Requirements to receive
full training certifications

The students are responsible for producing the following works, which are the general requirements to fulfill in order to obtain the certification in each program with SunLight Academy. Students are responsible for sharing them with their trainers/mentors in the shared Google Drive created by SunLight Academy for each student:

1) Oral Exam
The students produce 5 (for Level 1 or Level 3) or 6 (for Level 2) live coaching sessions to be observed and assessed by the trainers/mentors. The audio + transcript + self-assessment need to be uploaded in Google Drive and shared with your trainer in full alignment with the ICF guidelines for Performance Evaluations at this link. They receive a form with written feedback for each session and the outcome will discussed with the student. The students are responsible for keeping the confidentiality and safeness required by the ICF Ethic Code, in relation to all the data and information shared during the sessions both with internal and external clients.

2) Coaching Definitions
Th students are required to create their own definitions regarding: the coaching profession, the coaching process, the responsibilities of the coach and the client, the benefits of coaching and the characteristics of a coaching process. This Word file has to be shared with the trainer by uploading it on the shared drive in order to be reviewed by the trainer, with consistency and during the whole period of training.

3) Book Presentation
The students are required to read a book – exclusively from the SunLight Academy’s bibliography – they create a presentation of their reading and learning, in alignment with the ICF approach, and they present their work firstly to their Trainer for review and to co-create the final version to be presented to the SunLight Community.

4) Review of coaching sessions with PCC Markers or ACC or MCC BARs forms produced by each student in order to raise their competence
The students are required to review and assess a minimum of 8 sessions that can be chosen in the Student Portal, and these works needs to be shared in progression with the trainer. After each work, the students are required to engage with the trainer by sharing in a call their reflective activity that will support them in their development of their level of coaching.

5) The students create their own coaching project or business plan or legacy project
The students are required to create a project or a business plan that is personalized on their identity as coaches and on their own unique coaching approach. This work has the purpose to enhance their ability to craft their own coaching business from the beginning, it allows them to be aware of how they want to make a difference in the coaching profession and with their own clients at chosen level of training. For the MCC Level 3 program, the MCC legacy project has the purpose to support the Coach in the transition of their identity from PCC to MCC.

6) Journaling: students’ ongoing reflective activity
The students keep a journal, in order to conduct a reflective practice on what they are learning during the length of the chosen training program, on how they are learning and what is their own learning philosophy. This Word file has to be shared with the trainer by uploading it on the shared drive in order to be reviewed by the trainer, with consistency and during the whole period of training (at least once every 30 days or more often). While approaching the end of the training program, the students share a report with their trainers with the conclusions of what the students have done and achieved in this project during the months.

7) Written Exam
The students complete and pass a written final test on the coaching definitions, ICF coaching competencies and ICF Code of Ethic, based on multiple choice and open-ended questions.