Coaching Foundations
The essential first step in your ICF Coaching journey
About Level Coaching Foundations
A practical, interactive programme built to help you understand, practise, and apply the mindset and core skills of professional coaching. Whether you're beginning your ICF pathway or wanting to strengthen the way you develop others, this programme gives you the foundation you need to coach with clarity and confidence.
What Is Coaching Foundations?
Coaching Foundations is a highly interactive three-day programme that introduces the mindset, skill set, and structure of effective, professional coaching. It equips leaders, emerging coaches, HR practitioners, and supervisors to hold more impactful, supportive, and growth-focused conversations.
This programme also serves as the first step in the ICF Level 1 (ACC) Accreditation Pathway, laying the groundwork for deeper capability development through Coaching for Results and Mentor Coaching.
Learning Outcomes
By the end of the programme, participants will be able to:
• Understand what coaching is — and what it is not
• Apply the ICF Coaching Definition and 8 Core Competencies
• Demonstrate a coaching mindset based on presence and curiosity
• Use powerful questioning and active listening techniques
• Structure and facilitate an effective coaching conversation
• Practise coaching with real-time feedback from experienced facilitators
Who Will Benefit From This Program?
Coaching Foundations is ideal for individuals who want to grow their confidence and capability in coaching others.
This includes:
• Leaders and supervisors
• HR and People & Culture professionals
• Internal coaches or aspiring coaches
• Professionals who want to embed coaching in their day-to-day work
How The Program Works
Coaching Foundations is delivered through demonstrations, partner coaching, guided practice, group discussion, and reflective exercises. The focus is on real skill development — building capability through practical application, not theory alone.
You’ll have the opportunity to practise coaching in a supported environment, receive feedback, and strengthen your confidence with each activity.
Your Pathway To ICF Accreditation
Coaching Foundations is the beginning of the ICF Level 1 pathway — a sequence of programmes and supervised practice designed to help you achieve the ACC credential.
Once you complete this module, you may begin logging coaching hours toward your ACC certification, provided you follow ICF coaching guidelines. These hours contribute to the 100-hour requirement for the ACC credential.
Coaching Foundations: Frequently Asked Questions
Presented by Dr Theone Conradie
Founder & Director at People Capital Consultants (PCC).
Theone is a highly accomplished professional, holding bachelor's degrees in clinical and organizational psychology, along with an MBA. Having completed the research (on Executive Resilience) and submission for her Doctorate at Curtin University, she leverages three decades of experience in cultivating resilience and Coaching at all levels of Leadership. As a Professional Certified Coach (PCC), recognized by the International Coaching Federation, she has a global impact, designing and delivering Coaching and Global leadership programs and leading strategic initiatives. Theone's transformative influence spans continents, guiding leaders at all levels with her insightful, empathetic, and committed approach.
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