What is Christian Life Coaching? If you google Christian Life Coaching you will find pages and pages of links leading to Christian Life Coaching. Wikipedia defines Life Coaching as "a practice with the aim of helping clients determine and achieve personal goals. How then does Christian Life Coaching differ from mentoring, therapy, or consulting?
Christian Life Coaching is a one-on-one relationship that focus on support and accountability, to guide an individual to living life on purpose. Coaches are change experts, that lead the way for individuals to maximize their potential. Coaches guide individuals to solutions, rather than tell them what the solution is. Malcolm Knowles, Designs for Adult Learning sums it up this way, "Your own insight is much more powerful than my advice".
Mentoring is sharing one's life experience with a mentee, who then draws from the mentors experiences and bases their solutions on what has worked for the mentor. Mentors functions more like teachers, and advisors. Mentors will direct individuals to take action.
Therapy focuses on past issues and treatment that helps painful memories. Therapy is based on curing human dysfunction, whereas Coaching deals with individuals that are functional yet are not maximizing their potential, based on environmental and interpersonal situations.
Consultants are hired by individuals or companies to look at the current situation for the purpose of offering solutions. The consultant will diagnose the problem and offer a solution to correct that problem.
Individuals are most often aware that changes need to be made but have no idea how to make those changes. Christian Life Coaching guides the individual along the journey of change. Assessment of an individuals strengths, area of growth, and finding balance between all of these things is an important part of the coaching process. Where I am now and where I want to be is what defines coaching.
Purpose Driven Life Coaching will assist the individual with Living on Purpose. In order for you to live on purpose you have to know your purpose!
For I know the plans I have for you, "declares the Lord, "plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future (Jeremiah 29:11 NIV).
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Coach Marsha!
ReplyDeleteBravo! Bravo! As my present coach, I was highly impressed and inspired. I have learned so much about coaching over the course of the last three weeks. Your blog was a bonus blessing, like the icing on the cake, after our weekly session. Coaching would benefit so many people. It’s time out for mentoring, consulting, and counseling. Its time for people to start thinking and arriving at quality decisions on their own under the guidance of a coach.
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