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The deadline for CCEUs is April 30th, 2026.
(Exact date to be confirmed)
Annie Gelfand, MCC
Host and Facilitator
2025
Essence of Mastery Summit 2025 events:
Plunging Into the Unknown - Be a Tourist in Your Client's Land
The Art of Deep Listening;
Hearing Beyond Words
Coaching Skills in Action: Practice Workshop with 3 Real-Life Scenarios
EVENT 1
EVENT 2
EVENT 3
🗓️ October 15 and 22, 2025
⏰ from 12 noon to 3 pm Eastern Time
🗓️ June 18 and 25, 2025
⏰ from 12 noon to 3 pm Eastern Time
🗓️ April 16 and 23, 2025
⏰ from 12 noon to 3 pm Eastern Time
Plunging Into the Unknown - Be a Tourist in Your Client's Land
- Amplify Your Coaching Presence – Master deep listening, powerful questioning, and silence to evoke client awareness.
- Empower Clients More Effortlessly – Recognize, acknowledge, and leverage their unique talents and strengths.
- Foster Breakthroughs – Help clients move beyond their current thinking into expanded perspectives and new possibilities.
- Master the Art of Noticing – Tune into shifts in energy, emotion, and nonverbal cues to deepen the impact of your coaching.
- Coaching Demos + Real-Time Feedback – Watch expert-level coaching in action, then put your learning to the test in guided exercises.
- Practical Application – Between-session assignments ensure you integrate learning into your own coaching practice.
April 16 and 23, 2025
from 12 noon to 3 pm Eastern Time
Annie Gelfand, MCC
EVENT 1
The Art of Deep Listening;
Hearing Beyond Words
- Listen Like a Master Coach – Develop non-linear, heart-centered listening that fosters deep connection and transformation.
- Build Rapport That Lasts – Learn how to listen cumulatively across sessions to strengthen trust and continuity.
- Create a Judgment-Free Space – Cultivate deep presence and compassion, removing the need for labels like “good” or “bad.”
- Empower Clients Through Trust & Safety – Help clients feel secure enough to take bold, transformational steps.
- Coaching Demos + Real-Time Feedback – Witness deep listening in action, then practice and refine your own skills.
- Practical Application – Integrate learning with between-session assignments to solidify your mastery.
June 18 and 25, 2025
from 12 noon - 3 pm Eastern Time
EVENT 2
Annie Gelfand, MCC
Coaching Skills in Action: Practice Workshop with 3 Real-Life Scenarios
- Master the Art of Presence – Learn to be observant, empathetic, and fully responsive to your client. Expand Your Coaching Depth – Move beyond surface-level coaching to explore values, identity, and deeper motivations.
- Enhance Your Flexibility & Confidence – Develop a coaching style that is open, spontaneous, and deeply connected.
- Deepen Your Understanding of MCC Anchors – Unpack ICF Core Competencies and Behavioral Anchors to refine your coaching approach.
- Coaching Demos + Debriefs – See MCC-level coaching in action and receive real-time feedback on your own practice.
- Practical Application & Assignments – Take your learning beyond the session with reflection exercises and real-world practice.
October 15 and 22, 2025
from 12 noon to 3 pm Eastern Time
EVENT 3
Annie Gelfand, MCC
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Lifetime access to recordings for each of Annie's events that you purchase as well as slides and handouts.
RECORDINGS and handouts
Private community for participants of the Essence of Mastery Summit as well as breakout groups of 3 participants in live events so you can connect closely with your colleagues.
community
The 2025 Summit features three events throughout the year for 18 ICF CCEUs (18 hours of rich, deep interactive learning), all devoted to coaching mastery. The deadline for qualifying is April 30/26 via answering quizzes for each event.
core competency units
Each event has a beautifully crafted workbook specifically designed to ensure you get the most out of your learning experience. It has a section for each day as well as pre-session. We also included a recommended reading list.
workbook
1 x monthly Q&A sessions where you can bring any coaching question and Annie will be there to support you along with your peers.
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Annie Gelfand, MCC
Masterful coaching is not a destination.
It's a journey.
- You are ready to elevate your coaching with deeper, more advanced guidance.
- You feel stuck at a plateau and are looking for the breakthrough that takes your coaching to the next level.
- You want powerful, transformational tools to create greater impact for your clients.
- You are pursuing a coaching credential or simply committed to lifelong mastery.
- You crave a community of like-minded coaches who challenge, inspire, and support you.
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what our participants say about the Summit
PCC
Karen Davey-Winter
I loved these sessions! I especially liked the tool that was presented to help us identify our Why, How and What. I went through the assessment while I was watching the class and the results were fascinating and clarified some thing. The discussion about how the results resonated for the class was also really interesting. Finally, the section where Annie used transcripts to help the group identify how a coach could respond in line with the MCC markers was really helpful in putting the markers into practice. Another great event!
ACC
John Sanders
Annie's presentation was both thoughful, thorough and informative. As a coach working for my PCC I believed that I was an effective coach. It is now apparent that I have so much more to learn, and put into practice. I will be a far better coach because of this program.
PCC
Jennifer Marcou
“This program gave me an appreciation of what mastery looks like. I learned the concepts through select MCC competencies. Plus I was able to practice as a coach and learned as a client and observer in practice triads. Annie Gelfand is a role model for presence. I walked away not only with understanding the concepts but being able to visualize them and practice them. I would definitely recommend this course.”
PCC
Sunada Takagi
I participated in all of the events this year, and they were all SUPER! Although I am not planning to apply for an MCC, I DO want to be a masterful coach. This was my first deep dive into attempting to understand what it means to be an MCC. You can't get that from reading a book or attending a 90-minute webinar. This series was comprehensive, provided depth, and helped me to grasp the intangible skills that are the hallmarks of true masterful coaching. Thank you!
PCC
John Arnold
“I continue to learn how to deepen my own coaching skills and my awareness of what work needs to continue for me and my clients. With each lesson and speaker as well as the breakout groups, I find myself even more curious about what I can learn or take away from my coaching colleagues and presenters. Annie continues to invite and present MCC coaches that take us to places we really did not think might be possible and the awakening is so powerful.”
PCC
Norah Edelstein
Annie is a wonderful facilitator of people's inner wisdom. Through her guidance and partnership with the participating coaches, she embodies all that she is sharing with us. So the learning takes place through the conversation, Annies wisdom and subconsciously by watching her interact with the participants. Also, I love learning from other coaches and seeing my struggles normalized through the full range of experiences and challenges that others are encountering as coaches.
ACC
Cathy Laffan
Annie created and delivered a powerful program on the impact of silence in coaching. The group discussions and examples were very helpful to me. As an ACC on my journey to PCC, I was inspired by higher level coaches continuing to grow their skills, being willing to share what they're working on, and the encouragement to continue to grow no matter what your certification level. Witnessing skilled MCC's gives me something to aim for in my coaching. The added bonus of the "Why" content was a nice surprise. It highlighted how our "Why" may be a bias for our coaching. Thank you Annie and all the participants. I highly recommend this program, it's an excellent value.
PhD, PCC
Bradley Davidson
“Thank you so much for another TERRIFIC summit. In each of your summits, I find gratitude for this profession, community among my fellow coaches, and energy in my continued learning. Looking forward to next year’s summit!
ACC
Dr. Justine Williamson
¨The professional life of a coach can be lonely sometimes. This informative, authentic and inspiring Summit brings you back in from the coaching wilderness, and has something to offer coaches at ACC, PCC and MCC levels to help all continue to grow and develop as coaching professionals¨
PCC
Karen Bruns
Always an amazing event rich with learning. I got the chance to embody "being" and know now what it feels like. It was as if everything around me dropped out of cognition and it was just the client and I together in a bubble. I could feel it in my body. Wonderful learning. EOMS is guaranteed to delve deeper into the competencies and grow us as coaches.
PCC
Andi Roberts
As always Annie is like the "redbull" of coaching. She inspires and energises with her wisdom, stories and authenticity. It is always a pleasure to learn from such a humble master. This is modelling the coaching competencies!
PCC
Pamela Kudlick
This was a great 3 days filled with ways of BEING for ourselves and clients. Yes, we covered the PCC markers and hallmarks of excellence AND practiced new ways of BEING. Within the week that I listened to this, something great shifted in me with more presence than before. Thank you Annie and this group for sharing and being practical in ways of elevating our beings.
PCC
Jen Porter
The Essence of Mastery was more than I expected and has inspired me to keep growing and pursue greater excellence in my work as a coach. I loved being part of the community in the live sessions and look forward to participating each year to come. Thank you for this labor of love that serves us all in such meaningful and powerful ways!
PCC
Elizabeth EU
“Thank you Annie and team for offering this annual summit. While I am not specifically pursuing to attain MCC, I do pursue to be a masterful coach in every coaching session with my client. This annual summit is my go-to place to learn, and keep learning, the transformative competencies of masterful coaching.”
ACC
Ainsley Glover
The EOMS continues to be the best resource for me as a coach to get connected to my people, feel inspired and most importantly learn more about myself as a coach, tangible skills to be a better coach and how to support clients with an MCC mindset and being. So grateful to the creators, speakers and all contributors for what they have made, who they are and what they stand for. A beacon of being better so we can give more to our clients.
MCC
Ellen Kocher
I absolutely loved my first Essence of Mastery Summit. Sharing and learning with and from like-minded coaches opens our minds and provides growth that no other "training" I have attended. I encourage coaches of every level to attend the summit to - well - understand what the "summit" of coaching can be. It gives inspiration for what we can aspire to and evokes action to endeavour to reach it!
Discover new ways of being with your clients that help them feel deeply heard, seen, and understood.
Strengthen your coaching confidence by bringing the ICF Core Competencies to life—whether you're preparing for a credential evaluation or simply committed to mastery.
Learn state-of-the-art and time-tested tools taught by Annie Gelfand, MCC to increase your coaching effectiveness.
Allow your inspiration to inform YOUR unique coaching style, so that your clients connect their vision and ability to act upon their intentions.
Connect with a community of coaches on the continual path to mastery.
This Summit is Designed to Help Coaches
The 2025 Summit features three immersive 6-hour events spread throughout the year—all included in our full year summit package.
Each session is designed to be interactive and engaging, so you won’t want to miss a moment.
All events are live, and you'll have lifetime access to the recordings.
Community is everything to us, and this year, we’re deepening the experience. Throughout the summit, you’ll work in small, intimate groups of three—practicing real coaching conversations and working through dynamic coaching scenarios. Plus, we’ve created a powerful workbook to help you integrate your learning every step of the way.
What is the Essence of Mastery Summit?
I am so glad you found your way here. I am your host and
co-founder of the Essence of Mastery Summit. I have been coaching since 1997 and am honoured to be not only an ICF Master Certified Coach, but also an MCC assessor for the International Coaching Federation.
Are you ready to apply for your ICF MCC? Or maybe you are committed to continually hone your coaching mastery? These events are for you.
It is specifically meant for coaches who would like to raise the bar on coaching mastery and qualify for ICF CCEUs at the same time.
I'm Annie Gelfand,
Host and Creator of the Summit
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