Coaching & Mentoring Strategies

A careful study of the coaching and mentoring processes, useful for influencing individuals and groups toward spiritual growth.  Assignments will be given to improve relationships within coaching, training, tutoring and counselling.  You take the course by clicking on the individual lessons.

1.  Introduction  Training is an embrace, not a club.  As you are embraced by the love of God, you cannot help but embrace others.  But how do you share this training?  How can sharing it become a natural part of your life.

2.  Trainers  We plant, tend, and harvest crops, but God causes the miracle of growth.  In this lesson, we look at the division of responsibilities in this process.

3.  God, Trainee and Me  We explore and experience God's dynamic presence among us and within us.  How can we communicate the benefits of God's presence.

4.  Why Train?  This lesson will help us to explore how we answer this vital "why" question.  

5.  God's Family-Spiritual Gifts

6.  Christian Perspective  In this session we will look at our need for both the secular and the spiritual.  We will see how God meets people's deep needs.

7.  The Spiritual in Life.

8.  Providing for the Whole Person.  The lesson discusses and experience wholeness.  You will learn to minister holistically to others.

9.  Servanthood VS Servitude  In this lesson you will explore the choice between servanthood - real service that flows from a freedom and love.

10. Tools of Your Trade In this lesson we explore how to use Christian tools effectively and appropriately.  

11.  Prayer.  In this lesson, you will learn more about prayer by discussing it and praying together.  We explore feelings about prayer.

12.  The Bible  We look at how we can read it, help you speak through it, and take its message to heart, so we can comfort others.

13.  Sharing a Blessing  We look at a means of helping individuals find the faith the need to carry on.  

14.  The Training Connection Our Christian calling to share is closely connected to our calling to train others.  "Don't merely tell them; show them!

15.  Evaluating Results  In this lesson, we concentrate on understanding the difference between being result-centered and being process-centered.

16.  Hope-full Training  Hope is God's gift to us and a distinctively Christian resource for you to use in your training and relating.

17.  Addition.  Training for Addictive Behavior-Alcohol Abuse-Drug Abuse-Sexual Addiction-Compulsive Eating Disorders

18.  Review  We look back at the past and see how Christianity will continue to live in our skills and in the relationship we have with others.