Accreditation
Become an accredited coach or mentor
The EMCC Global Individual Accreditation (EIA) is an internationally recognised professional designation for coaches and mentors. It recognises the quality of your practice, your commitment to continuing professional development, reflective learning, and ongoing one-to-one supervision.
Accreditation is the professional recognition of your practice as a coach or mentor; it sets you apart from those who describe themselves as such and those who have had their work assessed against international standards and proved to be working at that level.
Accreditation celebrates and recognises professional practice
EMCC Global Individual Accreditation recognises the quality of your practice, as well as the number of hours and clients with whom you have worked. The four levels below each have minimum requirements for length of experience, client hours and EMCC membership. Every applicant must show evidence of continuing professional development, reflective learning, and ongoing one-to-one supervision.
Foundation
With a minimum of one year’s experience coaching or mentoring, 50 client hours and five clients, Foundation level could be for you
Practitioner
Practitioners have been practising for at least three years, with 100 client hours and 10 clients
Senior Practitioner
With a five-year practice, 250 client hours and 20 clients you could mark your practice with a Senior Practitioner accreditation
Master Practitioner
This level is based on professional dialogue. There are also minimum requirements — seven years’ practice, 500 client hours and 40 clients — alongside evidence of a specific contribution to the profession. If you are interested in exploring this level, do contact us.
Three easy ways you can apply for your EIA
Via your EQA-accredited training programme
If you are a graduate of a training programme with an EQA accreditation from EMCC Global then your application is very easy.
Your training provider will be in touch with us to let us know when you have passed the course. On completion of your practice hours, with evidence of past and ongoing one-to-one supervision, alignment with the Global Code of Ethics, your EMCC membership in place, and payment of the accreditation fee, your EIA should be awarded.
Note that if you completed your course more than five years prior to application, then you will need to apply directly.
Supported application via the Five Day Challenge
The EMCC Global Five Day Challenge takes applicants through a period of dialogue in small cohorts, with a volunteer assessor guiding your group through the application form and answering queries.
While you do not need to have attended a Five Day Challenge to apply for your EIA, we find it is a good route for people who have not completed a regular training route, who are not sure whether their previous experience ‘counts’, or who need some additional support with paperwork formats or logs
Via a self-guided application
EMCC Global recognises prior learning irrespective of training or education, including recognition of accreditation which may have been gained via other accreditation bodies.
If you have completed work-based courses, have microcredentials, completed university-based courses or have been following a development path of another body then you could apply directly to us for your EMCC Global EIA.
Your application will be assessed and passed to a verifier before award. We may need to engage you in a professional dialogue or recommend you attend a Five Day Challenge.
Renewing or upgrading your accreditation
Your EIA accreditation is valid for five years. Two months before it expires, you will receive a reminder email from us with details of what you need to do.
If you are renewing at your current level, you can download the renewal form below. If you would like to upgrade to a higher level at the same time, please contact us.
