Frequent Questions...And Their Answers
- What is relationship coaching and how is it different from individual coaching?
- Do I really need specialized training to do relationship coaching?
- Who do relationship coaches coach?
- I am an executive coach. How would I use relationship coaching in my practice?
- Can I use this training in my practice with individual clients?
- What is the difference between relationship therapy and relationship coaching?
- How do I become a relationship coach?
- What is available to graduates of the program?
- How is this program different from relationship coach training provided by other schools?
What is relationship coaching and how is it different from individual coaching?
Relationship coaching occurs whenever you are coaching two or more people whose primary concern is their relationship. Individual coaching is about empowerment. Similarly, it is designed to increase the power and potential of relationships of all kinds. It differs from individual coaching in that the client is the relationship rather than the individuals involved.
Do I really need specialized training to do relationship coaching?
Yes, because it involves coaching a relationship system, a new set of coaching skills are needed. Relationship coaching includes components of conflict resolution, alignment coaching, visioning, systems work, organizational transformation, process oriented psychology and other influences placed with a coaching framework. It is advanced cutting edge work that builds upon the fundamental skills of individual coaching.
Who do relationship coaches coach?
The principles of relationship coaching are the same regardless of how many people are in the relationship system. Relationship coaches work with all kinds of relationships, organizational, group, couples, families and work partnerships.
I am an executive coach. How would I use relationship coaching in my practice?
This Relationship Coaching Training Program has been heavily influenced by executive and organizational coaching. It provides executive coaches with a paradigm shift from doing individual work within a team setting to viewing the executive as part of a system. It gives concrete skills on how to improve that execs emotional intelligence as they operate within that system including:
* Designing not only coaching alliances with teams and co-workers, but developing the skills to have the design their “team alliance or contract” with which you, the coach contract.
* How to use conflict as the midwife to constructive change.
* How to positively leverage diversity.
* Visioning skills to release the creative potential of co-workers and teams.
* How to coach the conflict between the three parallel worlds in which organizations function: the original vision/mission level, the “climate” or atmosphere within which the organization function as well as in consensus reality of facts and figures
* How to successfully leverage rather than avoid emotional and relational issues that inevitably arise within organizations
Can I use this training in my practice with individual clients?
Absolutely! Relationship issues are one of the top issues addressed in individual coaching. Many individual coaches report that RC training has given them potent new skills for addressing the relationship issues brought by their individual clients.
What is the difference between relationship therapy and relationship coaching?
Both disciplines work with emotional issues, and both can provide useful skill sets. However, the philosophical stance of the two is quite different.
Broadly speaking, a Relationship Therapist is seen as an expert who will diagnose what is wrong with the relationship and design a treatment plan to resolve the problem or pathology. By contrast, the Relationship Coach holds clients as naturally creative, resourceful and whole. The Relationship Coach works co-actively with clients to unfold and provide focus for what the clients want to create NOW. The focus is not on history or who is doing what to whom, but on what's trying to happen.
How do I become a relationship coach?
The Center for Right Relationship has developed a rigorous graduate program that was presented through the Coaches Training Institute to provide experienced coaches with the skill sets required to be Relationship Coaches. This program is now back in-house with the Center for Right Relationship and provides a unique contribution to the field of coaching. The training consists of 84 coach training hours and is the only Relationship Systems Coaching Training approved by the International Coach Federation for Continuing Coaching Education credits. The program is open to all coaches who have completed 82 hours of coach specific training from any ICF accredited school. At the end of the program graduates will receive a certificate of completion. The program provides theory, practical skills and practice coaching, both live and vignette, with many types of relationships including organizations, groups, business and couples. This innovative program focuses not only on the doing of relationship coaching, but also on the being of it, how to create conscious, intentional, emotional spaces in relationship.
What is available to graduates of the program?
Program graduates automatically become part of a global network of ORSC practitioners expressed in both a virtual community network as well as centrally organized Geographic Communities.
The Center offers services to graduates including Supervision, Mentorship to anchor the work. Certification in ORSC will be available in winter of ‘08.
How is this program different from relationship coach training provided by other schools?
Our Relationship Coaching Training Program is the only program approved for 66 CCE with the International Coach Federation. It provides coaching training for working with all kinds of relationships. This is an in-person, intense training program that takes place over several months. In this program you participate with other experienced coaches learning the theory, skills and techniques of Relationship Coaching as well as observing demonstrations and practicing what you are learning. Homework coaching allows participants to practice their new skills in the real world. Upon graduation from the program you are eligible to sign up for further specialized course work in the before mentioned Certification program.