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Leadership isn’t downloaded. It isn’t templated. It’s forged in the fire of bold thinking, lived experience, and intentional practice.
Coaching Certifications
Every element of our training is anchored in the International Coaching Federation’s Core Competencies and Code of Ethics.
The Curriculum
We practice and teach Integrative Coaching — blending ICF-accredited mastery with entrepreneurial acumen, delivered through our proprietary ILLUMIN8 framework.
Foundations of Professional Coaching - Level 1 ICF Accredited Coach Education Program
Program Overview
Level 1 ICF Accredited Coach Education Program
Educating the next generation of professional coaches.
75 Hours | 10 Hours | 100% | ICF Aligned | 25 Students |
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ICF Accredited Coach Education | Mentor Coaching Included | Instruction by ICF Credentialed Faculty | Code of Ethics & Core Competencies | Maximum Cohort Size |
Educational Philosophy
Who Studies at Lumina?
What You’ll Develop
Identity & Presence
Coaching Excellence
Professional Formation
Curriculum
Professional capability is developed progressively.
Each phase of the curriculum builds on the one before it, allowing knowledge, skill, judgment, and confidence to develop together. Learning is intentionally sequenced so that every new competency builds upon a strong foundation of coaching presence, ethical practice, and reflective learning.
The curriculum combines live instruction, observed coaching, mentor coaching, deliberate practice, faculty assessment, and independent study to create an educational experience that prepares graduates for professional practice rather than isolated performance.
Phase One
Foundations of Professional Coaching
The program begins with a three-day immersive experience designed to establish the intellectual and practical foundations of professional coaching.
Students are introduced to coaching as a discipline, develop the foundations of coaching presence, begin cultivating reflective practice, and learn the Lumina Navigation System™ as the framework that will guide their learning throughout the program.
This phase establishes not only what coaching is, but how professional coaches think, listen, partner, and learn.
Phase Two
Coaching Practice
The second phase focuses on developing fluency across the International Coaching Federation Core Competencies.
Students strengthen their ability to establish coaching agreements, cultivate trust and safety, maintain coaching presence, listen actively, evoke awareness, facilitate client growth, and coach ethically through increasingly complex conversations.
Faculty demonstrations, observed coaching, mentor coaching, and continual feedback provide opportunities to integrate learning into practice.
Phase Three
Applied Coaching
As coaching capability develops, students begin working with greater complexity.
This phase explores identity development, transition, resistance, accountability, emotional intelligence, values-based decision making, cultural humility, and sustainable behaviour change.
Students continue refining their coaching through observation, reflection, faculty assessment, and deliberate practice while developing the confidence to navigate conversations that rarely have simple answers.
Phase Four
Professional Practice
Professional coaching extends beyond the coaching conversation.
The final phase prepares students to establish or strengthen a coaching profession grounded in ethical practice, sound business principles, professional identity, communication, positioning, client enrollment, and ongoing professional development.
Students also prepare for the International Coaching Federation Associate Certified Coach (ACC) credential by integrating the knowledge, coaching capability, and professional standards developed throughout the program.
The Lumina Navigation System
The Lumina Navigation System is the educational framework that underpins the curriculum at Lumina Legacy Institute.
Developed in alignment with the International Coaching Federation Code of Ethics and Core Competencies, it provides students with a practical structure for integrating professional coaching standards into everyday coaching conversations.
Rather than introducing isolated models or disconnected techniques, the Lumina Navigation System™ brings together three complementary frameworks that support the development of coaching presence, critical thinking, reflective practice, and ethical decision-making.
Together they help students move beyond understanding coaching conceptually toward embodying it in practice.
ILLUMIN8™
ILLUMIN8™ develops the mindset, presence, and principles that shape the coach.
Its eight guiding principles support students in cultivating curiosity, partnership, presence, discernment, and the habits of continual reflection that distinguish thoughtful practitioners throughout their careers.
Rather than providing a script to follow, ILLUMIN8™ develops a way of thinking that supports authentic coaching across diverse clients and contexts.
Clarity Compass™
Clarity Compass™ provides a practical framework for helping clients explore values, identity, vision, and purposeful action.
It enables students to facilitate conversations that create greater clarity while remaining fully aligned with client autonomy and the International Coaching Federation’s coaching philosophy.
MAPS™
MAPS™ provides a flexible structure for coaching conversations.
Rather than directing the client, it helps coaches create conversations that are focused, intentional, responsive, and grounded in partnership.
As students develop, MAPS™ becomes less of a framework to remember and more of a natural rhythm that supports thoughtful coaching practice.
Faculty
The quality of an educational institution is shaped by the quality of its faculty.
At Lumina Legacy Institute, students learn from educators who continue to contribute to the coaching profession through active coaching, leadership, mentor coaching, organizational consulting, executive education, and professional practice.
They teach from experience as well as expertise.
Every hour of coach-specific instruction is delivered by PCC credentialed faculty, exceeding International Coaching Federation requirements and ensuring every learning experience reflects the standards of professional coaching.
Alongside faculty, students learn from carefully selected guest experts whose work expands conversations around psychology, leadership, organizational development, communication, entrepreneurship, and human performance. Their contribution broadens perspective while remaining fully integrated into the educational experience.
Learning Community
Professional education does not happen in isolation.
Each cohort is intentionally limited to twenty-five students, creating an environment where faculty know your coaching, understand your development, and provide meaningful feedback throughout the program.
Equally important are the relationships formed within the cohort itself. Students learn alongside professionals from diverse industries who challenge assumptions, broaden perspectives, and contribute to one another’s growth through coaching practice, discussion, and shared reflection.
Graduation is not the conclusion of this community.
As a graduate, you’ll become part of the Lumina Alumni Network and Community of Practice, where continuing education, mentorship, collaboration, and professional dialogue continue well beyond the classroom.