Meeting for the first time and laying the foundations for the coaching process, it is less about either of the individuals and more about creating a shared space to start this journey from. 

Conversations around:

• Expectations – What you and your coach bring into this first meeting, what the roles might look like, and what you both hope to achieve through this process.
• Questions – A chance to ask, and find out more to gain clarity about recovery coaching.
• Guidelines – The important paperwork, like code of conduct and your NDIS Plan.
• Agreements – A shared commitment to work together, including service agreement.
• Creating a coaching space – The practical parts like time, place, length but also the parts that are needed to support you – like personal boundaries.

To be able to support you towards your change and goals, you and your coach need to have a relationship built on trust and understanding, your coach needs to learn as much about you as you feel comfortable with, and you will get the opportunity to learn more about yourself.

Conversations around:

• Values – The things that are important to you, beliefs with which you understand the world through.
• Internal Strengths – Resources that you draw upon from inside you like: hope, knowledge, values, interests, and passions to name just a few. 
  External Strengths – Resources that you draw upon from outside of you like: friends, family, support groups, community connections, money, and stable accommodation to name just a few.
• Your Story – An understanding of how you come to be who you are, and where you are. 

Goals and steps to reach those goals will be determined by you, with the support of your coach. These goals will line up with your values, and utilise your strengths to work towards them.

One Model used is:

• Goal – What do you want to achieve, what are the outcomes that you’re hoping for?
• Reality – What are things currently like?
• Options – How can you go from the current reality to your Goal?
• Way forward – committing to an option and taking action.

As you start to strive for your goals it is important to reflect on how you are going, and what you have learned about yourself, your goals and your strengths.

Conversations around:

• Feedback – How your goal striving is going, what is working and what isn’t.
• Building self-awareness – Facilitating your own exploration of just how great you are and can be. Working towards self-coaching. 
• Adjusting goal striving – Sometimes things don’t go as planned, and we need to rethink options to reach the goals, other times they worked so brilliantly that we need to set new goals. Either way the process doesn’t end, it grows with us.