Steele
is the author of the popular, ground-breaking
Conscious Dating Relationship Success
Program For Singles, a structured,
step-by-step workshop and coaching program
that has helped thousands of singles to
“find the love of your life and
the life that you love,” and Partners
In Life, a powerful and innovative
program that helps pre-committed and pre-marital
couples create sustainable, fulfilling
life partnerships. The author has trained
hundreds of helping professionals worldwide
to help singles and couples using his
programs and models of Relationship Coaching.
David truly has a passion
for helping singles and couples have successful
life partnerships. Since experiencing
his parents’ divorce as a child,
and his own two divorces as an adult,
he has spent his personal and professional
life attempting to figure out the mystery
of how relationships fail and succeed.
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As a couples therapist for many years, the author became disillusioned and frustrated with the poor success rate of marital therapy with couples in trouble. He questioned the effectiveness of working within a culture that professed to highly value marriage and family, but seemed to prioritize working on relationships only when they were on the verge of divorce, which seemed like a set-up for failure.
In 1997 David was surprised to discover the
developing field of Life and Personal Coaching,
a new helping profession that evolved independently
from psychotherapy and mental health, originating
from business consulting, sports psychology,
and the personal growth movement. After first
viewing this new profession with skepticism,
the author became sold on personal coaching
after volunteering as a practice client for
a friend, and later pursuing training himself.
He found coaching to be a powerful and empowering
method for helping people achieve their goals,
and he became passionate about applying coaching
to relationships.
After discovering that no model existed for Relationship Coaching, David developed a five stage model of Relationship Coaching (Readiness, Attraction, Pre-Commitment, Coupling, and Bliss) and set about creating coaching tools and concepts for each stage. As a therapist, it had never occurred to the author to help singles, but as a coach it became obvious that helping singles to learn about relationships and to make good relationship choices held the key to preventing divorce and promoting sustainable, fulfilling life partnerships. In researching and piloting programs for singles, David found them to be a highly receptive and motivated audience who were seeking an effective alternative to flirting workshops, “find the perfect mate” self-help books, the local singles scene, and entrepreneurial services that most singles seem to intuitively distrust.
Conscious Dating® is the result of over
20 years of well-earned personal and professional
lessons in what does and doesn’t work
in relationships, and eight years of innovating
and testing effective approaches for helping
singles to “find the love of your life
and the life that you love.”
