I’m beyond excited to announce the birth of a brand new website, Mentor Coach Mastery, and a brand new program. More on that below!
For some context, ICF have a new requirement from January 1, 2027 that all mentor coaches for ACC, PCC or MCC must hold the Mentor Coach Specialization (MCS) for the credential level/s they are mentor coaching at.
In my case, I’ve been awarded all three MCS levels and I’m excited to continue mentor coaching for MCC, PCC and ACC, including for credential renewal.
Mentor Coach Mastery is our new website to support mentor coaches meet the new ICF MCS requirements for mentor coach education. Yet it’s much more than that.
Mastery from the Inside: A Mentor Coach Immersion!
The first program: Mastery from the Inside, is more than checking the box and has three purposes:
The first is to give experienced mentor coaches a self-paced (asynchronous) program that meets the requirement of 10 hour “Credit for Prior Learning” education.
The intent is for even experienced mentor coaches to finish the program with more clarity about their strengths and their development opportunities. And to have the kind of evidence-based clarity that may inform new ways of being in future mentor coaching sessions.
This program offers the chance to hear one PCC Markers and two MCC Behaviors (BARS) mentoring sessions. Even if you only mentor at ACC skill level, you will hear the principles of mentor coaching demonstrated by an experienced mentor coach and apply what feels right to your mentoring for ACC, PCC or MCC skill level.
The second purpose is learning for any coach who is a coach educator and is teaching in a coach training program yet isn’t actively mentor coaching. If you are renewing your ACC, PCC or MCC credential you will have 10 core competency hours toward your 40 hours for renewal requirements!
Not just any old core competency hours, but meaningful learning to support your next evolution as a mentor coach, a coach educator and as a coach!
This program gives you something rare that you would otherwise only get by being one of my mentor coaching clients: three actual mentoring sessions with three real coaches, unfiltered and unscripted, exactly as they happened.
You will hear the coaching session recording between 
the coach and their client. Then you will hear the matching mentoring session with the coach: how I listened, what I caught, what I named and how I structured verbal feedback in a collaborative way that has coaches leaving their mentoring session motivated to keep going – even if they came in convinced their coaching session was one of their worst.
You will have access to my written Session Observation Forms and how I wrote the feedback for each mentoring client.
A third purpose of the Mastery from the Inside program for coaches who aren’t mentoring or training coaches can benefit from this program as well, with a slight modification to how you’ll complete module five. If you find you are interested in this, please email me.
A HUGE Thank You to my web designer partner Ben Auten, who went above and beyond in a short period of time and with such care. And to Byron Van Pelt, who did an incredible job interviewing me for hours to ensure the words on the page were true to me. Being a professionally trained coach, I have higher expectations of good communication when it comes to those I partner with. Ben and Byron are exceptional communicators and I’m so grateful for how they worked with me.
Please check out the Mentor Coach Mastery website, and if it seems like it’s for you, I look forward to engaging with you along your immersion journey! That’s because those who purchase have access to bonus monthly Zoom Q&A meetings with me to bring your questions, work through anything that came up in the modules, or explore how to apply what you’re hearing to your own mentoring practice.
Written by Carly Anderson, MCC
Are you ready to prepare for your next ICF credential, or renew your credential?
Want to work with an experienced MCC Mentor Coach?
The Mentor Coaching Group Program is an ICF approved individual / group mentor coaching program. Approved for 30 of ICF Core Competency CCEs, including 10 hours of mentor coaching. For comparison between my MCC program, and Level 3, go to Q6 on FAQs page
Programs now open!
Group #86 MCC Mentor Coaching Program commencing September 8, 2026
Group #87 PCC and ACC (Renewal) Mentor Coaching Program commencing September 9, 2026
Earlybird pricing available if paid by July 31, 2026!
Visit this page for more information
I offer a rich, experiential mentor coaching group and individual program that has many exclusive offerings for participants. You can read some testimonials from real people, FAQs, or find out more about The Mentor Coaching Program here
I offer other products including The Upgraded Target Approach: Illuminating the ICF Core Competencies. You can find more products for coaches here
I’m passionate about supporting the professionalism of coaching, which includes often engaging in ICF projects as a volunteer to continue to develop and evolve our profession. As at May 2026, I’m co-leader of the newly launched ICF Global Mentor Coaching Community of Practice. I’m also 2026 Co-Leader of the ICF Los Angeles Credentialing SIG.
I hold the Mentor Coach Specialization (MCS) designation for ACC, PCC and MCC mentor coaching, which is a requirement for all mentor coaches to have commencing January 1, 2027. I offer mentor coach education via our Mentor Coach Mastery website
A long term experienced and continuously active ICF Assessor since 2005, assessing and mentoring for all 3 credential levels. I have listened to and evaluated over 2,000 coaching session recordings between ICF assessing and my mentor coaching clients. As at June 2026, 235 coaches I’ve mentored for their MCC preparation have passed ICF MCC exam process (that I know of), as well as hundreds of coaches passed their ACC and PCC exam process. Mentor coaching clients have access to an incredible and exclusive member-only library that includes 40+ coaching recordings that have actually passed ICF MCC, PCC and ACC credential process.