Group Mentor Coaching
There's something that happens when you coach in front of other coaches.
The stakes go up a little. You're more aware of your choices. And when it's over — when the group leans in and the feedback starts — you learn things about your coaching that you can't learn any other way.
That's what this program is built around.
Applications open for the next cohort. Read on, or skip to apply.
What Group Mentor Coaching Actually Is
A small group of four to six coaches meets eight times over about three months — roughly every two weeks.
The first session is 90 minutes and we don't coach at all. We build the container: who we are, how we work together, what makes it safe to be seen. That session is what makes everything else possible.
The next seven sessions are 60 minutes each. Each one has two coaching rounds: one participant coaches another, live, in front of the group. Then we debrief. I give the primary feedback — what I noticed, what landed, what the ICF competencies look like in that specific moment. The group chimes in too, because learning to name what you see in someone else's coaching is its own skill worth developing.
Here's the thing about the math: with two rounds per session and a group of four to six, you're watching more than you're coaching in any given session. That's not a bug. Watching a peer navigate a stuck moment — and then hearing how I name what just happened — teaches you things you don't get from being in the chair yourself. People are often surprised by how much they learn when it's not their turn.
It can feel edgy at first. Coaching is an intimate act, and doing it in front of peers adds a layer. I spend real time in that opening session building the trust and safety that make honest feedback possible — so that when the moment comes, it lands with care rather than exposure.
Most people find that the edginess is part of what makes it work.
What You Walk Away With
7 of your required 10 ICF mentor coaching hours. How those hours count depends on where you are in your credentialing journey:
Renewing ACC: These 7 hours count toward the 10 required mentor coaching hours. (The remaining 3 must be one-on-one — I offer that separately.)
Renewing PCC or MCC: Mentor coaching hours aren't required, but these 7 hours can count toward your Core Competency CCE units.
Not sure how they apply to your situation? Email me and we'll figure it out.
Feedback you can actually use. Not general observations about your coaching style — specific, in-the-moment responses to real choices you made in a real session.
The experience of watching other coaches work. This one surprises people. Seeing a peer navigate a stuck moment, or hearing how I name what's happening, teaches you things you don't get from being coached yourself.
A cohort. A small group of coaches who've seen each other be vulnerable and have chosen to show up anyway. That doesn't go away when the program ends.
Pricing
Full tuition is $550. That's what it costs to run this well.
This round, I'm offering pay-what-you-can with no minimum. You decide.
Cost of living is up. Nonprofit and movement budgets are down. The world is asking a lot of all of us right now, and coaches doing this work should be able to access support without cost being the gate.
If you can pay full tuition, please do — it's what makes the program sustainable, and it's part of how this room stays accessible to coaches who can't. If you can pay above tuition, that helps too. If full tuition isn't possible right now, pay what's possible. No minimum. No questions asked.
What I trust: that you know your situation, and that you'll choose accordingly. The room will be made up of coaches who arrived through different doors to get there.
Ready to Apply?
Three questions, about five minutes. The application is designed so that filling it out tells you something useful even if you don't end up applying.
Not ready, or have questions first? You can also email me at dewey@dewey-schott.com