What is Coaching?
Professional Coaching:  Professional coaches provide an ongoing partnership designed to help the clients produce fulfilling results in their personal and professional lives.  Coaches help people improve their performances and enhance the quality of their lives.  Coaches are trained to listen, observe, and customize their approach to meet individual client needs.  They seek to elicit solutions and strategies from the client and they belive the client is naturally creative and resourceful.  The coach's job is to provide support to enhance the skills, resources, and creativity the client already has.          (International Coach Federation, 2007)

Coaching vs. Counseling
Coaching and counseling have both similarities and differences.  Similarities include:
-An on-going, confidential, one-on-one, fee-for-service relationship
-Working with clients who want to change.
-Assuming change only occurs with time.
-Regularly scheduled sessions
-Use of verbal dialogue as the primary service activity.

The following is a table of selected differences (Hayden and Whitmore, 1995):

CounselingCoaching
-Assumes the client needs healing -Assumes the client is whole.
-Roots in medicine, psychiatry-Roots in sports, business, personal growth venues
-Works with people to achieve self--Works to move people to a higher level of
  understanding and emotional healing       functioning.
-Focuses on feelings and past events    -Focuses on actions and the future.
-Explores the root of the problem   -Focuses on solving problems
-Works to bring the unconscious into      -Works with the conscious mind
  consciousness.
-Works for internal resolution of pain and to    -Works for external solutions to overcome
  let go of old patterns.       barriers, learn new skills and implement
  effective choices

Relationship Coaching
Relationship Coaching is pretty much what it implies.  It is the process of using coaching to help individuals improve themself as well as improve the relationships they are involved in.  Although much of relationship coaching is focused on love relationships, many of the principles involved are also applicable to business and social relationships.  Specific goals are to:
-Be a happier, more fulfilled individual
-Find more fulfillment in new relationships
-Take existing relationships to new heights.

Christian Coaching

Christian coaching is unique in that it is more than a profession, it is a ministry.  It’s a way of helping people find God’s vision for their lives and relationships and learn to live accordingly.  Christian coaching is also unique in other ways.

First and foremost is the Biblical worldview that the Christian coach brings to the relationship.  Secular coaches encourage their clients to look inside themselves and listen for values, purpose, and vision so as to discover their passions and life purpose.  This is an unguided process of self-evaluation without God.  Christians should live with the awareness that God is soverign, aware of His people, and willing to guide and empower them.  For Christian coaches, God—not human ingenuity—is at the core of their being and God is the guide for all coaching work.

Second in the uniqueness of Christian coaching—the person of the coach.  If he/she’s a Christian, their commitment to Christ will impact their marriage, parenting, lifestyle, values, spending, time management, vocation, and the perspectives they bring to coaching.  Thus, their thought process and assistance will also be guided in this way.

I hope you will choose LIFECare Relationship Coaching to assist you!  It's Christian!!!!


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