Accepted CCE Sources

• ICF-accredited Education

  NOTE: The certificate, letter of completion, or ICF Learning Portal Transcript will include the number of hours that may be claimed.

  1. Complimentary ICF Ethics Course | View Course

  Required documentation:

  • Transcript downloaded from the ICF Learning Portal

  2. CCE Hours Delivered by an ICF Chapter | View Chapter Events

  Required documentation:

  • Certificate issued by the Chapter including the name of the event/class, date, amount and type of CCE

  3. CCE Hours Delivered during an ICF Regional or Global Conference or Event | View ICF Events

  Required documentation:

  • Certificate or passport issued from ICF with the name of the event/conference, date, amount and type of CCE

  4. CCE Hours Delivered by an ICF-accredited Education Provider | Find Education

  Required documentation:

  • Certificate, letter or email on letterhead issued by the provider with the name of the event/class, date, amount and type of CCE.

  5. Education Hours from an ICF-accredited ACSTH or ACTP Program | Find Education

  Required documentation:

  • Certificate, letter or email on letterhead issued by the provider with the name of the event/class, date and amount of coach-specific education hours
  • NOTE: all hours of an ACSTH or ACTP program will be documented to the Core Competencies requirement. When entering the program in your application, you may document three (3) of the hours to the Ethics requirement.
• Mentor Coaching/Supervision

  Mentor Coaching and Coaching Supervision both count as Core Competency activities. Up to 10 hours in Mentor Coaching may be used toward the required CCEs for renewal. Additionally, up to 10 hours of Coaching Supervision may be used toward the required Core Competencies CCEs. 

  The Mentor Coach must hold a Credential at or above the level of the mentee. ACC credentialed coaches must have been through at least one credential renewal cycle before they are eligible to provide mentoring. 

  1. Receiving Mentor Coaching by an ICF-credentialed coach on the ICF Core Competencies

  Required documentation

  • Mentor Coach’s name, email address, credential level, start and end date of mentoring, and total number of hours mentored
  • NOTE: For each ACC renewal cycle, 10 hours of mentor coaching must be received over a three-month time period or longer. Of those 10 hours, three must be one-on-one. The remaining seven hours may be one-on-one or in a group. 

  2. Receiving Coaching Supervision to engage in reflective dialogue and collaborative learning for the development and benefit of your coaching skills

  Required documentation:

  • Coaching Supervisor’s name, email address, start and end date of supervision, and total number of hours of supervision

  3. Serving as a Mentor Coach

  Required documentation:

  • Mentee(s) name, email address, credential level, start and end date of mentoring, and total number of hours mentored

  4. Serving as a Coach Supervisor

  Required documentation:

  • Supervisee’s name, email address, start and end date of supervision, and total number of hours of supervision

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• Self-paced Study

  Self-paced courses and other self-study activities fall in the category of Resource Development. Renewal candidates are limited to 16 CCEs of self-paced courses and other self-study.  

  1. Non coach-specific training (training outside of ICF Core Competencies that contributes to your personal or professional development as a coach)

  Required documentation:

  • Certificate, letter or email on letterhead from the provider with the name of the event/class, date and number of hours completed

  2. Publishing peer-reviewed research

  Required documentation:

  • Summary of your research and how it contributed to your development as a coach, documentation verifying the publication date, a link to the published research, the timeframe in which the research was conducted, and how many hours were spent in research

  3. Activities unrelated to the ICF Core Competencies that contribute to your personal or professional development as a coach 

  • Reading
    • Required documentation: name of book/article, timeframe of when read, how many hours spent reading, summary information of your activities and how they contributed to your development as a coach
  • Research
    • Required documentation: summary of your research and how it contributed to your development as a coach, a link to the published resources used in the research, the date it was published, the timeframe in which the research was conducted, and how many hours were spent in research
  • Other activities
    • Required documentation: summary information of your activities and how they contributed to your development as a coach, time spent

  4. Archived Learning

  Required documentation:

  • Name of the session and date completed in the self-study section of the renewal application and hours spent

  5. Education within an ICF-accredited ACTP or ACSTH program completed as self-study

  Required documentation:

  • Certificate, letter or email on letterhead issued by the provider with the name of the event/class, date and number of hours completed
• Other

  1. Non ICF Accredited programs involving live, voice-to-voice interaction between instructors and students

  Required documentation:

  • Certificate, letter or email on letterhead issued by the provider with the name of the event/class, date and amount of training hours completed
    • For any hours to be counted towards Core CCE, supplemental documentation demonstrating that Core Competencies were taught and for how long must also be submitted (documentation to demonstrate the course curriculum and method of delivery, including course syllabus, summary, student or instructor’s manual, and any handouts or course materials that provide a detailed description of the curriculum) 

  2. Serving as an instructor of ICF-accredited education program

  Required documentation:

  • Signed letter on the accredited education programs letterhead from someone within the education program who is familiar with your role that states your name, your role within the education program, what education program you taught, when you taught it and how many CCEs you earned for the portion taught
  • NOTE: You can only claim the teaching of the course one time toward a renewal application. 

  3. Developing education curriculum that has been submitted to ICF and approved as a CCE, ACSTH or ACTP program

  Required documentation:

  • Date the education program was submitted to ICF for review and copy of ICF letter with the approval details of the program) 

  4. Writing

  Required documentation:

  • Summary of your activities and how they contributed to your development as a coach, a link to where the writing can be found, the date it was published, and how many hours it took to write the article or book – research and editing hours not included. To claim as core hours, include how the writing included or revolved around the Core Competencies. 
  • NOTE: Writing for social media posts (e.g., Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, etc.), as well as blogs/vlogs, is not accepted CCEs.