WHAT IS RELATIONSHIP COACHING?
Relationship Coaching is coaching for the relationship between two people. If you imagine a triangle: you are at one corner, your partner at the second corner, then your relationship is the third corner that completes the triangle. By focusing on the relationship as a unique entity, it gives the people in the relationship a different view of the needs and goals of the relationship. Your perspective shifts from “me <--> you” to “what’s best for the relationship?” As stated on the Coaches Training Institute web site, “The breakthrough paradigm shift in this work is to hold the third entity of relationship as the client, rather than the sum of the individuals involved in the relationship. This subtle shift has a profound impact on the results that are possible in systems coaching.” Although I can use relationship coaching techniques within the individual coaching sessions of one partner, more powerful results are possible when I coach the couple using CTI’s relationship coaching model.
