Class Project ~ Coaching 503

Coaching 503
Change, Transition, and Transformation

Romans 12:1-2 Therefore I urge you, brethren, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies as living and hold sacrifices, acceptable to God, which is your spiritual service of worship.

Coaching 503 is designed to help, the would be, coach to be able to do the following:
∙ Understand the dynamics of change, transition and transformation
∙ Use coaching skills and the coaching process to help people navigate through the three
∙ And increase effectiveness as a catalyst for transformation

When it comes to change most people are quick to say, “I don’t like it!” However, if we want to move from one place to another change must take place. In looking at the three aspects of Coaching 503 one must first define and understand the meaning of each.

Change is: external, temporary, self initiated, doing, relationship with others & God

Change always starts in the mind. If we always stay where we stop offering ourselves as an act of worship to God. If one truly wants to be transformed they must first recognize their need for others especially God. To often those longing for changes refuse the cocoon experience, for it is within the cocoon that transformation comes. Unfortunately, if change does not come we will die either physically, spiritually or both.

Transition is: internal, resisted, frustrating, confusing, fearful, painful, a mind shift

In this step of the journey to transformation we become a living sacrifice. In the Old Testament when a sacrifice was given salt placed on it. A dead sacrifice feels no pain. However, if you add salt to the wound of a living sacrifice there will great pain and all that comes with it. Not only is this a painful process it leaves the PBC (person being coached) with feeling of total vulnerability which only adds to the pain. As coaches we must let them know it’s ok to have these feeling and to feel the way they do.

M. Scott Peck says, “The truth is that our finest moments are most likely to occur when we are deeply uncomfortable, unhappy, or unfulfilled. For it is only in such moments, propelled by our discomfort, that we are likely to step out of our ruts and start searching for different ways or truer answers.”

Transformation is: internal, permanent, God initiated, being, new relationships

It is vital that we as coaches understand that transformation is a process and we are to coach people through that process. For that to happen we must first learn we can not tell they what they need to do. Instead we must learn to ask the right questions that will enable them to come up with their own process. (example: Job’s friends vs. God’s response). In doing so we will help the PBC move from surviving to thriving (Philippians 1:9-11; Psalm 63:3-4) which will lead them from bondage to freedom (Galatians 5:1, 13; 2 Corinthians 3:17). Freedom, that’s a great place to
be!

A good coach will be able to help people moved into that transformation place, by
helping the PBC:

∙ Expand their horizon to new possibilities.
∙ Elicit powerful new commitments.
∙ Transform their point of view about themselves.
∙ Foster new ways of being, skills, and practices.
∙ Move past places where they are stuck.
∙ Coaching them to effective action.

Although a business can undergo changes within it structure, changes that will cause the business to expand and grow to new levels, we can’t be so quick to use the work transformation in this setting. For true transformation can only come about once an individual has accepted Jesus Christ as their Lord and Savior. True transformation happens from the inside out. The old has gone and the new has come. Some individuals have even gone as far as to change their name, all because they have found a new identity in Christ Jesus.

I have personally experienced this type of transformation in my own life I have had the privilege of helping others in their journey as well. It is my desire to see our church fulled with individuals who can sing, “Look What The Lord Has Done” not because they can read the words off the wall, but because they have experienced this transforming power for themselves. I believe as I learn to apply these coaching skills that desire will soon become a reality.

It is so my desire to become a coach that will be able to help people through the process of becoming transformed.

Since taking Coaching 510 and 503 I have begun moving in that direction in two ways:

1. I am involved with the "AG Deepen the Learning Coaching Calls. These calls take place twice a month. To date I have missed only one call, due to the fact that I attended Chapel at Valley Forge Christian College.

2. I now have a Life Coach, Vicki Farina, who has taught me much in our time together.

I praise God for the godly men and women He continues to place in my life. His loves for me is beyond my understanding at time. Truly I Am Blessed!