A Christian coach views their client as someone who is created in the image of God, and helps them discover their strengths and passions.
This course seeks to equip Christian leaders and people helpers in acquiring the Christian coaching mindset. It will introduce you to basic coaching skills that will help you journey with others, challenge them to think deeply and stretch them to take responsibility for their life.
Who should attend?
Those who want to develop in their skills to help others grow
Those who can commit to attending both sessions full time.
Course Outline
Session 1 - Christian Coaching mindset and Biblical basis
Active listening to provide safe space for growth
Session 2 - Effective questioning to raise awareness for growth
Guiding an effective conversation for growth
What is Focused Living?
Focused Living is a personal development discovery process that helps people clarify their life direction and personal calling.
Each of us is being shaped by God to make a unique and ultimate contribution (Ephesians 2:10). The question isn’t whether God is at work, but knowing how to better recognize (1) What God is at work doing and (2) How to set a path to align with His work.
Course Outline
Session 1: Your Personal Timeline
You look at your history and identify ways God has worked in your life to shape you into the person you are today and prepare you for your ministry tomorrow.
Study the significant event, people and circumstances God has used in your past to shape you into who you are today and prepare for your ultimate contribution.
Session 2: Your Personal Calling Statement
You discern the Lord’s unique calling for you and consider how to focus your life for maximum fruitfulness.
Develop your life message, specific audience, ultimate impact and unique task that will guide your service for the kingdom.
Session 3: Your Implementation
In order to integrate the Personal Calling Statement into your life, you need to work it into your calendar system. You also need to identify your developmental needs and the kinds of mentors available to help in your ongoing development You will identify your life roles, determine your yearly objectives and integrate them into your monthly calendar and weekly schedule.
"The purpose of a man's heart is like deep water, but a man of understanding will draw it out."
- Proverbs 20:5 (ESV)
Are you an encourager who desires to unlock people’s potential for God?
If your answer is “YES”, we would like to invite you to our “Introduction to Christian coaching workshop”. Through this workship, you will learn how to be a man of understanding to draw out the potential in others.
We provide online and in-person training in both Chinese and English.
In our training courses, you will:
• Learn the content in bitesize
•Practice what you've learned
• Interact with the facilitators and course-mates
• Engage with the content before and after each session
• Have fun with experiential games
Furthermore, we believe that reflection is an important part of the learning process, without it your learning is in danger of staying at a superficial level only. We encourage course-takers to reflect on what they've learned.
Here are some of the courses we provide:
The Focused Living workshop has been a tremendous blessing for Disciples of Christ who are serious about living out God’s calling for their lives. Some testimonials from previous participants are:
“It helps me to link up my past until today, allowing me to see my life from God’s perspective. It helps me to see the common theme that God has been working in my life to accomplish His purpose for me in the future.”
“Now, I have a better understanding of why I am doing what I am doing, and where I should be heading.”
What others have said about the Intro to Christian Coaching workshop:
“The way the course is conducted is fun and involved many activities that I can engage physically and intellectually. It is also balanced with demonstrations and role-plays for me to see and understand, as well as opportunities for me to practice... It is worth it!” ~ Almeo
