About Mentoring

Mentoring is professional assistance in achieving and demonstrating the levels of coaching competency and capability required for International Coaching Federation accreditation. We are pleased to offer mentor coaching for accreditation at the Associate Certified Coach (ACC) level.

Mentors offer coaching and feedback in a collaborative, appreciative and dialogued process based on an observed or recorded coaching session. This increases the capability of the coach to align with the ICF Core Competencies in preparation for submission review.

Mentoring consists of:

• three group mentor sessions (2 hours 20 minutes) – 7 hours in total
• three one-on-one sessions (1 hour) – 3 hours in total

The ICF specifies that mentoring must occur within a three- to six-month timeframe.

The group mentoring sessions provide seven of the ten mentor hours required by the International Coaching Federation. Sessions are led by our team of trauma-informed coaching mentors.

Each session lasts 2 hours and 20 minutes and involves listening to coach session recordings submitted by participants and discussing learning. Students should five minutes before class to complete a sound check to ensure the technology functions correctly.

There are four weeks between each mentoring group session to give students time to practice what they’ve learned.

• Students must submit a recorded coaching session 48-72 hours before the first group mentoring session. 



• Recording should be 20-60 minutes in length – 30 minutes is ideal.
• Submit the entire coaching session along with a written transcript, identifying the 15-minute section on which the group mentor should focus to optimize the competencies for review and feedback.
• Email your group mentor to determine the best delivery method (Dropbox, WeTransfer or WinZip).
• Individual recordings are reviewed during one of the three group sessions. Group mentors also identify recurring themes that would benefit the group.
• A recording exchange is acceptable if a prior submission has not aired.

Trauma-Informed Coaching Level 1 students receive three hours of one-on-one mentoring with a mentor coach. This covers the remaining three of the ten mentor hours the International Coaching Federation requires. All mentoring must be completed within six (6) months, starting with your first group session date.

If this requirement has not been met by the end of the course, additional one-to-one mentoring can be arranged for $199 (CAD + applicable tax) per hour by emailing admin.

Mentor students can log up to 10 hours of coaching toward their ACC application through one-to-one coaching of students in component 1 (TICCB).

• Mentors for one-to-one sessions are available from our website. Students can start one-to-one mentor sessions after the second group mentor session is complete.



• Select a mentor from the website and book a mentor session.

• Submit a recorded coaching session 48-72 hours before the session. The recording should be about 30 minutes in length.
• Identifying the desired section on which the mentor should focus to optimize the competencies for review and feedback. 

• After completing the mentor session, record whom it was with and when by emailing admin.

After completing the 10 hours of mentoring, participants will submit their final recording and transcript in a Word document to your group mentor for final assessment. Evaluations may take up to four weeks.

Mentoring must occur within a three- to six-month timeframe. If an extension is required, an additional three months may be purchased for $250 (CAD).

Mentoring begins five weeks after the last day of module 2 and per the International Coach Federation (ICF), mentoring must span a minimum of 3 months.