Selected Personal Growth Resources for Coaches from Coach22.
The Coward's Guide to Conflict Price: $16.95 Empowering Solutions for Those Who Would Rather Run Than Fight
by Tim Ursiny, Ph.D. 282 pages
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As a coach, you'll be called on often to help your clients sort through and effectively face their conflicts at work and at home. This down-to-earth book, written from a coaching perspective, provides practical tools and language for dealing with conflict in a healthy way.
Learn how to deal with conflict with skill and confidence with the help of coach, author and psychologist Tim Ursiny. You'll learn to identify your own conflict style (as well as the style of your coaching clients), motivate yourself to face conflict, and learn tools strategies to succeed in these difficult conversations. Tim also teaches you how to avoid the top 10 mistakes made when dealing with upset people.
The Dreamgiver Price: $16.99 - $14.99
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by Bruce Wilkinson 160 pages, hardback
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Bruce Wilkinson, author of the bestselling Prayer of Jabez and creator of the DreamGiver coaching network, shows how to identify and overcome the obstacles that keep us from living the lives we were created for. This engaging story is a great way to encourage a client who is rising to the challenge of discovering and pursuing their own destiny.
This allegorical modern-day parable follows the story of Ordinary, who dares to leave the Land of Familiar to pursue his Big Dream. With the help of the Dream Giver, Ordinary begins the hardest and most rewarding journey of his life. Wilkinson gives readers practical, biblical keys to fulfilling their own dream, revealing what God can accomplish when we choose to pursue the dreams He gives us for His honor.
The Path Price: $13.95 Creating Your Mission Statement for Life and Work
by Laurie Beth Jones 249 pages
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In a world in which we are forced to make daily decisions that lead us either closer to or further from our goals, no tool is as valuable in providing direction as a mission statement -- a brief, succinct, and focused statement of purpose that can be used to evaluate and refine all our activities.
The Path provides inspiring and practical advice to lead you through every step of defining and fulfilling your mission. With more than ten years' experience in assisting groups and individuals, Jones offers clear, step-by-step guidance that help you create a mission statement in a matter of hours rather than a month or years.
Rich with humor, exercises, and case histories, The Path is essential listening for anyone seeking a lighter, clearer way in the world.
Discovering the Life You Were Born to Live by Michael Kendrick and Ben Ortlip Multimedia Package: 160 pg Manual, 5 Audio CDs, Wall Chart, Gift Assessment and Leader's Guide
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Blueprint for Life is an excellent tool for helping groups or individuals clarify their destiny and life purpose, and set goals to walk it out. This 8-week coached- or self-study course includes a well-thought-out set of life purpose exercises, 5 audio CDs by well-known speakers like Andy Stanley and Bruce Wilkinson, and various self-discovery tools like a gifting assessment, life purpose journal and goals wall chart. The overall quality of the materials and packaging is superb, and it's well-priced for what's included.
Blueprint for Life is a perfect follow up course for a church that has done a 40 Days of Purpose program -- it helps you discover your unique, individual calling and destiny. The author, Ben Ortlip, also provides excellent materials for one-on-one Christian life coaching. If you want to introduce Christian life coaching and life purpose discovery to your church, Blueprint for Life is a great way to do it.
The Master Plan of Evangelism is a classic work (over 2 million copies sold) on how Jesus recruited, trained and unleashed his disciples to further his master plan for bringing in the Kingdom. Pair it with the new Life-on-Life Leadership coaching manual to use Coleman's principles for making disciples or coaching small group leaders in your church! Coleman identifies eight key principles Jesus used (Selection, Association, Consecration, Impartation, Demonstration, Delegation, Supervision and Reproduction) to build leaders who would carry on his work.
In this book about on-purpose living and fulfillment, Peter S. Temes draws on great thinkers from Augustine and Aristotle to Emerson and Mother Teresa to build the case that lasting fulfillment comes from serving others, not self. If you are looking for an erudite book on purpose that goes beyond shallow self-help and personal fulfillment, this volume is a great choice for reorienting business or life coaching clients. Temes treats themes like the choosing when to change the world and when to adapt to it, the competitive advantage of building a business on serving others, ambition vs. greed, and much more.
New! Listen to My Life Price: $35.00 - $33.95
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Maps for Recognizing and Responding to God in My Story
By Sibyl Towner and Sharon Swing
40 pages, 11" x 17" format
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Using coaching questions and life purpose principles married to historical Christian spiritual practices like the Examen, this unique life purpose workbook helps you discover God's hand in your life story.
Built around eight full-color visual maps you record reflections on, Listen to My Life creates a picture of your calling journey where you actually see the interconnections and meanings in your story.
The book includes eight key maps: My Life Now, My Life Story, Peak Experiences, Valley Experiences, Reviewing My Days, Desires & Longings, Life Giving Rhythms and Following Forward. A Facilitator's Guide makes offering a workshop or class using the material a snap.
Coaching the Artist Within Price: $14.95 Advice for Writers, Actors, Visual Artists and Musicians from America's Foremost Creativity Coach by Eric Maisel 225 pages
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Coaching the Artist Within is the first book to explain the techniques that creativity coaches use to help their clients survive and thrive in the arts. The book’s twelve lessons and numerous exercises explain how to coach artists beyond the obstacles that block creativity. Author Eric Maisel shares anecdotes about his creativity coaching clients, including painters, actors, screenwriters, novelists, dancers, and poets. Coaching the Artist Within will teach you to self-coach or coach creativity issues, and the results will transform your relationship with the creative process.
by Tony Stoltzfus 162 pages, large format
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Inside! Read the Introduction and table of contents
This Workbook (a companion to A Leader’s Life Purpose Handbook) provides coaching clients with an introduction to life purpose discovery, plus over 60 reflection exercises for finding your destiny. The reader walks through a four-part model of life purpose (Design, Passion, Preparation and Calling), identifies the destiny clues in each area, and then combines them into life mission, life purpose and life vision statements. Covering everything from personality type to value statements to life messages, this book is a wonderful resource for the life coaching process. You can even use it to offer life purpose courses or workshops in your church!
Life Coaching Resources
Life coaching is helping people find their destiny, follow it, and live a great life. These life coaching resources will help you coach your clients toward their life purpose:
The Path: A great resource for helping people create personal mission and vision statements.
