COACHING PHILOSOPHY
Often we look for guides to help us as we hike along the path of life. A coach is just such a guide that can support and encourage us while helping us to reach the goals and objectives we desire. A coach allows us to dream and be curious about who we are and imagine the possibilities along the way. With a coach we can explore the needs and values that give meaning to our lives.
Hiking poles are essential to any major hike as they pull you up mountains and help you descend uncertain pathways. A coach can be those hiking poles on the journey. Together you look into your backpack of possibilities and draw out all the tools you need for navigating the path ahead or forging a brand new path on the way.
Coaching is different from therapy, spiritual direction, or mentoring. It is a journey focused on helping you discover your potential and connect you with the gifts within you to navigate the path ahead. Through the coaching relationship mindful space is created for you to explore your inner and outer journey while addressing your specific personal or professional goals. The coach comes alongside you in that journey to offer support, encouragement, and discernment that will allow you to discover the best way forward to reach your goals and discover your true desires.
The power of the coaching relationship does not come from the coach but can only be granted by you. It is your journey and, ultimately you are responsible for creating your own results. In the poem ‘The Seed Cracked Open’ the Sufi mystic Hafiz asks: ‘God, what love-mischief can ‘We’ do for the world today?’ The coaching relationship is one that helps you discover the ‘love mischief’ that is happening in your life!
Jeff is an Associate Certified Coach through the International Coaching Federation.
Personal Development with Enneagram
The Enneagram is an archetypal framework that offers in-depth insight to individuals, groups and collectives. It creates self-awareness and uncovers the patterns of behavior that sub-consciously drive and motivate us to act in certain ways. When we make these patterns and motivations conscious, we are able to transcend them and develop richer, more supportive ways of being. After taking the iEQ9 to help determine your enneagram type you will spend 3 sessions exploring the results and creating goals for moving forward in your own self development.
1001 NWC Coaching Network
Since 2018 Jeff has been the Associate for Coaching for the 1001 New Worshiping Communities movement in the Presbyterian Church (USA). Jeff connects this group of diverse coaches to church planters all across the country. He has over 25 years of church leadership experience and over 10 years of coaching pastor and leaders in a variety of church contexts and settings. He can work with individual leaders or groups of leaders in your church setting.
Life Coaching with Neil’s Wheel
Neil Scotton is co-creator of Coaching Professionals Ltd and has created this impactful tool simply called Neil’s Wheel that helps the client reflect on their life journey. Jeff uses this tool as a way to help clients create goals and help them more fully embody how they want to show up in the world. Typically 3 sessions are spent exploring this wheel.