About The Mentor’s Eye
ICF-Accredited Continuing Coach Education

The Mentor’s Eye

See clearly. Name precisely. Develop deeply.
ICF-Accredited (CCE) · Listed in the ICF Education Search Service · 10 Core Competency Hours

About The Mentor’s Eye

The Mentor’s Eye is a self-paced, asynchronous mentor coaching education program for experienced coaches, mentors, and practicing mentor coaches who support coach development.

It is designed to help you see coaching more clearly, name what happened more precisely, and offer feedback that develops the coach while honoring their voice, culture, presence, and style. Built around the ICF Mentor Coaching Competencies and designed to support Mentor Coach Specialization readiness, the program focuses on ethical practice, role clarity, mentor coaching agreements, formative appraisal, evidence-based developmental feedback, coach skill development over time, and group mentor coaching.

You’ll move through a scenario-based learning experience built from written lessons, coaching transcripts, calibration labs, reflection prompts, feedback-writing practice, Mentor Mirror AI-supported feedback, required artifacts, and a final knowledge check. Throughout, you’ll practice identifying observable coaching evidence, naming client impact, distinguishing developmental feedback from evaluation, and supporting coach growth in alignment with ICF standards.

Who This Is For

Experienced coaches developing mentor coaching as part of their practice
Practicing mentor coaches who want sharper observation and cleaner evidence language
Credentialed coaches preparing for ICF Mentor Coach Specialization readiness
Coaches who value role clarity, cultural awareness, and feedback that develops without diminishing

Which MCS Pathway Are You On?

There are two ways to earn the ICF Mentor Coach Specialization. Both lead to the same designation. The Mentor’s Eye provides the mentor coaching education at the center of each.

For Experienced Mentor Coaches

Credit for Prior Learning Pathway

For coaches already mentoring who have supported five clients to an ICF credential within the past three years.

The Mentor’s Eye provides the full 10-hour education requirement for this pathway, which ICF allows to be completed fully asynchronously.

Also required by ICF, completed separately:

  • An active PCC, MCC, or renewed ACC credential
  • ICF evaluation training (ACC BARS, PCC Markers, or MCC BARS) for each level you seek
  • Evidence of five mentor coaching clients who earned a credential in the past three years
For Coaches New to Mentor Coaching

Standard Pathway

For coaches building mentor coaching from the ground up, without the prior mentee experience the other pathway requires.

The Mentor’s Eye gives you the first 10 of the 41 mentor coaching education hours this pathway requires.

Also required by ICF, completed separately:

  • An active credential
  • The remaining hours to reach 41 total
  • At least 50% of the full 41 hours completed through live instruction
  • ICF evaluation training (ACC BARS, PCC Markers, or MCC BARS)

The Mentor’s Eye provides mentor coaching education. It does not replace ICF evaluation training, the mentee experience requirement, or any other ICF application step. Requirements can change, so always confirm current details with ICF before applying.

The Eight Modules

  • Entering the Work
    The mentor coaching role, ethical practice, boundaries, and the difference between mentor coaching and adjacent roles.
  • Staying in Role When the Work Gets Nuanced
    Role drift, mentor coach stance, cultural humility, and remaining developmental rather than corrective.
  • Contracting with Clarity and Maturity
    Mentor coaching agreements, scope, confidentiality, feedback process, and building a clear learning partnership.
  • Seeing the Coaching, Not Just the Coach
    Formative appraisal, evidence-based observation, identifying client impact, and separating evidence from opinion.
  • Feedback That Develops Without Diminishing
    Developmental feedback that names what is working first and offers clean refinement without shaming the coach.
  • Developing the Coach Over Time
    Patterns across sessions, practice planning, and creating a development plan without imposing your own style.
  • Holding the Group with Skill and Care
    Group mentor coaching structure, safety, inclusion, peer feedback, and managing the learning container.
  • Integration Lab and Final Verification
    Integration through artifact completion, final knowledge check, final reflection, and completion attestation.

What’s Inside

Eight focused modules with required written reflections
Three required artifacts: mentor coaching agreement, evidence-based feedback sample, and coach development plan
Mentor Mirror, AI-supported reflective feedback practice
Calibration games to sharpen your eye
Final knowledge check (70% to pass, retakes permitted)
Certificate of completion documenting 10.00 ICF CCE hours

About Your Instructor

Kenneth McKellar
MCC · BCC · EMCC Accredited Supervisor · ESIA

Kenneth McKellar brings a comprehensive and globally informed coaching background, supported by advanced credentialing and extensive mentor coaching and supervision experience. His approach blends skill development, reflective practice, cultural awareness, ethical care, and evidence-based feedback.

He supports coaches in strengthening presence, expanding awareness, and developing their unique coaching voice while staying aligned with professional standards. Ken is the founder of Chance in Time Coaching.

1,500+
Hours of mentor coaching
& supervision delivered
100+
Coaches supported across
ACC, PCC & MCC levels

Begin the Work

A 10-hour mentor coach training experience.

$247
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This program provides 10 hours of asynchronous mentor coaching education. It does not replace any separate ICF evaluation training or additional requirements a participant may need for credentialing or specialization. As the accrediting body, ICF recommends all approved programs equally and does not endorse one program over another.