Coaching is coming alongside someone with a view to helping them discover and use effectively the resources and power that they have themselves and with Jesus to achieve a vision or task.

It is not:

• Mentoring, which entails a flow of experience and enabling from the mentor to mentoree.
  
• Discipling, which entails training and teaching associated with modelling and doing.
  
• Teaching, which entails a flow of knowledge and skill from one to another.

Coaching is highly practical, and requires much work from the one being coached. It entails an ongoing relationship with a coach for an agreed period - usually 6 months or more - featuring sessions of about 1 hour every 2 to 4 weeks.

This can be conducted face to face or by telephone or Skype. 

Coaching is a great means of achieving personal growth on the one hand, and progress in a life active on seemingly too many fronts.

Contact Mick to find out more. It is a professional service we offer and is the one item of BackYard Ministries to which there is a fee-for-service base.