Coaching for Christian Vocation Certificate

A Certificate in Professional Coach Standards applied to Christian Vocation

Are you seeking helpful mindsets and practical methods for applying an other-centered approach to working with individuals and groups in ministry? Are you looking for effective and authentic ways to lead, motivate, and simply relate to others in a time when traditional, top-down modes of leadership are increasingly mistrusted and problematic? The coach approach honors the dignity in others by recognizing and inviting them to draw from their own potential and perspectives. Moreover, it’s a potent tool for meaningful change, because it builds on the passions and reinforces the ownership of the “coachee” and not the coach (or the minister or leader using a coach approach). It’s a thirty-year-old, professional, “secular” discipline that points to the “Imago Dei” in all people. This certificate will guide students to understand and apply coaching according to the best professional standards in the coaching world as outlined by the International Coaching Federation, and it will help make connections between these standards and theology, spirituality, biblical interpretation, and practical ministry.