Coaching Supervision Mastery is Tandem's ICF coaching supervisor training - a 16-week practicum program organized around all eight ICF Coaching Supervision Competencies, ICF-accredited under the Advanced Accreditation in Coaching Supervision (AACS), and led by an MCC and EMCC ESIA accredited supervisor. Sixteen live classes, sixteen named supervision techniques, real observed practice every week.
For the first time, ICF has defined what a qualified coaching supervisor is - and tied real requirements to it.
From January 2027, ACTC applicants and credential-holders earning supervision toward renewal must work with a CSS-qualified supervisor. Demand for qualified supervisors rises with the deadline.
CSS-qualified supervisors receive a digital badge and a listing in the forthcoming ICF Coaching Supervisor Registry - visibility and discoverability as coaches search for someone qualified.
If you already supervise, or are ready to, the CSS turns experience into a recognized, verifiable credential - on a standard the market will increasingly look for.
A 2025 ICF survey of supervision practitioners found nearly three-quarters believe supervisors should complete standardized training to be qualified. See the full CSS requirements and competencies →
ICF has set the bar in two places. The Coaching Supervisor Specialization (CSS) is the credential an individual earns. The Advanced Accreditation in Coaching Supervision (AACS) is the standard a supervisor-training program is measured against. Coaching Supervision Mastery holds the AACS and is built to carry you to the CSS.
Published by ICF in 2024, the competencies define what skilled supervision looks like. Our curriculum is organized around them - one competency at a time - rather than wrapped around a single proprietary model.
The CSS is yours: an active PCC or MCC plus qualifying supervision education earns you a digital badge and a place in the forthcoming ICF Coaching Supervisor Registry. The AACS belongs to the program: it certifies that the curriculum meets ICF’s standard end-to-end — Tandem Coaching Academy holds it for this program, granted July 2026. You earn the CSS through ICF; a program like this one provides the qualifying education. See the full CSS requirements and competencies →
Most supervision training is built on one model and bolts the ICF competencies on afterward. We do it the other way round: the competencies are the spine. The self-paced curriculum carries the frameworks - Reflective Practice, CLEAR, the Seven-Eyed Model, Proctor’s three functions, developmental theory - as named instruments serving named competencies. Then sixteen weekly live classes turn each one into practiced craft.
What supervision actually is - and is not - the boundary with coaching, mentor coaching, and therapy, and the supervisor’s scope.
Modeling ethics, working an ethical dilemma before it becomes a breach, and holding boundaries under pressure.
The relationship contract, the CLEAR session map, and managing and re-contracting the work over time - completed before your first live class.
Building the internal supervisor and working with your own reactions, bias, values, and self-care as professional practice.
Calibrating support and challenge, managing dynamics, and working with power, inclusion, and the restorative function.
The Seven-Eyed Model, parallel process, and the systemic lens - and seeing your own bias and blind spots.
Developmental models and supervising across ACC, PCC, and MCC levels - reading where a coach is and tracking growth.
Choosing a group mode, running structured formats, and holding safety and risk in the group container.
Every 2-hour class follows the same arc: the technique is taught through its one-page facilitation guide, demonstrated live by the faculty, then practiced by you in observed supervision on real material. Between classes, you run the technique in student-led fieldwork with your trio and rotating partners.
You practice every one of these in observed sessions with real material, then run them again in fieldwork between classes. By the capstone you are facilitating a technique of your own design for the cohort.
Every technique you learn ships as a one-page facilitation guide - and the full set compiles into the Tandem Supervision Techniques Book, yours to keep and draw on in practice. Two threads run through the whole program: psychological safety, inclusion & power, and systemic & contextual awareness - the priorities ICF weaves across the competencies rather than isolating in one module.
The program is ICF-accredited under the Advanced Accreditation in Coaching Supervision (AACS) - so the education you complete is a reviewed, approved match to what the credential asks for.
| AACS requirement | How this program is built to meet it |
|---|---|
| 60+ contact hours | ~72 hours: 32 hours of live classes, 14 hours of student-led fieldwork, and ~26 hours of self-paced competency education, over a 16-week cohort. |
| 80%+ supervision-specific education | ~86% of hours are core supervision competency education, with a small, bounded resource-development strand (the business of supervision and the CSS application). |
| 50%+ synchronous | 64% live: sixteen weekly 2-hour classes with the faculty plus scheduled fieldwork in your trio and rotating partnerships - the frameworks self-paced, the craft live. |
| 5 observed supervision sessions (written feedback on 3+) | You supervise under observation in every live class and record your fieldwork - far more than five observed sessions - with written developmental feedback on at least three, grounded in the 8 supervision competencies. No scored rubric: developmental observation, as ICF’s standard frames it. |
| 5 supervision hours | Over-delivered: 6 hours of supervision-on-supervision (two whole classes plus two partner sessions) and the client’s chair in every fieldwork session - well past the 2-as-client + 3-supervision-on-supervision requirement. |
| Final reflective or applied assignment | A structured learning journal across all 28 classes and fieldwork sessions, plus a capstone: your own self-designed supervision technique, practiced with your trio and presented to the cohort. |
| Mapped to all 8 competencies | The module spine is the competency spine - one competency at a time, end to end - and every technique names its competency thread. |
| Faculty: active PCC/MCC + a recognized supervision qualification | Cherie Silas - MCC, EMCC ESIA accredited supervisor, and ACTC - instructor of record on every core hour. |
You can’t learn to hold a supervision session by watching one. The frameworks are taught self-paced; the craft is built in sixteen weekly live classes and scheduled peer fieldwork - real supervision on real material, every week.
Self-paced video lessons carry the frameworks - reflective practice, CLEAR, the Seven-Eyed Model, Proctor’s functions - front-loaded so the first three modules are done before Class 1. The sixteen live classes are where you practice, and debrief the work you just did.
You join a standing trio - your safe container for the whole program - and rotate through four individual practice partners. Every fieldwork session is scheduled at orientation, so the practice actually happens. Cohorts stay small (9-12) so observed practice stays close and personal.
You supervise under faculty observation in every live class and record your fieldwork - far more than the five observed sessions ICF asks for - with written developmental feedback, grounded in the 8 supervision competencies, on at least three.
You sit in the client’s chair in every fieldwork session - and receive six hours of supervision-on-supervision: two whole classes held by the faculty as supervision-on-supervision, plus two dedicated partner sessions on your own supervising.
No scored rubrics, no exams. A structured learning journal after every class and fieldwork session, written faculty feedback grounded in the competencies, and a capstone you design and present - developmental end to end, never a checklist on who you are.
Every technique is demonstrated live by an MCC and EMCC ESIA accredited supervisor before you run it - so “what good looks like” is something you watch happen in the room, not just read about.
An AACS-standard program needs faculty who hold an active ICF credential and a recognized supervision qualification. That pairing is rare. Cherie Silas holds both - at the top of each.
A Master Certified Coach (ICF) and an EMCC ESIA accredited supervisor - the one credential stack that spans the ICF world and the European supervision tradition the field grew from. She holds the ACTC and supervises and mentors coaches across every ICF level today. The program is grounded in real supervision practice, taught by someone who already meets the standard the CSS formalizes.
See Tandem’s supervision practiceOne cohort, forming now. Sixteen weekly 2-hour live classes led by Cherie Silas — Wednesdays at 9:00am Central, starting October 7, 2026 and finishing February 10, 2027 (we break for the holidays). Founding students lock the inaugural rate.
16 weekly sessions — pick the cohort that works for your schedule.
On accreditation: Coaching Supervision Mastery is ICF-accredited under the Advanced Accreditation in Coaching Supervision (AACS), granted to Tandem Coaching Academy in July 2026 — so your record of completion is qualifying education toward the CSS from day one. The CSS application fee is paid separately to ICF when you submit your record of completion.
Four monthly payments — $3,996 total, no extra fees
Secure checkout via Stripe. For experienced coaches who hold an active ICF PCC or MCC. After you enroll, you’re added to the private cohort group in the Tandem community — that’s where your live-class join link and materials live.
Experienced coaches who hold an active PCC or MCC and are ready to become coaching supervisors - whether to support other coaches, supervise ACTC applicants, or earn the ICF Coaching Supervisor Specialization (CSS).
An active ICF PCC or MCC. The CSS requires that credential, so the program is built for coaches at that level. If you are still working toward your PCC, this is a good program to plan for as a next step.
Roughly 72 contact hours over a 16-week cohort: eight self-paced competency modules, sixteen weekly 2-hour live classes - each teaching one named supervision technique you then practice under observation - and 14 hours of scheduled fieldwork with a standing trio and four rotating practice partners. 64% of the program is live. Cohorts stay small (9-12).
Yes. Coaching Supervision Mastery holds the ICF Advanced Accreditation in Coaching Supervision (AACS), granted to Tandem Coaching Academy in July 2026 and valid through July 2029. That is ICF’s program-level accreditation for coaching-supervisor education — it confirms the curriculum was reviewed and approved against ICF’s full standard, across all eight ICF Coaching Supervision Competencies, for 72 hours. You earn the CSS through ICF as an individual; this program provides the qualifying education.
It is designed to meet the CSS education requirement - supervision training mapped to the eight competencies, with the observed sessions, supervision hours, and final reflective assignment ICF expects. You apply for the CSS through ICF and submit your record of completion. See the full CSS requirements →
The inaugural cohort starts Wednesday, October 7, 2026 and runs sixteen weekly 2-hour live classes on Wednesdays at 9:00am Central, finishing February 10, 2027 (we break over the winter holidays). Inaugural tuition is $3,996, or four monthly payments of $999 — choose your plan at checkout. Regular tuition for later cohorts will be $4,796. Enroll on this page.
As soon as your payment clears, you’re added to the private Coaching Supervision Mastery group inside the Tandem community. That group is your home base — the secure video link for every live class, the self-paced modules, and your fieldwork materials all live there, so the join link is never posted publicly. You’ll get onboarding by email within a few minutes of enrolling.
The CSS (Coaching Supervisor Specialization) is the credential an individual earns. The AACS (Advanced Accreditation in Coaching Supervision) is the accreditation a training program earns - the program-level counterpart that signals its curriculum meets ICF’s standard end-to-end and prepares learners toward the CSS.
The standard is set and the registry is coming. The supervisors who train now are the ones coaches will find first. The inaugural Coaching Supervision Mastery cohort starts October 7, 2026 — enroll today and lock the founding rate.
For coaches weighing the path to the CSS, or anyone taking this to a sponsor or procurement decision: the complete Coaching Supervision Mastery brochure. The standard, the curriculum, the practicum, the faculty, and how it maps to your CSS application.
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