Coaching Agreement & Informed Consent
Welcome to ConneXions Coaching, a professional coaching company. This document and its attachments constitute a contract between us (the "Agreement"). You should read it carefully and raise any questions and concerns that you have before you sign it.
Services
The services provided by ConneXions include Coaching or TeleCoaching on topics decided jointly with you, the client. The purpose of coaching is to develop and implement strategies to help you reach personally identified goals of enhanced performance and personal satisfaction. Coaching may address a wide variety of goals including specific personal projects, life balance, job performance and satisfaction, or conditions, situations or experiences in your life, business, or profession. This is NOT psychotherapy. This is not therapy and no therapist patient relationship is created.
What is Coaching?
Coaching is an interaction that occurs between people that produces desired performance, change or transformational results by promoting personal and organizational awareness, purpose, competence and well-being. Coaching is focused on enhancing performance, generating personal change and development of the whole person not separate from the systems of which they are a part. A coach is a person participating in a mutually voluntary interaction with neither responsibility, accountability nor authority over the outcomes of the person being coached.
In each meeting, the client chooses the focus of conversation. This interaction creates clarity and moves the clients into action. Coaching accelerates the client’s progress by providing greater focus and awareness of choice, responsibility and humility. Coaching concentrates on where clients are today and what they are willing to do to get where they want to be.
Life coaching is a powerful human relationship which assists people to design their future and understand their present rather than get over their past. Through a typically long-term relationship, coaches aid clients in creating visions and goals for all aspects of their lives and creating multiple strategies to support achieving those goals. Coaches recognize the brilliance of each client and their personal power to discover their own solutions when provided with support, accountability and unconditional positive regard (validation). The client can count on the coach to be honest and straightforward in asking questions and making requests.
Coaching vs. Psychotherapy
Although there are some similarities between coaching and psychotherapy, ConneXions does not conduct psychotherapy with its coaching clients. These are different activities, and it is important that you understand the differences between them.
There are major differences in the goals, focus, and level of professional responsibility. As a coach, our responsibility is to assist you to (1) make decisions about which changes you would like to make (2) to develop a personal “action plan” in order to make those changes, (3) to implement your action plan and make the behavioural charges, (4) to develop strategies to maintain the changes you have made, and (5) educate you about the power and principles of honesty, personal responsibility and humility, which will create a stable foundation for you to choose from. I will support, encourage, teach, and help you stay
"on track" toward your goals.
Your success will depend on your willingness to define and take risks and try new approaches. You can expect me to be honest and direct asking straightforward questions and using challenging techniques to help you move forward. Like any human endeavour, coaching can involve feelings of distress and
frustration that accompany the process of change.
Psychotherapy is a health care service. Its primary focus is to identify, diagnose, and treat nervous and mental disorders. Connexions Coaching does NOT identify, diagnose, and treat nervous and mental disorders.
Payment Procedure:
Call Procedure:
If the Client chooses to be coached by telephone or Skype, the Coach will call the Client at the prearranged time and telephone number as scheduled, and pays any telephone charges for the call. Your session will begin at the time agreed upon between the Coach and Client. For example: the session begins at 2pm up to 2:10pm. Be prepared at 2pm to start anywhere between that ten-minutes time frame. For group coaching calls and classes, the Coach will pay for the teleconference line, and the Clients will pay for the call into the conference line. For ConneXions Classroom meetings, the Coach will pay for the conferencing service, and Clients will pay for Internet access to join the meeting.
Cancellations:
Please remember that you must give 48 hours prior notice if you need to cancel or change the time of an appointment; otherwise you will be charged for the session in full. I will make reasonable efforts to reschedule sessions that are cancelled in a timely manner.
Termination:
Either party may end the coaching relationship by providing the other party with a one-week written notice, which may be transmitted by email, fax or in person.
Coaching Completion:
Connexions Classroom’s coaches, utilize proprietary methods, approaches, and techniques that have developed and honed over many years and coaching sessions. Because of this, the coaching sessions that you will participate in offer cutting edge techniques that are confidential, proprietary and owned exclusively by Connexions Classroom. By undertaking coaching with Connexions Classroom, you agree that you will not in any way (a) attempt to replicate, encourage or support coaching sessions using the information, techniques, or methods used by Connexions Classroom with any persons; (b) replicate any of the materials, methods, or approaches in which you participate for any purpose (whether for free or for compensation); and (c) otherwise utilize any of the techniques or methods to coach any third persons without written permission from Connexions Classroom.
You agree that if you violate this portion of this agreement, it will lead to irreparable injury to Connexions Classroom and therefore injunctive relief is warranted and appropriate and you waive any defense that there is a legal remedy available to Connexions Classroom in place of this injunctive equitable relief. You further agree that said injunctive relief may be sought exclusively in the Fifth District Court in and for Washington County, State of Utah and that Connexions Classroom shall be entitled to all attorneys’ fees and costs incurred in pursuing such injunctive relief.