Become ICF Team Coach

How to Become an ICF Accredited Team Coach

Transform Collective Team Dynamics
Team Coherence Coaching™ is an Advanced Certification in Team Coaching (ACTC) program. It helps coaches recognise and work with patterns of coherence and incoherence inside leadership teams, executive teams and cross-functional teams.

You learn to coach a team as a living system, and to see and shift the patterns that shape how its members think, relate, decide and act together.

Most coaches are trained to coach individuals. Few are trained to coach the invisible patterns that shape how a team works together.

Team Coherence Coaching is an ICF Advanced Accreditation in Team Coaching (AATC) aligned program. It brings together systemic team coaching, NLP pattern awareness, somatic mindfulness, collective dialogue practices and practical leadership coaching. It is grounded in the ICF Team Coaching Competencies, so you learn to work with teams as living systems rather than collections of individuals.

Why Team Coherence Coaching™?

Leadership teams often struggle because of:

  • Fragmented priorities
  • Hidden tensions
  • Political behaviour
  • Communication breakdowns
  • Conflicting agendas
  • Weak accountability
  • Inconsistent execution
Many team coaching approaches focus on frameworks, assessments and facilitation techniques. Team Coherence Coaching™ helps coaches find and shift the deeper patterns that influence how a team functions.

The Core Premise

Teams do not become high-performing merely by changing strategies, structures or processes. They change when the collective field they operate from becomes more coherent. Coherence is the degree to which a team works as an aligned, aware, adaptive and collectively intelligent system.

When coherence increases:

  • Conversations become more open and authentic
  • Trust deepens
  • Decision-making becomes clearer
  • Ownership becomes shared
  • Collaboration strengthens
  • Execution improves
  • Stakeholder confidence increases

What Makes This Approach Different?

Team Coherence Coaching™ integrates:

  • Systemic Team Coaching
  • NLP Pattern Awareness
  • Values and Beliefs Exploration
  • Somatic Mindfulness
  • Collective Dialogue Practices
  • Leadership Development
  • ICF Team Coaching Competencies
Instead of focusing only on individuals, participants learn to coach the team as a living system.

The Team Coherence Coaching™ Architecture

Team Coherence Coaching™

The overarching philosophy and systemic coaching approach.

7 Dimensions of Team Coherence™

  • Direction Coherence
  • Relationship Coherence
  • Communication Coherence
  • Thinking Coherence
  • Structural Coherence
  • Energy Coherence
  • Execution Coherence

SYNC-7™

A systemic diagnostic lens that helps coaches see where coherence and incoherence exist across:

  • Environment & Stakeholder Impact
  • Behaviour Patterns
  • Competencies & Capabilities
  • Beliefs & Assumptions
  • Values & Priorities
  • Identity & Team Self-Concept
  • Purpose & Meaning
  • Collective Energy

5C Team Coaching Process

  • Commence
  • Collaborate
  • Co-opetate
  • Co-create
  • Carry Forward

Internal and External Coherence

Internal coherence is how the team functions together:
  • Relationships
  • Communication
  • Beliefs
  • Alignment
  • Execution

External Coherence

How the team aligns with the larger system:

  • Stakeholder Impact
  • Team-of-Teams Alignment
  • Organizational Trust
  • Customer Experience
  • Ecosystem Contribution

ICF Advanced Accreditation in Team Coaching (AATC)

AlphaStars Academy of Excellence offers Team Coherence Coaching™ through a pathway aligned with the ICF Advanced Accreditation in Team Coaching (AATC).
The program helps professional coaches build the knowledge, skills and systemic awareness to coach a team as one living system, while meeting the education requirements for the ICF Advanced Certification in Team Coaching (ACTC).

Why Pursue the ACTC Credential?

The ACTC is the ICF’s advanced credential for professional team coaches. It shows your ability to:

  • Coach teams as a single entity
  • Facilitate collective awareness and growth
  • Work effectively with team dynamics and stakeholder systems
  • Apply ICF Team Coaching Competencies
  • Partner with leadership teams to enhance collaboration and performance

ACTC Eligibility Requirements

Typical ICF ACTC Eligibility Requirements include:

Hold an ICF Credential

ACC, PCC, or MCC in good standing.

Team Coaching Education

60+ hours of team coaching education through an eligible provider.

Team Coaching Experience

At least 5 team coaching engagements within the last 5 years.

Coaching Supervision

At least 5 hours.

Team Coaching Performance Evaluation

successful completion of the ICF team coaching certification requirements.

Our Program Highlights

75 Hours of Team Coaching Education

Including:

  • Live Interactive Learning
  • Demonstrations
  • Team Coaching Practice
  • Reflective Learning
  • Independent Study
  • Coaching Supervision Support

You will learn to:

  • Coach the team as a system
  • Recognize patterns of coherence and incoherence
  • Facilitate collective awareness and dialogue
  • Work with values, beliefs, and systemic tensions
  • Integrate diverse perspectives into collective intelligence
  • Coach teams through complexity, uncertainty, and change

Who Is This Program For?

  • ICF ACC, PCC MCC Coaches
  • Executive Coaches
  • Leadership Coaches
  • Internal Coaches
  • OD Consultants
  • HR Professionals
  • Senior Leaders

Prerequisite: Participants should already possess foundational coaching skills.

Let’s not forget…

Team Coherence Coaching™ is not merely about helping teams perform better.

It is about helping teams become more conscious, coherent, adaptive, and effective human systems.

Helping teams evolve from:

  • Fragmented Thinking → Coherent Direction
  • Guarded Interaction → Authentic Dialogue
  • Siloed Functioning → Collective Ownership
  • Reactive Behaviour → Conscious Response
  • Disconnected Execution → Aligned Action

Because when coherence increases, transformation becomes sustainable.

Common Questions

Frequently Asked Questions

Is InnerMost Shift Coach Training ICF-accredited?

AlphaStars Academy of Excellence offers ICF-accredited coach education pathways. Exact accreditation and education hours depend on the selected program.

Will completing the program automatically make me ACC, PCC or MCC?

No. Accredited coach education is one component of the ICF credentialing journey. Individual credentials are awarded by ICF after applicants satisfy applicable requirements.

How much practice and feedback is included?

Depending on the pathway, learning includes demonstrations, repeated coaching practice, observed coaching, developmental feedback, mentoring and reinforcement between sessions.

What learning material do I receive?

Carefully structured learning manuals and supporting resources such as worksheets, question resources, planning formats, notes and reinforcement material relevant to the selected program.

What support do I receive after training?

Support varies by pathway and can include mentoring, recording/session review, credentialing guidance, reinforcement assignments and faculty support.

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