PAIRS Coaches and Consultants play a vital role delivering programs that make a lasting, measurable contribution to the lives of program participants. With experience training more than 2,000 instructors and serving tens of thousands of participants, the Foundation has identified some of the most important qualities in effective course providers.

Qualities important for effective coaches include:

• Personal warmth, optimism, authenticity, poise, and maturity;
• Speaks clearly with appropriate pacing and expression, and is easily understood;
• Emotionally stable and comfortable with emotional intensity;
• Able to model relevant and appropriate self-disclosure;
• Avoids wordiness, professional jargon and terminology;
• Maintains safe educational environment, including appropriate boundaries;
• Works cooperatively with team members, authentically modeling PAIRS values;
• Asks for help when needed;
• At ease with groups, including ability to establish group rapport, evaluate and read participant responses, and inspire participation;
• Understands and respects the vulnerabilities of class participants.

Overall the PAIRS Coach should be personable, have life skills, be trustworthy, responsible, caring, have a good sense of humor, healthy self-esteem, charisma, energy, enthusiasm, and life wisdom.

The overarching goal of PAIRS is to empower program participants with skills and strategies to establish positive attitudes, behaviors, and patterns of emotional expression that lead to healthy habits for loving, resilient family relationships.

The PAIRS Coach plays a vitally important role establishing rapport, personal and organizational credibility, group safety, assuring ethical practices, guiding exercises, and empowering each participant’s personal journey through the curriculum.