What does it take to develop a strong professional coaching relationship?

It takes attention to the essentials and going beyond expectations. In CAM 502, we teach you to do just that. In this ICF-approved course, you will learn: ICF ethics and standards, how to help PBC orient around areas of strengths and high performance patterns, the ingredients for a strong first session, and how to go beyond just the doing of coaching in order to really be a coach.

Coaching is all about change.

However, not all change is the same, and coaches need to be able to support three types of change: proactive change, transitions, and deep transformation.

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formerly Coaching and the Brain as a Learning Catalyst

The human brain is a wonderful and wonderfully complex organ.  Knowing how the brain works (and doesn’t work) helps coaches provide better coaching.  In this course, you’ll learn the basics of neuroscience (in everyday English) and how to apply them to your coaching.

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God did not think the world into existence, God spoke the world into existence.

Words matter! And the words and other language elements used in coaching matter to the growth of those you coach.

Practical tools that can be used when coaching clients in a wide range of personal, life and family issues.

Special attention is given to helping you develop the six basic components of personal coaching: goals, toleration, needs, values, boundaries, and standards.

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Coaching isn’t just for individuals — it’s also ideal for teams.

In this course, you will gain an understanding of the difference between a team and other types of groups, learn how to develop authentic teams, learn the skills needed to coach teams, how to support teams in overcoming dysfunction, use team covenants, and create alliances.

This course provides you the knowledge and skills necessary to apply coaching to faith conversations so you can use coaching to support people moving closer to God and deeper in their commitment to Christ.

In this course, you’ll learn how coaching can be used to help others grow spiritually. The course introduces several spiritual growth models and coaching frameworks that support spiritual growth as well as insights on how to apply coaching informally and in challenging conversations.

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This course provides an overview of various assessments, inventories, and tools for creating awareness with coaching clients.

Among the instruments addressed will be the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI), the Leadership Practices Inventory 360 (LPI 360), Strengths Finder 2.0, and DiSC. Attention will be given to discerning which instruments are most useful in which client situations, what steps are necessary for utilizing various instruments, and how to promote effective client engagement with instruments.

You know how to coach, and you know how to lead, but how do you incorporate coaching into your leadership?

This course provides the knowledge and skill necessary for taking a coach approach to working with teams, managing direct reports/volunteers, and leading within a church or other organization.

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Too many great coaches have far too few clients.

This course aims to help you create dynamic coaching relationships in order to help you grow your coaching practice — both in terms of quality and number of clients served.

Start Coaching What’s Right With People

The field of psychology has broken its 100-year focus on pathology in the past decade by turning attention to what’s right with people. This field explores topics such as happiness, well-being, strengths, optimism and character and it is ripe for coaches. In this 16-hour course coaches will learn the basics of positive psychology, including the PERMA model, and get equipped with insights and tools to help clients live lives of greater well-being.

Your Planters Deserve Trained Coaches

Coaching church planters has its own distinctions. Planters are fundraisers, recruiters, communicators, and more. In this class, we will give 16 hours of live training (onsite or online) that give coaching models and skills specific to coaching church planters. This class is laid out with the foundation of current Church Planting best practices in mind.

Start Using Coaching in Local Ministry

How do we practice coaching in the local church?

Time will be invested in developing the basic mindset and skillset used in coaching and applying those skills in the local church setting. The course will integrate biblical and theological rationale and reflection in understanding coaching in relation to leadership in the Church. We will specifically look at the following ministry areas: small groups, volunteers, teams, elders, and staff.

This is a mentor coaching process that includes ten hours of mentor coaching.

This is a mentor coaching process that includes ten hours of mentor coaching – seven hours through a group coaching/supervision cohort and three hours of one-on-one feedback coaching with at least two mentor coaches. This process is specifically intended to satisfy the mentor coaching requirement for ICF credentialing, prepare clients to successfully complete the ICF performance evaluation, and provide ongoing support as you complete the ICF Credentialing application.