ABOUT LIFE COACHING
Christian life coaching is an ongoing, confidential relationship between a trained coach and a person who desires coaching to move forward in one or more areas of their life.
Coaching is not therapy, counseling, advice-giving, mental health care, or treatment for substance abuse. The coach is not functioning as a licensed mental health professional, but as a licensed Christian life coach, and coaching is not intended as a replacement for counseling, psychiatric interventions, treatment for mental illness, recovery from past abuse, professional medical advice, financial assistance, legal counsel or other professional services.
Coaching is for people who are basically well-adjusted, emotionally healthy, functioning effectively, and wanting to make changes in their lives. Coaching is designed to address issues the person being coached would like to consider. These could include, but are not limited to, career development, family relationships, spiritual growth, life balance, transitions, decision making, life purpose, life-style management, short-term or long-term goals.
The coaching relationship is grounded in the belief that the client is naturally creative, resourceful, and whole. The coach’s role is to ask questions and invite discovery of answers that the client already possesses. In this partnership, the agenda comes from the client, the exploration is guided by the coach, and the power in the relationship is given to the Holy Spirit.
Coaching assumes that each person in the relationship is guided by his or her own values and beliefs. The Christian life coach is a committed follower of Jesus Christ and seeks to live in accordance with this commitment. The Christian coach is honest in making this revelation, but she respects the different values and beliefs of others. The Christian coach does not seek to impose her values on another, proselytize, condemn or refuse coaching services to people who do not share similar values and beliefs.
