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What is Mentor Coaching?

From the ICF website: www.coachingfederation.org

ICF defines mentor coaching as a collaborative process where coaches receive feedback based on observed sessions to refine their skills and style in alignment with the ICF Core Competencies. Mentor coaching is grounded in evidence-based practice.

Dr. D. D. Mann has over 25 years of coaching experience, having earned an MCC credential in 2023 with the International Coaching Federation. D. D. is an exceptional communicator who can support your learning and growth as a coach, whatever your coaching focus.

How Does ICF Mentor Coaching Work?

Observation and Feedback: Mentor coaches listen to your recorded or observed coaching sessions and offer feedback based on the ICF Core Competencies. This feedback fosters knowledge and skill enhancement, helping you better serve your clients.

Extended Learning Cycle: Mentor coaching spans at least three months, offering time to absorb feedback, reflect on the feedback, and implement improvements in your coaching.

Mentor coaching fosters growth through constructive feedback and self-reflection about your coaching methods and skills. Mentor coaching is essential for developing and demonstrating the coaching competencies required for your desired credential.

Mentor coaching is available to coaches across all credentialing levels, including Associate Certified Coach (ACC), Professional Certified Coach (PCC), and Master Certified Coach (MCC) applicants, and is crucial for both initial credentialing and renewal. Whether you’re just starting out or aiming for your next level, mentor coaching can help you continuously grow your proficiency as a coach.

Mentor coaching is an investment in your coaching abilities.

For more information, call D. D. at 802-343-1062 or email at contact@drddmann.com

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A videographer is working on this project so reach out to Dee Dee if you’d like to speak about her background and learn more her learning and curriculum development experience. The Coach Approach Training Academy has at least 50% original content, written by DeeDee.

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Transition

Psychotherapy (also called talk therapy) is a noble professional where individuals may recommend choices and present information to remediate mental health issues, over a long period of time. Therapy often explores family-of-origin issues in-depth, including root causes of behavior, including self-destructive behavior. Psychiatry follows a medical model to create inner strength to overcome addictions and other self-destructive behaviors. Counseling is often shorter-term, focusing on specific, current challenges or situations. Consulting offers expertise in certain disciplines. Consultants are considered trusted advisors who freely offer advice and solve problems through specialized services. Come and learn how coaching is distinguished from therapy, psychiatry, counseling, consulting and coaxing, while experiencing each (during mentoring) as a distinct set of skills so you are clear about coaching to never mistake one for the other, as a practicing coach.

Estrangement

Estrangement is currently an epidemic in several countries. The recent research of Dr. Joshua Coleman estimates approximately one-in-four families are facing some kind of familial discord, parental alienation and other painful forms of estrangement. Decades ago, Dr. Pauline Boss researched ambiguous loss, which is a hallmark of the many unresolved elements of estrangement, similar to the emotional torture of times of war, abduction or similar forms of disappearances (when someone is missing from your life and you do not know if a person is dead or alive). If someone is fortunate enough to be unfamiliar with the emotions associated with estrangement, they can underestimate the toll this agonizing experience can take on people, at the receiving end of someone they love going “no contact,” (with or without an explanation). Dr. Dee Dee Mann has endured over a decade of several forms of estrangement and has written several original coaching methods that will be taught in this track.

The Core Fundamentals of Coaching

The Core Fundamentals of Coaching is foundational to understanding what distinguishes coaching and coaching skills from other essential interpersonal abilities and professions that are dependent on proficiency in communication. Come as you are to begin explore the basic, intermediary and advanced coaching skills.

Whether you are enjoying a career in coaching or your employer is sponsoring this learning, you will learn all facets of the proprietary Coach Approach mindset and skillset. The Coach Approach describes the importance of a coaching mindset to embody and emulate trust as you actively listen to others. Also, internalizing the best practices of coaching will ensure you always maintain presence to awaken awareness in those you work with to foster growth and development.

The core fundamentals will also explore the theory and precepts that defined coaching as a practice and profession, especially the importance of establishing and maintaining agreements at all phases of your coaching engagements. Core Fundamentals also distinguish coaching from therapy, psychiatry, counseling, consulting and coaxing. The Core Fundamentals of Coaching will equip you will high-impact knowledge, skills and abilities that are ICF-aligned to set you apart in whatever way you seek to coach. The distinctions this coaching program includes the two coaching tracks: Estrangement and Career Transition as well as the design and delivery of the curriculum.