Stage 3 · For experienced practitioners
Coach Certification Program
A twelve-month intensive — and the threshold into full membership of the Minds at Work faculty community.
What this is
A year inside the methodology — with close supervision, peer challenge, and real client work.
The Coach Certification Program is a twelve-month cohort for experienced practitioners who are ready to commit fully to ITC — not just as a tool they use with clients, but as a practice they help shape and carry forward.
Over the year, you'll deepen your understanding of the methodology, develop your capacity to work with more complex cases, and build the kind of fluency that only comes from sustained practice under close supervision and peer challenge.
At the end, you emerge as a Certified ITC Coach — with standing in the Minds at Work community, a place in the certified coach directory, and an ongoing role in the work.
Format & details
Duration
Twelve months
Format
Zoom-based — twelve cohort gatherings plus ten individual mentor sessions
Next cohorts
Spring 2026 — now enrolling · Spring 2027
Tuition
$18,150 · $11,550 for practitioners working exclusively in the non-profit sector
ICF credit hours
51.5 credit hours from the International Coaching Federation upon successful completion
Prerequisite
ITC Facilitator's Workshop or ITC for 1:1 Coaching: Maps and Tests
What you'll do
Twelve months of practice, supervision, theory, and peer challenge.
Cohort gatherings
Twelve interactive sessions over the course of the year, mixing full-group learning with smaller cohort sets. These are the core of the program — where you work through cases, receive feedback, and develop your practice alongside peers who are doing the same.
Individual mentorship
Ten one-hour sessions with a certified ITC coach mentor, focused on your specific cases and development edges. This is where the most pointed growth often happens — in a direct relationship with someone who has been doing this work for years.
Supervised client work
You'll coach real clients through the Immunity to Change™ Map process during the program — and bring that work back to the cohort and your mentor for review. The feedback loop between practice and reflection is what builds genuine fluency.
Adult development theory
A deep dive into the constructive-developmental framework that gives ITC its intellectual foundation — Kegan and Lahey's theory of how adults grow in complexity of mind, and how that growth shows up in the coaching relationship.
Materials and resources
Participants receive exclusive access to the Minds at Work coaching website, the Immunity to Change™ Workbook, the two-volume Facilitator's Guide, and the Tracking Book — the full set of resources the faculty uses in their own practice.
What certification means
If your portfolio is approved, you become a Certified ITC Coach.
At the end of the year, you submit a portfolio of your coaching work, which is reviewed by Minds at Work faculty. Certification is awarded when the portfolio meets the standard — which is intentionally high, and intentionally so.
That standard is part of what makes the credential meaningful. The coaches who hold it are the ones who earned it — which is exactly why organizations trust it, and why practitioners pursue it.
Your name in the certified coach directory
The Minds at Work certified coach directory is where practitioners, organizations, and prospective clients go to find qualified ITC coaches — a global network of practitioners certified in the method.
See the directory →Ongoing access to faculty dialogues
Regular gatherings of the extended faculty — where the methodology evolves, new applications are explored, and the community of practice does its actual work.
A role in shaping what comes next
Certified coaches contribute case notes, mentor newer practitioners, and help govern the standards that keep the work credible. This is the inner ring of Minds at Work.
A direct relationship with the faculty
Minds at Work faculty remain actively engaged with certification cohorts — teaching, challenging, and deepening the practice alongside participants.
What you're working toward
What you come away with.
People come to the CCP for different reasons — to deepen a practice they've already built, to get the credential their clients are starting to ask about, to be part of a community doing this work seriously. Most of them walk away with all three.
51.5 ICF credit hours
Successful completion earns 51.5 continuing education hours from the International Coaching Federation. For coaches maintaining or pursuing ICF credentials, this is one of the largest single-program credit awards available.
The only official ITC certification
There is one certification in Immunity to Change™, and Minds at Work issues it. The methodology was developed here; the standard is set here. For practitioners who want to be recognized as qualified ITC coaches — by clients, employers, and peers — there is no equivalent credential.
A listing in the global directory
Certified coaches are listed in the Minds at Work directory, which organizations and individuals use specifically to find ITC-trained practitioners. Being listed puts you in front of clients who are already looking for what you do.
Twelve months inside the methodology
The CCP is not a weekend training. It's a year of supervised client work, peer feedback, and deepening study — the kind of time and repetition that produces genuine mastery rather than familiarity. The investment reflects what that kind of learning actually costs to deliver.
The application
What does applying entail?
The application is a genuine conversation about fit — not a credential check. We want to understand your background with ITC, the work you're doing with clients, and what you're hoping the certification year will give you.
If you're unsure whether your background is ready, reach out and we'll help you figure it out. The honest answer is sometimes "not yet, but here's what would help" — and that's a useful conversation to have.
What we look for
Prerequisite
Completion of the ITC Facilitator's Workshop or ITC for 1:1 Coaching: Maps and Tests
Prior client work
Experience using the Immunity to Change™ Map with real clients — enough to know what you're getting into
Readiness to commit
The CCP is a twelve-month, cohort-based commitment. We look for practitioners who are truly ready for that
How to apply
Applications for the Spring 2027 cohort will open later this year — reach out to join the interest list
Spring 2027 cohort — applications opening later this year.
The Spring 2026 cohort is now closed. Join the interest list to be notified when applications open for Spring 2027.