COACHING AGREEMENT

Coaching is an ongoing relationship between a coach and a person who

desires coaching. We both agree that:

1. Coaching is not therapy, counseling, advice giving, mental healthcare, or treatment for

substance abuse or any addictive behavior. The coach is not functioning as a licensed

mental health professional, therapist or counselor, and coaching is not intended as a

replacement for counseling, psychiatric interventions, treatment for mental illness,

recovery from past abuse, professional medical advice, financial assistance, legal counsel,

or other professional services.

2. Coaching is for people who are basically well adjusted, emotionally healthy, functioning

fairly effectively, and wanting to make improvements in their lives.

3. Coaching is designed to address issues the person being coached would like to consider.

These could include (but are not limited to) personal foundation, career development,

relationship enhancement, spiritual growth, healthy lifestyle management, life balance,

decision-making, and achieving short-term or long-term goals.

4. Coaching will be an ongoing relationship that may take a number of months, although

either party can terminate the relationship at any time. Some or all of the coaching may

be through telephone contact.

5. Coaching can involve brainstorming, values clarification, the completion of written

assignments, education, goal-setting, identifying plans of action, accountability, making

requests, agreements to change behavior, examining lifestyles, and questioning.

6. Coaching is most effective when both parties are honest and straightforward in their

communication.

7. If the coaching is to involve payment for services, prior to its beginning both parties will

agree to a fee, form of payment, procedures for canceled appointments, and initial length

of commitment.

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8. Coaching is a confidential relationship and the coach agrees to keep all information

strictly confidential, except in those situations where such confidentiality would violate

the law.

9. Coaching assumes that each person in the relationship is guided by his or her values and

beliefs. Your coach is a follower of Jesus Christ and seeks to live in accordance with this

commitment. Your coach is honest in making this revelation and respects the different

values and beliefs of others. Your coach does not seek to impose his or her values on

another, proselytize, condemn, or refuse coaching services to people who do not share

similar values and beliefs.

10. We agree to the following business arrangements: The monthly fee for (number of

sessions) (time for each session ex.45 minute) sessions is $_______. If I do not cancel any

session with 24 hours notice I will forfeit the session fee.

11. I (the person being coached) am committed to creating an alliance with my coach, ______.

12. Each of the people whose signatures appear below agrees that this agreement represents

our mutual understanding of the coaching relationship.

DISCLAIMER: The client is the sole decision-maker in the coaching process. Any and all

actions or consequences resulting from the coaching sessions are the responsibility of the

client. The client releases the coach of all liability pertaining to the services rendered in the

coaching relationship.

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Signature (client) Date

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Signature (coach) Date

CHRISTIAN COACHING: Helping Others Turn Potential into Reality, 2001