While most coaches talk about things like passion, design and calling, living your destiny as a Christ-follower is much more than simply looking inward to follow your bliss or find fulfillment. To create a uniquely…
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Coaching has enough of a buzz surrounding it that it seems to be cropping up all over the place in today’s church. While that’s exciting news, it also means that people are being called “coaches”…
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Coaching and mentoring are one-on-one relationships that use support, encouragement and accountability to grow people toward a better future. A mentor is a more senior individual who imparts wisdom, opportunities and counsel to a…
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For Christians, calling comes from God. Allegiance means that I have signed ownership of my life over to the lordship of Christ, and my fulfillment lies in a Kingdom that is not of this world. The idea of letting go of what we can gain in life and living to serve God is one of the distinctives of Christian coaching.
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There are a lot of similar terms floating around in life coaching circles, and we arent always clear on what each one means. From my work is life coaching, I have found the following list…
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Life Coaching is a special coaching niche that focuses on discovering your values and purpose and aligning your life with them. Life coaching is about destiny discovery and alignment. A life coach works toward two things: creating a better future and a better life today.
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?One of the obstacles to creating a culture of coaching in organizations is the belief that coaching is too time-intensive. The argument is that it takes less time to tell people what to do than…
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Pro-Active Parent Coaching is a natural approach to parenting that will strengthen relationship while providing our children with a healthy support structure for their growth and development. This is accomplished by offering a simple and…
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I love my pedometer. It counts and keeps track of every step I take. Pedometers were originally used by sports and fitness enthusiasts, but are becoming popular as an everyday exercise measurer and motivator. In…
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What is Neuro-Linguistic Programming, and Should a Christian Use it?
[Editor’s Note: We’d like to start a dialogue on this issue, so feel free to comment!]
These questions come across my desk or are raised in a telephone conversation almost daily. I would like to shine some light on this topic and open a conversation and exploration about it with you. In doing so I think it is important to define what is NLP, explore it’s origins, and applications.
Neuro-Linguistic Programming: What is it really?
The origins of NLP are fairly simple. Two men, John Grinder and Richard Bandler were interested in…
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How do we explain coaching to ministry leaders when the term coaching is already used within churches to mean so many different things?
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Although life coaching is a cutting-edge and rapidly growing field, I often get asked, What exactly is a life coach? We can sometimes complicate things by thinking that life coaching should be difficult and that it takes years of schooling to understand. It isnt and it doesnt. We can also think that a life coach is the clients therapist, mother, or new best friend. She is not. In the simplest terms, a life coach is a conversationalist one skilled at conversations.
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Excerpted from the book, Leadership Coaching
Simply stated, coaches are change experts who help leaders take responsibility to maximize their own potential. Learning to coach is learning to set up relationships that provide…
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Coaches specialize in many different areas. For instance, just among our group of moderators there are coaches who focus on:
Coaching ministry leaders
Helping you discover and live your life purpose…
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