ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses how Rational Emotive Behavioural (REB) coaches lay the foundations so that their coachees can get the most from the process of Rational Emotive Behavioural Coaching. When a person first contacts an REB coach, that person may be in the role of 'enquirer'. Whether the coach has responded themselves to the person's initial enquiry, the chapter suggests they themselves carry out a brief, real-time conversation with the person, unless there is a good reason not to do so. One of the points that coaches can make at the outset is that they expect coachees to be active between coaching sessions. Thus, the REB coach can ask the applicant to prepare for the face-to-face assessment session. The applicant is doing satisfactorily in life and wishes to develop themselves in one or more areas of their life. During the recent past, the person has neither experienced an emotional problem nor a practical problem that required professional help.
