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 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.

Blueprint for Life | Christian Life Purpose Tool

Discovering the Life You Were Born to Live
by Michael Kendrick and Ben Ortlip
Multimedia Package: 160 pg. Manual, Five 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
Price: $5.99
by Roert E. Coleman
140 pages

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.

The Power of Purpose
Price: $13.95
by Peter S Temes
304 pages
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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.

Listen to My Life
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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.

Tales From The Top
Price: $13.99
By Graham Alexander
240 pages
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How do top business leaders become more effective? Executive coach, confidant to CEO's and catalyst for change Graham Alexander's approach is to ask the right questions to help leaders find the right answers.

In Tales from the Top, Alexander demonstrates how honest answers to effective questions propel leaders to break down barriers preventing them from operating at their highest levels of capability. After receiving his coaching, leaders:

• Typically report a time savings of 20%-40% and estimate the improvement in their businesses has reflected 10 to 100 times the cost of coaching
• Feel less overwhelmed and more in control
• Become laser-sharp about priorities and more focused at work and at home

Dream Culture: Bringing Dreams to Life
Price: $15.00
By Andy and Janine Mason
167 pages
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What would it be like to live in a community where everyone was empowered one to live out their dreams? Dream Culture is about activating us to dream God-dreams, and about helping leaders build cultures where people are encouraged to dream, risk and do the impossible.

Coaches Andy and Janine Mason have circled the globe to follow their own calling, and use that experience to help you live yours. Focusing on God's imperative to be a dreamer, the foundation beliefs necessary to live a dream life and ways to overcome obstacles we face, this book is a great life purpose tool for coaches. Coaching questions, dream activations and powerful stories show how to turn ideas into action steps and develop an intentional lifestyle that brings dreams to life.

Marriage Coaching
Price: $16.95

Heart, Hope and Skills for a Great Relationship

Combining years as marriage coaches with an extensive background in counseling and therapy, Jeff and Jill Williams’ book, Marriage Coaching: Heart, Hope & Skills for a Great Relationship is a resource that can breathe new life into a struggling marriage, or serve as a must-have resource for those interested in coaching other couples to a better relationship.

Within its pages, Jeff and Jill show exactly what marriage coaching is, explain what it means to have your marriage as the client, lay out the essential ingredients for your marriage to be great and give the practical steps on how to coach your marriage. This fresh approach to building and sustaining a great marriage relationship is followed by practical instruction in the heart and skills needed in the areas of effective listening, goal setting, and support, encouragement and accountability. A bonus chapter on Crisis Management is included at the end of the book for those relationships needing immediate help.

Pro-Active Parent Coaching
Price: $19.95
Capturing the Heart of Your Child
by Gregory Bland
Forward by Tony Stoltzfus
174 pages
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This wonderfully-practical manual shows how to apply the coaching approach to Christian parenting. Filled with sample coaching dialogs, practice exercises and feedback from youth about how the coaching approach has impacted them, author Greg Bland shows how valuing your kids' hearts through listening and asking can transform your relationships. Written by a coach who has actually done this in his own family, this book doesn't just tell you about parent coaching: it trains you to do it.

A Leader's Life Purpose: Workbook

by Tony Stoltzfus
162 pages, large format
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This Workbook (a companion to the Christian Life Coaching 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!