FAQ
What is Coaching?
Coaching is an ongoing conversation that empowers individuals or teams to fully live out God’s calling in their lives and professions. Through coaching, you’ll discover new things about yourself, and take action to reshape your life around that learning.
The coaching relationship fosters insights, personal awareness, changed behaviors, and tangible results. It requires commitment on your part to evaluate, imagine, decide, and implement changes in your life.
What Does Coaching Focus On?
- You: Coaching revolves around your goals, learning, and growth, helping you discern the Holy Spirit’s guidance in your life.
- Learning: Rather than teaching, coaching encourages self-discovery through active listening, open questions, and support.
- Action: Each session concludes with 1-3 actionable steps, helping you progress steadily toward your goals.
- The Whole Person: Coaching addresses every aspect of your life—heart, soul, mind, and body—not just your work or ministry.
What Coaching Isn’t
- Not Therapy: Therapy focuses on the past to bring healing. Coaching is future-focused and action-oriented.
- Not Mentoring: Mentors pass on their expertise and provide advice, whereas coaching empowers you to find your own answers.
- Not Training: In training, the trainer sets the agenda. In coaching, you set the agenda, and the process is driven by your discovery.
- Not Authoritarian: Coaching is supportive and encouraging. While you may be challenged, you remain in control of your decisions and actions.
Why Does Coaching Work?
Coaching works because it helps you uncover your best—what God has put within you. Coaches believe in your ability to create your own best answers and are trained to support you through:
- Listening: Your story is central, and your coach also listens to the Holy Spirit alongside you.
- Asking Questions: Thought-provoking questions encourage creativity and possibilities for the future.
- Encouraging: Coaches provide the affirmation and encouragement we often lack in daily life.
- Facilitating: While you lead the journey, your coach helps guide and clarify your learning and problem-solving process.
Why Use a Coach?
Coaching helps you reach your fullest potential by providing outside input and a collaborative partner. Some reasons people seek coaching include:
- Making significant life changes
- Reducing stress and simplifying life
- Improving relationships and leadership skills
- Growing spiritually
- Achieving financial stability
- Addressing transitions in location or employment
- Setting better goals and achieving them faster
As Andy Stanley says, “You will never maximize your potential in any area without coaching. It is impossible.”
How is Christian Coaching Unique?
Christian coaching incorporates faith and spiritual growth into the coaching relationship. As your coach, I will encourage you to:
- Listen to the Holy Spirit regarding your goals and actions.
- Reflect on how God has called and equipped you.
- Feel comfortable sharing your spiritual needs, doubts, and desires.
Christian coaching supports you where you are and helps you grow in alignment with your faith and God’s calling on your life.