Relationship Coach Certification

This first session is all about the importance of human relationships. From the beginning of life, we learn about ourselves and the outside world from others. This process helps to shape, mold, and determine who we are and will become throughout our lives.
In this module, you’ll learn:

• Why connecting with others is a very natural and sometimes necessary thing to do.
• Why there is such a great need for relationship coaching in today’s world.
• How all of us are influenced, infected, and affected by individuals who frequent our inner circles.
• The many benefits of being in a relationship.
• How relationships help us grow, develop, and learn more about ourselves throughout our lives.
• How partnerships can unlock the greatest gifts we possess.
• Why it’s so important to disclose the hard-to-hear truths about relationships and allow clients to be responsible for their own lives.
• The five essential pillars of a lasting relationship.
• How to make clients responsible for their own successes.
• How to choose, claim, and stand out in a profitable niche.

To get great results with any client, you must build the coaching relationship on solid ground. Therefore, there are some logistics, administrative tasks, and expectations to cover before you start working with clients.
In this module, you’ll learn:

• What the intake form is and why it’s so important.
• How the intake form can be used to spotlight your client’s unconscious mental programs and behavioral patterns.
• About a sample intake form you can use as it stands or customize to fit your needs.
• Why you must also have a coaching agreement in place before coaching any client.
• What the coaching agreement outlines and how it protects both you and the client.
• How the coaching agreement positions you as an expert, specialist and someone who is serious about getting results.
• Exactly what to include in your coaching agreement or contract to make sure it’s effective.
• A sample coaching agreement to either use your practice as it stands or customize for your business.

We will open the training portion of this course with the subject of dating. After all, before your client can sustain a long-term relationship or marriage, they must know how to find, select, and communicate with potential partners. This is the groundwork involved for building and maintaining a long-term romantic partnership.
In this module, you’ll learn:

• How the concept of romantic love was created and developed over time.
• The biochemistry of attraction.
• How and why relationships between people have formed for most of human history.
• The biggest mistake people make when looking to meet a potential partner.
• What an attachment-based relationship is and why it cannot be sustained long-term.
• The qualities of a relationship that are based on genuine or true love.
• The underlying drivers of attraction.
• What a soulful partnership is and why your client should focus on creating this type of union with someone else.
• The major differences between a conventional and soulful relationship.
• The rules to relationship coaching.
• How to effectively uncover and evaluate your client’s approach to dating.
• The most common reasons people drift apart, separate, or choose to break up.
• How to conduct the entire first and second dating coach sessions.

The relationship coaching style taught in this course is based on an inside-out approach. What we mean is that we help the client become an energetic match for their ideal mate. In this way, what your clients want will become a natural byproduct of who they are in everyday life.
In this module, you’ll learn:

• How to help your client become attractive to the right person through authenticity.
• The rules of dating that prevent many people from ever establishing a soulful partnership with someone else.
• What resonance is and how it can work to help your client find their ideal mate.
• How and why people often attract the wrong relationships.
• Why it’s essential for your client to fill their own cup first.
• How to help your client look at their relationship with clear and objective eyes.
• How to help your clients create a list of no more.
• An exercise to help your client understand what they’re tolerating in life but shouldn’t be.

Now we move on to the fourth and final session of our dating coach portion of this program. Here is where you will help clients develop the strength, confidence, and love of self they need to successfully build a long-term relationship with the right person.
In this module, you’ll learn:

• How to help your client uncover the unbiased truth about their current relationship.
• An assertiveness training exercise you can send home with any client who needs it.
• A powerful exercise you can use to help your client quiet the annoying voice of self-doubt.
• The Circle of Certainty − a powerful exercise you can utilize to help your Client instantly access states of confidence, enthusiasm, and charisma in social situations.
• A take-home exercise you can give clients to help them discover what they really want to get from a relationship.
• A complete outline of all four dating coach sessions you can reference when working with any client.

It’s time now to move onto the next phase of relationship coaching − helping people who have found true love make the transition into marriage. This is a crucial turning point for many romantic partnerships.
Engagement represents an entirely new and uncharted phase of a couple’s life. With the benefit of your coaching, however, clients can enjoy crossing this milestone and look forward to a lifetime of marital bliss.
In this module, you’ll learn:

• Why real and lasting relationships almost never fall into place, in the way many people believe them to.
• Why putting too much focus on the wedding day is often a recipe for disaster in marriages.
• The importance of setting goals in a marriage.
• Why your client must enlist both the imaginative and logical parts of their mind when setting marriage goals.
• The keys to making sure your client sets a goal that’s both actionable and attainable.
• How to use a couple’s goal-setting worksheet that clients can fill out in your office, at home, or with their spouses.
• How to help your client uncover the unconscious narratives that repeat themselves in the back of their mind.
• The causes and consequences of post-wedding disappointment.
• About the subconscious narratives that affect, influence, and even destroy relationships.
• Why the happily ever after story can ruin what might otherwise become a happy and long-lasting marriage.
• Why relationship stories are counterproductive to creating a sustainable relationship.
• An exercise to help your clients unravel the hidden stories they believe to be true about relationships and life.
• A step-by-step guide to running your first two marriage coaching sessions.

Almost all of us carry around numerous hurts, disappointments, and unpleasant experiences from our past. These stuck emotions can often block us from living fully in the present day.
To repair, fix, or strengthen your client’s marriage, you must be willing to help them work through some of this unwanted and unnecessary baggage. The following section is about doing just that.
In this module, you’ll learn:

• How ghosts from your client’s past can haunt their current relationship.
• How energies from the past get stuck inside the body and re-emerge at different times in a person’s life.
• How to use a worksheet that will help your client achieve clarity about whether they have a conventional or soulful partnership.
• The prerequisites to experiencing a deep, meaningful, and enlightened connection with another person.
• An exercise that will help your client discover how they may have been affected throughout their life by the relationships of other people.
• What relationship patterns are and how they can sabotage your client’s success in marriage.
• The big red flag relationship patterns to look out for.
• An exercise to help your client uncover their destructive relationship patterns.
• A step-by-step walk-through of your third marriage coaching session.

Any lasting marriage is going to have its ups and downs. In order to stay together and make the relationship work, your clients must be willing to settle their differences in an effective and productive way.
Your part in this process involves helping the couple discover ways to appreciate themselves and each other. By neutralizing emotionally charged situations, you can open up a space for meaningful dialogue to take place between your clients.
In this module, you’ll learn:

• How every thought your client has changes their physiology, emotional state, and behavior.
• How indulging in thoughts of blame toward someone else can create a self-fulfilling prophecy.
• Different ways that finding faults with others can manifest in your client’s attitude and behavior.
• A worksheet to help your clients uncover the specific ways they unknowingly react to perceived offenses.
• How a person’s beliefs work to create what they look for, expect and create in different situations.
• How our beliefs influence the behavior of other people.
• A list of the most common beliefs that damage, ruin, or destroy relationships.
• The concept of going first and how it can help your client to create a quick and pervasive shift in their relationship.
• How one person can, in fact, change the tone or direction of a marriage all by themselves.
• A worksheet your client can fill out to truly understand the contribution they are making to problems in their marriage.
• Why money is one of the biggest issues about which married couples fight and get divorced over.
• How money problems in a marriage are often indicative of deeper issues either one or both partners have yet to express.
• How money is sometimes used to gain power, control, freedom, or leverage in a marriage.
• A worksheet clients can take home to uncover the root causes of their money issues.
• What it means for one of your clients to have an avoidant partner.
• A list of traits that can identify someone who is expressing avoidant behavior.
• How each marriage has its own unique personality.
• Why we, as human beings, gravitate towards developing a core identity, both alone and in groups.
• Why the persona of a successful marriage must be allowed to evolve in the face of new experiences.
• How a successful marriage takes both partners to different places in life than they would have arrived at alone.
• A description of the most common couple personality types.
• A worksheet your client can take home to uncover their couple personality style.
• Completed outlines of all four married couples coaching sessions.