Launching January 2025
Metaformation Encounter coach community!
We're bringing together followers of Jesus who desire life-giving encounters with God, so that together we can personally grow in our intimacy with Jesus and lead others into a God-encounter lifestyle.
Best selling author
Tony Stoltzfus is the leading author in Christian Coaching with over 300,000 books sold.
Thousands Coached
Over 1,000 coaches trained and tens of thousands have benefitted by our encounter coaching method.
A proven method
A truly Christ-centered coaching method refined over a 10+ year period.
Are you ready to deepen your spiritual journey?
Welcome to MetaFormation, where every disciple-maker, professional coach, Christian leader, and counselor can find the tools for profound transformation. Dive into a journey of heart and spirit, and experience life-changing encounters with Jesus. Our unique training goes beyond the mind, touching the heart for immediate and everlasting change.
What Makes us different
MetaFormation leverages four distinct qualities that set us apart from other Christian coach training programs.
Emotional Brain
We coach the emotional brain, which is the gateway to the heart, to bring change to a person's inner world of beliefs, memories, and desires.
Christ Centered
We use live encounters with Jesus to facilitate transformational life change. (We believe Jesus is a more powerful coach than we are!)
Heart Change
We focus on coaching the heart because we believe Jesus wants your heart more than your good behavior.
Authenticity
Our training approach creates vulnerable and high-commitment relationships for building a culture of faith and trust in each other.
Want to try a free experience session? We get to know you and your personal vision for how you want to grow. Experience an encounter coach demonstration (come to the session with a personal challenge where you’d love to meet Jesus in it). We’ll answer your questions about our training and how it can meet your goals. No high-pressure sales pitch!
Is Meta Formation right for you?
We serve a variety of leaders from diverse backgrounds around the world. Do you see yourself below?
Christian Leader
Grow relational influence and empower others
Disciple Maker
Build authentic connections and equip others to hear & obey
Professional Coach
Develop a God centered approach to guide others
Counselor/Therapist
Form healthy practices to be a resource for the journey of others
Still have questions?
Unlike most coaching which focuses on behavior change, the Encounter Coaching method focuses on heart change by facilitating personal encounters with Jesus to let Him coach you from the inside out. Although you will eventually experience positive results in behavioral change, this is a byproduct of our primary goal for you – Growing in a joy-filled relationship with God.
Join the MetaFormation Community and sign up for the next Experience Session. Both of these are free. Within the community you can join the 5-Day Encountering God Challenge, which is also free. If you like the experience, you can purchase a 3-session block of Encounter Coaching sessions from one of our Certified Encounter Coaches for $295 – $395. You can start your Encounter Coach training experience with Module 1: Encounter, which is a 20-week course with a 5-hour per week time commitment. The investment is $1,695 or five monthly payments of $355.
While the training is largely delivered online from the convenience of your home or office, most of your training time is interactive with small class sizes and lots of interaction with like-minded people.vThe platform we use to provide you courses is user-friendly and easy to navigate on desktop or your mobile phone. Although you can take sessions from anywhere on any device, we recommend a quiet environment with stable internet connection to be able to keep your video on for the duration of the session. We also advise clients to take sessions on their desktop or laptop to ensure a more interactive experience.
MetaFormation's Founder
Tony Stoltzfus
MetaFormation’s founder and master coach, Tony Stoltzfus, carries a lifetime of experience in heart transformation and meeting God in any circumstance.
Tony has spent several decades coaching leaders to encounter God in their most difficult moments, based on a lifetime of engaging God in pain and loss. He developed the Encounter Coaching method (detailed in the book, The Invitation), where change is created by asking Jesus questions that lead to powerful encounters with God.
He has provided roughly 60,000 hours of coaching to a wide variety of leaders across several countries. Tony is acknowledged as a thought leader and founding figure in the Christian Coaching movement, where he has been active since 1999.
Tony is the author of 20 books on coaching, leadership and emotional health, which have sold over 300,000 copies. He has also created most of the coach training content used within MetaFormation.
“Tony Stoltzfus is one of the most genuine, caring, skilled and helpful people you are ever likely to meet… His passion for each person to experience the healing, empowering love of Jesus is second only to his own passion to know the Lord himself.”
Danny Silk, Bethel Church