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Christian Worldview: Life Coaching

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Abstract Examining the entirety of a person’s life, their core values, life purpose, belief system, environment, faith or lack of, and more is a challenge. What a responsibility, who would want to take on such a challenge? Life Coaching is a professional life coach partnering with a client in a question and answer, thought provoking process, to maximize the client’s personal potential that encompasses the client’s life in its entirety. It is this entirety of one’s life that brings difficulty and with that difficulty is a client’s worldview. A life coach can be faced with these complications, but, the difficulty doesn’t stop there, the coach must deal with understanding of the disintegration of worldviews and Christian worldviews, integration …show more content…

Christian Worldview-Worldview Disintegrated Christian Worldview, the way one views life, comes with presuppositions and biases that are developed and affected by one’s environment, such as, society, culture and one’s belief system. Christian Worldview is a set of lenses or perceptions that alter the way we perceive the world for the better or worse. Our Christian worldview is dramatically formed by our educational environment. “Christian faith and learning belong to different areas of knowledge and practice; consequently, there is a need for bringing the two realms together” (Esqueda, 2014). Losing …show more content…

“The main issue is how do we coach people to be God-centered, rather than Self-centered” (Tangen, 2010)? One way is to strategically frame the questions that are asked. The client’s answers will direct the coach how to frame their next question. Question framing will lead to a point of integration, such as, discussing hope, which in turn leads to the discussion that hope is faith in

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McMinn 4-MAT Review: Psychology, Theology and Spirituality Toya V Mitchell Liberty University Review The text Psychology, Theology and Spirituality in Christian Counseling written by Dr. Mark McMinn brings psychology, theology and spirituality together within the counseling office. Throughout the book McMinn presents several challenges that counselors face within their profession, spiritual relationship and personal self (McMinn, 2011). These challenges include areas of competence, blurred personal-professional distinctions, training difficulties, dominant views of mental health, lack of scientific foundations and ethical standards.

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Summary In the book, Psychology, Theology, and Spirituality, Mark McMinn commences by providing the groundwork for the Christian worldview about counseling. He indicates that the book is crucial for individuals interested in looking into the aspect of intra-disciplinary integration (McMinn, 1996). In his exploration of the intra-disciplinary integration frontier, McMinn (1996) focuses on the challenges that Christian counselors face in their practice. As McMinn (1996) discusses the aspect of integration, he disregards religious interventions as well as foundational perspectives, indicating that they might not apply to the identified frontier.

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McMinn Book Review Summary In order to improve the distinctive facets of how therapists support individuals, McMinn used psychology, theology and spiritually. McMinn (2011, p. 351) believed that it is very vital for therapists to be fervent and flexible much more with their personal piety and practices because these may affect the process and outcome of counseling. In Chapter 1, McMinn (2011, p. 293) emphasized about how Christian counselors face professional and personal challenges in the interdisciplinary integration. Chapter 2 talks about the complexity of Christian counseling because its goals are multifaceted.

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Introduced were the three main characters that are the focal point in the Christian worldview, including God who is sovereign and a triune God, humanity who began life in God’s good graces, but quickly fell away because of idolatry and bad choices early on, and Jesus, the Savior who came and rescued them. Crucified and then resurrected, Jesus restored humanity’s relationship with God and because of God’s infinite love, through grace, promised them life eternal. Through this, benefits and strengths of the Christian worldview were brought to the forefront along with some challenges that believers face. Finally, this discussion revealed my own beliefs in relationship to the Christian worldview.

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Because of the division of science in religion discussed in chapters 1 and 2, there is very little room for interaction among psychology and religion, especially in the earlier years of psychology. Going into chapter 4, the author gives a comprehensive overview of different worldviews while discussing what they are and the importance of a Christian entering into the counseling profession to have a Christian worldview. Worldviews are learned through various influences and shape our understanding of the world, which gives both insight and distorted thinking. It is vital for counselors to have the proper worldview that is aligned both with empirical scientific evidence and sound theological doctrine to properly guide and direct others into truth, insight, awareness, healing, and

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In helping to strengthen these areas Dobmeier and Reiner used the following publications. To spell out the importance of teaching and using techniques for including spiritual and religious aspects Briggs & Dix Rayle, (2005), Burke et al. , (1990), and Young, Wiggins-Frame, and Cashwell, (2007) said, spirituality is the breadth of a person’s experience, and an important piece endorsing training to help counselor integrate spirituality into sessions. Validating the topic of teaching and agreeing that counselor educators lack self-confidence on how to teach spirituality to students echoed in research by Young, Cashwell, Wiggins-Frame, and Belaire (2002). Dobmeier and Reiner (2012) end with modalities and the rationale for the study, examining student readiness to discuss spirituality and education curriculum should create learning modalities to cover spirituality (Briggs & Dixon Rayle, 2005; Curtis & Glass, 2002;

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Rather than dwelling on differences, there is value in celebrating the shared aspirations that transcend these individual beliefs and also room for deep conversations about the origin and author of that higher consciousness. Another worldview that many follow, knowingly or not, is secularism. Secularism is defined as a materialistic worldview that outright rejects formal religion or its influence on government (Myers & Noebel, 76). Secularists do not feel the need to be saved by a God or to believe in anything supernatural, such as Heaven or Hell or a God or any such Higher Power. To secularists, it is not about being “inherently good or evil” but more about being capable of having a good morality and being ethical (Myers & Noebel, 87).

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The integration of counseling practice and theology can take two forms: explicit and implicit integration. Explicit integration occurs in the interaction between the counselor and client, which

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This is having no morals for anything but themselves. The Christian worldview to me is the existence of God from the beginning to the end. This holds a willingness to help others and

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Incorporation of elements of the modern or postmodern worldview is not compatible with the Christian worldview. Modern and postmodern worldviews are based on human ideas and rejection of God. The loss of the single story holding a community together has led to allowing everyone to create their own story (Sire, p. 216). This process was notated within the time frame of the Greco- Romans when Plato started to explain the order of the world without recourse to myth or divine authority (Goheen & Bartholomew, p. 72). Cultural acceptance of the belief there can be multiple perspectives allows for the

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