Professional ICF Coaching Course
This comprehensive yet Fast Track ICF Level 1 course focuses on core coaching competencies, including active listening, powerful questioning, emotional intelligence, and forward-focused coaching. You will gain the skills necessary to facilitate growth, build trust, and create impactful coaching conversations. The training meets ICF standards and offers hands-on experience, peer coaching, and mentor sessions, providing a well-rounded foundation for your coaching journey.
This training is perfect for aspiring coaches who are eager to enhance their ability to drive positive change with effective coaching techniques. Whether you are looking to expand your professional skill set or embark on a career as a certified coach, this course is designed to set you on the path to success.
Start today and take the first step toward becoming a certified coach!
Your Instructor and Coach
Natascha Speets
The Forward Focused Conversations Arc was designed by Natascha Speets, PCC Certified, who came to the realization that most modern coaching styles and frameworks promote the same wish for their clients: Positive change, sustained learning, and deep awareness of self.
Natascha is a certified Solutions Focused practitioner, but also uses her knowledge of systemic coaching, the GROW model, non-violent communication, and appreciative inquiry when engaging with her clients in coaching conversations.
ICF Level 1
Forward Focused Coaching Conversations-
60 hours coach training
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Duration : 3 months
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Interactive environment
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Innovative learning methods
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Notebook and training material
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Module 1 - Coaching Essentials
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Module 2 - ICF Core Competencies Deep Dive
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ICF Level 1 Evaluation
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Language : English
ICF Level 1 Coach Training - Forward Focused Coaching
- Master coaching techniques that go beyond the foundational level
- Understand and live the core competencies of a professional coach
- Apply the Forward Focused Conversations model for structure
- Apply the Forward Focused Coaching Tools for deeper and more thought provoking conversations leading to client growth
- Facilitate Insightful Dialogue with a large diversity of clients
- Using Coaching skills to enhance your own leadership and that of others
- Understanding how to be present as coach
- Bring coaching competencies to the workplace
May 2025
June 2025
Course Program FAST TRACK ICF Level 1 Coach Training
This course is structured around two main modules, supported by three asynchronous components. The first module focuses on building your coaching skills, where you’ll develop essential techniques like active listening, powerful questioning, and presence. The second module, Forward Focused Conversations, will deepen your ability to facilitate thought-provoking, growth-oriented coaching conversations.
These modules are accompanied and supported by three asynchronous activities: the Coaching Skills Builder, the Forward Focused Conversations component, and the ICF Exam Preparation Course. These asynchronous elements allow you to reinforce and apply what you learn at your own pace.
Throughout the course, you’ll engage in peer coaching and practice sessions, essential for meeting credentialing requirements. At the end of the program, you will receive a certificate that enables you to submit for your ICF exam. Additionally, the course includes individual mentor coaching, group mentoring, and evaluation of your coaching competence to ensure you’re fully prepared to move forward in your coaching journey.
Module 1 - Coaching Essential with Forward Focused Coaching Conversations
This module introduces you to the foundational concepts of coaching. It covers the basics of active listening, powerful questioning, and building trust in the coaching relationship. You will explore the coaching process, develop an understanding of the ICF competencies, and begin practicing the skills needed to become an effective coach. This is a step-by-step, video-based module that allows you to integrate coaching into your daily life. Through video lessons, peer coaching, and group discussions, you’ll build the confidence to facilitate coaching sessions and develop your unique coaching style. This approach ensures you can gradually apply and refine your coaching skills in real-world scenarios, creating lasting impact in your personal and professional life.
Development in the discipline of coaching
Definition of the role of a coach
Achieving essential changes in Mindset, self-awareness and self-management
Professional Coaching Skills Fundamentals
Active Listening: Learn how to truly listen to your clients, not just to their words but also to the underlying emotions and meaning. This skill is crucial for building trust and creating a safe space for clients to open up and explore their thoughts and feelings.
Powerful Questions: Master the art of asking questions that inspire deeper self-reflection and clarity. You will learn how to craft open-ended, insightful questions that guide clients towards discovering solutions and achieving greater self-awareness.
Forward-Focused Coaching: Understand how to shift the focus of your coaching conversations from the past or present challenges to future growth and potential. Learn how to guide clients toward actionable solutions, future goals, and long-term development.
Agreements & Presence: Explore the importance of establishing clear coaching agreements that define expectations, boundaries, and roles. You’ll also focus on cultivating a strong coaching presence, which involves being fully engaged and present in each conversation, allowing you to meet your client where they are.
Presence and Mindset: Develop your emotional and intellectual awareness to strengthen your ability to connect with clients. By understanding and managing emotions effectively, you’ll be able to build stronger coaching relationships and better navigate challenging conversations.
Module 2 - ICF Coach Competencies Deep Dive
Fully teacher-led module designed to provide an in-depth exploration of the ICF Core Competencies applied to your coaching conversations. Building on the foundation established in Module 1, this module takes a deeper look at essential coaching skills such as growth focused goal setting, forward-focused coaching questions, and creating powerful actions that allow your clients to take their own potential to new heights.
You will engage in live sessions with expert coaches, allowing you to receive real-time feedback on your practice and learn from others. Through a blend of interactive learning, practical exercises, and coaching simulations, you will refine your coaching abilities and gain a more nuanced understanding of how to apply the ICF competencies effectively in diverse coaching situations.
In this teacher-led format, you’ll have the opportunity to ask questions, discuss challenges, and receive personalized guidance on how to integrate these advanced competencies into your coaching practice. By the end of the module, you’ll be fully prepared to engage in high-impact coaching conversations and confidently support clients in their personal and professional growth.This intense module focuses on mastering the core competencies for coaching as outlined by the ICF, all through the lens of Professional Coaching. You will explore what it truly means to demonstrate the ICF Certified Coach markers across all eight competencies and how they specifically apply to your work as an Agile Coach.
By the end of the module, you will be well-prepared to take the Certified Knowledgeable Agile Coach (CKA) exam, but more importantly, you will have sharpened your coaching skills, honed your ability to adapt various coaching modalities, and deepened your confidence as a professional Agile Coach.
The Coaching Conversation
Definition of coaching
The Arc of the coaching conversation
Understanding the need behind the want
Identifying the gap
Coaching questions and what they do
Solutions Focused Coaching for Agile and Forward Focused Conversations
Systems coaching
Professional Coaching Competency Framework (ICF)
Decisions and difficult sessions
ICF Core Competencies
Demonstrates Ethical Practice
Embodies a Coaching Mindset
Establishes and Maintains Agreements
Cultivates Trust and Safety
Maintains Presence
Listens Actively
Evokes Awareness
Facilitates Learning and Growth
Practical Coaching Considerations
The Mindset and posture of a coach
Contracting with single and multiple stakeholders
Supervision and dealing with Agile Leadership
The Agile Organization as a System
Ethical considerations when coaching Agile Teams
Self awareness and development
Group Mentor coaching sessions
You can join these session at any time during your training, and even after you have finished! You need to participate in at least 10 practice sessions in which you will be coached, are coaching (at least 5 observed sessions) or you can observe and give feedback. We will note your attendance internally.
Individual Mentor coaching sessions
Thougout the program you can book 3 sessions with your mentor in which you will be working on a recorded coaching session and identify core coaching competencies you have or will need to develop to reach your desired Credential by the ICF
- The Forward Focused Conversations Arc Practitioner Certificate
- 60 – hour coach specific training course
- live session hours
- 7 hours of group mentoring sessions
- 3 individual mentor coaching sessions
- 30 hours of Self study components to deepen your learning including peer practice and journaling, the coaching skills builder and the ICF Credentialing exam preparation course.
- Lecture, exercises and live discussions in an interactive environment
- Innovative and active learning methods
- The Professional Coach’s tool box to get you started
This class is taught online using Zoom as our online meeting place where we will discuss, present and practice coaching competencies.
We meet weekly online in a live conference call we work towards our goal which is accompanying you to becoming a professional coach and receiving the ICF ACC credential.
To ensure high quality training for our students, we decided to limit our online Coaching Fundamentals classes to only 15 participants per cohort.
This course is perfect for
Agile Coaches, of course, but this class is open to anyone who wishes to become a professional coach; Consultants, leaders, HR-professionals, Scrum masters, managers and people looking for a career change.
The Coaching Fundamentals with Forward Focus Conversations module will focus mostly on the Coaching stance. We are Agile Coaches, but most of all, we are professional coaches, and this class focuses on that aspect.
This course is open to anyone who wishes to become an ICF certified Professional Coach
Attendance in the Coaching Fundamentals course sessions
Active participation in 7 Group Mentoring sessions
6 hours of self-study reading articles, watching coaching videos etc. on our online learning platform
A minimum of 100 hours (70 paid) of coaching experience with at least eight clients following the start of your coach-specific training. At least 25 of these hours must occur within the 24 months prior to submitting the application for the credential.
Performance evaluation (audio recording and written transcript of a coach session to be uploaded with your application).
Completion of the Coach Knowledge Assessment (CKA) (Not included in the course fee)
The instructors of The Agile Company will help you in reaching your 100 hours and are always available for mentoring when needed. We also host regular mentoring sessions in which you can practice recording Coaching sessions for your evaluation.
If you'd like to start sooner, feel free to reach out so we can create a personal learning plan with you!
PRACTICAL INFO
Language : English
Duration : 3 months
Times: Find your timezone in the events
Certification : ICF ACC, with conditions
Level : Professional
Path: LEVEL 1
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About The Online Professional Coach Training for Agilists Course
What makes this Coach Course different
Forward Focused Conversations help the client move from the “issue” they want to work with to “awareness and learning” on how they can move forward from their learning in the entireness of their (professional) life.
The Arc of the Forward Focused Conversation is designed to give coaches a structure they can use during the conversation with their clients, leaving enough room for flexibility and experimentation, but also providing focus to the movement of forwarding the client in their own learning.
Fully accredited for certification by...
The International Coaching Federation: Quality training guaranteed
An extensive program...
which you can easily integrate into your work life, only two hours per week training Engaging, interactive and online: comfortable, virtual participation from anywhere in the world Designed for a diverse global audience (work with coaches and trainees from all over the globe)
Created by The Agile Company...
based on the principles of Solutions Focused Brief coaching, non-violent communication, appreciative inquiry, the GROW model and Systemic coaching techniques, this program concentrates on a highly transferable, easy to learn and respectful coaching approach: Forward Focused Conversations.
Meet our Trainers
Passionate about Agile, we work together as a team to deliver meaningful change for our clients. We make it our mission to inspire change with our enthusiasm and knowledge of Coaching, Agile Teams and Organizational Agility.
Online Professional Coaching Program
ICF Credential
This ICF accredited professional coach training course covers the fundamentals of Solution Focused Coaching and teaches you the ICF core competencies needed to apply for the ACC or PCC ICF credential. Combined with 7 group mentoring hours, 3 private mentoring hours and the 6 hours home study, this class will allow you to apply for the ICF ACC credential
Variety
This class is a highly practical, interactive and live online course in which you will interact with people from all over the world. With this class you will also work with your peers in a group mentoring cohort in which you will dive deeper into the different subjects you have learned throughout the week!
Practical Knowledge
With the Agile Company’s Professional Coaching classes, you will start coaching immediately! Right from day one we will give you the tools to move towards having coaching conversations with the people you have available to you. Also, as we are The Agile Company, you get the benefit of joining a large community of Agile Coaches you can coach, co train or just take advise from. Your learning never stops!
Forward Focused Conversations help the client move from the “issue” they want to work with to “awareness and learning” on how they can move forward from their learning in the entireness of their (professional) life.
The Arc of the Forward Focused Conversation is designed to give coaches a structure they can use during the conversation with their clients, leaving enough room for flexibility and experimentation, but also providing focus to the movement of forwarding the client in their own learning.
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