Ask Deeply, Shift Completely

The Session Blueprint Every PCC Coach Has Been Looking For
You know what PCC-level coaching is supposed to look like. You know the ICF Competency Framework. You know what a powerful question is designed to produce. What is harder to find is a complete, professionally mapped blueprint for what a PCC-level session actually sounds like, from the first word of the contract to the final request for feedback.
Ask Deeply, Shift Completely closes that gap. Written by Dr. Areej ElSayary, ICF Certified Coach (PCC) and Associate Professor at Zayed University, UAE, this handbook gives you 25 complete session blueprints at PCC and MCC level. Every question is written in language that works for clients aged 12 to 35, and every question is mapped to its specific ICF PCC Marker code, so you always know exactly which competency each question is designed to demonstrate.
This is the book that turns the ICF framework from something you understand into something you can use fluently in a live session with a real young client.

What You Will Find Inside

• Part One: Foundation: The ICF Core Competencies are described at ACC, PCC, and MCC levels in honest practitioner language. The six-step contracting model and five-step closure model with exact wording and PCC marker codes for every step.
• Part Two: 15 Core Session Blueprints: Five categories of presenting situations, each with complete four-phase blueprints covering contracting, exploration for clarity, exploration for perspective, and closure. Sessions include the Scaling Session, State Change, Inner Critic, Life Wheel, Logical Levels, VBSI, As-If, Parts Integration, Stakeholders, Future Self, Three Chairs, Mentor's Table, Walt Disney, Timeline, and Mastery Walk.
• Part Three: The Digital Well-Being Extension: Ten adapted sessions for the specific challenges of the digital world, including cyberbullying, online comparison, doomscrolling, digital procrastination, online identity conflict, online social pressure, and the fear of sharing one's voice online. The first coaching resource to address digital well-being with a full ICF-aligned session structure.
• Part Four: Reference Appendices: A complete PCC Marker Index mapping every question in the book to its ICF code. A session selection guide matching 20 presenting situations to the right session. Printable contracting and closure templates for use during live sessions. A Coach Self-Assessment across all eight ICF Core Competencies. Suggested further reading and ICF resources.

• ICF coaches at ACC, PCC, or MCC levels who work with young adult clients and want complete, professionally grounded session blueprints.
• Coaches in ICF-accredited training programs who want to see the PCC Marker framework applied to real sessions with real language.
• School counselors, educational psychologists, and educators with coaching training who work with adolescents.
• Career coaches, life coaches, and wellness coaches whose clients increasingly present with digital well-being challenges.
• Any coach preparing for a PCC or MCC credential assessment who wants to see the competency framework in full, fluent use.