To kick off our 25th anniversary, here's a short history of how RCI got started, organized in a series of seven "epiphanies." Epiphany #1: Coaching is the future of the helping professions. In 1996 I stumbled upon coaching when a friend in my men's organization announced he was in training to become a "Life Coach," which I was honestly shocked and appalled by. But he was a friend so I kept
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What Clients are Saying…
“RCI is my best investment so far in coaching education and business building. Great trainings, step by step plan on how to build a successful practice and daily support with all kinds of questions and concerns re: clients and my business.”
Anna Osiecka
“I am a certified relationship specialist with over 28 years experience as a counselor but had no idea how to start and run my own business. I found RCI was blown away with the amount of training and knowledge they offer. This program is equally beneficial for seasoned professionals and those with no coaching experience.… Read more “Lori Ann Davis”
Lori Ann Davis, MA, CRS
“RCI offers excellent training in relationship coaching – for singles as well as for couples – and teaches how to run a profitable coaching business. RCI shares an immense wealth of resources and information. It offers on-going support through regular coaching calls which address coaching skills as well as business and marketing skills. The level… Read more “Uta Demontis”
Uta Demontis, PhD
“I’ve been a member of RCI for over 2 years and took the Singles Coaching training and received my certification. I’m also a graduate of their Couples Coaching training and will be applying for my Couples Certification. RCI provides a huge amount of resources, assistance, training, business development and so much more. I have met… Read more “Patricia Lavigne”
Patricia Lavigne
“RCI provides top training to help you on your journey to be a highly profitable coach. It is not enough to just have good coaching skills. You need to be able to know how to market your programs and put yourself out there. RCI helps you do that, and all of these amazing tools are… Read more “Gina Daniels”
Gina Daniels
The RCI coaching program is the absolute best in it’s field. The concepts and content are exceptional. RCI is helping couples worldwide to live an emotionally healthier and more connected life together.
Megan Darling
“I first trained with RCI in 2002 and still actively use all I learned and all of their fabulous, always-evolving resources — it really is the gift that keeps on giving! I started my coaching practice in the late-90s as a Life and Career Transition Coach and it quickly became apparent that the two big… Read more “Deborah Roth”
Deborah Roth, MA, PCC
From the Blog
Asking Permission in Life and Relationship Coaching
As life and relationship coaches our primary goal and all of our coaching skills are focused on empowering our clients. Why? Because playing the role of expert consultant by giving our clients advice and opinion of what we think they "should" do as well as other directive activities is dis-empowering, we refer to them as "non-coach-like," and they just don't work when applied to helping a
FAQ: Can Relationship Requirements be Flexible?
FAQ: Can Relationship Requirements be flexible? We're making all this stuff up. There is no scientific study or evidence about the existence and behavior of Requirements so nobody, including me, gets to have the last word about it. First, a bit of background about what prompted this FAQ: You may or may not know that in 2017 Darlene and I sold our house in Silicon Valley where we raised our
