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Frequently Asked Questions about Coaching
What is coaching?
Coaching is a new profession. Coaches come from a variety of
backgrounds, experiences and training levels. They help people rethink
their situation and their responses.
Coaches help people:
 Help people set better goals and then reach those goals.
 Ask their coachees to do more than they would have done on their
own.
 Focus their coachees better to produce results more quickly.
 Provide the tools, support and structure to accomplish more and
overcome blocks.
What is the basic philosophy of coaching?
We are all discovering what we really want and that we can get what we
want faster and easier by having a coach who has been there and who
can help us.
 Forest Cottage’s basic philosophy is that parents need practical help
and support from a professional that truly understands what it is
like to live with a severe behaviour child.
How is coaching different from consulting? Therapy? Sports coaching? A
best friend?
Consulting: Coaching is a form of consulting. But the coach stays with
the coachee to help implement the new skills, changes, and goals to
make sure they really happen.
 Therapy: Coaching is not therapy. We don’t work on your past apart
from relating it to your future. We work on the parts of your life that
you want to move forward in not those causing or relating to deeper
psychological problems. We recommend working with mental
health professions, as needed, in addition to a weekly coach.

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