Dr. Shiny Unsal explains the three ICF coaching certification levels: ACC, PCC, and MCC, each with different training hours, experience requirements, and assessments. Accredited coaches function as "invisible neurosurgeons" combining neuroscience, psychology, and NLP. Her Neuroshine Technology program is an ICF-accredited provider integrating these disciplines.
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Hello everyone, my name is Shiny Unsal. I am the proud creator of Neuroshine Technology, ICF Master Certified Coach, ICF Accredited Coach Trainer, and a licensed trainer of Neuro Linguistic Programming. I am coming to you today as an ICF Accredited Coaching Education Provider. I get this question asked all the time. Shiny, what is the difference between ICF accreditation levels? As a professional coach, why should I care about my ICF accreditation and why should I go from one level to the other? Explain to me, right? I have been certifying coaches, professional coaches, practitioners and master practitioners of Neuro Linguistic Programming since the year of 2011. It's been a while, okay? I've been around the clock for a while. Therefore, I want to share with you why you want to get not only your certification as a coach but your ICF accreditation as a coach. And of course, I am going to talk to you about 3 levels of coaching certifications by the International Coaching Federation. If you're ready, let's go. Number 1, the first level of your ICF accreditation as a coach is called Associate Certified Coach or ACC. ACC means that you have gone through 60 hours, minimum 60 hours of coach-specific training that is approved by ICF, by the International Coaching Federation, and you have also collected 100 hours of coaching experience, and you had 10 hours of mentor coaching with somebody who already holds an ICF credential, And of course, you pass the 3-hour test that ICF sent you, that's the Knowledge Assessment Test. And then you also have proven your coaching skills by recording a coaching session that you have done with your clients. That's what ACC means. And ACC is the very first level of your coaching accreditation as a certified coach. Level 2, Professional Certified Coach. Or PCC. PCC means that you have gone through 125 hours of coach-specific training, not 60. ACC was only 60 hours of coach-specific training. PCC requires minimum 125 hours of training, and it also requires 500 hours of your coaching experience. And again, You gotta have your mentor coaching sessions. You gotta pass the test and you gotta also pass the evaluation of your recorded session. And of course you need to graduate from an ICF accredited coaching education. Number 3, this is the highest level and that's what you see right behind me. Well, yes, I am a proud Master Certified Coach by the International Coaching Federation. MCC means that we have gone through a minimum of 200 hours of coach-specific training with an ICF accredited coaching education program, and we have collected more than 2,500 hours of coaching experience. Yep, you heard me right. As a matter of fact, My coaching experience actually exceeds 3,000 hours. Of course, pass all these levels of ACC, PCC with different levels of mentor coaching sessions. And we have passed the test and we have proven our coaching skills with a recorded coaching session. That's what it means. So why do you care about these differences? Like, why do you care about ACC, PCC, MCC? Why should you get your ICF accreditation as a coach? Here is the simple answer. If you want to go to a hospital, you want the doctor to have graduated from, um, a university, right? You want your doctor to hold a degree so that you can rely on him. You can rely on his skills, his knowledge, his ability to help you go through whatever the health problem that you're going through. Right? It's the same thing when you are working with a coach. And let me tell you this, coaching to me is the highest level of communication skills one human being can have. Why do I say that? Because coaching requires so many levels of training. That's mental training, mindset training, language training, listening skills, presence, asking questions, understanding someone, acknowledging them, and then creating accountability, cultivating trust, giving the, um, person some space for their emotions and holding them accountable, supporting them for their growth. It comes with so many levels of trainings and so many levels of skills. And that's why when you work with a coach, you are basically working with an invisible, uh, neurosurgeon. Yeah, I know I'm just like making a big statement here, but I really mean it. Why? Because if you work with a coach who does not understand the neuroscience, the psychology, the hard science, the neurolinguistic programming, and, you know, practical tools of making somebody feel better, then you're not doing yourself a good job. You are actually relying on somebody who believes that, you know, they have the ability, but they have not gone through the specific training that is required, the specific exams testing their ability. And so you're kind of taking a risk. Why do I say neurosurgeon? Because when you work with a coach, when you open up, you are literally opening up your emotions. So those are very deep levels in your nervous system. And if you look at it from the neuroscience perspective, The emotional part of your brain, your limbic system, is so ingrained in your everyday activities, in your everyday behaviors and your language patterns, that it's so hard for you to move forward with your life without really truly understanding it and integrating what happens in it. So only A very well-trained, certified, and accredited ICF accredited coach can help you recognize your own patterns and to achieve your goals. And here's the distinction. Coaching is not therapy. Coaching does not take you back to your childhood so that you can heal your wounds. Coaching takes you as a whole and complete and receives you resourceful individual, and coaching helps you understand what works for you so that you can put all of those working parts together so that you can move forward to become more and achieve more in your life. So if you want to know more about ICF accreditation levels or coaching skills or NLP skills or both, Of course, I am going to invite you to study with me because obviously my Neuroshine Technology coaching program is fully accredited by ICF, International Coaching Federation, to teach you the skills, the coaching skills, to teach you the ability to combine the neurolinguistic programming, neuroscience, heart science, positive psychology, emotional intelligence, quantum physics, even cosmology. So you're going to get a bigger and deeper understanding of who you are, what you do, and how you can serve others. So you're just going to basically click on the link below to learn more about it, or you can contact me anytime if you want to. So there you have it, 3 levels of coaching accreditations by ICF. I hope you liked it. If you did, please put a like on it and share it with your friends and subscribe to my channel so that you and I, we can create a much better world with more love and shiny minds.
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