Transformational Coaching

Transformational Coaching is a 40-hour, 4-module virtual course designed to enhance the inner guidance skills of credentialed coaches, spiritual directors, ministers, and community leaders. You may sign up for one module or all four, but class size will be limited to 16 participants.  Classes will meet via Zoom on consecutive Tuesdays, from 7:00-9:15 p.m., from January 16th- May 28th, 2024. Participants will receive a Certificate of Completion from The Ministry Coaching Foundation;  ICF coaches will receive one CCEU for every hour of documented attendance. Please note that The Ministry Coaching Foundation does not offer coach credentialing at the present time.

Course Fees= 

$1500.00 (4 modules, 40 hours, $375.00 per module); 1-3 modules= $400.00 per 10-hour module.

Each of the four modules is based on ICF's Core Competencies:

Module One: The Self-Aware Coach

Our first module leads us inward, allowing us to reflect on our sacred stories, emotions, life balance, contemplative practice, and self-care. We will get to know one another, building our coaching community while exploring what it means to have a “coaching mindset,” the relevance of coaching to ministry, and the ways coaching differs from other forms of inner guidance.

Module Two: The Mindful Coach

This module focuses on the skills a coach needs to lead clients beyond their current thinking and limiting situations into new possibilities. We will revisit listening skills at a deeper level to include cultural differences, stages of faith, tone of voice and body language, metaphorical language, religious imagery, archetypes, and dreamwork. 

Module Three: The Compassionate Coach

This module invites us to "cross-over" into our clients' reality more deeply so that, understanding their concerns more fully, we can offer support and empathy. Topics will include creating a safe space, responding to deep emotions, coach/ client relationship, avoiding the “Savior” syndrome, cultivating authenticity, maintaining boundaries and referrals.  We will also look at compassion and the global community.

Module Four: The Intuitive Coach

Our last module is all about heightening intuition, cultivating awareness and facilitating epiphany moments. The central question we will explore together is: Can Coaching be Coaching if there is no Epiphany moment or, at least, if the individual session or the contracted time lacks movement towards Revelation, Discovery, Awareness, Perception and Insight? We will examine ways of collaborating with our clients to help them arrive at the illumination they are seeking. 

• To cultivate self-awareness through sacred story, life balance assessment, contemplative practices, mindfulness, and self-care.
• To understand what it means to have a “coaching mindset,” and the relevance of Life Coaching to ministry, especially for those in leadership positions.  
• To distinguish the ways ministerial coaching differs from other forms of inner guidance.
• To develop the insight, intuition, compassion and collaborative skills needed to lead clients and ministry teams beyond their current thinking and limiting situations into new possibilities.
• To deepen listening skills by exploring cultural differences, metaphorical language, archetypes, tone of voice, and body language.
• To examine stages of faith and their expression in clients' narratives.
• To explore ways of developing emotional intelligence in religious leaders.
• To discover new strategies for facilitating epiphany moments.

To receive a Certificate of Completion for the entire course (40 hours) or for one or more modules (10 hours each), you must attend all sessions or make up missed work, if you were present at least 90% of the time. Should you require CCEUs towards ICF re-certification, your certificate will list the actual number of hours you were present.