Coaching Domains

Within Early Childhood Coaching, a domain describes the purposes, perspectives, and processes of effective coaching. Coaching competencies may be used across all coaching domains. The three early childhood coaching domains are relationships, reflection, and inquiry.

Coach partners engage in healthy relationships when they share power and communicate without judgment. Coach partners value the dignity of themselves, their partner, and their work together, and are respectful to one another in their ongoing relationship. As they co-create accountable plans and goals, they foster trust and mutual transparency with one another. 

Coach partners engage in healthy reflection when they contemplate beliefs, values, processes, and content-specific knowledge. Coach partners value an active, exploratory, and open attitude that considers the strengths, challenges, potential implicit bias, and feedback that are involved in training and experiential learning. As they co-create continuous cycles of reflection, coach partners enhance their willingness to share and receive feedback from one another and change or improve practices based on reflective practices. 

Coach partners engage in healthy inquiry when they articulate what they are curious about and investigate further with openness to possibilities. Coach partners value the spirit of inquiry and the joy of increasing competence. As they engage together in discovery processes, they embrace and foster creativity, and acknowledge that resolution brings clarity to both the coach and the coach partner.