Help others get from where they are to where they want to be.
Coaching is a widely respected and highly effective way of helping people get unstuck. Companies, churches, families, and individuals are turning to coaches for help in navigating life's transitions, obstacles, relationships, and more. This second edition of Christian Coaching is a revised , expanded, and updated version with new material to reflect current trends and standards in the coaching field. Dr. Collins offers you biblical principles, how-tos, and practical forms and tools to enhance your coaching skills. You'll learn how to
- Refine your listening and questioning skills
- Apply coaching principles in various facets of life, including church, the workplace, and marriage
- Use the reproducible forms in the back of the book to enhance your coaching
- Be more effective in helping people discover and live out God's purpose for their lives.
Though used widely as a respected textbook and reference for Christian leaders, pastors, and counselors, this may also be the most entertaining book you will read on coaching. It is full of life wisdom and riveting stories that will equip to help people get from where they are to where they want to be.
CONTENTS:PART 1: The Foundations of Christian Coaching
PART 2: The Skills of Christian Coaching
PART 3: Assessment in Christian coaching - Where Are we Now?
PART 4: Vision in Christian coaching - Where Do We Want to Go?
PART 5: Strategy, Action, and Obstacles in Christian Coaching - How Do We Reach Our Goals?
PART 6: Specialties in Christian Coaching
PART 7: The Practice of Christian Coaching
Appendixes:
- Graph
- Evaluating
- Coaching Facts
- Coaching Agreement
- "Getting to Know You" Personal Information Form
- Identifying Values
- What Are Your Spiritual Gifts?
- Clarifying Your Mission Statement
- Writing a Ten-Year Letter
- Energy Drainers
- Finding a Coach
COMMENTS from Reader
Book Dimensions: 16 x 23 cm.
Comments from people who have used this material:
Gary Collins takes all the vital elements of coaching and brings them
together into one valuable resource. This book is essential for anyone
- not just Christians - who want to make a difference in the lives of
others.
KEN BLANCHARD/ coauthor, THE ONE MINUTE MANAGER
This is a 'must-read' and inspiration for all Christian coaches.
LEE SMITH PH.D/ president, CoachWorks International.
Have you read this book yet? It is outstanding! A great read for any Christian who works with people, whether in a church or secular environment. Coaching, as Collins would define it, is not specifically discipling, or mentoring, and it is not counselling. It is helping people to observe their lives and see God’s purpose for growth in their midst – to walk alongside them specifically to help them understand the present, to be free to see a new God-centred perspective, and to release them into God’s agenda for the future.
Coaching is about observation, guidance and perspective. It is based on spiritual disciplines (God’s word, prayer, worship, etc.) and community (intimacy with God and others). Intimacy with others is purposed by God because it allows us to be opened up so He can enter.
In his book, Gary Collins uses a ‘coaching model’ depicting six areas of life (issues, awareness, vision, strategy, action, obstacles, centred on Christ) to give coaches a guideline for their work. Through this, and the various charts, examples and testimonies, Collins points out the need for personal coaches in the lives of people today, and also deals with the phases of transitioning when someone is being coached. Collins also discusses coaching through life changes, in the presence of obstacles, discovering values and vision, obtaining life balance, and gives guidance regarding how to deal with difficult situations.
CHRISTIAN COACHING is not about church structure,
organization or programs. It is not about doing and achieving. It is
about spiritual formation and transformation--about presence and being. CHRISTIAN
COACHING is all about developing people, in any environment,
following the biblical model given to us... by Jesus."
KAREN WEST/ Pastor of Small Groups, Waterloo Mennonite Brethren Church
