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A new profession needs a precise vocabulary — a set of terms two practitioners can use and mean the same thing by.
This is the defined vocabulary of Relationship Readiness coaching: each term stated in the Academy's own words and linked to the article that develops it. Where a term names a protected method, it is named here but not detailed.
Definition · Relationship Readiness coaching
Relationship Readiness coaching is the structured, forward-looking professional practice of guiding committed couples through the design and practice of shared life, using reflection rather than advice, while the couple remains the authority on every decision.
That definition is the first entry below, and every other term extends it. Each definition is stated exactly as it appears in the article that develops it, so a term means one thing across the whole corpus. The entries group by the six fields of the discipline; two foundational terms and the Academy’s named methods close the list.
Read it however suits — from the top, as an orientation to the whole field, or by jumping to a single term you have met elsewhere. Each entry links to the article that develops it, so a definition here is a doorway as much as a description.
Definition · Shared-life design
Shared-life design is the deliberate work through which two people make family, money, roles, routines, care, faith, privacy, aspiration and belonging discussable, and consciously shape the life they intend to build together.
Together, these terms are the working vocabulary of a profession being formed: enough shared language that two coaches, trained separately, can describe the same piece of work in the same words — and a reader can hold the Academy to what each term is said to mean.
A discipline is built, in part, by naming its terms precisely enough that two practitioners mean the same thing.