Grandfathering Previous Education & Training from Other Training Organizations
Yes. We do grandfather (transfer) completed credentials, education, or training that specifically focused on life coaching or licensed professional counselling from other education programs.
1. Identify Your Target Credential
Visit the ICCI Credentialing page to see which Credential level most closely aligns with your achievements. Our Core Credentials include Associate, Professional, and Master levels. We also offer Specialization Credentials for focused specialty areas (requires a Core Credential).
2. Identify Which Training Requirements You Still Need
Compare your accomplishments with the requirements of your targeted ICCI Core Credential to identify any outstanding requirements. Credential requirements include:
- Education courses in Christian Life Coaching
- Mentoring sessions with an ICCI-approved professional Christian Life Coaching Mentor, and
- Field experience hours practicing as a Christian Life Coach
3. Membership Is Important
Your ICCI membership discounts your courses and credentials $100 off the non-member prices, as well as giving you member perks at Hope Together conferences and events and other members-only benefits. Membership is offered at $60 quarterly or $179 annually.
Click here to see ICCI membership benefits.
4. Complete Any Outstanding Requirements
- Purchase courses from our Courses page.
- Complete courses in your ICCI dashboard by Logging into your account.
- Then use our Mentoring page to arrange your mentoring sessions with your Life Coaching Mentor.
- Complete your field experience hours while being mentored.
- Purchase your ICCI Credential application from our Credentialing page. Find it in your ICCI account dashboard to complete and submit. You will upload your documentation of completed life coaching education and training in the application.
After you apply, we will review your accomplishments to assess program completion. If we discover any outstanding requirements, we will notify you. You can then complete those requirements and update your application, and we will process your Credential.
Visit our Roadmap to Coaching page for a great step-by-step overview of the path to an ICCI Credential in Christian life Coaching