THE AGREEMENT

Coaching/Production Principles: 

CLASS 

• Coaches and Production will complete at least 3 sequential The Practise courses.  
• Attend a 1 hour meeting the evening prior to the class to review the distinctions that will be presented in class.
• Will attend every class, unless emergency or notice of conflict is communicated ahead of the class.
• Production and coaching team are online 90 minutes prior to the start of the class, ready to create.
• Coaches and Production have read the script prior to getting online and are clear on their role in creating the class.
• Clear any issues before getting on line for the coach’s meeting.
  Coach’s role in class is being source. Pay attention to the person leading & participants.  

COMMUNICATION 

• Will stay in communication with other coaches. 
• Coaches will use signal, phone, text & email for all student communications (BCC Laurence & head coaches on main communications). 
• If coaches are speaking with participants outside of these channels, they will share that information with the other coaches and the outcome, while also directing the participant to share what opened up for them in their group signal chat

COACHING MEETINGS 

• Attend a 1hr meeting the day after class or prior to any coaching sessions as a whole team to review the practice distinctions for that week.
• Coaches be clear before your coaching session. If you are stuck, get in contact with the head coach.
• Be clear on the intention of the week's practice. 
• Lead and listen from the main intention for that week. 
• Coach to the current distinctions from class. Speak to where students are at. Do not coach ahead. 
• The purpose is to open up questions, not come up with answers, for students to distinguish the intention that week, in their experience. Not their understanding or theory. 
• Do no harm. Be mindful and respectful of clients.
• Notes from coaching sessions to be posted in the hub within 24hrs after coaching meeting - yes or no, they distinguished the homework, & what did participants open up. 

 THE WEEKLY PRACTICE: 

• Do week's practices with great specificity as given.  
• Do not decide for yourself that there are some people, situations or things to which the ideas are not applicable. This will interfere with the transfer of the training.   
• Some of the ideas in the week's practice you may find hard to believe or you might find quite startling, again this does not matter, you are merely asked to apply the ideas you are directed to do. You are not asked to judge them at all. You are just asked to use them. It is their use that will give them meaning to you and will show you that they make a difference. 
• You may not believe the ideas; you may not accept them; you may not even welcome them… some of them you may actively resist - none of this will matter or decrease their efficacy, but do not allow yourself to make exceptions in applying the ideas the assignments contain. Whatever your reactions are to what the ideas may be, use them - nothing more than that is required. 

DISTINGUISHING COACHING AND PRODUCTION: 

Coaches and Production can move between roles, yet each role is distinct. 

The Production Team impeccably owns the logistical elements of THE PRACTISE courses. The Production team is in a role of service to the Coaches and to Laurence, so that he can most effectively hold the container and lead the course. Production is a vital role in The Practise courses to thrive. Production can also be a training role for coaching - listening, observing and learning while in the Production role. Production can shift to a Coaching role when ready to work directly with participants, yet no coaching, or side coaching outside of the sessions, will occur in the role of Production. 

The Coaching Team works directly with participants to listen, point and distinguish the intention of the homework each week. Coaches are in a role of service. Coaches own the success of participants in being clear on the intention of the homework and practice throughout the week. Coaches listen for the background, recreate, and inquire to shed light on blind spots. Coaches point participants to connect with their specific experiences in their bodies. Coaches help participants reveal what really matters to them, so they get who they’re not, and create who they are. 

 PRODUCTION AND COACHING PROTOCOL

• Ensure that you have updated your zoom and that your sound and camera are working properly prior to the start of the pre-class meeting.
• Do not allow yourself to be distracted by your phone and only using if it is in service to the class

During the course, while in the coach-participant roles: 

• Production & Coaches will not touch participants. 
• Production & Coaches will not engage in sexual relations with participants. 
• Production & Coaches will not bring other disciplines into their work with participants.

Measurable Standards: 

• Standing in the role of the coach: 
  Causes at least one person to register in each of the next Level One courses.
• Coaches to the intention of the homework. 
• Holds needs of participants as primary focus. 
• Posts participant status 48 hours before next class (*or right after coaching meeting, if meeting time is within 48 hours) 
• Asks questions instead of getting into agreement or “cahoots.” 
• Allows participant to be in it, not fixing 
• Getting clear (Have a clearing conversation before coaching) 
• Do no harm
• Participant is gotten, heard and complete, and doesn’t leave in upset. Participant says what they need to say. 

 As a team: 

• 100% Level One participants register in Advanced Training or into Openings or apply for Coaching/Production if workable.
• No dead bodies: no participants withdraw incomplete in the middle of the course.
• All participants get value. 
• Straight talk, Honest and with integrity and respecting others.  Be a contribution.
• Holding the agreements. 
• Noticeable participant openings, shift, transformation.
• Being in service to participant, not there for yourself, context, aligning on purpose of coaching 
• Acknowledge your responsibility 
• Get out of the way 
• Being a source, the whole team as source, listening powerfully to cause the speaking.
• Look for what is needed and provide it. Course leader, is taken care of 
• Course is fully produced 
• Coach leading, Production observing, listening, have the Coach’s back. Coach as one. Participant’s experience is the bottom line. 
• Reread the participant and coaches’ homework before the week and before the meeting 
• Read the participant signal sharing 
• Coaching and friendships separate 
• Holding the standards

NOT Being an Effective Coach: 

• Indulges in their own complaint, circumstances, drama. 
• Communicates in an effort to fix participants. 
• Dating, flirting, sexual relations. 
• Becomes another participant: adds to confusion, complicates. 
• Harms participants. 
• Allows participants to dominate the coaching session.
• Defends, argues for, validates the identity’s point of view. 
• Coaching over lead coach. 
• Makes it about them.

Production & Coaching Agreements: 

1. Show up. 

2. Do the assignments. 

3. Take the coaching. 

4. Be 100% responsible for getting value. Get more out than you put in.