Course Content
Welcome, Before We Begin
A short introduction to the program, what it is, why it exists, and how to move through it.
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Before We Begin
Module 1: Sitting Down, Whose Session Is This?
The foundation of the whole approach. Explore the High Five, trust, safety, rapport, connection, respect, and why coaching only works when both people show up to build it together.
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Sitting Down, Whose Session Is This?
A Moment for Your Own Reflection
Module 2: Finding Your Balance, What Brought You to the Swing
Before any technique, a coach has to know what's actually being asked for. This module introduces two practical tools: reading what a client's uncertainty is really signaling, and inviting the client to directly shape how the session will go.
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Finding Your Balance, What Brought You to the Swing
A Moment for Your Own Reflection
Module 3: Rocking Together, The Five Ways to Work
With trust and focus established, this module covers the five rhythms a coaching conversation can move through, Collaboration, Action, Reflection, Empathy, and Education, and how a session flows between them without the coach forcing the direction.
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Rocking Together, The Five Ways to Work
A Moment for Your Own Reflection
Module 4: When the Swing Creaks, Repair, Discomfort, and Real Magic
Not every session feels easy, and this module is about the sessions that don't. Work through real scenarios, a shaky start, a small breach of trust, a moment of resistance, and learn how repair and discomfort are often where the deepest coaching work happens.
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When the Swing Creaks, Repair, Discomfort, and Real Magic
A Moment for Your Own Reflection
The Porch Swing Approach

A Moment for Your Own Reflection

Think of a recent coaching conversation, and try to trace which of the five ways it moved through, collaboration, action, reflection, empathy, or education. Did it stay in one, or move between several?

Take a moment to consider one point in that conversation where you could have named your read out loud and let the client confirm it, even if you didn’t at the time. This is just for you, nothing to submit.

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