ACC CERTIFIED COACH PROGRAM
The ACC Method Coach Training & Certification is an immersive, whole-person training experience designed to develop coaches who can create meaningful transformation while leading with integrity, curiosity, compassion, and accountability. Through an integrative, psychology-informed, and evidence-informed approach, trainees learn the mindset, language, listening skills, ethics, boundaries, coaching processes, and community leadership practices behind the ACC Method.
Throughout the program, trainees move from self-leadership to coaching leadership, learning first to understand themselves, then how to understand and support others without taking ownership of their journey. Training combines education with mentorship, observation, practice, feedback, shadowing, individual coaching, and group facilitation so participants do more than learn coaching concepts. They learn how to embody them.
Why choose ACC
The ACC Method is designed for people who want to become more than someone with a collection of coaching tools. It develops coaches who understand the person behind the pattern, who can listen beneath the words being spoken, recognize what may be driving a behavior, and ask intentional questions that help clients build greater self-awareness, ownership, and sustainable change.
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Many coaching and leadership programs teach skills. The ACC Method develops the person doing the coaching.
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Many programs teach communication. The ACC Method explores the internal processes, beliefs, emotions, patterns, and experiences that influence how people communicate.
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Many programs teach confidence. The ACC Method takes a psychology-informed approach to understanding confidence, self-worth, identity, and internal narratives so coaches can help clients build confidence that is sustainable and authentic.
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Many programs focus on productivity and performance. The ACC Method focuses on alignment, because sustainable success should not require someone to abandon themselves to achieve it.
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Many programs teach coaches what questions to ask. The ACC Method teaches coaches how to listen well enough to understand which question needs to be asked.
Through an integrative, psychology-informed, evidence-informed, and whole-person coaching approach, you will learn the methodology, language, listening skills, ethical boundaries, self-leadership practices, and coaching tools Ashley uses in her own practice. You will also learn when coaching is appropriate, when it is not, and when supporting a client means recognizing that another qualified professional may better serve their needs.
The goal is not to create coaches who simply know more. It is to develop coaches who can listen deeper, lead themselves, coach with integrity, challenge with compassion, recognize their own limitations, and create spaces where meaningful transformation can happen.
The ACC Method does not teach you to become Ashley Coffey. It teaches you how to become the most grounded, intentional, ethical, and authentic version of your coaching self.
Is this program for you?
This program is designed for people who feel called to coach, lead, facilitate, mentor, and/or create meaningful change in the lives of others. It is for those who want to develop the skills to support others through self-awareness, emotional intelligence, personal growth, relationships, boundaries, identity, and self-leadership using The ACC Method.
*Previous coaching experience is not required. You do not need to arrive knowing how to coach. You do need to arrive willing to learn, practice, self-reflect, receive feedback, and take ownership of your growth.
Who should apply
Applicants should demonstrate:
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Coachability. A willingness to receive direct feedback, recognize defensiveness, examine personal patterns, and make adjustments. Coachability is one of the most important qualities considered for admission.
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Emotional maturity & self-awareness. A willingness to examine your own triggers, biases, projections, assumptions, strengths, and areas for growth before asking clients to do the same.
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Integrity & confidentiality. A commitment to protecting private information, maintaining professional boundaries, honoring client autonomy, and respecting the trust created within the cohort.
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Curiosity about people. A desire to understand what may be underneath someone's words and behaviors without diagnosing, judging, rescuing, or assuming you know their experience.
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Compassion with accountability. The ability to care deeply about another person's experience while still allowing them to maintain ownership of their choices, actions, and outcomes.
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Respect for human differences. A commitment to honoring diverse identities, backgrounds, experiences, relationships, beliefs, and perspectives while continuing to examine your own biases.
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Commitment to ethical coaching. An understanding that coaching is not therapy and a willingness to recognize the limits of your role, remain within scope, and refer to qualified professionals when appropriate.
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Commitment to the process. The ability to prioritize weekly training, plan the program into your year, communicate absences responsibly, complete application work, and actively participate in your development.
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Respect for The ACC Method. An understanding that ACC curriculum, frameworks, materials, and intellectual property are being shared for your development and cannot be copied, reproduced, sold, rebranded, or represented as your own.
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A willingness to develop your own coaching voice. The ACC Method is for developing into a grounded, ethical, authentic coach in your own right.
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Most importantly, this program is for people willing to be both the student and the participant in their own development. Learning to hold space for someone else's growth requires an ongoing willingness to examine your own. You do not need to arrive as a coach. You need to arrive ready to become one.
Investment Options
There are two pathways within The ACC Method, depending on what you want to do with the training.
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The 12-Month Coach Training Pathway is designed for those who want to learn and apply The ACC Method to strengthen their coaching, leadership, communication, and ability to support others.
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The 15-Month Training + Certification Pathway is designed for those who want to go beyond learning the methodology and demonstrate competency to become an ACC Method Certified Coach, with the potential opportunity to coach professionally within Ashley Coffey Coaching.
12-MONTH COACH TRAINING PATHWAY | $3,600
Learn The ACC Method: The first 12 months include Phases 1–7 and the complete educational foundation of The ACC Method.
You will learn the methodology, coaching language, psychology-informed concepts, ethics, scope of practice, listening skills, coaching processes, individual coaching, group facilitation, self-leadership, and community leadership that make up the ACC Method.
This pathway is ideal for someone who wants to develop powerful coaching and leadership skills for their current career, business, community, or personal development without pursuing ACC Method Certification.
Completion of the 12-month pathway means you have completed training in The ACC Method, but does not designate you as an ACC Method Certified Coach or authorize you to represent yourself as certified by ACC.
INVESTMENT
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Pay in Full: $3,240
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Includes a 10% savings
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Monthly Payment: $300/month
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Current ACC Member Rate: $250/month
15-MONTH TRAINING + CERTIFICATION PATHWAY | $4,500
Learn It. Practice It. Demonstrate It. Become Certified.
The 15-month pathway includes everything within the first 12 months of ACC Method training, followed by Phase 8: Certification, Shadowing & Application.
During Months 13–15, the focus shifts from learning the ACC Method to demonstrating your ability to coach using it. Trainees will have opportunities for shadowing, supervised application, observed coaching, case studies, ethics scenarios, feedback, competency evaluation, and continued mentorship.
Certification is earned through demonstrated competency, not simply through completing the educational portion of the program.
Trainees who successfully meet all certification requirements will earn the designation:
ACC Method Certified Coach
Becoming certified also creates the opportunity to be considered for a coaching position with Ashley Coffey Coaching. Employment is not guaranteed by completion or certification and will depend on available coaching opportunities, organizational needs, professional fit, and successful completion of ACC's hiring requirements.
INVESTMENT
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Pay in Full: $4,050
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Includes a 10% savings
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Monthly Payment: $300/month
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Current ACC Member Rate: $250/month
TWO PATHS. ONE FOUNDATION.
Think of the difference this way: Months 1–12 teach you The ACC Method.
You learn the philosophy, tools, language, ethics, psychology-informed concepts, and coaching process.
Months 13–15 ask you to demonstrate The ACC Method. You move from learning the framework to showing that you can apply it responsibly, authentically, and competently with real people.
*You do not have to pursue certification for this training to change the way you lead and coach. But if your goal is to become an ACC Method Certified Coach and potentially pursue an opportunity to coach within the ACC community, the 15-month pathway is designed to take you there.
Investment
Your Next Steps:
Becoming a coach is not simply a professional decision. It is a commitment to your own growth, your integrity, and the responsibility of holding space for the growth of others.
If you have read through this packet and feel excited, curious, challenged, and a little nervous, you may be exactly where you are supposed to be. You do not need to have everything figured out before applying. You simply need to be ready to learn, be coached, practice, receive feedback, and take ownership of who you are becoming.
And if your answer right now is “not yet,” honor that too. This program will continue to welcome a small cohort of trainees every two years. If becoming an ACC Method Certified Coach is something you see in your future, allow it to become a goal you intentionally work toward.
If you feel drawn to this work but are not yet ready for coach training, consider beginning with the ACC Leadership Training Program. It can help you deepen your self-leadership, emotional intelligence, communication, boundaries, and personal growth before stepping into the responsibility of coaching others.
There is no rush to become the next version of yourself.
There is only the responsibility to recognize when you are ready to begin.
And when you are, I would be honored to teach you.
Ready to take the next step? Click the button to apply! Or please request more information by emailing info@AshleyCoffeyCoaching.com