LEVEL 1 ASSOCIATE CERTIFIED LIFE & LEADERSHIP COACH TRAINING PROGRAM - ACLC
The Gold Standard - An ICF-Accredited Level 1 Program | 77 All-Inclusive Hours
The ACLC Program™ is more than a coach training—it’s a transformative path into deep listening, confident presence, and purpose-led practice. This 77-hour journey exceeds the education, mentoring, and assessment requirements to apply for your ACC credential through the International Coaching Federation (ICF).
You’ll leave with everything you need—not just on paper, but in spirit—to begin coaching with clarity and integrity.
Once you’ve completed your training and logged 100 hours of client coaching, you’ll be eligible to apply for your ACC credential and take the ICF Coach Knowledge Assessment (CKA). You'll be supported every step of the way.
No piecing things together
As an ICF Level 1 Accredited program, Coach For Life's ACLC Program™ provides a fully integrated experience—built to support both your credentialing and your calling. We stay current with evolving ICF standards, so you can focus on what matters most: becoming the coach you’re meant to be.
You’ll also receive a Certificate of Completion, and the right to call yourself an Associate Certified Life & Leadership Coach—trained by Coach For Life, a globally respected school with nearly 30 years of lineage. Whether you choose to pursue ICF credentialing or not, you will hold one of the most prestigious certifications in the coaching world.
But what makes this program truly different is how we hold the human being behind the honorifics.
You’ll learn the professional standards—the Science of Coaching—while being invited to discover your own presence, rhythm, and voice—the Art of Coaching.
We already know the genius in you. We know it's not something you have to earn or learn, but something you already are.
The tools you’ll gain will help your clients reconnect to their wholeness.
And along the way, you will also reconnect deeply with yours.
We will discover the nature of our particular genius when we stop trying to conform to our own or to other peoples' models, learn to be ourselves,
and allow our natural channel to open.Shakti Gawain
ACLC - Becoming a Coach... In Real Life
ACLC - Becoming a Coach... Deepening the Practice
Answering the Call
The Associate Certified Life & Leadership (ACLC) program provides the educational hours required to apply for the Associate Certified Coach (ACC) credential with the International Coaching Federation (ICF).
But more than that—it offers the structure, support, and soul to help you actually coach with confidence.
Whether you’re brand new to coaching or returning to it with fresh purpose, the Associate Certified Life & Leadership Coach (ACLC) program is designed to help you grow the competence, clarity, and presence to coach powerfully—and build momentum right away.
Many of our graduates launch coaching practices during the program. Others integrate the coaching mindset and skill set into their current careers—bringing deeper listening, leadership, and transformation into every space they serve.
This is not just a certification. It’s you answering your calling.
Structure & Support
1. Attend the 3-hour Coach-Like Conversations Introduction (held virtually).
2. Complete the Intensive 4- or 5-day immersive experience (available virtually or in person).
3. Participate in Integration:
• Six (6) 2-hour Building Your Coaching Practice Webinars™
• Three (3) 2-hour Group Mentor Coaching Webinars
4. Complete three (3) 1:1 Mentor Coaching sessions where the focus is 100% on your learning.
5. Pass the independent assessment of your final coaching session (per enrollment criteria).
6. Begin coaching. Per ICF requirements, applicants must complete 100 hours of coaching practice. At Coach For Life, we support this by matching you with a peer coach and a peer client to get you started.
7.Receive guidance and support as you navigate the ICF ACC application process.
You’ll leave with everything required—not only to apply for your credential, but to start coaching with confidence.
Coach For Life's curriculum has been designed to include what we have experienced as the most essential components that will support our participants in launching their new career as a coach and/or integrating coaching skills into their existing career.
- A clear and proven coaching model since 1996 – The The Fulfillment Coaching Model™ provides a complete set of clearly articulated outlines, forms, and examples
- Fully 1/3rd of the class time is experiential – well-developed exercises to integrate your learning of the competencies just covered
- An advanced adult learning environment – The Inspired Learning Model™ environment
- A holistic (body-mind-spirit) coaching approach to support your coaching client’s complete life
- LIVE, highly interactive, experiential Coach Training (whether attended virtually or in-person)
- Small class sizes = max 24 candidates in the cohort
How to Get Paying Clients
The heart of your practice starts here.
One of the most powerful parts of starting your coaching journey is learning how to offer your services in a way that feels genuine, aligned, and you. From the very first week of the Coach For Life program, we introduce practical techniques that help you share your coaching in a way that feels natural and aligned — without pressure or pretense.
From week one, Coach For Life gives you a clear, supportive structure that shows you exactly how to begin sharing your coaching with confidence and heart.
Through weekly Integration webinars, you continue to deepen that approach, strengthening your ability to enroll clients in a way that feels authentic and energizing. And you'll discover that there’s not just one way to grow your practice — there are many paths, and you get to find the one that fits you best. At the core of it all is the Fulfillment Coaching Model™ — Coach For Life’s unique methodology is grounded in the belief that each of us is being drawn toward greater levels of fulfillment. This model is based on the idea that we all carry an inner knowing — a truth and set of gifts we’re here to share.
When you coach from that place, you naturally attract the clients who are meant for you — because it's not just your skills, but the depth of your presence, your purpose, and the authentic way you walk your path.. And that’s where a truly successful coaching practice begins and thrives: from fulfillment, for fulfillment.
Have Your Own Coach
Coaching changes everything — and it starts with you.
At Coach For Life, we believe one of the most powerful ways to grow as a coach is to experience great coaching yourself. That’s why we pair you with your own personal peer coach (it’s optional, and we highly recommend it).
During the four- or five-day Intensive, you'll receive over a month’s worth of one-on-one coaching. Then, throughout the Integration phase, your peer coach supports you weekly as you design and build your unique coaching practice — with real momentum and confidence.
Having your own coach isn’t just a bonus. It’s essential. When you can speak from personal experience — about the breakthroughs, clarity, and growth you’ve gained from being coached — your energy is authentic, your belief is unshakable, and people feel it. That’s what inspires them to say yes.
The best part? This personal coaching experience is included in the program. No extra cost — just a deeply valuable opportunity to live the coaching you’re learning to offer.
Clients to Coach
Confidence comes from experience — and we make sure you get both.
One of the biggest challenges new coaches face? Finding clients. That’s why, in the Coach For Life program, you have the (optional and highly recommended) opportunity to work with a peer-client to coach during your first two months. It’s built right into the structure — because nothing builds confidence faster than actually coaching someone.
You’ll see firsthand how powerful coaching can be for your client. And even more importantly, you’ll experience the incredible value your coaching can bring to someone else’s life.
When you hear directly from your client what’s shifting for them — what they’re learning, how they’re growing — something clicks. You realize, “I can really do this.” And with that clarity and conviction, it gets so much easier to talk about your calling with others.
At Coach For Life, we don’t just teach coaching. We support you in stepping fully into your identity as a coach — with real practice, real feedback, and real momentum.
What They Say About Us
Lesa H
I love how you have created this – teaching in baby steps, demonstration and practice. CFL (Coach For Life) is the premiere coaching school. Created by 2 master trainers who are in touch with other inspired sources, their method is the one that will transform you and truly allow your future clients to succeed. It is a multi-dimensional approach to coaching that allows for deeper access to your true source of fulfillment. I’m honored to be a CFL graduate times two!
Amit Vip
While I learnt how to coach others, I personally got transformed. If you are interested in transforming life, including your own, this is the right program!
MD, RBS