Life Coaching

Life coaching equips people to move from where they are toward the greater competence and fulfillment they desire. Life coaching is the art and practice of enabling individuals and groups to move from where they are to where they want to be.Coaching helps people expand their visions, build their confidence, unlock their potential, increase their skills, and take practical steps toward their goals. Essentially a coach is someone trained and devoted to guiding others into increased competence, commitment, and confidence. Coaching focuses on finding fulfillment, enhanced performance, team building, vision casting, career growth, and reaching one's goals and dreams. It focuses on the present and future, possibilities, reaching goals, getting unstuck, and turning dreams into reality. The coach and client are coequals who work together to bring about change. The best coaching is done by people with training in such coaching skills as listening, asking questions, and encouraging. 

-Gary Collins, Phd, Author of Christian Coaching

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Coaching pushes a person to draw from his or her own resources and experiences. The life coach stands alongside the clients to help them envision their future direction, guiding as they formulate their goals and encouraging them to take action steps. A core concept of coaches, including Christian Coaches, is that people adhere to decisions and move forward more effectively when they reach their own conclusions as opposed to when they are given advice or told what to do.  As coaches we encourage clients to set their own agendas, reach their own conclusions, and set their own plans of action. The coach tries to keep a stance of neutrality. In all of this, the goal is to work oneself out of a job so that the person being coached is able to make changes and then move forward with out continued assistance. There are numerous different kinds of coaches and they can help in a variety of ways based on what the client's needs are at the moment.