ICF Level 2 Individual Coaching Track – PCC-Level Coaching for Coaches Who Work One to One
For coaches who work with one client at a time and want to coach at the Professional Certified Coach (PCC) level of the International Coaching Federation (ICF). Part of Tandem’s ICF Level 2 accredited program, listed by ICF as Elevate Coaching (162 approved hours). You learn coaching tools as ways to show the PCC Markers, then use them in live classes while an observer who holds an ICF credential watches.
New to coach training? The full program, Level 1 plus Level 2, is $7,499. Finished Level 1 training already? The Level 2 bridge is $3,999.
Taught by Cherie Silas, Master Certified Coach (MCC)
The Step to PCC Is Partnering With Your Client
At the Associate Certified Coach (ACC) level you already open a session with an agreement and close it with an action, and in between you ask open questions and listen. Coaching at the PCC level asks for something different in each of those moments.
ICF’s PCC Minimum Skills Requirements describe what falls short, competency by competency: a session agreement the coach drafts, questions that lead toward the coach’s view, observations stated as conclusions, actions the coach assigns. At every competency, the gap ICF describes is the same one: partnering instead of directing.
This track works on that gap through coaching tools. Each module takes one or two ICF Core Competencies and teaches three or four tools as ways to show their PCC Markers. Every tool lesson also shows how the same tool falls short when the coach drives it, and every module ends in a coaching lab where faculty observe full sessions and give written feedback.
The test for any tool in this course: your client chooses it and shapes it, then does most of the talking while using it.
Two Ways Into the Individual Coaching Track
For coaches who work with individual clients, inside an organization or in their own practice, and want to coach at the PCC level and apply on ICF’s Level 2 path.
New to coach training: the full program
Start with Tandem’s Level 1 training at the ACC level, then continue into this track. One enrollment covers both stages for $7,499, which is $499 less than taking Level 1 and the Level 2 bridge separately. It takes about 12 months. See what Level 1 covers.
Finished Level 1 training: the Level 2 bridge
If you completed ICF Level 1 training, with Tandem or with another provider, the Level 2 bridge is this track on its own for $3,999, and it takes about 6 months. You don’t need to hold the ACC credential: we check your Level 1 training before you enroll, and no lesson assumes you took Level 1 with us.
You coach teams or whole organizations
That work belongs to the systems and team coaching track of Tandem’s ICF Level 2, which also gives you the team coaching education behind ICF’s Advanced Certification in Team Coaching (ACTC). The individual coaching track does not include it. After Level 1, the systems track is ICF PCC Coach Training (Level 2 bridge); from the start, it is the complete ICF Level 2 program.
Choose Your Way In
The Level 2 track is the same either way. The full program puts Tandem’s Level 1 in front of it.
Full program
For coaches new to coach training: Tandem’s Level 1 program first, then this individual coaching track. Takes about 12 months.
$499 less than taking Level 1 and the Level 2 bridge separately.
Book a call to reserve a place →Level 2 bridge
For coaches who finished ICF Level 1 training, with Tandem or with another provider. We check your training before you enroll. Takes about 6 months.
The same individual coaching track as the full program’s Level 2.
Book a call to reserve a place →First cohort: Thursdays from February 4, 2027
Live online, 10:00 am to 12:00 pm Central, taught by Cherie Silas, MCC. Each module has four weekly live classes, and the modules run back to back.
Starting with the full program? Level 1 comes first, and we plan your Level 2 class dates with you on the call.
What Level 2 includes in both options
- Four modules, each with self-paced lessons and four live classes: Agreements and Outcomes; Language and Listening; Perspective and Awareness; Change and Conflict
- ICF Level 2 Individual: Ethics, a self-paced course on coaching ethics, mapped to the ICF Code of Ethics
- Observed coaching: an observer who holds an ICF credential watches you coach at least six times, and four of those sessions come with written feedback
- Mentor coaching in group and individual sessions, where you bring recordings of your individual coaching sessions
- Five group supervision sessions
- Exam preparation: 2026 ICF PCC-MCC Exam Prep, a free course shared with the systems coaching track
This track is part of Tandem’s ICF Level 2 accredited program, listed by ICF as Elevate Coaching (162 approved hours). When you finish, Tandem issues your Graduation Certificate – Elevate Coaching program (ICF Level 2). The program does not award the credential: ICF awards the PCC after you apply and pass the exam.
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A few questions before you enroll?
Email info@tandemcoach.co, or book a free consultation and we’ll help you choose.
Do I need the ACC credential to take the Level 2 bridge?
The bridge is open to coaches who completed ICF Level 1 training, at Tandem or with another provider. Holding the Associate Certified Coach credential is not required. Email your certificate of completion to info@tandemcoach.co and we check it before you enroll.
In what order do I take the modules?
Self-paced lessons open as soon as you enroll, in every module you are enrolled in. We recommend Modules 1 to 4 in order: the first lesson of Module 1 has you review a recording of your own coaching, and the last lesson of Module 4 compares a new review with that first one. You join a module’s live classes when that module runs, and you can take the ethics course alongside any module.
My employer is paying. Can you invoice?
We can invoice before you enroll and invoice against a purchase order. Send the paperwork to info@tandemcoach.co.
Four Modules and an Ethics Course
The modules move through a coaching session from the outside in: first the agreement and the close, then the listening that runs through a session, then the awareness work at its center, and last the hardest material a client brings. Every tool is credited to the people who developed it, among them Robert Dilts, Marshall Goldsmith, David Grove, Eric Berne, John Gottman, William Bridges and Arnold Mindell.
Module 1: Agreements and Outcomes
The two ends of every PCC-level session: building the agreement with your client in their own words, and closing with learning, action and accountability your client designs. Competency 3, Establishes and Maintains Agreements, and Competency 8, Facilitates Client Growth.
Lessons: From ACC to PCC: Partnering With Tools · Well-Formed Outcome Questions · Logical Levels: Exploring What Matters · Behavior Change and Client-Designed Accountability · Peer Practice: Agreements and Closings
Live classes: Building the Session Agreement · What Matters to the Client · Closing the Session · Coaching Lab: Agreements and Closings
Module 2: Language and Listening
Listening at the PCC level: the words your client uses, the images they bring and the frames they choose, explored one clear question at a time. Competency 6, Listens Actively, and Competency 5, Maintains Presence.
Lessons: The Words That Matter: Meta Model Questions at PCC Depth · Client Metaphor and Clean Language · Frames and Client-Led Reframing · Peer Practice: Listening and Presence
Live classes: One Word at a Time · Working With the Client’s Metaphor · Frames the Client Chooses · Coaching Lab: Listening and Presence
Module 3: Perspective and Awareness
Evoking awareness at the PCC level: new positions to see from, how years of work shaped what your client notices and values, patterns you name and your client interprets, and beliefs your client chooses to examine. Competency 7, Evokes Awareness.
Lessons: Perceptual Positions With One Client · How Work Shapes Your Client · Noticing Patterns: Transactional Analysis · Working With Beliefs · Peer Practice: Evoking Awareness
Live classes: Seeing From Another Position · Patterns Without Labels · Beliefs the Client Can Examine · Coaching Lab: Evoking Awareness
Module 4: Change and Conflict
Coaching what clients find hardest: conflict, major change and the edge of change, and building from what already works. The module ends with one full session of your own reviewed against all 37 PCC Markers, and your PCC Readiness Plan.
Lessons: Coaching a Client in Conflict · Major Change and Transition · What Already Works: Solution-Focused Questions · The Edge of Change · Your PCC Readiness Plan
Live classes: Coaching Through Conflict · Coaching Through Major Change · Coaching at the Edge of Change · Capstone Coaching Lab: The Full Session
The ethics course
Coaching ethics mapped to the ICF Code of Ethics, worked through the situations a PCC-level coach meets: a role that shifts mid-session, a sponsor who wants a report, a recording for mentor coaching, an AI tool, a method that reaches emotion or the past, bias and power. Self-paced, with no live classes, so you can take it alongside any module.
Lessons: Roles, Sponsors and the Agreement · Recordings, Records and AI Tools · Where Coaching Stops · Fairness, Power and Integrity
Self-Paced Lessons, Live Classes and Observed Practice
Self-paced lessons, from the day you enroll. Each self-paced lesson ends with a Lesson Check: five multiple-choice questions, of which you need four right to complete it, then a short written reflection. You can try again as often as you need, and you see explanations after every attempt.
Four live classes in every module. In Live Classes 1 to 3 you spend the first hour on the module’s teaching and the second hour in observed coaching practice. Live Class 4 is a two-hour coaching lab. Classes meet live online, and we don’t record them, because the practice room stays private.
Observed coaching. Across the program, an observer who holds an ICF credential watches you coach at least six times, and four of those sessions come with written feedback. Observed coaching practice is not mentor coaching.
Mentor coaching and supervision. Mentor coaching looks at your coaching skills against the ICF Core Competencies. Supervision looks at you as a coach: how you are being, what you notice in your work, and the ethical questions it raises. The program includes both: mentor coaching in group and individual sessions, where you bring recordings of your individual coaching sessions, and five group supervision sessions.
Graduating. No coaching recording has to be passed to graduate. Completing enhanced mentor coaching is the formative evaluation. In your last lesson you review one full recorded session of your own against all 37 PCC Markers, compare it with your first review, and write your PCC Readiness Plan for mentor coaching, your ICF application and the exam.
What it leads to. This track is part of Tandem’s ICF Level 2 accredited program, listed by ICF as Elevate Coaching (162 approved hours), and it prepares you to coach at the PCC level and to apply on ICF’s Level 2 path. When you finish, Tandem issues your Graduation Certificate – Elevate Coaching program (ICF Level 2). The program does not award the credential: ICF awards the PCC after you apply and pass the exam. ICF’s side of the path is in our guide to the ICF PCC requirements.
Taught by Cherie Silas, MCC
Cherie Silas, Master Certified Coach (MCC), is the instructor for every lesson in this track and teaches the first cohort’s live classes. Every observer holds an ICF credential.
Cherie Silas, MCC
Cherie is a co-founder and CEO of Tandem Coaching with over 20 years of experience as a corporate leader turned professional coach. She ranks in the top 3.7% of over 56,000 credentialed coaches worldwide and was named the #16 most influential coach by Global Gurus. Her background in executive, leadership, and agile coaching – combined with deep organizational design expertise – gives students a rare blend of real-world leadership and coaching mastery. Cherie is also a co-author of the Enterprise Agile Coaching book and one of only 215 Accredited Coaching Supervisors worldwide with EMCC. She also holds ICF’s Coaching Supervisor Specialization (CSS).
Questions About the Individual Coaching Track
How is the individual coaching track different from the systems coaching track?
Tandem teaches ICF Level 2 in two tracks, both part of the same ICF Level 2 accredited program and sold at the same prices. The individual coaching track prepares you for the Professional Certified Coach (PCC) credential through coaching one client at a time. Team coaching and coaching whole organizations belong to the systems and team coaching track, which also gives you the team coaching education behind ICF’s Advanced Certification in Team Coaching (ACTC); the individual coaching track does not include it. The two tracks share mentor coaching, group supervision and the exam preparation course; this track has its own ethics course.
Does the program award the PCC credential?
ICF awards the Professional Certified Coach (PCC) credential after you apply and pass the exam. This track is part of Tandem’s ICF Level 2 accredited program, listed by ICF as Elevate Coaching (162 approved hours): it prepares you to coach at the PCC level and to apply on ICF’s Level 2 path. When you finish, Tandem issues your Graduation Certificate – Elevate Coaching program (ICF Level 2).
When does the first cohort start, and how long does the track take?
The first cohort meets live online on Thursdays, 10:00 am to 12:00 pm Central, from February 4 to May 20, 2027: four weekly live classes in each of the four modules, with the modules back to back. Self-paced lessons open when you enroll. With mentor coaching and group supervision, the Level 2 bridge takes about 6 months, and the full program, which starts with Level 1, takes about 12 months.
Which coaching tools does the course teach?
Well-formed outcome questions, Robert Dilts’s Logical Levels, Marshall Goldsmith on behavior change, Meta Model questions, David Grove’s Clean Language, client-led reframing, perceptual positions, the seven formation questions, Eric Berne’s Transactional Analysis, working with beliefs, John Gottman’s distinction between solvable and perpetual conflict, William Bridges on transition, solution-focused questions and Arnold Mindell’s work on the edge of change. Each one is taught as a way to show specific PCC Markers, together with how the same tool falls short when the coach drives it.
Will I record my own coaching?
Yes, always with consent. The first lesson asks you to record one full session with a client and review it against the PCC Markers as your baseline. Each peer practice lesson is a session with two classmates, recorded with everyone’s consent. In mentor coaching you bring recordings of your individual coaching sessions.
Do I have to pass a recorded session to graduate?
No coaching recording has to be passed to graduate. Completing enhanced mentor coaching is the formative evaluation. In your last lesson you review one full recorded session of your own against all 37 PCC Markers and write your PCC Readiness Plan. Nobody grades it: it is your plan for mentor coaching, your ICF application and the exam.
Are the live classes recorded?
We don’t record them, because the practice room stays private. In Live Classes 1 to 3 the second hour is observed coaching practice, and Live Class 4 of each module is a coaching lab where faculty observe full sessions and give written feedback.
Who leads the live classes?
Cherie Silas, Master Certified Coach (MCC), teaches the first cohort’s live classes and is the instructor for the self-paced lessons. Every observer holds an ICF credential.
Start the Individual Coaching Track
Two ways in, one Level 2 track, taught by Cherie Silas, MCC.
Full program: Level 1 + Level 2
For coaches new to coach training: Tandem’s Level 1 program, then the individual coaching track with observed coaching, mentor coaching, group supervision and exam preparation.
Level 2 bridge – $3,999
Finished ICF Level 1 training already, with Tandem or another provider? Take the individual coaching track on its own.
See Enrollment OptionsNot sure which way in fits?
Book a free consultation and we’ll help you choose between the full program, the Level 2 bridge and the systems coaching track.
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