A coach is here to support and build your capacity to manage the barriers and obstacles that come your way, and at the same time amplify your unique strengths and abilities to move forward in your life. Coaches do this as co-equal partners in safe and thoughtful conversations together.

These are just some of the possibilities for your conversations:

• Discovering what habits, patterns of behavior, beliefs, and choices that support you and what might not support you
• Building your decision-making capabilities
• Exploring ways for you to get "unstuck" and more clear
• Talking about how best to manage your time
• Clarifying your goals and what is important now and for your future - what you want and do not want in your life.

Coaching is not therapy. Your coach respects that we all have a history of past experiences that may not have supported our best interests. Also, a coach realizes that life in the present moment can be chaotic, complex, and confusing.

It is important that the student-coachee understands some of the areas that coaching does not provide:

• Dealing with persistent anxiety, depression, or panic
• Attempting to heal of the past such as unresolved grief or abuse
• Self-harm or suicidal ideation
• Areas such as housing instability, food insecurity, and grief
• Chronic inability to self-regulate extremes of emotions

If any of these or other areas of immediate concern are felt by the coach - with dignity and respect for the interest, well-being, and safety for the student-coachee - the coach is ethically required to share their concern with the designated staff at Edge High School.

With the courtesy you deserve, the coach will alert the student-coachee of their decision to move forward with their need for this consultation.