Discovery Coaching Agreement
Coaching is an ongoing relationship between a coach and a person who desires coaching.
We agree that:
- Coaching is not therapy, counseling, advice-giving, mental health care, or treatment for substance abuse. The coach is not functioning as a licensed mental health professional and coaching is not intended as a replacement for counseling, psychiatric interventions, treatment for mental illness, recovery from past abuse, professional medical advice, financial assistance, legal counsel, or other professional services. Coaching is for people who are basically well adjusted, functioning effectively, and wanting to make changes in their lives.
- Coaching is designed to address issues the person being coached would like to consider. These could include (but are not limited to) movement through transitions, the achievement of short-term or long-term goals, lifestyle management, life balance, decision making, relationship enhancement, and career development.
- Coaching can involve brainstorming, values clarification, the completion of written assignments, education, goal setting, identifying plans of action, accountability, making requests, agreements to change behavior, examining lifestyles, and questioning. Coaching is most effective when both parties are honest and straightforward in their communications.
- Coaching is a confidential relationship and the coach agrees to keep all information strictly confidential, except in those situations in which such confidentiality would violate the law or could jeopardize the safety of the coachee or others.
- Coaching is done with the assumption that each person in the relationship is guided by his or her values and beliefs.
- Coaching is not therapy, counseling, advice-giving, mental health care, or treatment for substance abuse. The coach is not functioning as a licensed mental health professional and coaching is not intended as a replacement for counseling, psychiatric interventions, treatment for mental illness, recovery from past abuse, professional medical advice, financial assistance, legal counsel, or other professional services. Coaching is for people who are basically well adjusted, emotionally healthy, functioning effectively, and wanting to make changes in their lives.
- Coaching is designed to address issues the person being coached would like to consider. These could include (but are not limited to) career development, relationship enhancement, spiritual growth, lifestyle management, life balance, decision making, movement through transitions, or the achievement of short-term or long-term goals.
- Coaching can involve brainstorming, values clarification, the completion of written assignments, education, goal setting, identifying plans of action, accountability, making requests, agreements to change behavior, examining lifestyles, and questioning. Coaching is most effective when both parties are honest and straightforward in their communication.
- Coaching is a confidential relationship and the coach agrees to keep all information strictly confidential, except in those situations in which such confidentiality would violate the law or could jeopardize the safety of the coachee or others.
- Coaching is done with the assumption that each person in the relationship is guided by his or her values and beliefs.
- The coach and the coachee will work together to set a pre-determined session calls. Efforts will be made to accommodate each other’s schedules. At the scheduled time, the coachee will call the coach. The coach will wait for ten minutes beyond the start time, after which, the session will be considered missed. Each call will last approximately one hour, but sessions could be shorter based upon the needs of the coachee.
- For purposes of this agreement, the coachee and the coach agree to meet once a month for a minimum of six coaching sessions.
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