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Prerequisites
If you are new to relationship coaching, please refer to Coaching
Programs Overview for the sequence that you need to follow.
The coaching programs described here follow and build upon the
required Foundation Coaching Program.
Unless otherwise noted, all coaching programs are by telephone.
Background
In the Foundation Program, you began to apply our coaching process
to your own life. You began to diagnose the problems or shortcomings
of your relationship You identified the skills that you need to
learn and made a start at learning them. In addition, during your
weeks in the Program, you developed a more clear and detailed
picture of the relationship you want to build. You began a productive
relationship with your coach. You came to understand the commitment
you will need to reach your relationship goals.
Now where do you go from here?
Ours is not a "one size fits all" program. People's
circumstances, needs and availability for learning change. Hence,
the flexibility of our program, which offers a variety of routes
to relationship success. Here are options:
Option 1:
Individual Coaching
Individual coaching is appropriate if you are working on clearly
individual issues, if your partner is not willing to join you
for couples coaching or if you are not currently in a relationship.
Focuses -
- Clarify and deepen your vision of the relationship(s) that
you want
- Continue learning and applying new skills
- Develop your own "learn and practice" plans
- Look for and pursue new opportunities for relationship growth
- Use your online journals (blogs) to record goals, action experiments
and results
- Develop mutual-assistance and support relationships with others
in the Practice Community
Option 2:
Couples Coaching
Couples Coaching is generally the best choice if the focus is
your marriage or couple relationship and if both you and your
partner are willing to work together.
Focuses -
With the support and assistance of your coach, continue the work
begun in the Foundation Program. (See Individual Coaching above.)
Also:
- Work on couple communication, conflict-resolution and cooperation
skills, then -
- Develop a shared vision of the relationship you want to build
- Develop couple goals and a couple plan for realizing your
vision
- Then skills practice - feedback - redesign - more practice
- As skills improve, expand the vision.
Option 3:
Group Coaching
Group coaching (6-8 member groups) is less costly than individual
and couples coaching. Coaching groups also provide a level of
shared support and experience not found in other forms of coaching.
Coaching groups -
- Are open to people who have completed the Foundation Program
- Are of several types - individual and couple, support groups
and skills groups
- Are announced in Living
Together.Tips for Couples, the site free newsletter, as
well as on the home page.
- Can have several focuses, depending on need and interest,
including -
- Building positive relationships
- Marriage commitment
- Surviving divorce
- Conflict management
- Rescuing a damaged relationship
- Communication skills
- Working alone on your marriage
- Dealing with infidelity
- Intimacy
- Remarriage
- Love and romance
Option 4:
Member of the Practice Community - without coaching
You continue to benefit as a Community Member after you have
finished coaching.
Details:
- The Practice Community is open to you if you have completed
the Foundation Program or are currently taking it.
- You earn two months free membership in the Practice Community
for every one month of individual, couple or group coaching
that you complete.
- After your free membership ends, you may, for a nominal fee,
continue your Community membership for as long as you wish.
- As a Practice Community member, you benefit through the use
of your online journals (blogs) and through your connection
with other members.
Also:
In-person coaching and couples intensives
In-person individual and couple coaching with Dr. Sanford is
available in the South Portland, Maine office - two or three 45-minute
sessions/month
In-person couples intensives with Dr. Sanford are also available
in Rangeley and South Portland, Maine and in our San Miguel de
Allende, Mexico center. Intensives are focused coaching sessions
lasting three - four hours/day for three - five consecutive days.
Dr. Sanford offers a Couples
Vacation Intensive at the San Miguel de Allende center.
Couples workshops are planned for the future, in Maine and in
Mexico. Prior completion of the Foundation Program is not required
for in-person individual or couples coaching nor for couples intensives
or workshops.
New programs will be announced on the home page and in Living
Together.Tips for Couples, our free email newsletter. Feel
free to write us about your
interests, also. We will let you know when the workshop program
gets underway.
For program costs and registration information, see Fees
& Registration.
See Courses and Workshops
for non-coaching relationship programs.
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