What exactly is Relationship Coaching?
Relationship Coaching is the application of coaching to personal and business relationships. It helps functional people achieve their personal and relationship goals.
Relationship Coaching Specialities
Singles Coaching
Helping singles have fulfilling lives and successful relationships require understanding that not all singles are alike.
The SOULutions identifies the following 7 types of singles:
- Temporarily Single. Someone who is actively seeking a partner and in between relationships.
- Recently Divorced or Widowed. Someone recovering from loss and not ready for a relationship.
- Frustrated Single. Someone who wants a partner but is not able to find one and gives up.
- Passive Single. Someone who wants a relationship but not actively seeking it.
- Single but Not Available. Someone who has a self-perception of being single and does not desire a lasting relationship, but “hooking up” to get needs met.
- Busy or Distracted Single. Someone absorbed in being a single parent, career, school, etc. and doesn’t have the time or the desire for a partner.
- Single by Choice. Someone who has no desire for a partner. Being single is a conscious permanent lifestyle choice for many reasons.
Each type of single has his/her unique developmental goals and challenges. This requires specialized skills and strategies to effectively coach each individual so they may experience relationship success.
Couples Coaching
As with singles, not all couples are alike. SOULutions identifies the following 4 types of couples:
- Dating Couples. Someone who self-identifies as “single” but has an on-going, non-exclusive relationship. “Friends with benefits” is one common way of describing these couples. Dating couples often seek coaching when one or both partners want to take their relationship to the next level.
- Pre-committed Couples. Both partners have decided to stop dating others and become exclusive. Pre-committed couples often seek coaching when they encounter a “deal-breaker which is a “requirement.” This could be preventing their ability to enter into a long-term committed relationship without sacrificing something important; such as whether or not to have children.
- Pre-marital Couples. Both partners have decided to become committed, but haven’t yet acted to formalize their commitment (marriage, commitment ceremony, etc). Many pre-marital couples are acutely aware of the high failure rate of committed relationships and seek coaching to acquire the skills and practices needed for long-term relationship success.
- Committed Couples. While most couples might think of their relationship as “committed,” if they haven’t acted to formalize their commitment they have the attitude but not the fact of commitment. Couples who have made a formal commitment sometimes bring up divorce in response to a problem, which is a less-than- committed attitude. This can be a cause of confusion and conflict. Most committed couples have formalized their commitment in a marriage. These couples often seek coaching because they desire to find a way to successfully solve problems and live happily.
Family Coaching
Family coaching includes nuclear and extended families, parenting, siblings, family businesses and co-housing arrangements.
Business Relationship Coaching
Productive businesses require effective relationships. Business relationship coaching can include workplace relationships such as manager to employee, peer to peer, between corporate divisions, between teams, as well as customer and vendor relationships.