Mentor Coaching | We Root To Rise

ICF Definition

Let's sit a moment with the definition of the ICF

“Mentor Coaching is a collaborative learning process through which coaches receive feedback based on observed or recorded sessions to support them in further developing their unique coaching style and coaching skills in alignment with the ICF Core Competencies.”

Redwoods growing tall together through interlocking roots

An Analogy

Allow me an analogy : Redwoods don't grow tall alone. Neither do coaches.

Here's a thing about redwoods: their roots only run 6 to 12 feet deep. For a tree that can grow past 300 feet, that shouldn't be enough. What makes it work is that redwood roots spread wide and intertwine underground with the roots of the trees around them — an interlocked network that holds each tree upright, even in storms, even in wind that would topple a tree standing alone.

That's the whole premise of We Root to Rise LLC.

ACC · PCC · MCC

Embody It. Don't Just Perform It.

Whether you're renewing your ACC, finishing PCC or building toward MCC, ICF wants proof you can actually coach at that level — not perform it, not describe it, embody it. Mentor coaching is structured feedback on your real sessions, measured against the ICF Core Competencies (and, for PCC, the PCC Markers specifically), given by someone whose roots are already tangled up in this work (first career as a teacher, developping competencies is a significant part of the job + stellar outcomes as a private tutor for two decades).

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Collaborative mentor coaching and feedback conversation

My Proposition For You

An Artful Blend Over 3 Months

An artful blend of 7 group mentor coaching hours and 3 hours of 1:1 mentor coaching over a period of 3 months.

7 Group mentor coaching hours

3 Hours of 1:1 mentor coaching

3 Months structured path

What You Receive

Supported. Grounded. Resourced.

01

Marker-Fluent, Not Marker-Robotic

We'll get the PCC Markers (or MCC-level nuance) into your bones — not a checklist you perform, but a way of standing that you actually inhabit under pressure.

02

Feedback That Doesn't Flatten You

You'll hear exactly what's working, what's fuzzy, and what's getting in your own way — delivered with warmth, humor, and zero ego-bruising. At this level, feedback has to be precise and generous. You get both, the way a tree gets both sun and shade from the ones beside it.

03

Embodied, Not Just Cognitive

Coaching presence isn't a mental model — it lives in your breath, your pace, your stillness. We'll work with what's happening in your body during a session, not just what's happening in your head.

04

Room to Be Yourself

Great coaching isn't a script — and at PCC and MCC level, evaluators can tell the difference. No two redwoods grow identically; we'll sharpen your voice inside the framework, not sand it into someone else's shape.

05

Real Recordings, Real Growth

We work from your actual coaching sessions — the real, unpolished, occasionally awkward stuff. That's where the breakthroughs (and the subtle habits worth loosening) live.

06

From Competent to Integrated

If you're PCC-bound, we build reliability. If you're eyeing MCC, we go further — toward coaching that looks effortless because it's fully rooted in you, not because it's easy.

07

A Path, Not a Scramble

Structured accross 3 months so you can water the roots of embodied presence.

Ready to root in?

Mentor coaching doesn't have to be the part of your credentialing journey you're gritting your teeth through or even dreading. Let's make it the part where you actually grow — supported, grounded, resourced and (yes) with light-heartenedness and playfulness.

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