Module 1 – The MCC Shift: Mindset Before Skillset
Crossing the threshold from PCC excellence to MCC mastery, moving from demonstrating coaching to embodying it, where partnership becomes a genuine meeting of equals centered in trust.
Embody mastery in Coacharya’s ICF-accredited Level 3 program. Deepen your presence and coach with greater discernment and relational trust as you prepare for your MCC credential.
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You've earned your PCC and you're ready to refine your craft to the level of true mastery, and hold the credential that recognizes it.
You want to work with senior leaders, complex organizations, and clients navigating the highest-stakes decisions of their careers.
You teach, mentor and supervise coaches, and you want to deepen your standard of practice while developing the next generation of coaches.
You aim to build the credibility and body of work to create coaching cultures, internal coaching functions, and the future of the profession.
By the end of the program, participants will demonstrate coaching skills at and beyond the MCC standard, including readiness for the ICF MCC Performance Evaluation, by:
Developing ethical maturity, presence, and discernment across power, bias, equity, and systemic responsibility.
Cultivating partnership and promoting client autonomy by noticing emerging shifts and clarifying the client’s desired direction as it evolves.
Holding a psychologically safe, non-judgmental space with genuine empathy for the client’s emotions, perspectives, and unique characteristics.
Recognizing the nuances of language, emotion, energy, and behavior, and exploring what the client communicates across multiple dimensions of who they are.
Evoking awareness through masterful inquiry and use of self, using questions, silence, observation, metaphor, and intuition to create transformative moments.
Partnering with the client to translate insights and awareness into sustainable, embodied alignment across every layer of their life and environment.
Coaching at the mastery level with an approach that draws on individual uniqueness, humanistic psychology, Eastern philosophy, and somatic practice, while considering the wider ecosystem and the emerging future.
The Coacharya Distinction
Coacharya is named for the acharya — the teacher who walks alongside the student. Every Coacharya program is built on that principle, and at the mastery level it becomes especially personal: close mentoring, honest reflection, and guidance attuned to how your coaching is evolving. What you receive here is a mentoring relationship at the level a mastery journey deserves.
Our approach draws on Eastern philosophy, modern coaching science, somatic practice, and positive psychology. At the mastery level, this shows up as the ability to work with mind, body, emotion, intuition, and spirit when the stakes are highest, inspiring clients to insights drawn from the full range of information available to them and within them.
Coacharya coaches practice on almost every continent. You will learn alongside seasoned international peers and stay connected long after your program through our peer coaching community, alumni network, masterclasses, and international thought leadership forums. You stay connected to the evolving edge of coaching, keeping your practice informed by emerging industry insights.
Coacharya’s Level 3 program is accredited by the International Coaching Federation, the global standard-setting body for professional coaching. On successful completion, you receive Coacharya’s Level 3 Certificate, which fulfills the education and mentor coaching requirements to apply for the ICF Master Certified Coach (MCC) credential — the highest tier in the ICF’s three-level system (ACC, PCC, MCC).| 80 hours of accredited coach education (40 live + 40 asynchronous) |
| 15 hours of MCC-level individual and group mentor coaching, included in the program |
| Recording preparation, selection support, and written and verbal feedback from MCC mentors |
| Supported through peer coaching platform, referrals, and community |
| ICF sample credentialing exam prep and support |
| 200+ hours of coach-specific training from an ICF-accredited program |
| 10 hours of mentor coaching over three months or longer, with at least 3 hours one-on-one |
| Two recorded coaching sessions with transcripts for the ICF Performance Evaluation |
| 2,500 hours of coaching experience with 35+ clients (2,250 paid) |
| Passing score on the ICF credentialing exam |
Your Journey
Coacharya’s Level 3 program is built around ICF Core Competencies, MCC Minimum Skills Requirements, and our own integrated approach, which weaves together Eastern philosophy, somatic awareness, systemic coaching, and ethical maturity.
The program runs as 13 weekly 3-hour live sessions on Zoom with integrated practice labs. It’s supported by self-paced digital learning, mentor coaching, peer practice, masterclasses, and detailed formative feedback.
Crossing the threshold from PCC excellence to MCC mastery, moving from demonstrating coaching to embodying it, where partnership becomes a genuine meeting of equals centered in trust.
Exploring the ICF Code of Ethics through power, bias, equity, and systemic responsibility to build ethical discernment in complex, real-world coaching relationships. Identifying and releasing subtle attachments, such as the urge to add value or solve problems, so coaching centers fully on presence.
Learning to hold a psychologically safe, emotionally spacious, and non-judgmental container where vulnerability and transformation can naturally emerge.
Cultivating deep partnering and establishing agreements that support full autonomy and empower the client to lead while maintaining clarity, direction, and ethical boundaries.
Person-centric presence and learning; paying attention and integrating mind, body, emotion, intuition, and spirituality for progress and learning that is integrated, ethical, and sustainable.
Mastering the courage to slow down, stay with not-knowing, and allow the client's deeper wisdom to surface without interruption or rescue.
Apply MCC markers in live practice to receive targeted feedback, honing the subtle shifts that define true mastery.
Listening beyond words to tone, energy, emotion, and what remains unsaid — engaging the full relational field of the coaching conversation.
Understanding how language alters reality and supporting clients in recognizing and transforming the narratives that keep them stuck. Harnessing the power within metaphors, analogies, and somatics to evoke insights and provoke change.
Deepening inquiry to create transformative moments that challenge assumptions and open new ways of seeing and choosing.
Apply MCC markers in live practice to receive targeted feedback, honing the subtle shifts that define true mastery.
Working with clients within their wider organizational, cultural, and societal systems, with sensitivity to power, equity, and context.
Synthesizing the journey and preparing for MCC performance evaluation and application with clarity and confidence. Mapping next steps for your career and coaching business.
Your Community
Coaching is learned in relationship. From enrollment through credential, Coacharya surrounds every participant with ongoing support, applied learning, and community.
Learn from MCC-credentialed, practicing coaches with deep expertise in the ICF Core Competencies, MCC Markers, and Coacharya's integrated approach. Our program is led by Cindy Muthukarapan, MCC, ACTC and other MCC Educators and Mentors
Fifteen hours of individual and group MCC-level mentor coaching with written and verbal feedback for deliberate practice and application.
Practice on Coacharya's dedicated peer coaching platform, where you can connect with coaches around the world to build hours, refine your practice, and prepare recordings.
Join a living, active community of Coacharya learners and graduates worldwide, offering ongoing connections, referrals, and collaborative opportunities.
At MCC, the coach's mindset, presence, and way of being are the practice. Throughout the program, you are supported in deepening self-awareness, discernment, and ethical maturity through reflective practice and self-coaching.
This program is delivered by Coacharya faculty who hold the ICF MCC credential and bring extensive experience in mentor coaching, supervision, and coaching across cultures and contexts. Lead educator and mentor: Cindy Muthukarapan, MCC, ACTC.
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The Master Certified Coach (MCC) is the ICF’s highest credential. MCC holders have completed 200+ hours of coach-specific education and 2,500+ hours of coaching experience, hold or have held the PCC, have completed at least 10 hours of mentor coaching with an MCC-level coach, and have demonstrated advanced proficiency across the ICF Core Competencies, Code of Ethics, and definition of coaching.
The MCC requires that you hold or have held the PCC credential, so this program is designed for PCC coaches ready to grow into MCC-level practice.
The Level 3 path is for coaches who complete a fully accredited ICF Level 3 program like Coacharya’s, which builds in the 200+ hours of education and 10 hours of MCC-level mentor coaching required for MCC. ICF’s Portfolio Path is for coaches piecing together education from multiple non-Level 3 programs and arranging their own MCC-level mentor coaching. Coacharya offers standalone MCC-level mentor coaching for coaches pursuing the Portfolio Path. Both paths — Level 3 and Portfolio Path — lead to the same credential.
Yes. The ICF requires a cumulative total of 200+ coach-specific education hours for the MCC credential. Our Level 3 program provides the advanced education necessary to build on your prior Level 2 hours to meet or exceed this requirement.
No. Completing Level 3 satisfies the education and mentor coaching components required by the ICF. The official MCC credential is issued directly by the ICF after they assess your Performance Evaluation recordings, confirm your 2,500 coaching hours, and verify your Credentialing Exam status
Two steps. First, the ICF Performance Evaluation: you submit two recorded coaching sessions (20–60 minutes each) with real clients, along with verbatim transcripts. Trained ICF assessors evaluate them against the MCC Minimum Skills Requirements. Second, the ICF Credentialing Exam: a situational-judgment exam covering the ICF definition of coaching, Core Competencies, and Code of Ethics, delivered through Pearson VUE. If you passed the exam within the last 12 months while earning your PCC, you do not need to retake it.
The MCC Minimum Skills Requirements are the criteria ICF assessors use to score MCC Performance Evaluations. This program is structured around them, so you practice with them from the first week.
During your 15 hours of mentor coaching, you will review your recorded client sessions with an MCC mentor. Your mentor will assist you in selecting two recordings that meet ICF standards.
The Performance Evaluation typically takes 4–6 weeks after your recordings are assigned to an assessor. Once you pass, you have 60 days to schedule and complete the Credentialing Exam.
Yes. Hours completed in an accredited Level 3 program count toward Continuing Coach Education Core Competency requirements. PCC renewal requires 40 CCE units over three years, of which at least 24 must be Core Competency hours. If your renewal cycle falls during or after the program, these hours can count toward that requirement.
Coacharya integrates somatic and embodied practice, psychology, neurobiology, and systemic awareness alongside the ICF Core Competencies. Practice labs are woven through every session, and you receive both group and individual mentor coaching with written and verbal feedback focused on deliberate practice
Whether you’re weighing your MCC path, exploring payment plans, or thinking about MCC development for your organization, we’d love to hear from you.
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