The Mentor’s Eye: A 10 Hour Mentor Coach Training Experience

Categories: Mentor Coaching
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About Course

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.

Aligned with 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 calibration 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.

This is an ICF-Accredited Continuing Coach Education (CCE) program, listed in the ICF Education Search Service, providing 10 Core Competency Education hours. It does not replace any separate ICF evaluation training or additional requirements a participant may need for credentialing or specialization.

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What Will You Learn?

  • Earn 10 ICF CCE Core Competency hours that support readiness for the ICF Mentor Coach Specialization
  • Observe coaching sessions with a disciplined eye for evidence rather than opinion
  • Build clear mentor coaching agreements that create safety and direction
  • Give developmental feedback that strengthens the coach without diminishing them
  • Distinguish mentor coaching from supervision, assessment, teaching, and therapy
  • Recognize patterns of coach development across multiple sessions
  • Practice in alignment with the ICF Mentor Coaching Competencies

Course Content

Orientation and Learner Record
Learners review how to use the course, confirm the required path, understand optional practice areas, review certificate requirements, and confirm the learner record name that will be used for completion documentation.

  • How to Use This Course and Confirm Your Learner Record
  • Orientation Acknowledgement and Learner Record Confirmation

Module 1, Entering the Work
This module introduces the mentor coaching role, ethical practice, professional responsibility, boundaries, and the difference between mentor coaching and adjacent roles.

Module 2, Staying in Role When the Work Gets Nuanced
This module explores role drift, mentor coach stance, cultural humility, confidentiality, evaluative tension, and how to remain developmental rather than corrective.

Module 3, Contracting with Clarity and Maturity
This module focuses on mentor coaching agreements, expectations, scope, confidentiality, use of recordings, feedback process, development goals, and creating a clear learning partnership.

Module 4, Seeing the Coaching, Not Just the Coach
This module focuses on formative appraisal, evidence-based observation, listening for coaching behaviors, identifying client impact, and separating evidence from opinion.

Module 5, Feedback That Develops Without Diminishing
This module helps learners practice developmental feedback that names what is working first, uses specific session evidence, connects coaching behavior to client impact, and offers clean developmental refinement.

Module 6, Developing the Coach Over Time
This module covers coach development over time, patterns across sessions, adult learning, practice planning, supporting the coach’s unique style, and creating a development plan.

Module 7, Holding the Group with Skill and Care
This module explores group mentor coaching structure, safety, inclusion, peer feedback, group process, and the mentor coach’s responsibility to maintain a developmental learning container.

Module 8, Integration Lab and Final Verification
This module brings the mentor coaching competencies together through required artifact completion, Evidence Dashboard review, final knowledge check, final reflection, and completion attestation.

Scenario Library
Medium version (a lesson intro paragraph): The Scenario Library is your practice ground. These fifteen scenarios each capture a subtle mentor-coaching moment — role drift, feedback that tips into evaluation, cultural assumptions, missed evidence, group dynamics, and more. There are no single right answers. The work is in how clearly you can see what's happening, name it with care, and find the developmental path forward. Use them as quick reps anytime you want to keep your eye sharp.

Calibration Games
Optional practice

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