization. Pro bono hours are coaching you offer at no cost. Coacharya’s peer coaching platform is built for exactly this: it connects you with coaches worldwide to practice with, log hours, and build confidence while you’re still in the program.
Whether you’re weighing your options, exploring payment plans, or thinking about Level 1 for your organization, we’d love to hear from you
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