What is Coaching?

Coaching is a professional, client focused service that assumes that the individual or couple is healthy, powerful and able to achieve their desired relationship and life goals with effective support, information and guidance.

The Coach will provide coaching services based on your needs and desired level of support. Together with the coach you will co-create the Coaching Agenda, which will identify your requirements for coaching support. 

Success requires your commitment to the coaching process and the outcomes that result from it. The Coach’s role is to employ their expertise as a mentor, taskmaster, motivator and sounding board, which will help you get on track, stay focused, and be accountable for your  progress. You will need to be open and honest about your issues and needs, keep agreements, and stay committed to the goals you identify in order for coaching to be successful for you. 

The coaching relationship is not psychotherapy, psychological counselling, or any type of therapy; nor is it a substitute for these services where they are required. In the event the Coach feels the need for you to receive professional counseling or therapy, you will be advised and it is your responsibility to seek a qualified professional who can provide these services. 

What is Mediation?

Mediation is a process of negotiation where the parties come together with a neutral third party with the intention of reaching a consensual settlement of their issues in dispute.

Mediation is a process that can be used for any form of dispute. It is commonly used in family law, civil or commercial matters as an alternative to litigating through the Court system. 

The mediator is a facilitator who will assist the parties to reach their own settlement. The mediator will not make decisions about ‘right’ or ‘wrong’, tell the parties what to do, or impose a decision on them. The mediator will help parties to tell their side of the story; work out the issues; find areas of agreement or common ground and assist in generating ideas that might result in an agreement. However, any comments, opinions, suggestions, statements or recommendations made by the mediator are not binding on any party.

The mediator will not offer legal advice nor provide legal counsel. Where applicable, each party is advised to retain his or her own lawyer or other adviser in order to be properly advised about his or her legal interests, rights and obligations. 

For mediation to work, open and honest communications are essential and parties need to enter the process with a genuine intention to seek a mutual resolution. To assist the parties in the process all written and oral communications, negotiations and statements made in the course of the mediation will be treated as privileged settlement discussions and are absolutely confidential.