Do you coach couples or are you looking to expand your coaching practice to include couples? This eight-week course will provide you with a coaching model and structure for working with couples who want to create more fulfilling relationships in their lives. The format for the course includes discussion of course materials and assigned readings, live coaching to demonstrate different ways to apply the learning with clients, and buddy coaching outside of the scheduled class time.

Participants will:

• Gain an in-depth understanding of a conscious relationship coaching model for working with couples
• Design a coaching alliance with each client/partner and with couples
• Create a personal vision with client/partner as well as a shared relationship vision with each couple
• Utilize Mirroring technique for effective communication
• Establish and implement an action plan with couples to achieve the relationship vision
• Gain a greater understanding of the role of coach in working with couples, particularly being authentic and present; and ways to ‘self-manage’ during your coaching sessions with couples

The manual is available from Lisa Kramer. You will receive instructions for ordering in your class registration confirmation email.

About Lisa Kramer:

Lisa Kramer, founder and president of Living with Intention LLC, is a professional coach, coach trainer, author and speaker. Lisa’s ideal clients are mid-life professionals and couples who recognize that they have been functioning on auto-pilot for far too long and view coaching as a vehicle for transforming their lives, their work and their relationships.

As a member of the faculty of the Institute for Life Coach Training, Lisa trains professionals to become life and relationship coaches. She also serves as a mentor-coach for newer coaches. She is the author of Coaching with Intention, the first book in her Coaching Mastery series and Loving with Intention: A Guide for Relationship Coaching.

Lisa received her coach certification from The Coaches Training Institute in 2001 and earned the Professional Certified Coach (PCC) credential from the International Coach Federation in 2004.

Prior to transitioning to coaching full-time in 2001, Lisa was a clinical social worker and a social work professor at Widener University School of Human Service Professions. Teaching is a passion of Lisa’s, and she has extensive experience designing and delivering curriculum for undergraduate and graduate social work education as well as a variety of training programs.

Lisa received her Master's degree in social work from the University of Pennsylvania and completed graduate coursework in human resource management from Widener University. She is also a certified Imago Relationship therapist, having completed post graduate training from the Institute for Relationship Therapy. For more information, visit Lisa on the web at: www.livingwithintention.com and www.lovingwithintention.com

Lisa Kramer is a gifted teacher and facilitator. I was fortunate enough to participate in her Relationship Coaching with Couples class, and I received great instruction, motivation and an exemplary curriculum. She is caring, organized and always available to her students. I feel well groomed and prepared to coach couples in working toward the "relationship of their dreams." This is a "must course" for those hoping to add Relationship Coaching to their coaching repertoire. Lori Berkman, Legacy Life Coaching