ICF Level 1 (ACC) coach certification — Kuala Lumpur
Sixty hours of coach-specific education, ten hours of mentor coaching, and real clients from week two. You finish with four of ICF’s five ACC requirements already done.
Accredited, not aligned.
Frances’ Coaching School holds ICF Level 1 accreditation. That has one practical consequence for you: when you apply for your ACC, you use ICF’s Level 1 path — USD 175 for ICF members, reviewed in about four weeks.
Coaches who train with a programme ICF has not accredited apply through the Portfolio path instead — USD 475 for members, reviewed in about fourteen weeks.
Same credential. Different route to it. Ask any school you are considering which one you will be using.
The difference explained in full →“Four of the five ACC requirements are done the day you finish.”
What is covered
60 hours coach-specific education. 10 mentor coaching hours — 7 group, 3 one-to-one. 12 paid client hours minimum. Five observed sessions with written feedback. Performance evaluation at ACC standard.
Ethics, Mindset, Agreements
Covering ICF Core Competencies 1, 2, and 3.
Trust, Presence, Listening
Covering ICF Core Competencies 4, 5, and 6.
Awareness, Accountability, Assessment
Covering ICF Core Competencies 7 and 8.
How you learn it
Triads, audio recordings, live mentoring, written observer feedback, real clients from week two, the workbook.
Practice clients
Past students coach current students. Real sessions, properly logged, not role-play. Around fifteen past students are still active.
Upcoming Cohorts & Venue
14–15 August, 11–12 September, 9–10 October 2026
In person, Kuala Lumpur13–14 November, 18–19 December 2026, 15–16 January 2027
In person, Kuala LumpurVenue
Wealth Wolves Training Room, First Floor, H-2-9 Parklane Commercial Hub, Jalan SS7/26, Kelana Jaya, 47301 Petaling Jaya, Selangor.
Basement parking, cashless, RM5.50 per full day.
Instructor & Track Record
Dr Frances Penafort, MCC (ICF). Director of Education. First and only woman MCC in Malaysia with an ICF-accredited coaching school.
Five cohorts completed. The sixth is running now. Five graduates have sat the ICF credential exam. Five have passed. Cohorts are capped at about ten, every session is observed, and every student gets written feedback. That is why the number is small, and it is why we publish it. Ask any school for theirs.
View Dr Frances Penafort in the ICF Coach Directory ↗The preview runs on the first Saturday of every month. Sixty minutes, no charge, and you will know by the end whether this is for you.