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APC Professional Membership Levels and Programs Accreditation Standards.

The Association of Professional Coaches has five levels of membership. Four professional (from 1 to 4) and one non-professional (5 – APC Honorary Member):

  1. APC Master Trainer;
  2. APC Trainer;
  3. APC Master;
  4. APC Practitioner;
  5. APC Honorary Member.

6.1. Professional membership level № 1 – Master Trainer. Hereinafter: MT.

General conditions for the title awarding:

APC Master Trainers are initiated with the consent of one APC Master Trainer. The condition for initiation to the Master Trainers is an outstanding merit for APC. Master Trainer is the face of the Association. Master Trainer is authorized to certify trainers, accredit training programs and training centers. A prerequisite for a Master Trainer is at least 5 years of training and coaching services experience since becoming an APC Trainer. Contribution to formation and development of Coaching/NLP as a type of professional support. Master Trainer also should be able to give any topic from his training program without notes – prompts. Shall be able to give high-quality feedback to the participants of training, be creative in conduct of training and be as flexible and respectful as possible in relation to the participants of the training. Master Trainer must have his own training program.

Certification Criteria:

  1. 460 hours of training programs and personal supervision on the topic of the conducted training programs (360 hours of coaching and/or NLP programs, 100 hours of trainers training).
  2. Completion of a 10-day APC Trainer training internship under the authority of an APC Master Trainer.
  3. Writing a book on the topic of your programs, which will be a special contribution to NLP or Coaching development.
  4. 5 years of coaching experience from becoming an APC Trainer.
  5. Completing at least 800 hours of training programs since becoming an APC Trainer.
  6. 200 or more students/graduates of own training programs.
  7. Sending video record of your 2-day training (minimum 8 hours of recording).

6.2. Professional membership level № 2 – Trainer:

Master Certified Coach. Hereinafter: MCC.

General conditions for the title awarding:

APC Master Certified Coach (coaching programs trainer) shall meet the APC Trainers Professional Training Criteria, gain certification of APC Master Certified Coach, complete an intensive trainers training course (minimum 100 hours), and be certified as an APC Trainer.

APC Professional Master Certified Coaches are certified by APC Master Trainer. To be certified as a Master Certified Coach one should meet professional criteria of APC Professional Certified Coach, have references from at least 15 clients in the amount of 50 paid sessions, within a period of at least one and a half years (18 months) from the start of training for the Professional Coach level at APC Training Center.

Certification Criteria:

  1. Pass trainers training.
  2. Have a total of 380 hours of training programs and personal supervision in coaching (280 hours of coaching programs and 100 hours of Trainers Training).
  3. Write a Coaching Trainers Training Test.
  4. Pass a behavioral certification – conduct a demonstration training (60 minutes).
  5. Conduct transformational session with a client for at least 45 minutes under the supervision of a Master Trainer.
  6. Have 50 sessions of written recommendations from the paid (minimum 15) clients prior to starting training in APC Trainers Training program.

6.3. Professional membership level № 2 – Trainer:

Trainer of NLP. Hereinafter: TNLP.

General conditions for the title awarding:

Trainer of NLP should fully or averagely possess the following qualities:

  • Personal congruence of the trainer.
  • Ecology in work of the trainer and the group.
  • Development of content competence in relation to the training subject.
  • Own style of training.
  • Ability to work in various training styles.
  • Ability to simulate different training styles and fit into.
  • Group management at different logical levels.
  • Ability to manage three phases of a group according to John Whitmore.
  • Effective use of psychogeography.
  • Knowledge of training patterns – possession of 4 MAT model.
  • The art of building training metaphors.
  • Setting of training objectives and development of appropriate training design.
  • Development of flexibility in management of various comprehensive and technological blocks of training program.
  • Ability to develop own training programs and original exercises.
  • Ability to create supportive training environment.
  • Ability to make presentation and handout materials.
  • Ability to give multi-level feedback in the process of training.
  • Possession of various forms of training activity.
  • Development of group motivation skills and overcoming “difficult cases” in the course of training.
  • Analysis of standard certification programs key topics training specifics.
  • Development of mental maps reinforcing important content.
  • Skills for NLP Practitioner and NLP Master level certification.

Certification Criteria:

  1. Pass trainers training.
  2. Have a total of 400 hours of training programs and personal supervision on the topic of the conducted training programs (300 hours of NLP programs: NLP Practitioner, NLP Master and 100 hours of APC Trainers Training).
  3. Write a Trainers of NLP Training Test.
  4. Pass a behavioral certification – conduct a demonstration training (60 minutes).
  5. Have 50 sessions of written recommendations from the paid (minimum 15) clients prior to starting training in APC Trainers Training program.
  6. Complete a 25-hours trainer work internship under the authority of an APC Master Trainer.

6.4. Professional membership level № 2 – Trainer:

APC Business Trainer;

APC Trainer of Specialized Programs. Hereinafter: TB and TSP.

General conditions for the title awarding:

APC Business Trainer; APC Trainer of Specialized Programs shall meet the APC Trainers Professional Training Criteria, gain certification of APC Trainers training, complete an intensive trainers training course (minimum 100 hours), and be certified as an APC Trainer.

Certification Criteria:

  1. Pass APC trainers training – 100 hours.
  2. Have 50 hours (documented) of business training and other specialized programs completing (personal growth, business courses) or have own business.
  3. Do an APC Trainer of Specialized Programs/Business Trainer test.
  4. Pass a behavioral certification – conduct a demonstration training (60 minutes).

6.5. Professional membership level № 2 — Trainer:

Enneagram Trainer. Hereinafter: TE.

General conditions for the title awarding:

Enneagram Trainer should fully or averagely possess the following qualities:

  • Personal congruence of the trainer.
  • Ecology in work of the trainer and the group.
  • Development of content competence in relation to the training subject.
  • Own style of training.
  • Ability to work in various training styles.
  • Ability to simulate different training styles and fit into.
  • Group management at different logical levels.
  • Ability to manage three phases of a group according to John Whitmore.
  • Effective use of psychogeography.
  • Knowledge of training patterns – possession of 4 MAT model.
  • The art of building training metaphors.
  • Setting of training objectives and development of appropriate training design.
  • Development of flexibility in management of various comprehensive and technological blocks of training program.
  • Ability to develop own training programs and original exercises.
  • Ability to create supportive training environment.
  • Ability to make presentation and handout materials.
  • Ability to give multi-level feedback in the process of training.
  • Possession of various forms of training activity.
  • Development of group motivation skills and overcoming “difficult cases” in the course of training.
  • Analysis of standard certification programs key topics training specifics.
  • Development of mental maps reinforcing important content.
  • Skills for Enneagram Practitioner and Enneagram Master level certification.

Certification Criteria:

  1. Pass APC trainers training – minimum 100 hours.
  2. Have a total of 200 hours of Enneagram training programs conducting.
  3. Interview to determine the Enneatype.
  4. Do an Enneagram Trainer training test.
  5. Pass a behavioral certification – conduct a demonstration training (60 minutes).

6.6. Professional membership level № 3 — Master:

Professional Certified Coach. Hereinafter: PCC.

General conditions for the title awarding:

APC Professional Certified Coach is a specialist who has completed a coaching training program at one of the APC training centers. The training program should include at least 16 full training days, with classroom and out-of-class coaching sessions in relation to the student, internal coaching supervision, coaching practice sessions to trainees who demonstrated during the certification process the APC Professional Certified Coach criteria, in accordance with the standards of Professional Coach Thomas Leonard, as well as the standards for practical application of team and transformational coaching, working within the classic coaching approach developed by coaching founder Timothy Gallwey.

Certification Criteria:

  1. Complete professional coaches training program – participation in 8 modules of the program.
  2. Provide 45 out-of-class individual coaching sessions in groups of 3 people (each attends/conducts 15 documented hours/sessions as coach, client and supervisor).
  3. Conduct 5 out-of-class sessions of mini-coaching training or moderation of team coaching sessions in groups of 6 people (documented).
  4. Develop and present design of a 2-day training on Cube model to the certification module (detailed plan of your training).
  5. Complete 4 hours/sessions of personal coaching as a client with a Professional Certified Coach PCC.
  6. Provide a video record or demonstration of individual coaching with a client (not a group member), minimum 30 minutes.
  7. Do a coaching theory test with at least 80 points out of 100 possible.
  8. Pass a behavioral certification of individual classic coaching on the 8th module – demonstration of working with a client.
  9. Pass a group behavioral certification – demonstration of group management (facilitation/moderation, group dynamics management according to John Whitmore).

6.7. Professional membership level № 3 — Master:

Master of NLP. Hereinafter: MANLP.

General conditions for the title awarding:

Master of NLP should have NLP Practitioner certificate and skills, complete training program for Master of NLP level of at least 144 hours, write an examination project on modeling and defend it in the form of practical work with a client in the last module of training program.

Possession of Mastery elements.

  • Optimal engagement.
  • Conscious and unconscious integration.
  • Balance between structure and spontaneity.
  • Changing personal boundaries of perception.
  • Personal congruence.
  • Direction of attention.
  • Multiple description.

Metaprograms understanding.

  • Information organization style.
  • Classification of the world.
  • Comparison focus.
  • Motivation.
  • Reference.
  • Time.

Skills in metaprograms using.

  • Flexibility in the use of metaprograms.
  • Adaptation and conduct according to metaprograms.
  • Study of a person’s metaprogram profile.
  • Approaches to metaprograms changing and development.

Understanding of systems approaches in NLP.

  • Knowledge of self-organizing systems theory Landscape of NL0-P: approach to multidimensional description of experience.
  • Development of three-position description model.

Skills in multiple description and systemic changes.

  • Possession of approaches to create “own NLP techniques”.
  • Changing of perception and behavior “depth filters” via multiple description.
  • Ability to identify and change the targets system.

Understanding of values and beliefs structure.

  • Knowledge of the main ways to identify and change the values and criteria hierarchy.
  • Understanding of faiths, beliefs, values system.
  • Knowledge of beliefs changing verbal patterns classification.
  • Knowledge of beliefs changing techniques formation basic principles.
  • Identification of a person’s persuaders.

Values and beliefs skills.

  • Values and criteria hierarchy identification.
  • Possession of criteria hierarchy changing methods.
  • Identification of beliefs formed around values.
  • Identification of limiting beliefs and ability to change them.
  • Identification of supportive positive beliefs.
  • Ability to identify new beliefs.
  • Possession of techniques for working with beliefs.
  • Изменение ограничивающих убеждений с помощью визуальных субмодальностей.
  • “Inoculation of a new belief”.
  • “New belief setting on the timeline”.

Understanding of behavioral and mental strategies structure.

  • Knowledge of T.O.T.E. model usage difference for identification of macro and micro strategies.
  • Knowledge of NLP strategy notation language.
  • Knowledge of well-formulated strategy conditions.
  • Understanding of basic micro strategies: memory, reality, motivation, training/creativity, decision making.
  • Ability to identify macro strategies and plan strategy changes.
  • Possession of basic skills in working with strategies: identifying and recording, bringing the client to awareness of his own strategy, using and embedding of the learned strategy.

Understanding modeling patterns.

  • Knowledge of basic modeling principles.
  • Understanding of “subtraction model”.
  • Knowledge of basic modeling strategy: explicit and implicit, micro and macro modeling, self-modeling.

Modeling skills.

  • Recognition of the main model patterns.
  • Implicit modeling, association with the model, metaphorical description of integral model structures.
  • Explicit modeling, identification of the model macro and micro strategies, clear recording of strategies, registration of the overall design.
  • Creation of general meta-strategy for transfer of the basic model patterns (making instructions for the trainee).
  • Execution and defense of Modeling Project.
  • Possession of Master’s meta-framework for data collection and interventions planning.

Certification Criteria:

  1. NLP Practitioner Certificate.
  2. NLP Practitioner skills in the field of conscious and unconscious competence.
  3. NLP Master program passing for at least 100 hours.
  4. Presentation of modeling project and its defense on the course certification module.

6.8. Professional membership level № 3 — Master:

Enneagram Master. Hereinafter: MAE.

General conditions for the title awarding:

  1. Active participation in the training program and exercises.
  2. Clear understanding of own Enneatype.
  3. Understanding of instincts for all 9 Enneatypes.
  4. Understanding of definitions and characteristics for all 9 Enneatypes development levels.

 

Certification Criteria:

Associated.

  1. Completion of the Enneagram Master course for at least 32 hours.

Professional.

  1. Completion of the Enneagram Master course for at least 32 hours.
  2. NLP Master or Professional Coach certificate.
  3. Doing Enneagram Test – Master Level.

6.9. Professional membership level № 4 — Practitioner:

Associated Certified Coach. Hereinafter: ACC.

General conditions for the title awarding:

APC Associated Certified Coach is an expert in coaching who cannot be qualified as APC Professional Coach due to some criteria, but who has demonstrated during certification process the criteria that meet the Thomas Leonard Professional Coach standards, as well as standards for practical application of team and transformational coaching, working within standard coaching approach developed by coaching founder Timothy Gallwey.

Certification Criteria:

  1. Complete professional coaches training program – participation in 8 modules of the program.
  2. 30 individual coaching sessions in groups of 3 people (each attends/conducts 10 documented hours/sessions).
  3. Conduct 5 sessions of mini-coaching training or moderation of team coaching sessions in groups of 6 people (documented).
  4. Complete 2 hours/sessions of personal coaching as a client with a Professional Certified Coach.
  5. Do a coaching theory test with at least 50 points out of 100 possible.
  6. Pass a behavioral certification – demonstration of work with a client.

P.S. Some of the above ACC level certification requirements may be partially met. Exactly what kind of requirements remain at the discretion of the trainer. During certification the trainer pays attention to general preparation of the applicant for the ACC level.

6.10. Professional membership level № 4 — Practitioner:

NLP Practitioner. Hereinafter: PNLP.

General conditions for the title awarding:

NLP Practitioner title is awarded to NLP Practitioner program participant for at least 157 hours. It is also necessary to pass written and behavioral certification in the last module of the course program and fulfill additional certification requirements.

Possession of the following skills.

  • Calibration
  • Adaptation and conduct at different levels (verbal and non-verbal) — by sensory predicates, by Eye Access Keys, by Logic Levels, by time predicates, by perceptual positions
  • Polysensory representation of information
  • Calling and keeping own resourceful states
  • Association and dissociation
  • Enlargement, disaggregation, and relocation by analogy
  • Anchoring
  • Positional transitions
  • Verbal reframing
  • States division
  • Reversing and technological analysis of work
  • Identification of secondary benefits
  • Determination of trance signs, exciting and keeping altered states of mind
  • Selection of techniques for the declared symptom

Proficiency in the following formats and methods of work.

  • Collection of information and formulation of targets
  • Description of states using external indicators
  • Format of VAKD modalities
  • Format of sub modalities
  • Environmental verification
  • Verification of the work effectiveness
  • High quality feedback
  • ВIdentification and use of subjective time perception of (timelines)

Knowledge and mastering of the following models in various contexts.

  • Т.О.Т.Е.
  • C.O.R.E.
  • Representational systems model: VAKD
  • Submodalities model
  • Meta model
  • Milton model
  • Logic levels
  • 3 position description
  • Timeline

Proficiency in the following techniques and knowing the objective of each step in them.

  • “Circle of excellence”
  • “Walt Disney creativity strategy”
  • “Solving a communicative situation using a 3-position description”
  • “Integration of logic levels”
  • “Collapse of anchors”, “Anchoring of resources”
  • “Changing of personal story on the timeline”
  • “Integration of conflicting parts”
  • “Sweep pattern”
  • “Fast treatment for phobias”
  • “Visual-Kinesthetic Dissociation “
  • “6 steps reframing”
  • “Treatment of emotional pinpoint allergies”

Certification Criteria:

NLP Practitioner level certification consists of six parts.

  1. Completion of NLP Practitioner course for at least 100 hours.
  2. Individual out-of-class work with clients recorded in the report on work with clients, totally 15 hours.
  3. Complete 2 sessions as a client with NLP Master or NLP Trainer.
  4. Do the subject theory knowledge test.
  5. Behavioral certification – demonstration of NLP Practitioner skills in session with a client.

6.11. Professional membership level № 4 — Practitioner:

Enneagram Practitioner. Hereinafter: PE.

General conditions for the title awarding:

  1. Active participation in the training program and exercises.
  2. Clear understanding of own Enneatype.
  3. Understanding of all 9 Enneatypes description, motivations, fixations.
  4. Understanding of Enneagram definitions and characteristics: three centers, wings, transitions of states for all 9 Enneatypes.

 

Certification Criteria:

Associated.

  1. Completion of the Enneagram Practitioner course for at least 32 hours.

Профессиональный.

  1. Completion of the Enneagram Practitioner course for at least 32 hours.
  2. NLP Practitioner or Associated Coach certificate.
  3. Doing Enneagram Test – Practitioner Level.

 

6.12. Non-professional membership level № 5 — Association Honorary Member.

General conditions for the title awarding:

Special merits and contribution to the Association of Professional Coaches development.

A person who has completed any course of the Association of Professional Coaches programs: NLP, Ericksonian hypnosis, Coaching, Enneagram, but has not passed the certification.

 

  1. The cost of the Association of Professional Coaches certification depending on the level of membership:
  • Membership level № 1 – Master Trainer: Cost 500 Euro.
  • Membership level № 2 – Trainer: Cost 350 Euro.
  • Membership level № 3 — Master: Cost 250 Euro.
  • Membership level № 4 — Practitioner: Cost 175 Euro.

8. Use of APC Symbolics.

A Center – Institute (Agent) under APC, or an individual who is an APC Professional Member, who has been certified by APC and/or has accredited his professional coaches training program or other training program in APC, who has paid membership fees (the Association Membership and fee for the use of APC Accredited Programs (see Charter articles No. 11.1. and 11.2.), has the right to use the APC logo on his website, on the issued certificates, on his business cards, on the Internet page representing his organization, on social networks, on handouts, as long as he keeps to all the above rules for the use of APC symbolics and other APC rules given in this charter.

9. APC Training Programs.

  1. The Association of Professional Coaches has and welcomes open basic training programs for specialists in the field of Coaching:

a. Associated Coach APC

b. Practitioner NLP APC

c. Enneagram practitioner APC

d. Master NLP APC

e. Enneagram master APC

f. Professional Coach APC

g. Master Certified Coach APC

h. Business Trainer APC

i. Trainer of specialized programs APC

j. Trainer of NLP APC

k. k. Coaching Hight Level Programs. 1) Transformational coaching. 2) Team coaching. 3) Coaching in organization. 4) Metaphorical coaching. 5) Ericksonian hypnosis.

2. Corporate programs – focused corporate programs organized for legal entities and made individually for the client.

3. Open programs – training programs organized for individuals.

4. All open and corporate programs with APC symbolics organized by APC Centers or Trainers shall be coordinated by a Master Trainer or two APC Trainers. Programs are approved and accredited by a Master Trainer or two APC Trainers.

5. Programs shall be in full compliance with the current laws, shall not damage APC reputation or contradict cultural norms of the country where they are held.

10. Programs Accreditation in APC.

Training Organization, Center, Trainer – an Agent can accredit its training program in APC. Thus, confirming high standard of training and providing coaching services to its clients. Training programs are accredited by APC Master Trainer or two APC Trainers. The desirable criteria for training programs see in APC Charter article 6 — APC Professional Membership Levels and Program Accreditation Standards.

Prior to the program accreditation process:

  1. Read the certification requirements to APC programs in Charter article 6- APC Professional Membership Levels and Program Accreditation Standards.
  1. 2. Update your program according to APC standards.

In order to accredit your program in APC, you shall:

  1. Contact us.
  2. Have a title not lower than Master level – APC membership level No. 3
  3. Send your coaching training program.
  4. 4. Pay accreditation fee of 750 Euro.
  5. 5. If necessary, update your training program in accordance with APC programs accreditation criteria and feedback from APC specialists.

The program accreditation procedure takes from 30 to 45 calendar days of joint work.

11. Membership fees in APC.

11.1. Membership fees:

  1. 1. Membership level № 1 – Master Trainer: 200 Euro
  2. 2. Membership level № 2 – Trainer: 150 Euro
  3. 3. Membership level № 3 – Master: 75 Euro
  4. 4. Membership level № 4 – Practitioner: 50 Euro
  5. 5. Membership level № 5 – Association Honorary Member – free

All membership fees are paid once a year to the Association account.

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