Description
SCHEMAS IN TEAM COACHING
An ICF AATC-Accredited Programme
MentorsPro LLC · Daniela Aneva, MCC, ACTC, EMCC ESIA
Next Cohort Opens: October 12, 2026 · 10:30 AM Eastern · Virtual
Programme Hours: 61 hours
Modules: 13 Instructional · 5 Group Supervision Sessions · 2 Observed Practice Labs
Credential Pathway: ICF Advanced Certified Team Coach (ACTC)
Accreditation: ICF AATC — Advanced Accreditation in Team Coaching
Competencies: All 8 ICF Core Competencies with Team Coaching Additions (C1–C8)
Format: Synchronous virtual delivery, small cohort
Investment: Payment plan available
ABOUT THE PROGRAMME
Most team coaching works at the surface.This programme works at the source.
Teams underperform not because they lack skills or strategy, but because they operate from invisible belief structures — schemas — that shape how members relate to trust, authority, conflict, and change. Until those patterns are named and worked with directly, surface-level interventions produce surface-level change.
Schemas in Team Coaching is the only ICF AATC-accredited programme to place schema theory at the heart of team coaching practice. Drawing on Jeffrey Young’s Early Maladaptive Schema framework and Daniela Aneva’s Schemas in Leadership (2024), participants develop the theoretical literacy and practical skill to identify, name, and shift schema-driven dynamics in real teams — without stepping into therapy.
The programme covers all 8 ICF Core Competencies with their official team coaching additions and qualifies graduates for the ICF Advanced Certified Team Coach (ACTC) credential.
IS THIS PROGRAMME FOR YOU?
Built for experienced coaches ready for advanced practice.
This programme is designed for experienced practitioners who are ready to work at depth. It is the right next step if you are:
Established Team Coaches
You have worked with teams and you know how to run a session. Now you want a rigorous framework that explains why certain patterns persist — and how to work with them at depth. This programme gives you that language, and the ICF ACTC credential to match.
ICF-Credentialed Coaches — PCC or MCC
You hold an individual coaching credential and are ready to expand into team work with a programme that meets the ICF’s most rigorous accreditation standard. Schema theory will deepen your individual practice as much as your team work.
OD Practitioners and HR Leaders
You design and lead team interventions, but you want the coaching rigour, theoretical depth, and ICF credential that repositions your work as advanced professional practice. This programme bridges OD methodology with ICF coaching competency in a schema-integrated framework.
CURRICULUM
13 modules. One integrated lens.
Every module maps to ICF Team Coaching Competencies C1–C8 with their official team coaching additions, and builds cumulatively toward ACTC credentialing readiness.
Module 1 — Schema Foundations in Team Coaching (ICF C1, C3)
Young’s 18 Early Maladaptive Schemas applied to team contexts. Distinguishing schema-informed team coaching from facilitation, training, and consulting. The ethics of working at the schema edge.
Module 2 — Schema Dynamics in Team Systems (ICF C2, C4)
How individual schemas aggregate into collective constellations. Schema complementarity, resonance, and collision. Woolley et al.’s collective intelligence research through a schema lens.
Module 3 — Schema-Informed Trust and Psychological Safety (ICF C4)
Porges’ Polyvagal Theory, Gittell’s relational coordination model, and Bohm’s dialogue principles integrated into schema-safe coaching container design.
Module 4 — Schema-Driven Outcome Measurement (ICF C8, C2)
Designing pre/post measurement frameworks that capture schema-level change, not just behavioural outputs. Argyris’ double-loop learning as a measurement philosophy.
Module 5 — Schema-Aware Contracting (ICF C1, C3)
The triple contract through a schema lens. Identifying schema-driven sub-text in client briefs. Managing the coach’s own contracting schemas. Heifetz’s adaptive versus technical distinction.
Module 6 — Teams as Schema Systems (ICF C6, C7)
Senge’s causal loop thinking, Snowden’s Cynefin framework, and Argyris’ governing values applied to reading teams as self-organising schema systems with structural leverage points.
Module 7 — Unconscious Schema Enactments in Teams (ICF C4, C6, C7)
Young’s schema modes in team interaction. Schema-driven parallel process in supervision. Naming enactments with tentative coaching language that preserves team agency.
Module 8 — Collective Schema Intelligence (ICF C6, C7)
How schema patterns suppress collective intelligence. Bohm’s dialogue in schema-interrupted conversation. Argyris’ double-loop learning as a pathway to schema modification.
Module 9 — Team Schema Identity, Purpose and Charter (ICF C3, C4, C8)
Schema-aware purpose articulation. Co-creating team charters as living schema-interruption agreements. Gittell’s relational coordination framework applied to charter design.
Module 10 — Schema Conflict and Productive Disruption (ICF C4, C7)
Johnson’s Polarity Management for schema-driven either/or traps. Heifetz’s adaptive challenges. Maintaining coaching presence when conflict intensity escalates in the room.
Module 11 — Schema, Diversity, Culture and Inclusion (ICF C4, C7)
Earley and Ang’s Cultural Intelligence model through a schema lens. Coaching the coach’s own cultural schema biases. Designing sessions that foster participation across schema-driven silences.
Module 14 — Schema Supervision: The Reflective Team Coach (ICF C2, C5, C8)
Carroll’s Integrated Developmental Model applied to schema-aware supervision. Parallel process recognition. Designing a personal post-programme supervision plan.
Module 15 — Schema Ethics, Edge and Exam (ICF C1, C8)
ICF Code of Ethics applied to complex multi-stakeholder schema scenarios. End-of-programme assessment and ACTC credentialing readiness review.
PROGRAMME STRUCTURE
Three rounds. Progressive schema mastery.
The programme is organised in three rounds delivered over approximately ten months. All synchronous sessions are held virtually.
Round 1 — Schema Foundations (Modules 1–4 · Group Supervision 1)
Establishes the theoretical infrastructure: schema theory, collective dynamics, psychological safety, and outcome measurement architecture. You leave with a schema vocabulary and diagnostic lens.
Round 2 — Schema Methodology (Modules 5–11 · Group Supervision 2–3)
Develops applied practice across contracting, systemic reading, enactment recognition, collective intelligence, conflict management, and cross-cultural schema work. You build your practitioner toolkit.
Round 3 — Schema Mastery (Labs I & II · Modules 14–15 · Group Supervision 4–5 · Portfolio · Assessment)
Integrates learning through observed practice, schema supervision, ethics, and a final assessment that demonstrates ACTC readiness. You construct a coherent personal theory of schema-informed team coaching practice.
WHAT YOU LEAVE WITH
Competence that changes your practice.
- A schema-informed diagnostic framework for reading team dynamics at the level of underlying belief — not just surface behaviour.
- Mastery of all 8 ICF Team Coaching Competencies with their official team coaching additions, grounded in the evidence base and applied through schema-aware practice.
- A rigorous contracting and measurement framework that satisfies sponsor accountability requirements while preserving the integrity of deep schema work.
- Systemic literacy through Senge, Cynefin, and Argyris — to coach teams as self-organising belief systems with structural leverage points, not just groups of individuals.
- Schema self-awareness as a practitioner, including how your own patterns affect contracting, observation, and presence.
- A portfolio of assessed practice including reflective journal entries, formative labs, and the end-of-programme simulation, demonstrating full ACTC readiness.
- The ICF AATC hours required for the Advanced Certified Team Coach (ACTC) credential application.
ICF ACCREDITATION AND CREDENTIAL PATHWAY
ICF ACTC — The Highest Standard in Team Coaching.
This programme is accredited by the International Coaching Federation under the Advanced Accreditation in Team Coaching (AATC) standard — the most rigorous quality designation available for team coaching education.
Graduates meet the ICF’s educational requirements for the ACTC credential application and leave with documented observed practice, mentor coaching feedback, and demonstrated competency across all 8 ICF Team Coaching Competencies (C1–C8).
Accreditation: ICF AATC
Credential Pathway: ICF Advanced Certified Team Coach (ACTC)
Total Hours: 61 hours — synchronous instruction, supervision, and assessed practice
Competency Coverage: All 8 ICF Core Competencies with team coaching additions (C1–C8)
FACULTY
Designed and taught by a practitioner at the frontier.
Daniela Aneva MCC · ACTC · EMCC ESIA · Chartered MCIPD · SHRM-CP
Founder and CEO, MentorsPro LLC
Daniela Aneva is an internationally recognised coaching educator, the author of Schemas in Leadership (2026), and the architect of this programme. She holds the ICF Master Certified Coach (MCC) and Advanced Certified Team Coach (ACTC) credentials — among the highest distinctions available in the coaching profession — alongside the EMCC’s Senior Practitioner in Supervision (ESIA) designation.
She serves as faculty at Rice University’s Doerr Institute for New Leaders, co-founded EMCC USA, and leads the ICF Coaching Supervision Community of Practice. Her coaching clients include Amazon, Google, Walmart, Capital One, and Takeda. She is the recipient of the Global Leadership & Legacy Award 2026 in Thought Leadership in Consultancy Services. She is also a faculty member at Renew Associates, founded by Peter Hawkins.
With 25 years of senior HR and OD leadership across 20+ countries before founding MentorsPro LLC, Daniela brings practitioner depth that cannot be replicated from theory alone. This programme is the product of that career — offered as a rigorous, accredited pathway for coaches ready to do the same quality of work.
ENROLMENT
Limited places available.
This programme runs once a year with a small cohort to ensure depth of supervision, meaningful peer learning, and direct faculty access throughout. If this is the right next step for your practice, we encourage you to apply early.
OCTOBER COHORT — KEY DETAILS
Cohort Opens: October 12, 2026 · 10:30 AM Eastern · Virtual
Early Enrolment Deadline: August 12, 2026
Standard Investment: $7,500 USD
Early Enrolment: $6,500 USD (by August 12, 2026)
Payment Plan: 3 instalments of $2,600
Institutional Rate: 10% discount for 2 or more coaches from the same organisation
To apply or request a programme prospectus, contact info@mentorspro.co
MentorsPro LLC · Rutherford, NJ · info@mentorspro.co
Schemas in Team Coaching is accredited by the International Coaching Federation under the AATC standard. ICF, AATC, and ACTC are registered marks of the International Coaching Federation.
