Which practice involves asking powerful questions and upholding agreements across the coaching relationship?

Which practice involves asking powerful questions and upholding agreements across the coaching relationship?

• A. Active Autonomy Support
• B. Sustained Presence
• C. Coaching Agreement
• D. Onboarding

Answer: (B)

Sustained Presence centers on staying fully present with the client throughout the coaching relationship. It involves using powerful questions that invite deep reflection and reveal the client’s own insights, rather than providing answers. It also means consistently upholding the agreements and commitments made within the coaching relationship—honoring session times, actions, confidentiality, and boundaries—so trust and accountability endure across all interactions. This combination of attentive presence, insightful questioning, and reliable follow-through across sessions best fits the described practice. The other concepts relate to parts of the process but don’t capture the ongoing, presence-led stance across the relationship: initiating autonomy support or the initial coaching contract are important but address different aspects, and onboarding is about getting started rather than maintaining presence and agreements over time.

Sustained Presence centers on staying fully present with the client throughout the coaching relationship. It involves using powerful questions that invite deep reflection and reveal the client’s own insights, rather than providing answers. It also means consistently upholding the agreements and commitments made within the coaching relationship—honoring session times, actions, confidentiality, and boundaries—so trust and accountability endure across all interactions. This combination of attentive presence, insightful questioning, and reliable follow-through across sessions best fits the described practice.

The other concepts relate to parts of the process but don’t capture the ongoing, presence-led stance across the relationship: initiating autonomy support or the initial coaching contract are important but address different aspects, and onboarding is about getting started rather than maintaining presence and agreements over time.