Creating the Container for Group Coaching

As a group coach it is important to spend time during your initial session with a new group to create the container - by setting ground rules or ways of working together. I do this for both in-person programs, and phone based programs.

I typically spend a few minutes at the start of any new group coaching program facilitating a process in which we create the terms by which we work together - starting and ending on time, confidentiality etc.

Each group tends to come up with their own unique terms for how they want to interact.

What are the ground rules you would like to put forth as a start? How are these terms - such as confidentiality, defined? How will the group define these terms? How do they relate to the ICF Code of Ethics?

Write down the ways of working you want to put forth in your next group coaching program, and make sure to create space in your first session to discuss them.