ORSC Fundamentals
CRR Global's 2-day entry-point to ORSC — the world's first ICF-accredited systems coaching methodology. Earns 12 ICF CCEs and opens the Level 2 pathway.
- Provider
- CRR Global
- Format
- In-person or live virtual; CRR Global + 15+ country partners
- ICF hours
- 12 CCEs (Core) from Fundamentals; 84 from full series
- Duration
- 2 days (standalone); full series 14 days across 5 courses
- Tuition
- Full series $7,355 USD (purchased separately); bundle discounts available
- Prerequisites
- None for Fundamentals. Each subsequent ORSC course requires the prior course as a prerequisite.
About
Program overview
ORSC Fundamentals is the foundational two-day workshop that introduces the Organization and Relationship Systems Coaching (ORSC™) methodology, the world's first systems coaching program to receive ICF accreditation, developed by CRR Global co-founders Marita Fridjhon and Faith Fuller.
The course is the essential entry point to the ORSC curriculum. It introduces the five core ORSC tools and the central principles of Relationship Systems Intelligence (RSI™), the discipline of coaching the relationship system itself rather than the individuals within it. Completing Fundamentals earns 12 ICF Continuing Coach Education units (Core Competency hours) and opens access to the four ORSC Intermediate courses (Intelligence, Geography, Path, and Systems Integration), the full five-course series, and ultimately ORSC Certification, an ICF Level 2 accredited mastery program.
It is available as a standalone workshop or combined with Intermediate courses at a discount.
Who it's for
Coaches who work with (or want to work with) teams, couples, partnerships, co-founders, or any multi-person client system
Individual coaches who want to shift from coaching the person to coaching the relationship and the system
Organizational consultants, HR and OD professionals, and leadership coaches who need team-level coaching tools
Therapists, mediators, and family practitioners interested in applying a systems-coaching lens
Coaches pursuing the ICF Advanced Certification in Team Coaching (ACTC), since the full ORSC series meets the 60-hour team coaching requirement
Coaches seeking an experiential, field-tested entry point into systems thinking before committing to the full series
What you'll learn
The Third Entity
ORSC's most defining concept: every relationship, team, or partnership has its own intelligence, personality, and voice, distinct from the individuals within it. The Third Entity is the system itself, and coaching it requires different skills and frameworks than coaching individuals.
The five core ORSC tools
The foundational toolkit of the Fundamentals curriculum:
Identifying and working with the voice of the relationship
Recognizing systemic roles and how they serve the system
Surfacing the emotional field of the system: what is present but unspoken
Working with conflict as energy and information, not a problem to eliminate
Creating alignment and shared vision within a relationship system
Relationship Systems Intelligence (RSI™)
The third-tier intelligence that CRR Global has developed beyond Emotional Intelligence (self) and Social Intelligence (one-on-one): the capacity to recognize, interpret, and consciously influence the web of connection within any system. RSI is both a teachable skill set and a perceptual shift.
Practical application
Between Day 1 and Day 2, participants complete a real-world coaching assignment: coaching a relationship of their choice (business partners, colleagues, co-founders, or any connected pair) in a 45-minute session. This moves learning from conceptual to immediate and applicable within the first 24 hours of the course.
Credentials and accreditation
Completing ORSC Fundamentals earns a Certificate of Completion and 12 ICF Continuing Coach Education units (CCEUs), all Core Competency hours, applicable to ICF credential maintenance or renewal for ACC, PCC, and MCC holders.
Fundamentals is the first step in the ICF Level 2 pathway offered by CRR Global. The full five-course ORSC series earns 84 CCEs. Continuing to ORSC Certification (ICF Level 2 accredited) earns the ORSCC (Organization and Relationship Systems Certified Coach) credential and approximately 96.5 additional CCEs. The full series also meets the 60 training hours required for ICF Advanced Certification in Team Coaching (ACTC), the ICF's specialized team coaching credential.
CRR Global was the first organization to achieve ICF accreditation for a systems coaching program (since 2003) and holds the ICF's Advanced Accreditation in Team Coaching (AATC).
Format, duration, and cost
Duration: 2 days
Delivery: in-person or live virtual; available through CRR Global directly and via licensed partner organizations in 15+ countries
Prerequisite: none; Fundamentals is the entry point with no prior ORSC or systems coaching experience required
Full ORSC series price: USD $7,355 when purchased separately; bundle discounts available (check enrollment page for current pricing and regional rates)
Standalone Fundamentals: pricing varies by region and partner; contact CRR Global or a regional partner for current rates
Courses must be taken in sequence: each ORSC module is a prerequisite for the next
What makes it distinctive
ORSC Fundamentals occupies an unusual position in the coach training field: it is the only formal entry point to the only ICF-accredited systems coaching methodology in the world. The tools you learn in the two-day workshop are the same foundational instruments that practitioners carry through all five series courses, Certification, and their professional practice, not simplified versions of what comes later. The learning curve is steep in the best sense: the concepts are genuinely new to most coaches, and the experiential format means you are applying them with real clients within 24 hours of first encountering them.
The field is also growing. ICF's team coaching competencies, now embedded in its credentialing framework, were substantially shaped by ORSC's two decades of systems coaching practice. Coaches who hold ORSCC credentials and ACTC designations are positioned in the part of the profession where demand is expanding fastest: organizational, team, and systems coaching.
For coaches primarily working with individual clients, Fundamentals is still valuable as a lens. The RSI toolkit surfaces dynamics in any coaching conversation, including individual sessions, that one-on-one coaching models miss.
When the relationship itself is the client, a different kind of coaching becomes possible. Every team, partnership, and family has its own intelligence, and that intelligence is the real working terrain.
Frameworks taught at ORSC Fundamentals
Challenges this training prepares coaches for
Questions about ORSC Fundamentals
Q.01What is ORSC Fundamentals?
What is ORSC Fundamentals?
ORSC Fundamentals is the two-day foundational workshop that introduces Organization and Relationship Systems Coaching (ORSC), the world's first ICF-accredited systems coaching methodology. It covers the five core ORSC tools and introduces Relationship Systems Intelligence (RSI), the practice of coaching the relationship system itself rather than the individuals within it.
Q.02What credentials does completing Fundamentals earn?
What credentials does completing Fundamentals earn?
Completing ORSC Fundamentals earns a Certificate of Completion and 12 ICF Continuing Coach Education units (CCEUs), all classified as Core Competency hours. These can be applied toward ICF credential renewal (ACC, PCC, or MCC). Fundamentals is the first step toward the full ORSC Level 2 pathway and the ORSCC credential.
Q.03Do I need prior experience in systems coaching to attend?
Do I need prior experience in systems coaching to attend?
No. Fundamentals is the entry point to the ORSC curriculum and requires no prior experience in systems coaching or ORSC. It is designed to be taken first, before the Intermediate courses.
Q.04How does ORSC differ from individual coaching?
How does ORSC differ from individual coaching?
ORSC treats the relationship itself, whether a team, partnership, couple, or organisation, as the client rather than the individuals within it. The methodology is built around the concept of the Third Entity: every relationship system has its own intelligence, voice, and personality that is distinct from the people comprising it. Coaching the system requires different tools and a different perceptual frame than coaching individuals.
Q.05What comes after Fundamentals?
What comes after Fundamentals?
The full ORSC series consists of five courses: Fundamentals, Intelligence, Geography, Path, and Systems Integration, totalling 14 days of training and earning 84 ICF CCEs. Courses must be taken in sequence. ORSC Certification, the mastery-level program, follows the series and earns the ORSCC credential and approximately 96.5 additional CCEs. The full series also meets the 60 training hours required for the ICF Advanced Certification in Team Coaching (ACTC).
Q.06What is ORSC Certification?
What is ORSC Certification?
ORSC Certification is a 35-week mastery-level ICF Level 2 program: two semesters of applied practice, supervision, mentor coaching, and a World Work Project. Graduates receive the ORSCC credential.
Q.07Is ORSC suited for couples or just teams?
Is ORSC suited for couples or just teams?
Both. The ORSC methodology applies to any relationship system: teams, co-founder partnerships, couples, families, and even the inner system of voices within one person. Fundamentals is geared toward personal coaching, therapy, and social work; ORS@Work is the alternative entry-point course geared toward corporate and OD contexts.
Q.08What is the price of the full ORSC series?
What is the price of the full ORSC series?
USD $7,355 when courses are purchased separately. Bundle discounts are available. Standalone Fundamentals pricing varies by region; contact CRR Global or a regional partner for current rates.
Q.09Is CRR Global the only provider of ORSC training?
Is CRR Global the only provider of ORSC training?
CRR Global creates and oversees the ORSC curriculum. Training is delivered by CRR Global directly and through licensed partner organizations in 15+ countries.
Q.10Does ORSC qualify toward ICF ACTC certification?
Does ORSC qualify toward ICF ACTC certification?
The full five-course ORSC series meets the 60 training hours required for the ICF Advanced Certification in Team Coaching (ACTC). CRR Global also holds the ICF AATC at the organizational level, validating its curriculum against ICF team coaching standards.
Q.11Can I take just Fundamentals, or do I need to commit to the full series?
Can I take just Fundamentals, or do I need to commit to the full series?
Fundamentals is available as a standalone workshop with no commitment to the Intermediate courses. The 12 CCEs it earns are applicable to ICF credential renewal regardless of whether you continue. Many coaches take Fundamentals first to experience ORSC before deciding whether to proceed; the full series and ORSC Certification require sequential progression, but Fundamentals alone is a complete and usable credential. Bundle pricing is available if you commit to the full series at enrollment.
Q.12What should I ask an ORSC-trained coach before hiring them?
What should I ask an ORSC-trained coach before hiring them?
Ask which ORSC courses they have completed and when. Fundamentals, the Intermediate series, and ORSC Certification are meaningfully different levels of preparation, and recency matters for a methodology that requires ongoing practice. Ask specifically whether they work with systems such as teams, organisations, and partnerships, or primarily with individuals using ORSC as a lens; those are different practices. Ask what the Third Entity concept means to them and how they apply it; a practitioner who can explain it clearly in terms of a real coaching situation demonstrates genuine integration of the methodology, not just exposure to the vocabulary. Ask about their supervision arrangements: systems coaching raises complex ethical and interpersonal dynamics, and practitioners who continue to develop with supervision typically work at a higher standard than those who don't.