ICF Level 1 Professional Flow Coaching Certification Overview (ACC)
Includes Modules 1–5 (choose between ICF Flow Coaching Core Foundations or ICF Flow Business Leadership Coaching) + 10 Individual Mentoring Sessions + ACC-Level Coaching Performance Evaluation
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Your Path to ICF ACC Certification Starts Here
The ICF Level 1 Professional Flow Coaching Certification leads you directly toward the ICF Associate Certified Coach (ACC) designation. This comprehensive certification track includes all the mandatory ICF training components for Level 1 accreditation and certifies you as a FLOW Certified Coach or FLOW Certified Business Coach, depending on your chosen specialization.
Choose Your Coaching Focus
Whether you select Core Foundations (Modules 1–5) or Business Leadership Coaching (Modules 1–5), the ICF Level 1 Professional Flow Coaching Certification gives you a structured, fast-track route to ICF certification. This program includes:
- 71 ICF Core Competency Training Hours
- 10 Self-Paced Individual Mentoring Sessions
- ACC-Level Coaching Performance Evaluation conducted by FLOW Coaching Institute assessors
Learn from Seasoned Industry Experts
You’ll be guided by globally respected PCC and MCC coaches with 15+ years of experience in coaching and coach training. Our expert faculty will mentor you through a rich and practical curriculum based on FLOW’s unique blend of solution-focused, positive psychology, and human-centred coaching methods.
You’ll develop the ability to coach a wide variety of client profiles across diverse work and cultural settings – with skill, confidence, and clarity.
Practice. Reflect. Transform.
Throughout your journey, you’ll engage in peer coaching, mentor coaching, and ongoing feedback to help you build fluency in coaching conversations. These experiential elements are designed to deepen your learning, accelerate your skills, and give you real-world practice in a supportive community.
More Than a Certification – A Transformational Experience
The ICF Level 1 Professional Flow Coaching Certification is not just a credentialing path – it’s a transformational learning experience. FLOW’s science-based “whole person” coaching methodology invites you to embody the same change you’ll help your clients achieve.
This program empowers you with the knowledge, tools, and insight to grow into a confident, effective, and ethical coach – ready to create lasting impact in both professional and personal realms.
The ICF Level 1 Professional Flow Coaching Certification takes you to ICF ACC Credential
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The ICF Level 1 Professional Flow Coaching Certification provides you with 71 ICF Core Competency Training Hours, mandatory 10 hours of ACC-level mentoring, and fulfills the ACC-level coaching performance evaluation requirement.
The ICF Level 1 Professional Flow Coaching Certification is designed for success:
From start to finish, the ICF Level 1 Professional Flow Coaching Certification provides everything you need to launch your professional coaching career with confidence, including:
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Flexible scheduling with live online classes
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Real-time coaching demonstrations and classroom practice
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1:1 mentorship from expert PCC and MCC mentor coaches
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ICF ACC-level oral performance evaluation
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Written assessment to prepare you for ICF's credentialing exam
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Invaluable peer coaching opportunities
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Access to a supportive, global coaching community
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FREE downloadable coaching tools and resources
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Complimentary coursebook (CAD $54.99 value)
Share Your Success
You will receive your digital certificate upon completion of this course. Share your achievement with your network.
The 5-Step FLOW Coaching Methodology
Our 5-module program offers a clear, step-by-step pathway to help you build the skills and confidence needed to become a successful business leadership and executive coach.
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The Awareness Step: Gain a deep understanding of what professional coaching is and isn't, and navigate the Architecture of a FLOW Coaching Session.
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The Motivation Step: Learn motivational levels of Positive Psychology, and the Flow model.
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The Creative Planning Step: Learn FLOW’s creative tools and strategies to coach the conscious and subconscious states of a whole person.
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The Achievement Step: Practice coaching your clients and help them move beyond their limiting beliefs and remove barriers to achieve what is truly important.
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The Focus Step: Learn to coach to help your clients stay focused on what is truly meaningful. Learn to discipline yourself on the path to becoming a successful coach.
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Program Overview in a Nutshell
Live Online Group Classes & Peer Coaching
Flexible scheduling, live online and highly interactive classes, live coaching demonstrations, and classroom practices
Invaluable 1:1 mentorship from PCC and MCC FLOW masters of industry
Build a strong understanding of ICF’s core competencies through FLOW coaching methodology
Build coaching confidence and skills to coach the whole person
Deepen your coaching presence by integrating being, having, and doing
Applying the FLOW Coaching Methodology
Dive deep into the psychology of human beings through Positive Psychology coaching, the Flow model, and neuroscience
Learn how to leverage flow states to achieve real results
Work with others who are as passionate as you are in advancing your coaching presence
Get the opportunity to coach real clients through our curriculum, plus FLOW’s program sponsorships and partnerships
1:1 Mentor Coaching & Peer Practice
A deeper understanding of what it means to coach and be coached through immersive practice
Exposure to diverse and complex coaching conversations guided by advanced mentoring frameworks
Constructive feedback from PCC and MCC credentialed mentors to support continuous skill development
Individual mentoring and guided practice to strengthen coaching presence and confidence
- Flexible scheduling options for all mentoring sessions to accommodate individual pacing
ACC-Level ICF Performance Evaluation
- Full preparation provided to meet the ICF oral performance evaluation standards at the ACC level
- Coaching competencies formally assessed by FLOW’s ICF-qualified assessors
- Successful completion satisfies ICF’s ACC performance evaluation requirement
- Skill development aligned with ICF’s ACC-level coaching benchmarks
- Written assessment administered following the performance evaluation, with issuance of the ICF Level 1 certificate upon completion