When you participate at the Coaching Commons as a guest contributor whose post is a featured story, or when you make a comment that generates lively conversation, you will receive a unit of ReciproCoach credit called a “coaching coin.”

You’ll receive an email with the news – how many coins you’ve been awarded, along with information about how to register. The more you join in the coaching conversation at the Commons, the more coins you collect – one gift each month – up to six coins in a year.

Here’s how it works:
Once you register at ReciproCoach, a professional ReciproCoach match-maker will choose a coach for you in what is called a coaching “round.” (A coaching round is the term of the coaching agreement: a specific number of coaching hours over a specific period of time.)

And here’s where the “Recipro” part of ReciproCoaching comes in: you take a turn coaching another coach. (No worries - it’s not the coach who’s coaching you.)

Reciprocal coaching. ReciproCoach!

Simple. Collaborative. Brilliant. Life-changing.

And free to Coaching Commons participants.

So why do we call this “a gift” when you’re asked to coach someone else?

That’s because ReciproCoach coins ordinarily cost up to 25 USD each. You need two coins to join a coaching round. These coins pay for the professional administration of the program, web development, matching coaches with coaches and monitoring the coaching rounds.

Through a grant from The Harnisch Foundation, the Coaching Commons partnered with ReciproCoach to offer this rare opportunity to our guest contributors and readers who keep stirring the conversation with their published comments.

ReciproCoach (formerly Contra Coaching) was created in 2005 by Kerryn Griffiths in Brisbane, Australia. She believes, as we do, that every coach should have a coach.

When we ask coaches why they don’t have a coach of their own, most say they’ve had a coach in the past, and plan to have a coach again, but right now they have too many demands on their time and/or on their budgets.

ReciproCoach was created to meet that need.

The Harnisch Foundation is covering registration fees and has purchased a number of coaching coins for Coaching Commons guest contributors and commenters — and you’re eligible to get your share  – until all the coins are awarded!

To find out more about Kerryn Griffiths and ReciproCoach, click here.

To visit The Harnisch Foundation, click here.