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At Companion Writing Coaching and Support (Companion),* our approach to coaching clients in writing and communications depends on each writer’s goals and support needs.

* Companion Writing Coaching and Support is owned and managed by Sally-Anne Watson Kane, who also owns editing businesses.

Companion’s approach to writing coaching

First, Companion’s manager Sally-Anne Watson Kane listens to you.

Then, once we know your goals, we work out the best approach to guide, coach and/or support you to meet those goals. We can coach, support, motivate and guide you in writing and improving your writing skills. We are nurturing and honest, sensitive to your needs and committed to helping you work towards your goals and reach your full potential. 

Our writing coaches work with you in a collaborative, conversational way to help you improve, expand on and enhance your writing. We support you to learn how to improve specific aspects of your writing, and gain experience talking about your ideas and writing. We ensure that while working on our writing, you retain your own original voice and full ownership of your work.

The specifics of Companion’s writing coaching

Depending on your specific goals we can:

• work with and support you so you are motivated to continue writing and improving your writing in your own time, between coaching sessions
• help you clarify your target audience and goals for a particular piece of writing so you learn how to target your writing to specific reader demographics
• if you need this: help you better organise your files, including stories or other documents; help you organise a routine around writing, to be more productive; stress the importance of self-care while writing about difficult topics
• coach you in the specific aspects of writing you want to improve, to meet your goals; for example, structuring your writing, learning about syntax, improving your vocabulary, punctuation or ability to present an argument or idea
• review your writing and give you coaching support via: Zoom or other platforms where we can view your writing while we discuss it,  Track Changes, email, or phone
• work with you regularly (weekly, fortnightly or monthly). Regardless of the initial plan, we only charge you for the actual hours of work we do. 

Companion’s coaching support specifically for NDIS participants

Many of Companion’s clients are NDIS participants who are neurodivergent or have conditions or disabilities that make it difficult for them to communicate in social or community settings, or to communicate their ideas in writing. Our clients all have imaginative ideas and a passion for writing, which could be said to be their topic of interest.

Our clients include people who are autistic, dyslexic, or have OCD, ADHD,  schizophrenia, personality disorder, PTSD, Bipolar Disorder, short-term memory loss, cognitive difficulties, and other disabilities and conditions.

Companion’s one-on-one writing coaching support helps our clients improve their ability to articulate their thoughts and ideas in writing as well as verbally.  Regarlar coaching helps our clients be motivated to continue to write and elaborate on their ideas and improve their writing skills, between sessions.

We coach and collaborate with our disabled and neurodivergent clients, including NDIS participants, to enable them to do all or any of the below.

• discussing their ideas and writing, including their topic of interest, with their coach in a safe  one-on-one environment with the coach guiding them to learn
• tell their stories or articulate their ideas via the method they are comfortable with – verbally and/or in writing – and write or document those ideas/stories 
• work out the audience for a piece of writing and what that audience needs
• learn to tell their story and write it in a more engaging or clear way
• improve their writing by learning more about grammar, syntax and/or punctuation, and learning when it is necessary to rewrite or clarify a sentence
• be motivated to continue writing or working on their topic of interest both during the coaching sessions and in between the sessions, in their own time
• become confident communicators talking about their ideas and topics of interest in this one-on-one setting which gives them experience participating in a safe social and community setting
• improve the following:  their writing in general,  a piece of writing on their particular topic of interest, their oral communication in general, their confidence in engaging in one-on-one discussions, and their experience in communicating in this social and community setting. 
• benefit from those improvements: more confidence and improved wellbeing resulting from this coaching journey, and improved independence in dealing with other people in a social and community context.

Companion does not charge NDIS participants for the initial consultations to work out your specific needs and goals or for writing the service agreement. Sally-Anne arranges a meeting with you and the  coach on our team who best matches your specific needs and goals. Once the coaching support  commences, we then charge you for the actual hours of coaching provided. 

Companion’s coaches

Companion’s small coaching team is diverse in terms of gender diversity and LGBTQI+, neurodiversity and disability. All our coaches are contractors who live in Australia, have signed our confidentiality agreement and our code of ethics agreement, and are listed and described here.

 Contact Sally-Anne about our writing coaching support at: 0419 337 824.