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Christian Coaching: Helping Others Turn Potential into Reality
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Product Description
Dr. Gary R. Collins takes the successful principles of coaching and gives them a God-centered application. Broader in scope than either mentoring or discipling, Christian Coaching helps people find God?s vision for their lives and learn to live accordingly through stories, insights, and interviews.
Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #205205 in Books
- Published on: 2001-12-06
- Released on: 2001-12-06
- Original language: English
- Binding: Hardcover
- 352 pages
Editorial Reviews
Christian Retailing, December 10, 2001
Those in counseling or church leadership particularly will appreciate Collins' work in Christian Coaching.
From the Inside Flap
Help others get from where they are to where they want to be.
Hal is an engineer who works for a large company. He has a good job with an excellent income and his future looks bright. Living in a comfortable home in a desirable neighborhood, he is surrounded by others who are also highly successful, upwardly mobile young professionals. The whole family is active in a good church where Hal was recently elected as a church deacon. He and his wife teach a Sunday school class. He is a member of a health club and has enlisted the services of a workout coach and a tennis coach. From all outward appearances, Hal has it made. Why would he need a life coach?
Hal is miserable. In his busy life he has no time to reflect on where he is headed or even relax and enjoy where he is now. Solitude or time alone with God never seems to happen. He would like to get off this treadmill, but doesn't know where to begin. He needs someone to come alongside him, listen, and give him honest feedback. He needs a life coach. Working with a coach, he can evaluate where he is in his life, form a vision of where he wants to go, and set priorities and goals to get there.
Well-known author Gary R. Collins gives us a how-to book for becoming a Christian coach. "Coaching is the art and practice of guiding a person or group from where they are toward the greater competence and fulfillment that they desire." Coaching is not about looking back. It is about looking ahead. It is about helping people:
- Discover a life purpose
- Map a clearer vision for the future
- Develop a mission statement
- Find and articulate clear values
- Learn to manage change effectively
- Appraise performance
- Strengthen communication skills
- Get out of a rut
- Build self-confidence
- Gain the courage to take risks
- Nurture a closer walk with God
Filled with valuable coaching principles, as well as interviews with experienced and practicing Christian coaches, Christian Coaching will motivate and inspire you to help others turn potential into reality.
About the Author
Gary R. Collins, Ph.D., is a licensed clinical psychologist and author of more than fifty books, including Christian Counseling, How to Be a People Helper, and The Biblical Basis of Christian Counseling. Dr. Collins was a professor at Trinity International University for twenty years. More recently, he served as the first president of the American Association of Christian Counselors and was the founding editor of Christian Counseling Today magazine. A graduate of The Institute for Life Coach Training, Dr. Collins currently heads an international alliance of Christian counselors committed to uniting and building Christian caregiver leaders worldwide. He and his wife, Julie, live in northern Illinois.
Customer Reviews
An Outstanding Resource For Christian Coaches
Collins' book is an outstanding resource for the Christian coach - and for anyone else who works closely with people. His clear writing style and enthusiastic approach to coaching make this volume hard to put down. If you want to know more about coaching, or are considering being coached or becoming a coach, this is a "must read."
The appendices at the end of the book are a great resource for coaches - these forms, tools, and questionnaires are worth the cost of the book alone!
This book provides a long-awaited and much-needed introduction of the field of coaching to the Christian community. It is sure to have great impact!
Will recommend this book to all my clients!
Being a Christian coach I found this book reflective of the great opportunity that coaching provides. The "return on investment" for most client -- holistically -- is beyond anything we can comprehend! I will be giving this book to all of my clients!
It also provides foundational information that can be applied to whatever opportunities and challenges you are facing -- business, growth, balenace, financial, and others. It also applies if you're a CEO of a billion dollar corporation or a stay-at-home mom (which often has a more difficult job than the CEO).
Thanks Gary for writing such a dynamic book.
