ACC Coach Training 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.
The program is broken into 8 different Phases
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PHASE 1: SELF-LEADERSHIP PREP | Lead Yourself Before You Lead Others
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PHASE 2: PROTECTING YOURSELF AS A COACH | Care Without Carrying
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PHASE 3: COACH PREP, ETHICS & SCOPE | Know Your Role and Protect the Relationship
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PHASE 4: COACHING LANGUAGE & PSYCHOLOGY | Learn to Hear What's Underneath the Words
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PHASE 5: THE ACC COACHING PROCESS | Turn Conversation Into Transformation
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PHASE 6: INDIVIDUAL COACHING | Coach the Person, Not Just the Problem
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PHASE 7: GROUP COACHING & COMMUNITY LEADERSHIP | Coach the Individual While Protecting the Collective
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PHASE 8: BECOMING AN ACC CERTIFIED COACH | Integration, Application & Embodiment
By completion, trainees will understand how to listen beneath the surface, recognize patterns without diagnosing, ask intentional questions, challenge with compassion, maintain appropriate scope and boundaries, facilitate individual and group transformation, and empower clients to create their own awareness, choices, and change.
What you get:
The ACC Method Coach Training & Certification is intentionally designed as a small, high-touch training experience, with only 6 certification spots available every two years. Keeping each cohort small allows Ashley to provide individualized coaching, direct feedback, mentorship, observation, and meaningful space for every trainee to develop their own authentic coaching style.
The program begins with a 12-month immersive coach training experience, with an additional 3-month certification, shadowing, and application period for trainees who choose to pursue ACC Method Certification.
MONTHS 1–12 | COACH TRAINING
Throughout the first 12 months, trainees will move through the first seven phases of The ACC Method while receiving ongoing education, coaching, mentorship, practice, and feedback. These weekly calls are 90-Minute Group Training Calls
Each weekly call will include:
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Individual coaching and real-life scenario support
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Review of the previous week's application and homework
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Coaching practice and feedback
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Introduction of new ACC Method topics
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Learning how to teach and facilitate ACC topics
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Topic notes, language, and coaching applications
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Coach development and skill-building
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Leadership style development
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Case studies and practical application
Each week, we will rotate between trainees to create dedicated space for someone to bring a real coaching scenario, question, challenge, or experience to the group. This allows everyone to learn not only from the curriculum, but from the realities of coaching actual humans.
THE 6-WEEK TRAINING RHYTHM
The program follows intentional 6-week training blocks.
Each new block introduces a new phase of The ACC Method. Trainees will spend six weeks learning, practicing, applying, and integrating that phase, followed by one week off before beginning the next block. The goal is not to rush through information. It is to create enough space to learn it, practice it, receive feedback, and integrate it.
MONTHLY 1:1 COACHING WITH ASHLEY
In addition to weekly group training, each trainee will receive a private 60-minute Zoom session with ACC every month.
These sessions are individualized to what is coming up for you personally as you move through the program and step into the identity and responsibility of becoming a coach. Sessions may include individual coaching, leadership development, program integration, coach development, or an Emotional Integration session when appropriate. Learning how to coach others will inevitably teach you more about yourself.
MONTHS 12–15 | PHASE 8: CERTIFICATION, SHADOWING & APPLICATION
Trainees who complete the foundational training requirements and choose to pursue ACC Method Certification may continue into Phase 8.
These final months shift the focus from learning the methodology to demonstrating your ability to apply and embody it.
Phase 8 may include shadowing Ashley, observing coaching sessions when appropriate and with client consent, supervised coaching practice, case studies, application feedback, ethics scenarios, individual and group facilitation, competency evaluations, and continued mentorship.
Certification is earned, not automatically awarded based on attendance or payment. Coaches must demonstrate the competencies, ethics, boundaries, self-awareness, and application standards established by The ACC Method.
Upon successful completion of Phase 8, trainees will earn the designation of ACC Method Certified Coach.