Dispersed Virtual Lock-in: Group Mentor Coaching for Aspiring MCCs

Why choose this Lock-In option?

The MCC Mentor Coaching Lock-in runs over a few months, combining individual mentor coaching, group learning, and recorded coaching reviews. The work is grounded in love as a coaching principle: what it means in practice, how it shows up in your sessions, and what inner work it asks of you. It will prepare you for your MCC assessment, and it will ask considerably more of you than that. (If you've landed on this page directly, you might like to read more about the ethos of the programme here.)

This option is for Professional Certified Coaches (PCC) with 1,000+ hours of coaching who aspire to become Master Certified Coaches (MCC).

You will learn from:

• A deeper understanding of each of the competencies, bringing you back to a beginner’s mindset
• Demonstrations of masterful coaching
• Your fellow participants’ coaching
• Objective feedback on your own and the other coaches’ coaching, using the PCC Markers and the MCC BARS as the benchmark.

CCEUs

A total of 17 CCEs are available, 7 for mentor coaching and 10 for competency masterclasses.

Highly recommend Clare as a mentor coach. She fully understands all the competencies and BARS and knows how to create a learning space where you can really explore and understand how to embody them into your coaching. This is not a tick-box exercise, and Clare role-models the continuous learning approach. The Virtual MCC Lock-in has been instrumental in getting me to the point where I felt able to submit my MCC application - Helen O'Grady MCC

Outline of the programme:

Timings are indicative and may flex slightly per programme.

This Mentor Coaching Lock-in takes place over Zoom. The programme consists of:

• 1.5 hours of contracting, followed by
• 2 x 3.5-hour mentor coaching workshops
• 1 x 1.75-hour mentor coaching session and
• 8 x competency masterclasses.

In the mentor coaching workshops, you can choose to coach one of the other participants or to bring a recording of your coaching.

In between sessions, you will experiment with new ways of being as a coach, bringing your coaching ever closer to being more masterful.

The eight masterclasses

Each live Masterclass consists of:

• a review and discussion of the competency
• a coaching demonstration to bring the assessed competencies to life
• the option to write up your learning and reflections to gain CCEUs

There are two recorded Masterclasses covering Ethics and Coaching Mindset, for which you can also write up your reflections to gain CCEUs.

Mentor coaching workshop timetable

What differentiates this mentor coaching offering from others?

• We look at the mindsets that you need to unlearn to become an MCC.  Only by untangling yourself from unhelpful mindsets can you free your thinking and break through to coaching mastery
• We watch and dissect six real recordings of MCC-level coaching (most of which have been passed by the assessors) so that you get a feel for the uplift from PCC to MCC
• We discuss each competency live, with a view to adding depth, partnership, and ease to level up from PCC to MCC
• You get to bring a recording of your coaching or to coach live, and you learn from watching others do the same
• The feedback you’ll receive is impartial and evidence-based, using the markers and BARs as the objective benchmark
• We focus on bringing your personal strengths and style to the fore, rather than cookie-cutter coaching

What you can expect from me

I know the ICF competencies and the MCC assessment markers in detail, and I know what assessors are looking for. I will tell you honestly if I think a recording carries risk as a submission, though the final pass or fail rests with the assessor. What I will do is work with you rigorously until your coaching reflects both the competencies and something that is distinctly yours.

I treat this as a growth experience, which means I will take you further than the minimum requirement and hold the bar high throughout.

I commit to mentor coaching for myself every year, and to therapy to keep my own heart open. The standard I hold for you is the same standard I hold for myself.