These Christian coach training audio discs feature short teaching segments and live coach training demonstrations by master Christian coach trainers--an excellent resource during coaching certification or to further your training.
The Master Coach Series
Over three hours of advanced coach training demos on three audio CDs.
Coaching Transitions
Two-disc training set on stages and symptoms of transition with coaching demos Leadership Coaching Live
A introductory Christian coach training workshop on 4 CDs - companion to Leadership Coaching.
Introduce calling concepts into the way you coach life purpose discovery with this new teaching CD from Tony Stoltzfus. A companion to the life purpose discovery manual A Leader's Life Purpose Handbook, this CD introduces a biblical model of the stages a leader goes through in the development of his or her calling. You’ll learn a variety of common ways people receive a calling, examine one-time calling events versus progressive revelation of call, and discover how suffering can be an integral part of the calling process. The disc also offers an in-depth process for developing calling time lines, with key symptoms and coaching hints for each stage. Calling time lines give you a way to help clients see not just where they are going, but how far along they are in the process of getting there. Downloadable handouts and exercises are included.
by Tony Stoltzfus Audio Sessions (127 minutes) plus handouts and exercises
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Major transitions are often seasons of frustration, difficulty and loss. The in-between times when we've lost the old thing and haven't yet moved into the new are difficult to navigate. How do you coach a leader through a major transition?
This two-disc coach training set from master trainer Tony Stoltzfus demonstrates transformational coaching techniques for helping coachees engaging God's purposes for their growth in major life transitions. Starting with the idea that in transitions God births in you the character needed to reach your destiny, Tony shows how to connect times of suffering and difficulty to God's purposes, with several powerful Christian coaching tools based on Romans 8:28.
This CD set provides teaching on understanding transitions, plus advanced Christian coach training for aspiring or practicing coaches. Handouts and exercises are included.
by Christopher McCluskey DVD in clamshell case - 80 min.
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Want to introduce coaching to a friend or a leader from your church? This video teaching session by well-known coach and coach trainer Chris McCluskey provides an overview of the coaching approach, explores its roots and distinguishes between coaching, consulting and therapy. In the second half of the disc, Chris also explores coaching as a profession and applications of coaching to the church. Newcomers and experienced coaches alike will enjoy this presentation of the fundamental principles and practices of coaching.
The Master Coach Series Price: $41.85 by Tony Stoltzfus Audio Sessions (60+ min on each CD) plus handouts and transcriptions in Enhanced CD format
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The Master Coach Series is a great way for practicing coaches to improve their asking skills. It includes Coaching Visionaries, Problem-Solving the Coaching Way, and Changing Perspective. Each disc in this practical series includes input on several advanced techniques, live demos of that skill by a master coach, and debriefings to help you tune in to exactly how it is done. These CDs even include bonus handouts of powerful questions and transcripts of the coaching conversations to make these tools more accessible to you as you coach.
Listening to a great coach at work in the Master Coach Series is an easy way to sharpen your coaching skills even during your drive time.
Powerful Questions: Changing Perspective offers advanced skills training for aspiring Christian coaches or those who are already certified. This disc includes input and live demos of several powerful perspective techniques. Sharpen your coaching skills by listening to a masterful coach at work!
One of the key things people want from a coach is perspective: on their challenges, dreams, rationales and decisions. This CD uses live coaching demos to help you become a master at helping others get perspective. You'll learn three powerful asking approaches that help people see things from new angles:
- The Proportion Technique helps a person see things in relation to the big picture of other values and priorities.
- The Objectivity Approach helps takes us beyond our own viewpoint to see things as they really are.
- The Viewpoint Technique lets you look at a situation from 11 different angles.
Powerful Questions: Coaching Visionaries offers advanced skills training for aspiring leadership coaches or those who are already certified. This disc includes input on several advanced techniques for coaching leaders toward a vision. Each skill is then demonstrated in extended, live coaching sessions, with leaders who dream about changing the world.
Visionaries often get stuck in the pursuit of their dreams when they come up against the limitations of their own strengths and weaknesses. You'll earn to coach visionaries around these obstacles with three powerful asking approaches that remove limitations:
- A Strengths Inventory helps the leader think through what they bring to the visionary task and where they need help.
- Crafting Your Ideal Role lets a visionary create a role that really fits and bring others into the areas they are made to do.
- Make or Break Factors assesses the visionary's readiness, and is a great technique for coaching younger leaders to keep moving forward aggressively when the fulfillment of their dream is a ways off.
by Tony Stoltzfus 4 Audio Sessions (65 minutes) plus handouts in Enhanced CD format
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Powerful Questions: Problem Solving shows you three powerful coaching skills for brainstorming and helping people develop creative solutions using a Christian coaching approach. You'll learn how to take people to their ideal future to get around the limitations of the present, the obstacle approach to problem solving, and how to take brainstorming to the transformational level of values, beliefs and identity.
Each CD in the new Master Coach Series offers advanced life coaching tools and techniques focused around one key area of coaching. The discs include a brief teaching on each technique, live coaching demos that show what it looks like in action, and handouts and worksheets you can print out to put those powerful questions right in your hands. Listening to a top Christian coach at work is an easy, effective way to sharpen your coaching skills - and you can do it even while you're driving to work!
by Tony Stoltzfus Audio Sessions (50 minutes) plus handouts in Enhanced CD format Listen to a Clip!
In this Christian coach training audio CD, coach trainer Tony Stoltzfus shows how to build authentic coaching relationships with those you coach (and with everyone else you meet!) Starting with the idea that an authentic relationship is only one conversation away, Tony shows how to use stories to go deep quickly. The disc covers the two fundamental paradigms of authenticity, four principles of authentic story-telling, different types of life stories you can use while coaching (including the story of your identity), authenticity exercises and more. It's a great way to build relationship coaching skills during your "drive time" in the car.
The new Coaching Essentials Series CDs provide training in core skills for aspiring or practicing Christian coaches, in enhanced CD format that includes handouts and free articles as well as audio.
Experience the Power of Authentic, Growth-Centered Relationships by Tony Stoltzfus Two-Disc Set - 150 Minutes
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The Peer Coaching DVD Set includes 2.5 hours of high-impact teachings and live demonstrations of peer coaching skills. Sit in with a master coach trainer as he explains key coaching techniques like asking powerful questions, developing action steps, and providing accountability that offers grace but doesn’t lower the standard. Then you’ll see those skills demonstrated in actual peer coaching situations using real life issues. There are four ways you can use the Peer Coaching DVD Set:
To offer an introductory coach training workshop – for instance, for your small group coaches. (For this application, purchase the Peer Coaching Facilitator's Package: it includes the DVDs.)
To teach yourself more about coaching. Just purchase the DVD set alone (or the DVDs and the Peer Coaching Workbook and enjoy watching by yourself!
Peer Coach training is much more than just sitting and listening to a lecturer! Instead of packing everything into teachings, we also show you how these skills works in live coaching demos, and then draw out the principles you saw in the debriefing that follows. It’s a fun, interactive process that will get everyone involved. Your trainer for these sessions is Tony Stoltzfus, a master coach with years of experience who has trained hundreds of professional Christian coaches. The art of coaching is as much caught as it is taught –- and on these videos you’ll get to learn by watching a really great coach at work.
An Independent Study version is also available that includes the DVDs plus two Workbooks.
Leadership Coaching Live gives you the chance to experience what Christian coaching can do, by letting you watch a master coach at work. A perfect companion to the book, Leadership Coaching, this eight-session set was recorded live, and includes demos of key Christian coaching skills, live coaching appointments, insightful debriefings and training sessions by a top Christian life coach trainer. The book and CDs together are a perfect training tool to introduce others to the world of Christian coaching, especially using the FREE coaching course outlines (choose the second item below to get the outlines).
“I have a discipling relationship I’ve had for years. We’ve made more progress in the last few months using some of your questions than we have in [the prior] five years.” -- Senior Pastor
The Complete Guide to Christian Coach Training is a one-of-a-kind objective review that gives you the facts on thirteen different Christian coach training programs. If you need help choosing the training program that fits your needs, your budget, and who you want to coach, this e-book is the place to start.
Written in an easy-to-digest format, this thoroughly-researched guide is the result of interviews covering virtually all Christian coaching schools, and provides information you can't get elsewhere. And it's available for immediate download, so within minutes you can be reviewing comprehensive information that will help you make a well-informed decision about your training.
If you are thinking about investing the time and money it takes to get trained as a coach, you owe it to yourself to check out this guide to Christian coach training!
The Right CD Set for You
Listening to a skilled Christian coach trainer at work is a great way to learn the feel and flow of a coaching conversation. What’s the right training CD for you? Here are several titles compared:
For Beginners: 1. Leadership Coaching Live: If you are starting out, start here. A four-disc set recorded at a introductory coach training workshop; demos and teaching on the fundamental steps in the coaching funnel model. 2. Coaching Small Group Leaders: A good launching point for small group systems; this disc introduces three basic practices in coaching group leaders. 3. Peer Coaching DVD Set: Teaching and training demos of the coaching basics. Also a great aid for demonstrating coaching to those who are unfamiliar with it.
4. A Crash Course in Christian Coaching: A teaching-only DVD introducing the coaching approach and the coaching profession.
Intermediate (Practicing Coaches): 1. Authentic Coaching Relationships: Skills for catalyzing authenticity and building a significant coaching relationship quickly. Good intermediate choice for small group coach training. 2. Powerful Questions: Problem Solving: Once you’ve mastered the basics, this CD demos several techniques for developing options. 3. Powerful Questions: Changing Perspective: A great addition to a professional coach’s tooklkit—12 ways to change the coachee’s point of view.
Advanced Learners: 1. Coaching Transitions: Transformational coaching techniques for working with people in transitions or difficult life seasons to change perspective and engage God. 2. Powerful Questions: Coaching Visionaries: Tools from a top Christian coach trainer for helping a visionary leader clarify a vision, flesh it out and understand his/her personal readiness to lead it.
3. Stages in Calling: How to create calling time lines and coach leaders of different ages.
Christian Coach Training books and resources from Coach22, the Christian coach training leader.
The Master Coach Series 
Coaching Transitions
Leadership Coaching Live
