Integration of Christian Faith into Life Coaching
Life Coaching is about the client, their needs and understanding their worldview, not the coach’s personal beliefs, worldview or Christian worldview. Studies have shown that this belief or way of defining the boundaries of a life coach has made it more difficult for Christian life coaches to integrate into their coaching sessions the value of faith or a Christian worldview. It has also been shown that a Christian life coach that was able to integrate questions dealing with Christian world view or faith helped facilitate better life choices and moving forward for the client. Therefore, faith and Christian worldview integration is essential to one’s life in general and is important to life coaching.
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Still very few understood life coaching, but, there was those that noticed the need for personal life coaching and one group that noticed were in the field of counseling and psychotherapy. When the counselor or psychotherapist had reached the end of working with their clients, they wanted to give more, the clients needed and wanted more, but, it was outside their work description, they, like others, felt the need to be proactive, driven by vision, oriented to growth and a fullness of life. It was this motivation to help their clients find a direction in life, a better life, quality of life that birthed a coaching movement …show more content…
When questioned life coaching continues to answer back and move forward with reports like the Development Dimensions International Global Leadership Forecast, that states, two of the five most critical skills for leaders is managing change and coaching (Steed). Life coaching has advanced to the point that everyone from CEO’s to at-risk youth are being “coached”, with the international Coaching Federation-having memberships of over 5,000, and currently more than 150,000 people call themselves “life coaches” (Jones).
With life coaching finding its place in society as a profession, it is still the coach/client relationship that is the most important component in Life coaching. The success of a coach/client relationship is based on an equal relationship and the empowerment of the relationship comes from an unconditional acceptance of the client. (steed) A life coach, must accept their client’s as they are and continuously distinguish the client’s unique value, belief system and