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What is Relationship Coaching?


Relationship coaching is a professional client-focused service wherein the individual or couple is viewed as healthy, powerful, and able to achieve relationship goals with effective support, information, and guidance. Relationship coaching is a dynamic co-creative relationship that uses communication and problem solving. This professional relationship accelerates personal and professional development because the coach and client work as a team to enable the client to tackle present interests, challenges, and goals. Relationship coaching is all about supporting people in becoming their personal best. The practice of guiding and supporting someone through personal transformation and success is commonly used in sports, business, religious, and other venues because of its tremendous value to the process of change.

My Coaching Philosophy & Style


I believe that relationship coaching is an incredibly valuable resource for personal growth and development. It’s an opportunity to reach for what you truly want in your relationships with the help of a skilled and caring companion to support you as you take the steps that will help you begin to realize what is possible. Discovering what is possible involves clarifying what is important to you…your thoughts, feelings, wants, and actions.

Relationship coaching takes caring, courage, commitment, and character. Paradoxically, it also strengthens these very attributes if you approach it with integrity and motivation. Can you believe that the life you have is the life you have chosen until now? It’s true! Our choices are so powerful. They can propel us forward to the glorious destiny that awaits us or become an obstacle that entrenches us in a life less deserving of our dignity.

As your coach, you can count on me to respect your dignity by facilitating awareness of your strengths, challenges, options, and opportunities. You can count on me to be an accountability partner, encouraging you to act courageously, and strategically to accomplish your goals. My approach to problem solving is both logical and action oriented. I prefer a collaborative communication style that incorporates the exploring of facts and possibilities, and working through challenges productively with the purpose of collaboratively generating action plans that fit your awareness of what is needed.

My focus is to positively connect and collaborate with you. I can be firm and affirming, flexible and caring. I value faith, principle, honesty, self acceptance, compassion and mercy. I believe firmly in the providential love, grace, and mercy of God as an indispensible resource for creating lasting change in ourselves and our relationships.


How Does Relationship Coaching Work?


Relationship coaching begins with your decision to take action on your desire to strengthen your marriage and family relationships by :

• Understanding what relationship coaching is…
• Understanding the specific roles of the Coach and Client…
• And, being clear on the differences between coaching, therapy, and consulting

Once you are clear about what relationship coaching is and offers it’s time to get clear about your level of readiness to participate in this wonderful process. Start by taking the Relationship Coaching Readiness Assessment, and then after you receive your results contact me for a complimentary session. This is an opportunity to share your relationship interests, challenges, and goals with me, as well as, a chance to experience my coaching style.
 
As Your Coach My Role Involves:

• Setting appropriate boundaries and policies
• Allowing you to determine the agenda for each session
• Listening to you on multiple levels
• Asking powerful, direct questions to help you clarify your thoughts, feelings, intentions, and actions
• Sharing knowledge, experience, information to facilitate discovery and grasping of your own truth
• Providing ongoing, genuine support and encouragement
• Assisting you in setting goals, planning, and strategizing
• Exploring perspectives, options, information and ideas to expand your awareness and bring about your own solutions

As My Client Your Role Involves:
 
• Providing the agenda or topic of discussion for each scheduled session
• Taking responsibility for your thoughts, feelings, intentions, and actions
• Taking responsibility for your success
• Speaking truthfully
• Doing the work required for progress
• Paying your coaching fees as agreed and on time
• Showing up ready to engage


Relationship Coaching vs. Consulting and Therapy


Relationship Coaching views you as the expert on your life. The coach shares knowledge, experience, and information to empower you to determine what works best for you, and what is in your best interest. Coaching facilitates your learning, and doing by offering valuable information, support, and encouragement without attempting to control the outcome for you. Consulting involves giving advice and solutions with a particular outcome in mind. Therapy assumes a need for healing, focuses on the past, and aims for insight and resolution. Coaches do not treat clinical
disorders such as depression, anxiety, phobias, and addictions.

Professional Coaching and Therapy have the following similarities…

• Working with clients who want to make changes
• Engages in an ongoing fee-for-service relationship
• Services offered through regularly scheduled sessions
• Utilize verbal dialogue as primary service activity
• Adherence to client confidentiality, and professional standards and ethical guidelines

Your Relationship Coaching Options Include:


• Individual Relationship Coaching
• Relationship Coaching Groups

Individual Relationship Coaching offers you:

• Client-focused agenda that incorporates your goals
• Tips, strategies, and action planning to accomplish your goals
• A safe place to share important thoughts, feelings, concerns and questions, while exploring your own capacity for relating more effectively

As your coach I partner with you to address issues about relating well of your choosing that may include:

• Parenting
• Communication
• Intimacy
• Dealing with emotions
• Conflict, decision-making

I offer individual coaching services on a monthly basis which gives you:

• Three 60 minute sessions each month
• Between session responses through email on action points
• Telephone-based coaching sessions
• Brief telephone sessions for added support as necessary
• A written progress report on wins, challenges, and strategies

Clients generally work with me for three months to two years or more in order to establish the changes they desire. A three-month time frame is ideal and highly recommended for starting the coaching process.

Free Sample Session


A complimentary 30-minute telephone-based sample session is available to you if you are ready to nourish your marriage and family relationships. Contact me today to schedule your complimentary session!

Relationship Coaching Groups


These are excellent opportunities to join others who like you are committed to personal growth. Relationship coaching groups are interactive sessions facilitated by me that are structured around a common theme or focus. The genius of this format of learning is that you experience coaching from the coach (me) along with support and encouragement from other participants all in a mutually supportive learning environment. These are small groups consisting of 6 to 10 individuals or 3 to 5 couples. This is an affordable and effective way to experience coaching for important relational changes.

You Can Participate by Telephone or Webcast


I use both telephone and webcasting technology to give you the option of participating in a coaching group by telephone or webcast. The groups take place over the telephone and by live web simulcast, which allows you to participate from the convenience of your office, home, or hotel! Relationship groups meet for 90 minutes three times a month. The time and day remains the same.

TeleSeminars


Content-rich interactive presentations delivered via telephone and live web simulcast that offer you timely information and proven strategies for enriching yourself and your marriage and family relationships.
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