Renewing Us Foundations Program

Terms and Agreements

Your experience in the Renewing Us Foundations Program depends upon a high degree of trust between you, your coach, and your fellow group members. This document is designed to clearly explain what to expect and to establish shared expectations that support a safe, respectful, and effective group environment.

Understanding the Renewing Us Foundations Program

The Renewing Us Foundations Program is a structured small group coaching program designed to support individuals and couples healing from relational betrayal. The program focuses on establishing the foundational elements of recovery — particularly honesty, emotional safety, regulation, and consistency — during a highly sensitive early phase of healing.

This program prioritizes individual stabilization and personal responsibility. While couples may enroll simultaneously, joint participation is not required, and the program is not designed to replace couples therapy or crisis intervention.

Participants are invited into a process of increased self-awareness, ownership, and relational insight within a trauma-informed and structured environment. You will have opportunities to explore patterns of thinking, feeling, and behavior that influence how you relate to yourself and others.

Program objectives include, but are not limited to:

  • Developing skills to support recovery and emotional regulation

  • Experiencing normalization and support within a small group setting

  • Increasing understanding of personal and relational patterns

  • Identifying thoughts, feelings, and behaviors that hinder healing

  • Building honesty, accountability, and emotional safety over time

You may share as much or as little as you choose. Participation is encouraged but never forced. Questions are welcome at any time.

The Role of Your Coach

Our approach to small group coaching is grounded in the belief that growth occurs best within safe, structured community.

Your coach’s role is to:

  • Create and maintain a respectful, emotionally safe environment

  • Guide group discussion and structure the coaching process

  • Encourage honesty, accountability, and appropriate vulnerability

  • Support balanced participation among members

If at any time you feel unsafe, blocked, or uncertain about your participation, you are encouraged to speak directly with your coach. Your feedback matters and is welcomed.

Benefits of Participation

Participation may result in increased self-awareness, improved emotional regulation, healthier relational patterns, and greater clarity around recovery goals.

Change takes time. Your willingness to participate consistently, engage honestly, and receive feedback will influence your progress. Results develop gradually and vary by individual.

Risks of Group Participation

Group coaching can involve emotional discomfort. You may experience sadness, anger, fear, anxiety, grief, frustration, or other strong emotions. These experiences are a normal part of recovery work.

If emotional distress arises in a way that interferes with participation, please discuss this with your coach. Strong reactions toward other group members or your coach may occur and should be addressed appropriately within the group setting.

If you believe this small group environment is not the right fit for you, please speak with your coach about alternative support options.

Confidentiality

You have the right to confidentiality from your coaches. Coaches adhere to professional, ethical, and legal standards of confidentiality.

Confidentiality within the small group setting is a shared responsibility. While coaches are legally and ethically bound to confidentiality, other group members are not. Confidentiality among participants relies on mutual trust and respect.

Exceptions to confidentiality include:

  • Risk of serious harm to yourself or others

  • Suspected abuse or neglect of a minor or vulnerable adult

  • Court orders or other legal requirements

As a participant, you agree not to disclose identifying information about other group members outside of the group. This includes names, personal details, and specific content shared during sessions.

Program Fees, Billing, and Participation Terms

Program fees are agreed upon at enrollment and are charged once per month, based on the date the participant joins the Renewing Us Foundations Program. Charges are automatically processed to the payment method on file.

  • Enrollment includes a minimum three-month commitment

  • All program fees are non-refundable

  • Fees are charged regardless of session attendance

  • Failure to maintain payment may result in loss of program participation

Participants agree to remain active and engaged throughout their enrollment period.

Billing and Cancellation Policy

Participants may cancel their enrollment by submitting a written cancellation request to [email protected].

To avoid being charged for an additional billing cycle, cancellation requests must be received no less than seven (7) days prior to the participant’s next scheduled billing date. Requests submitted fewer than seven days before the billing date may result in one additional monthly charge.

All fees paid prior to cancellation remain non-refundable.

Program Offerings

The Renewing Us Foundations Program may include:

  • Weekly small group coaching sessions

  • Access to an online member community

  • Access to digital educational resources

  • Optional specialty sessions or additional coaching (when applicable)

All offerings and resources are provided at the discretion of The Raabsmith Team.

Online Presence and Communication

Please be mindful when sharing information about your participation online. Public posts or reviews may waive your right to privacy.

Email may be used for scheduling and administrative communication but is not a substitute for coaching. Coaches do not provide coaching via email. Lengthy or emotionally disclosing messages may be redirected to session discussion.

Email and other digital communications may become part of client records. Do not use email for emergencies.

Emergencies

Coaches are generally available during normal business hours and may not be immediately available for urgent situations.

If you are experiencing an emergency, contact 911 or your local crisis response team. Unless otherwise stated, messages will be returned within 48 hours.

Appropriate Group Behavior

Consistent attendance is essential. Absences affect both your progress and the group experience. Please notify your coach if you are unable to attend.

All participants agree to:

  • Maintain confidentiality

  • Speak from personal experience using “I” statements

  • Be punctual and fully present

  • Respect differences among group members

  • Avoid giving unsolicited advice

  • Avoid graphic or glamorized descriptions of destructive behavior

  • Be respectful in words, tone, and body language

  • Allow silence when it arises

  • Refrain from recording sessions in any format

Bullying, harassment, or discriminatory language or behavior will not be tolerated.

Virtual Group Guidelines

For virtual sessions, participants agree to:

  • Join from a private, confidential space

  • Avoid multitasking during sessions

  • Keep cameras on unless otherwise approved

  • Give full attention to the group process

Repeated violations of these expectations may result in removal from the program.

Liability and Scope of Practice

The Renewing Us Foundations Program provides coaching services only and is not therapy, counseling, medical care, or crisis intervention.

Participants understand and agree that:

  • Coaches are not providing mental health treatment

  • Coaching does not replace therapy or emergency services

  • Participants are responsible for their own decisions and outcomes

The Raabsmith Team and its coaches are not liable for actions taken by participants outside of coaching sessions.

Agreement

By purchasing this program, I acknowledge that I have read, understood, and agree to all terms and conditions contained in this document.