Private Coaching

Reflective Mediation offers private communication coaching/counselling to prepare for a successful negotiation and to address emotional issues that can complicate relationships.

Private coaching or counselling sessions target your specific goals, either between mediation sessions or instead of them. Private meetings allow you to clarify goals, identify strategies and learn the skills needed to reach your objectives. Together we develop the approach best suited to your unique situation and come up with a strategy to assist you in growing and engaging with others more skillfully, repairing relationships now and for the future.

How does cOMMUNICATION coaching work?

Mike is a trained coach who helps you navigate conflicts in private one-on-one sessions. In this format, you can explore your needs and goals, and work on developing a practical strategy for achieving those goals. Using motivational interviewing as his approach, Mike prepares you to handle conflicts with greater confidence by teaching and rehearsing skills that fit your situation.

Is PRIVATE coaching right for me?

Interpersonal differences are necessary. They help us grow, but we are not born with the knowledge and skills to navigate this treacherous terrain in the most positive and efficient way. Learning how to manage disagreements can be life changing, especially for people who: 

• Avoid conflict, letting their own needs often go unmet and unexpressed

• Over-react and say things that make matters worse

• Repair relationships  

• Pursue personal growth

Is coaching another label for therapy?

Mediation and private coaching share some features of psychotherapy, yet they remain distinctly different.

Like therapy, coaching involves a relationship with a supportive professional, and requires open discussion of personal matters. 

Unlike therapy, communication coaching makes no diagnosis of illness and does not pathologize any issue.  Emotional triggers are viewed as windows into underlying positive needs, to be respected and understood. Private coaching is designed to target specific client-centred, behavioural goals. It addresses concrete objectives and is undertaken over a brief period of time. Private coaching isn’t therapy, but it can be therapeutic.

What are the benefits of conflict management coaching?

Private communication coaching has the ability to repair relationships in the following ways:

• Deeper connection with others

• Reduction in stress and anxiety

• Improved emotional regulation and awareness

• Self-confidence in difficult negotiations

• Enhanced communication skills

• Listening so others feel heard

• Raising concerns without sparking conflict

• Insights into conflict patterns – yours and others’

• Shifting from competition to collaboration

What are the situations I can help you resolve?

Communication coaching can be used when individuals wish to improve their skills of dispute resolution and negotiation. Mike MacConnell creates a safe space to host honest conversations that help you connect the dots, so you have the confidence and ability to resolve disputes and enhance relationships in marriage, family, workplace and school.