Are you looking for an ICF Accredited Program to qualify for an ACC? 

Are you looking for Personal Development skills ?

MMS NorCal accomplishes both!

Start Your Coaching Journey Online!

Become a “confident” MMS ICF Certified Coach through our global organization, MMS Worldwide Institute, the original and oldest coaching institute on the planet!

MMS Coach Training - Level 1 Path is an ICF accredited program that has been training coaches worldwide since 1974. Now is your opportunity to be trained by Carla Morton and Lindsey Taylor-Vivier to gain the brilliant coaching skills and personal development required to become an ICF ACC certified coach.

If you have ever considered becoming trained and certified by the Best of the best, this is your opportunity! Join Us now!

ACSTH 60-hour Accredited Coach Training Online

  • PROGRAM FORMAT

    Two In-Person Long Weekends: Sep 23rd-25th 8:30 AM - 6 PM PST and Jan 6th - 8th 8:30 AM - 6 PM PST Plus 6 Zoom Webinars 5PM -8PM PST (Oct 5th, Oct 19th, Nov 2nd, Nov 9th, Nov 30th, Dec 14th) Please contact us for full schedule

  • INCLUDES

    60 training hours: 48 hours live sessions + 12-hours Resource Development (homework), 7 Group Mentoring sessions, 3 one-on-one private mentoring sessions, 5 feedback sessions)

  • ICF

    This course prepares you to be an ICF credentialed Associate Certified Coach (ACC).

The MMS Level 1 Coach Training is a 5-month long transformational certification program for people who are looking for the quickest and most transformational way to become a certified professional coach. This program will train you to get an ICF Accreditation with a Level 1. It is 60 hours of Coach Training, see out calendar. The purpose of the MMS Coach Training is to support you in becoming an MMS /ICF certified coach; to grow exponentially in awareness and interpersonal skills; to learn coaching skills to apply to your career, and to be committed to living life as a coach.
This 60-hour ICF Credentialed Level 1 Coach Training will be delivered by ICF Credentialed/MMS Trained Coaches who have been trained by Dr Cherie Carter-Scott. This training will prepare you to get accredited by ICF. You will see live demonstrations of coaching daily and will practice your skills with peers as well as receive immediate feedback from ICF Trained Mentor Coaches. Five feedback sessions, required by ICF are included in the price.

Our Coaching Training is for:

  • Corporate leaders, HR Execs & people managers who understand that the coaching method will inspire their employees and benefit the company’s bottom line

  • Solopreneurs & therapists who want to add coaching to their current offerings

  • Professionals who want to grow, but don’t know how to break through to the next level

  • Individuals who want to develop a deeper relationship with themselves and others

  • Those ready for a career change, or those starting something fresh

Some of the Skills Taught in the MMS Coach Training

  • Connecting

  • Coaching presence

  • Establishing trust and safety with the client

  • Suspending judgment

  • Active listening

  • Focus of attention

  • Powerful questioning

  • Trusting your intuition & messages

  • Creating awareness

  • Designing actions

You Will Learn…

  • Everything required to professionally coach

  • How to listen to your inner voice

  • How to say, “No”

  • How to stand up and speak up for yourself

  • How to self correct

  • How to nurture yourself

You Will Be Able To…

  • Discover your blind spots

  • Start coaching immediately

  • Develop leadership skills

  • Stay in balance and set boundaries

You Will…

  • Grow exponentially

  • Remove blocks from your life

  • Become a better listener

  • Understand the do’s and don’ts of coaching

  • Be able to see when and why you judge

  • Own and acknowledge your accomplishments

  • Trust yourself more

  • Have enhanced self-confidence & interpersonal skills

  • You will be able to make a difference in the lives of many

  • Become your authentic self

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Carla Morton

Meet your MMS Nor Cal Trainers

Carla Morton is a PCC Level, ICF Credentialed Leadership Coach and Executive Director of MMS Northern California. Through her 20+ years of business, entrepreneurial and executive search experience, she has worked with thousands of people while they were navigating career changes and has seen common threads in what’s holding people back from reaching their greatest potential. She first earned her coaching credential through New Ventures West before sharpening her skills under the “Mother of Coaching,” Dr. Chérie Carter-Scott. She is a credentialed mentor coach – where she provides feedback to coaches who are getting certified. As a serial entrepreneur, founder and CEO she’s well versed in raising capital, building and developing teams, and operational management. Carla’s clients include corporate leaders, non-profit leaders and startup entrepreneurs. Carla’s Silicon Valley experience and high-level coaching gives her a unique ability to attune to what both business leaders and professionals need most to move past their barriers. Carla’s passion for entrepreneurism led her to coaching a cohort of female leader with How Women Lead – an organization that empowers female entrepreneurs, as well as teen girls with Oakland Natives Give Back. Carla lives in the Bay area and has a 21 year-old daughter. She has a private coaching practice and facilitates corporate workshops as an extension to her work with the MMS Institute.

Lindsey Taylor-Vivier

Meet your MMS NorCal Trainers

Lindsey Taylor-Vivier is the Managing Director of MMS Northern California. She’s an ICF certified coach and was trained at the MMS Worldwide Institute in The Netherlands. Coaching is close to Lindsey’s heart because of the personal transformation and healing she discovered through her own journey. Lindsey was a single mother of twin girls, and spent her family-building years raising her children, as well as owning and managing an award-winning restaurant in Arizona. The MMS Institute came into Lindsey’s life at a time of transition, and the coach training was the catalyst she needed to break through old patterns and beliefs, and to reframe her experience as a survivor of abuse, instead of a victim. This internal shift and emergence of her own confidence was so impactful that she knew she needed to share it with others. In partnership with Carla, she ignited a rebirth of MMS Northern California. She brings her compassionate advocacy to those experiencing a major life transition to the team. She’s happily married and a proud mother and grandmother. She spends her time with friends and family, traveling between her homes in Marin, County and Provence, France.

Testimonials

“MMS NorCal provided a wonderful ICF-accredited training experience. Not only was the content and delivery top notch as one would expect, but the atmosphere was warm and welcoming. Carla and Lindsey invite you into their lives and their community. It’s not just a certification, it’s a membership to a holistic and supportive environment to becoming a coach and achieving your dreams so you can help others do the same. I highly recommend MMS NorCal!”

Stephen Frenkel

“It was more than I could have wished for! The ACSTH training that is offered by the MMS Institute was so much more than a training course. Yes, I learned all the skills and competencies I expected to, but it also provided an incredibly safe space where I not only could witness the power of coaching but deeply experience it myself. The ability of the facilitators to hold space for each participant and their demonstration of such care was both incredible and inspiring. It was an experience I will never forget and it provided a community I didn’t even realize I needed or wanted in my life. I feel blessed to be part of the MMS Family and blessed to be able to serve others through what I learned. ”

Barbara E. Reppert, CPA,CMA

“Regardless of your professional or personal roles in life, we all need to interact with other humans. By acknowledging and practicing the expression of our true selves and our "raison d’être,” we can experience a miraculous freedom that will in turn help others realize their own. By understanding and exercising the practice of intense listening skills, we learn how to help each other. MMS Coaching Training is a highly professional and time tested program that has benefitted thousands of professionals and individuals for decades. MMS Training is an investment in yourself that can in turn, benefit every aspect and every person in your life.”

Alexandra Corr

“MMS provided me with a fantastic foundation in the fundamentals of coaching: active listening, being nonjudgmental, staying curious and asking questions rather than giving advice. I knew I could positively impact the lives of my coaching clients.”

Gary Gilberg

“The MMS Coach training provided me with the framework and confidence to quickly launch my own coaching practice, with the flexibility to build my business according to my own unique skill set and passions”

Sarah Perstiz

“Looking for the fitting coach program, from the start, The MMS Institute of Northern California felt personal, local, progressive and that it embodied integrity. The international feel was a huge incentive for the multicultural work I’m currently pursuing. The training program was exceptional as the result offered development objectives in regard to breaking behavior patterns, achieving aspired career goals, and making appropriate business decisions. As the program concluded, I felt improved as a whole and ready to become certified by the international coach federation. ”

Jessica Obando

“"I felt ultra prepared to take clients after the first weekend of MMS coach training. By the second weekend, I had already generated a small client roster and had several sessions of practical experience under my belt. Not only does this program arm you with the knowledge you need to start coaching right away, Carla and Lindsey take a holistic view of you as a coach. With their support, I was able to stop second-guessing and step into my calling."”

Brenda Litzinger

FAQ

  • What is The MMS Coach Training?

    The MMS Coach Training is a 12-week intensive and transformational certification program for people who want to be trained as a professional coach… 1) To develop their capacity to facilitate others 2) To develop themselves both personally and professionally

  • How long have you been conducting the Training?

    Dr. Cherie Carter-Scott designed and conducted the first MMS Coach Training in 1975 in San Francisco, CA. Since then we have continued to conduct MMS Coach Trainings around the world.

  • How long is the MMS Coach Training?

    It is 60 hours of live Coach Training over five months.

  • Why do people take The MMS Coach Training?

    People take the MMS Coach Training because they want to grow in dramatic and profound ways; because they want a supportive and nurturing environment in which to learn about coaching; and because they want to hone and enhance their ability to help and support others.

  • What is the purpose of the Training?

    The purpose of the MMS Coach Training is to become an MMS ICF certified coach; to learn coaching skills to apply to your career, and to grow exponentially in awareness and interpersonal skills

  • What do they hope to get out of The MMS Coach Training?

    Every person who enrolls wants to be of service to others, to develop the art of asking questions that originate in the intuition, and to develop ways to quiet the voices in their mind. It is possible to alter the orientation of life from one of regret, remorse, and recrimination to a life of unconditional acceptance, joy, and surrender to your life’s purpose and path.

  • What is the success rate?

    Our success rate is extremely high because we know the program is not for everyone. We interview candidates to determine if there is a fit between what they are looking for and what we are offering. If there is not a match in expectations, we dissuade them from enrolling in the program.

  • Can you tell me about the MMS Coach Training method?

    Our approach is Socratic in that we ask open-ended questions. These intuitive questions allow you to access your inner knowing or “answer channel” and find your answers. You will be amazed at what you will discover about your authentic Self. The basic premise is that unless you have your life the way you want it… it is difficult to support others to make their visions become reality. There are two parts to the CT process: The first six weeks the focus is on the Self. The second six weeks the focus is on the client or coach. The first portion of the MMS Coach Training is about being the best that you can be… so that you can truly be of service to others, support each person you coach in reconciling challenges, resolving issues, and in ultimately getting their needs and wants met. The second portion of the program focuses on the Coaching aspect, and the emphasis shifts from “Self” to “Other.” Knowing what you want is your birthright. Helping people know what they want is a gift!

  • What do I need to do to sign up for the Training?

    Email MMS Nor Cal Team at [email protected] and request a complementary Intake interview. After this you can enroll