#CoachingAgreement Draft - Version 1.3

#CoachingAgreement Draft - Version 1.3

Poh-Sun Goh, 14 September 2021, 0819am, Singapore Time 

Conversation with YLLSOM Phase 1 student(s) / Clinical Group members below:

Hello,

Thank you for approaching me (directly, via email) for coaching. We will be conducting our coaching session over Zoom, or in person.

Do note that the coaching process is all about you, the client. After an informal get-to-know-you conversation, and discussion about the coaching process and a client-coach confidentiality (including coaching ethics and safety) agreement; we will spend our time focused on you, your goals, and concerns. I will spend a major portion of our time intentionally and actively listening to you; intermittently exploring areas you have brought up relevant to you, clarifying and summarising what you have brought up. We will wrap up each coaching conversation planning activities you can undertake before our next coaching session-conversation. 

This coaching process is different from teaching, instructing, mentoring, supervising and guiding - where the teacher/instructor/mentor/supervisor/guide is the 'content expert', who transfers professional know-how to students and practitioners-in-training.

With your permission, I will be making a digital audio record of our conversions, and will email this to you after our conversation [just between us, in strictest confidence]. This is part of the pedagogy of the coaching process, one key objective of which is to train you as a self-aware observer of how you 'show-up', what your #Emotion(al) state is and how you can shape this, how you present yourself outwardly, your #Body(posture, and use of non-verbal communication), and your #Language (including #Thinking, #MentalFramesOfReference, #Speech) - and through observation and awareness of #BEL or #Body, #Emotion and #Language, you can move from being an #Observer to intentionally choose your #Actions to produce 'new', better, and more effective #Results - to apply the #OAR model. The digital record is one tool for you to 'see' and observe yourself, as an external observer, when you play back these recordings. Your reflections (during) and after each session and notes you make and reflect upon are another (or alternative) 'mirror' and tool [which you can choose to use in addition to, or instead of making a digital record - you have agency and total freedom to choose which set of tools we will use]. My 'listening', questions, and feedback to you will be the primary 'mirror' to assist you in your coaching and self-awareness / self-development journey (as part of this coaching process). You own 'the goal' (you choose what you want to work on, and focus on). My role as coach is to manage 'the coaching process'.