ICF Core Competencies 2025 Deep Dive – Mastering Ethics, Mindset & Client Growth (8 ICF Core Competencies Explained)

What does mastery look like in coaching today — and how are the ICF Core Competencies evolving in 2025?

In this episode of The Coach Within, Coach Jedi unpacks the latest updates to the 8 ICF Core Competencies, based on years of global research, feedback, and practice since the 2019 refresh. Whether you’re an aspiring ACC, an experienced PCC, or a mentor MCC, this episode will help you understand what’s changed, why it matters, and how to apply it in your own coaching practice.

Here’s what you’ll discover:

• Ethical Practice – Navigate integrity, confidentiality, and AI challenges in coaching.

• Coaching Mindset – Embrace ongoing learning, manage biases, and sustain well-being as a coach.

• Agreements – Move beyond checklists into living, revisitable commitments with clients and stakeholders.

• Trust & Safety – The timeless foundation of human connection across cultures and generations.

• Presence – Harness silence, uncertainty, and grounded awareness in coaching conversations.

• Active Listening – Hear beyond words into patterns, emotions, and the unspoken.

• Evoking Awareness – Use questions, metaphors, and observations (without attachment) to spark insight.

• Facilitating Growth – Support autonomy, acknowledge progress, and close with impact.

  
  

Plus: Explore the new ICF Glossary of Terms (2025) and why clarity around concepts like bias, worldview, well-being, technology, and without attachment matters for every coach.

This is more than an update — it’s an invitation to deepen your coaching mastery, align with the latest global standards, and bring fresh clarity to every client conversation.

🎧 Tune in to expand your skills, connect closer to your purpose, and elevate your coaching journey.

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