What is ICTA?

ICTA (International Coach & Trainer Association) is a professional worldwide Association, created as a result of close cooperation and merger of two coaching associations: ICN (International Coach, Trainer and Therapist Network) and ICU (International Coaches Union). These former associations have been well-known in the European and Russian-speaking coaching and trainers communities correspondingly. Now we are uniting our efforts in ensuring high professional standards in the field across different countries and cultures.

The purpose of ICTA is to accredit Coaches, Trainers and Institutes to ensure high standards of professional coaching and training within the field of personal development.

ICTA aims at

• Ensuring high standards at coaching and training.
• Accrediting certified Coaches and Trainers.
• Assisting members in presenting and marketing their coaching and training services
• Assisting others to find a coach or trainer of high standards, who can assist at the conscious as well as on the unconscious level.
• Supporting members to develop professionally and personal.
• Setting a frame of ethical standards of the work for members.
• Listing accredited Institutes who can certify members.
• Organizing charity projects and support with developing of professionals in all the countries.
• Organizing special events for members in order to exchange professional experience.

The levels of Membership in ICTA are:

1. Associate Member (Basic level)
2. Full Member (Master level)
3. Professional Specialist
4. Accredited Institute

The advantages for members of ICTA are:

• Membership of an international network of professionals;
• ICTA logo can be used by Professional Members and Accredited Institutes in marketing and certification;
• Members can present themselves by name and short introduction on ICTA site and have a link to own site;
• Members can market themselves by writing articles on ICTA site;
• Members can participate in ICTA conferences and inspire each other by presenting workshops and talks;
• Members can use each other as a professional network and have customers and clients from each other;
• Members can present themselves to the public as a full scale Institute and pass students on to other Accredited Institutes and receive a fee for that;
• Members can buy products (study-packets) from ICTA for a special price;
• Members who want to do special research within a certain area of interest can apply for financial support from ICTA – when funds are available;
• Members can become supervised by more experienced members in connection with special problems they meet.

To join ICTA you need to fulfill professional criteria of one of 4 levels of membership.