Embracing a Silent Revolution
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Southwestern Christian University in Bethany, OKlahoma, creates new lifecoaching institute.
The life coaching movement is alive and well, both in the church and corporate landscape of America. According to the International Coach Federation, life coaching has now become the second fastest growing profession in the world, rivaled only by the Information Technology field.
Life Coaching is thriving primarily because it focuses on issues that are pivotal for most post-modern leaders, that is the issue of personal growth and development.
Life Coaching is also gaining popularity among traditional and contemporary Judeo-Christian organizations. A wide plethora of organizations are implementing coaching principles into the very core of their value systems and putting it into practice from the board room to the break room.
In essence, a silent undercurrent of global preparation is now taking place that will soon launch an army of coaches into the world at large.
In view of these facts, Southwestern Christian University has chosen to embrace this silent coaching revolution as part of its mission and future. We believe that life coaching may well be a niche for the university that will place us on the cutting edge of leadership development.
SCU has created the LifeCoaching Insitute for a threefold purpose: 1) to raise public awareness of the validity of the life coaching movement. 2) to heighten the visibility of our own life coaching programs and offerings. 3) to become a Center for Life Coaching that is nationally recognized for the life coaches we produce.
Certified Life Coach and trainer, John Chasteen, has been appointed the executive director of the newly formed SCU LifeCoaching Institute.
For more information, you may contact the LifeCoaching Institute at the email address listed at the bottom of this E-newsletter.
...Coaching is about pushing the client to find answers-not merely giving advice.
What is Life Coaching?
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Simply put, a life coach is someone who comes alongside a person to help him or her grow. A coach is a change expert who helps people take responsibility to act and maximize their own potential.
Coaches are not so much tellers as they are askers. That is, they are not trying to fix their clients as much as they are trying to help them take stewardship of their own life.
Coaching differs from mentoring. Although the two are related, the outcomes for each differs. A true mentor is one who passes on to others what God has deposited in him. A coach on the other hand, is one who draws out of individuals what God has deposited in them.
Life coaching tends to produce leaders rather than followers, primarily because it teaches people to think for themselves and honors the God given uniqueness of each individual.
Much more could be said to answer the question, "What is Life Coaching?" Would you like to know more about Life Coaching? Call us at 405-789-7661 ext.3447.
"Mentoring is imparting to you what God has put in me; coaching is drawing out of you what God has put in you." (Dale Stoll, Life Coach)
Certification. We Now Offer Coaching Certification
Do you dream about becoming a certified life coach? Then we can help. Southwestern Christian University now offers life coaching certification modules, separate from its degree programs.
Our modules are 15 weeks in length and are done mostly over the phone and the use of webinar events.
Would you like to know more about our certification process? We're on the web: www.swcu.edu/lifecoaching-institute or call us at 405-789-7661 ext. 3446.
Call now, certification modules are starting this fall.
SCU's LifeCoaching Institute to Host National Life Coaching Conference
LCI will be hosting a National Life Coaching Conference in the summer of 2011. The event is a two day conference scheduled for Friday and Saturday, May 20 & 21, 2011.
The event will include keynote speakers and plenary sessions with workshop breakouts and panel discussions. More details will be forthcoming. If you would like to stay informed about the event, call the number above.
Posted on
Mon, August 16, 2010
by Hugh Morgan