What Is Continuing Coach Education (CCE)?
CCE keeps you on the road to coaching mastery, fueling your journey as a powerful coach. Just like a car needs regular check-ups and upgrades, great coaches need ongoing learning and development to keep their skills sharp and their practices fresh.
With CCE, you’ll gain access to advanced training, explore cutting-edge coaching techniques, and connect with new ideas that elevate your impact. By continually refining your approach, you’ll be able to respond effectively to diverse client needs, uphold your professional credibility, and demonstrate a commitment to growth and ethical practice.
In addition, CCE is required to maintain coaching credentials, ensuring certified coaches are fully equipped to inspire, motivate, and guide their clients with excellence and relevance.
Why Are CCE Credits Important for Credential Renewal?
For ICF credential-holders, coaching is more than a profession — it’s a journey of growth, learning, and continuous improvement. To support this commitment to ongoing development and ensure excellence, ICF requires credential renewal every three years. As part of this renewal, credential-holders complete a specific number of CCE credits, which serve as a bridge to new skills, deeper insights, and heightened mastery.
By engaging in CCE, ICF credential-holders challenge themselves to keep learning, stay current with industry standards and ethics, and adapt to the ever-evolving needs of their clients. This process isn’t just about meeting requirements; it’s about making tomorrow better than today for both coaches and those they serve.
Types of CCE Credits Offered by ICF
ICF credential-holders must earn 40 CCE credits during each renewal cycle, and CCE is available in two credit types: Core Competencies and Resource Development. These different types are designed to support your holistic development as a coach, allowing you to customize your learning, stay flexible, and focus on areas that align with your career goals, client needs, and evolving trends in the coaching profession.
Core Competencies
Core Competencies CCE credits focus on deepening and enhancing your understanding and practice of the ICF Core Competencies through real-time interactive instruction or activities.
These competencies are essential skills for effective coaching, such as establishing trust and safety, active listening, and evoking awareness. Completing courses or activities centered on these competencies helps you strengthen the foundational skills necessary for high-quality coaching.
For ICF credential renewal, 24 CCE credits must be in Core Competencies, with 3 credits specifically in coaching ethics.
Resource Development
CCE credits in Resource Development focus on expanding your knowledge and tools beyond the ICF Core Competencies, contributing to your overall professional development to help you refine your approach and better serve your clients. This type of CCE includes learning opportunities around personal growth, tools or assessments, and business building.
For ICF credential renewal, you may earn up to 16 CCE credits in Resource Development.
ICF Continuing Coaching Education Opportunities
When you coach, you’re helping people discover their very best selves. As a coach, that goes for you, too. You can keep learning, growing, and meeting new challenges through a variety of professional development opportunities from ICF, including — but not limited to — the following.
ICF Communities of Practice
Engage with the global coaching community while deepening your knowledge in a specific area of coaching. Plus, CPs are a free ICF member benefit and offer the CCE credits needed for ICF credential renewal.
Complimentary ICF Ethics Course
Ethics training is an essential part of any coach's professional development, ensuring you can navigate challenging situations with confidence, uphold your ethical responsibilities, and continue to serve your clients with excellence.
ICF Events and Webinars
Learn, connect, and grow, all while earning credits that support your credential renewal, through learning opportunities from ICF and our global network of chapters.
ICF-Accredited Workshops and Seminars
Level up your coaching in a way that fits your schedule and growth goals. Dive into hands-on training, master new methodologies, and gain CCE credits — all while expanding your expertise and honing your craft.
ICF Coaching Conferences
Stay at the forefront of industry trends, expand your skills, and deepen your impact as a coach through ICF events. These events are designed to inspire, educate, and elevate your practice — plus you can earn a number of CCE credits from each one.
Converge
ICF Converge is a dynamic global event where you can experience exceptional formal and informal learning opportunities, all while enhancing your connections within the coaching community. You can discover new trends and practices, find professional development opportunities, and much more.
Business Development Series
Find out how to build and sustain your coaching practice at the ICF Business Development Series (BDS). Created for coaches of all experience levels, BDS can help you enhance your business transformation.
International Coaching Week
International Coaching Week is a celebration of all the transformative possibilities that coaching provides. From events and webinars to workshops and discussions, you can experience dozens of activities organized by ICF chapters and members.
ICF-Approved Coaching Education Programs
Upskill and deepen your expertise in key coaching areas through specialized courses and masterclasses. These ICF-accredited CCE programs enhance your skills, align with your professional goals, and meet ICF’s high standards for continuing education. Whether refining current practices or exploring new methodologies, they keep you at the forefront of your coaching journey while earning valuable CCE credits.
ICF Webinars and Courses
ICF offers a wide range of online courses and webinars that provide CCE credits, giving you the flexibility to enhance your skills and stay current with industry trends from anywhere.
Explore the World of Ethics in Coaching with ICF!
Explore the coaching Code of Ethics and valuable resources like the Ethics Assist Line and a complimentary three-hour ethics course applicable for ICF credential renewal. This session goes beyond a webinar, offering a chance to deepen your understanding of ethics in coaching and get answers to your questions about ethical practice.
CCE for Renewal of ICF Credentials: Step-by-Step Guide
Renewing your ICF credential doesn’t have to be a hassle — a little planning goes a long way! By completing your CCE credits over the three-year renewal period, you’re setting yourself up for success. Here’s a simple, step-by-step breakdown to help you meet the CCE requirements and keep your credential up-to-date.
- Review the number of CCE credits required for renewal based on your credential or certification level.
- Explore CCE credit opportunities through ICF and accredited coaching education providers.
- Complete events, webinars, and other learning activities to acquire CCE credits.
- Submit your completed CCE credits via the ICF credential renewal application.