ICF Mentor Coaching Requirements: Everything You Need to Know (2026 Update)
ICF mentor coaching requires 10 hours of competency-focused mentorship from an experienced, credentialed coach, completed over a minimum of three months. At least 3 of those hours must be in individual (one-on-one) sessions. The remaining hours can come from group sessions. Mentor coaching applies at every credential level — ACC, PCC, and MCC — and has just become significantly more important with the ICF's April 2026 announcement replacing performance evaluations with enhanced mentor coaching requirements beginning in 2027.
Growing Into Consistency
All my life, I struggled to be consistent—I struggled with self-care, chaotic emotions, and figuring out who I wanted to be when I grew up. (Does this sound familiar?) “I was doing so well and then, bam!, I just stopped.” I could be absolutely enamored of something one minute and be totally turned off by it the next.
Here are six strategies to work with that experience.