Coaching Agreement and T&C

Between

Steven Lane  (T/A A Change of Mind, and Transformational Coaching)

Of The Retreat, Clonad,  Tullamore, Co Offaly, R35 C6R3, Ireland

And

Whoever may be contracting these services (to be known as the coachee)

1. This coaching agreement lays out the basis for our coaching relationship and clarifies expectations.

2. The scope of this coaching is Life Coaching, Deep (Transformational) Coaching, Clarity Coaching and General Coaching within a personal  Coaching is a collaborative process and relationship in which we use exploratory conversation, goal setting, inner exploration, mind change and behaviour change techniques, as well as transpersonal approaches,  alongside  accountability to connect you to your greater potential and personal power, with view to making changes to yourself and to your life. It is about becoming the best version of yourself though it may have more specific aims and goals. Common to all coaching is the idea that everyone has untapped potential within themselves, which can be activated by the coaching process enabling the client to be empowered and to take more responsibility for their lives.  

3. This coaching is specifically related to the following areas of coaching:

1. LIFE COACHING is a collaborative process where a trained professional, known as a life coach, helps individuals close the gap between where they are now and where they want to be. It focuses on empowering individuals to discover their own solutions, make positive changes, and achieve their goals.

Objectives of Transformational Life Coaching:

1. Clarify Goals: Helping clients define what they want to achieve.
2. Identify Obstacles: Recognizing barriers that hinder progress.
3. Create Action Plans: Developing strategies to overcome obstacles and reach goals.
4. Enhance Self-Awareness: Increasing understanding of personal strengths and weaknesses.
5. Transform Mindset and Deeper Dynamics: Looking at states of mind, beliefs, strategies, habits, blind spots, identity and shifting into a more resourceful state
6. Foster Accountability: Ensuring clients stay committed to their goals.

What Life Coaching Might Include:

• External Aspects:
  • General Life Improvement: Getting clear on life plan, work life balance, goals and aspirations,
  • Career Development: Guidance on career transitions, job satisfaction, and professional growth.
  • Relationship Improvement: Enhancing personal and professional relationships.
  • Health and Wellness: Setting and achieving fitness and health goals, stress and mental health
• Internal Aspects:
  • Self-Discovery: Exploring personal values, beliefs, and purpose.
  • Emotional Regulation: Managing stress, anxiety, and other emotions.
  • Mindset Shifts: Developing a positive and growth-oriented mindset.

Life coaching is distinct from therapy as it primarily focuses on the present and future, guiding clients towards achieving their personal and professional aspirations.

1. CLARITY COACHING is a specialized form of coaching that helps individuals gain a clear understanding of their goals, values, and challenges. It focuses on providing clients with the tools and insights needed to navigate life’s complexities with confidence and purpose.

Objectives of Clarity Coaching:

1. Enhance Mental Clarity: Helping clients achieve a clear and focused mind.
2. Define Purpose: Assisting clients in identifying their true motives and aspirations.
3. Overcome Confusion: Providing strategies to navigate through uncertainties and challenges.
4. Deal with specific situations: gain clarity on the way forward in specific challenges and situations.
5. Create Action Plans: Developing concrete steps to achieve personal and professional goals.
6. Improve Decision-Making: Enhancing the ability to make informed and effective decisions.

What Clarity Coaching Might Include:

• External Aspects:
  • Relationships: Get clear on how to proceed with a relationship or even why relationships are not happening
  • Career Guidance: Assisting with career choices and professional development.
  • Goal Setting: Helping clients set and achieve specific, measurable goals.
  • Time Management: Providing techniques to manage time effectively and increase productivity.
• Internal Aspects:
  • Self-Reflection: Encouraging deep introspection to understand personal values and beliefs.
  • Emotional Clarity: Helping clients manage emotions and reduce mental clutter.
  • Mindfulness Practices: Incorporating mindfulness techniques to enhance present-moment awareness and focus.

Clarity coaching is designed to help individuals gain a clearer perspective on their lives, enabling them to make more informed choices and lead a more fulfilling life.

1. DEEP TRANSFORMATIONAL COACHING, is a profound transpersonal/spiritual approach to personal development that focuses on facilitating deep, lasting change in individuals. It goes beyond surface-level goals to address core beliefs, values, and behaviors, aiming to transform the very essence of a person’s being .Ultimately it aims to create a shift in being and to answer the question from a soul level of “who do I choose to be”

Objectives of Deep Transformational Coaching:

1. Problem resolution: Often people are stuck in many ways and this form of coaching can help to shift into a different state of being in which problems dissolve or can be more easily overcome
2. Soul Listening: We shift beyond the ego mind and listen at a soul level to what is wanting to emerge including a shift in identity/
3. Facilitate Deep Change: Helping clients undergo profound shifts in their perspectives and behaviors.
4. Enhance Self-Awareness: Encouraging a deep understanding of one’s true self.
5. Align with True Purpose: Assisting clients in discovering and aligning with their core values and life purpose.
6. Overcome Limiting Beliefs: Identifying and transforming beliefs that hinder personal growth.
7. Foster Authentic Living: Empowering clients to live authentically and in alignment with their true selves.

What Deep Transformational Coaching Might Include:

• External Aspects:
  • Life Purpose Discovery: Helping clients uncover their true purpose and direction in life.
  • Goal Alignment: Ensuring that goals are deeply connected to personal values and purpose.
  • Behavioral Change: Facilitating sustainable changes in habits and behaviors.
• Internal Aspects:
  • Self-Reflection: Encouraging deep introspection to understand one’s inner world.
  • Emotional Healing: Addressing and healing past emotional wounds.
  • Spiritual Growth: Supporting clients in their spiritual journey and growth.

Deep Transformational Coaching is designed to create meaningful and lasting change by addressing the deeper aspects of an individual’s life, leading to a more authentic and fulfilling existence.

1. GENERAL COACHING: In some cases, clients are not clear what kind of coaching they need – it might even include a combination of the former mentioned approaches. In this case we simply apply the general principles of coaching and allow what wants to emerge and happen to take place.

4. In undertaking to attend coaching with me, whether in person or by a platform such as Zoom/Skype/Facetime, you are committing yourself to a process of coaching for the agreed number of sessions. This will require you to explore your Inner Self including your emotions and programming, and may involve you having to step outside of your emotional comfort zone. You also need to be willing to be challenged and to have blind spots uncovered. It is important to take responsibility for your own process and subsequent to sessions and the whole series of sessions to take appropriate action both in terms of your State of Consciousness/Mindset and your outer life.

5. To get the most out of this kind of coaching you will need to :
   1. Be serious about wanting to shift into a higher state of mind/consciousness and release limiting patterns
   2. Apply yourself to techniques that may be recommended and to act upon insights
   3. Be prepared to try out new ideas or ways of doing things and reflect and learn from experience
   4. Be prepared to listen to feedback and act on it where appropriate to do so
   5. Be prepared to spend time in between sessions working through any action points set
   6. Make time for this process
   7. Grow your awareness and take responsibility in full for yourself and for your life, especially by implementing the agreed actions from our coaching.

6. The coaching service will be delivered and designed according to the coachee’s agenda, though in conjunction with personal development and transformational processes and programmes. Coaching helps the client to grow their awareness and see their own solutions, and access their own power and potential. Coaching is a collaborative relationship, and it is the power granted to the relationship by both Coach and Coachee that fuels the process.

7. This coaching is not intended to be a substitute for mental health help or psychotherapy and is unlikely to be helpful for clients who suffer from major depression or anxiety. Clients with lesser levels of depression or anxiety may benefit from this and may discover techniques to help themselves. This coaching may involve the release or healing of unhelpful mind states, but it must be understood that this is within the context of coaching. Likewise, a certain level of mentoring may be involved to help a client to learn techniques, but the key focus will always remain as personal development and transformational coaching.

8. Given the collaborative nature of coaching, no specific outcomes can be guaranteed.

9. The coachee agrees to whatever prior arrangements we have made regarding fees and the number of sessions – these will usually have been agreed with prior emails and such emails will constitute an offer and acceptance as part of this agreement.

10. In the main, coaching is offered as a package of 6 sessions. It is recommended that sessions are every 2 – 4 weeks so that the first total coaching package is completed within 3 – 6 months. The coach will attempt to make this possible in terms of availability, though no guarantees of specific days and times can be given, and holidays and sickness sometimes needs to be taken into account. Following any initial coaching package, the coach will invite the coachee to contract more sessions if it is deemed mutually agreeable and beneficial. In some cases, coaching is offered session by session – this will have been agreed to in prior emails. Where this is the case, this agreement applies and when further sessions are contracted, this agreement continues to apply.

11. The length of a coaching session will be as agreed with the coachee via email or phone. A standard session is approximately 60 – 75 minutes long. In some instances, usually as a one time session, and available at a pre-agreed price, longer sessions are available to address specific issues. Such sessions might range from 90 minutes to 3 hours.

12. Payment for sessions is as per agreement via email or phone and may include payment by card or Paypal, or bank transfer. Sessions whether online or in person must be paid in advance and will usually be booked online via the website.

13. To cancel a session please give at least 24 hours notice. Sessions cancelled with less time than that must be paid in full regardless of the reason. If you are late for a session the session will still end at the appointed time. If for any reason I miss the session with you, you will be reimbursed if the session was paid already, or the session fee paid will be used towards the next session. If you have not arrived within 15 minutes of the appointed time, we will consider that you did not attend and it will be assumed you are not coming. The full session fee is payable in such instances, regardless of the reason for not attending – this applies to online and in person sessions.

14. The coaching service is completely confidential unless you give me information in writing to discuss the coaching with other people. The main online platform I use is Zoom and in undertaking coaching with me via Zoom you implicitly agree that Zoom affords a sufficient level of privacy, confidentiality and security. Should you prefer an alternative platform please discuss this me.

15. I work in accordance with the professional ethics and guidelines of the EMCC (European Mentoring and Coaching Council) of which I am an accredited practitioner coach.

16. I have undertaken several coach trainings including an ICF approved certificate in life coaching, an ICF and EMCC approved diploma in Personal, Leadership and Executive Coaching, a post graduate certificate in Deep Transformational Coaching, a post graduate programme in Presence Based Coaching, and a diploma in NLP based coaching. I also am a Master NLP Practitioner and have a background in Ericksonian based Brief Psychotherapy, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, as well as a previous career in Business and NGO consulting.

17. I may be required to discuss our sessions with a supervisor. Such discussion will take place without divulging your name and details, or the specifics of our conversations.

18. During our coaching sessions, I will keep notes. These will be kept confidentially. Where these are held on a computer they are encrypted (currently Axcrypt)

19. The law of Ireland will apply to this coaching agreement, alongside any relevant European consumer legislation including cooling off periods.