Community guidelines
Robin is built on trust between coaches. These guidelines are how we protect that trust — they apply to everyone, including us. For tips on looking after yourself on Robin, see coaching safely.
What Robin is for
Robin exists for one reason: to help coaches get better at coaching.
Free reciprocal coaching
Robin is a free community where coaches coach each other. You take turns coaching and bringing real topics. Both of you grow.
A space to develop your skills
Whether you're working toward accreditation or sharpening your craft, Robin gives you a safe space to coach, experiment, and get feedback.
Robin's peer coaching spaces aren't a marketplace
The directory, your profile, DMs, and sessions are for peer coaching — not for finding clients, selling courses, or pitching services. Commercial posts are welcome in the Notice board (with disclosure).
The Notice board is for the wider coaching world
Jobs, courses, services, platforms you're affiliated with, recommendations — post them in the Notice board so coaches who want to see them can browse. Always disclose your affiliation when you post (one line is enough). Don't DM coaches individually about this stuff.
What we expect from you
These are the standards every coach on Robin agrees to.
Respect the coaching frame
When you're coaching, stay in the coaching role. Avoid giving unsolicited personal advice, pushing past boundaries the other coach has set, or asking questions that serve your curiosity rather than their development.
Don't record or screenshot without consent
Don't screen-record calls, record audio, or screenshot messages without the other coach's permission.
Don't sell or pitch in DMs or sessions
Don't use DMs or scheduled sessions to pitch your services, courses, programmes, or platform — even if you'd disclose. Post in the Notice board instead; coaches who want to see it will browse there.
Give feedback that builds, not breaks
After a peer coaching session, focus feedback on specific coaching skills: what worked, what you noticed, what might land differently. Avoid personal criticism or judgements about the other coach as a person.
Respect the other coach's time
If you've scheduled a session, show up. If you can't make it, let the other coach know as early as possible. Consistent no-shows damage trust for everyone.
Robin is for all coaches
Coaches on Robin come from different programmes, countries, backgrounds, and experience levels. That diversity is a strength. Discriminatory behaviour of any kind has no place here.
Coaching, not therapy
If a topic feels like it's moving beyond peer coaching into something deeper, it's ok to pause and say so. You're building coaching skills, not providing therapy. Knowing the difference is a professional strength, not a limitation.
Keep what's shared in sessions private
What the other coach shares during a session stays between you. Don't share their stories, struggles, or personal details with others, inside or outside Robin.
Where we draw the line
If we see this, we'll act.
Harassment, intimidation, or bullying
This includes repeated unwanted contact after someone has asked you to stop, threats, deliberate humiliation, or any behaviour intended to make someone feel unsafe or unwelcome.
Discrimination of any kind
Treating someone differently because of their race, gender, sexuality, disability, religion, age, or any other protected characteristic. This applies to connections, feedback, and messages.
Sharing another coach's personal information
Don't share another coach's personal details, session content, or private messages outside of Robin without their explicit consent.
Persistent no-shows
Repeatedly failing to show up for scheduled sessions without communicating. Things come up, but a pattern of no-shows wastes other coaches' time and erodes community trust.
Selling or canvassing outside the Notice board
Using DMs, scheduled sessions, or your profile to sell services, courses, programmes, or to recruit clients. The Notice board is the one space where this is welcome — and you must disclose your affiliation when you post there.
What happens if guidelines are broken
We keep it simple and fair.