Module 1: Encounter
Duration
20 weeks (4.5 months)
Time Commitment
5 hours per week
Investment
$1,695 or 5 payments of $355
What to Expect
Weekly Time Commitment = 5 hours
Interactive sessions (2 hours/week)
Small group practice sessions (90 min/week)
Self-learning pre-session work (60 min/week)
Small group practice sessions (90 min/week)
Self-learning pre-session work (60 min/week)
Acquire transformational coaching skills
- The ability to ask powerful questions that elicit breakthrough
- Lead yourself and others effectively into transformational freedom
- Engage powerfully with God in consistent and meaningful ways
- Coaching practice sessions with peers and a mentor
- Ongoing support and connection with like-hearted leaders
- Experiential encounters with heaven
Increase your impact with lasting results
If you are hungry to make a difference in those you lead and want to see more sustainable and life-changing results, then this module is for you!
Module 1 introduces you to the coaching model and shows you the power of facilitating encounters with Jesus as part of the coaching experience.
Encounter Coach® Certification
Certification is FREE!! The cost for Module 1 & Module 2 is the same regardless of if you are going for certification or not. The only difference in getting certified is you’ll need to log 100 hours of specific Encounter Coaching time to get your certification. However, 35 of those hours will be earned just by attending Modules 1 & 2.
Module Content
- An overview understanding of the next 20 weeks of Module 1.
- A new team of supporters and encouragers as you get partnered with two to three others with whom you’ll learn together over the journey of this workshop.
- An introduction to the MetaFormation Learning Model.
- The MetaFormation Coaching Funnel – a simple framework for structuring transformational coaching discussions.
- Gain an understanding of the coaching approach and what makes it work.
- Watch the advice-giving approach and the coaching approach applied to the same situation, and feel the difference in how the client is treated.
- Learn the difference between coaching, consulting, mentoring, and counseling.
- Practice the essential skill of Intuitive Listening.
- Watch how to create a good coaching agenda, and what makes it go off track.
- Understand why it’s best to use the Client’s agenda (instead of your own!).
- Learn to create effective goals and see the OPUS Goal model demonstrated.
- Learn the Intuition Indicators, and how to pick them out in a story or conversation.
- Learn how to kick off the exploration phase using the Ideal Future technique.
- Learn how to ask probing questions in the exploration step of the coaching funnel.
- Observe the difference asking different kinds of simple questions can make.
- Observe and practice creating questions from the client’s own words.
- Understand why it’s important for you to develop the ‘Heart of a Coach’, and practice the discipline of believing in others.
- Learn the philosophy of ‘problem solving the coaching way’.
- Observe and practice how to guide a client through the transformation phase of the funnel.
- Understand why it’s important for the client to design their own action plan.
- Learn to listen as your client creates action steps and help ensure high buy-in out of their options.
- Learn to evaluate steps and address obstacles to increase the likelihood that they’ll actually get it done.
- Discover some principles of healthy accountability, and see practical ways to apply them with your clients.
- Practice a whole coaching session!
- Experience a transformational encounter with Jesus through our signature Taste of Heaven®.
- Be introduced to the MetaFormation Heart Model.
- Experience the difference between sharing an experience rationally, at the level of emotion, and then at the level of desire.
- Begin to understand how God loves to meet us at the place in our heart we call ‘Desire’.
- Understand the Heart Model in depth and how the heart influences our actions and words.
- Understand the difference desire makes in our lives.
- Observe a coaching demo of drilling down to desire and watch burdens get carried away as God touches the root cause of the issue.
- Experience a deep encounter with God in the place of your brokenness.
- Learn to let go of the Law of Sin and Death and focus on the life connection – the Law of the Spirit of Life.
- Understand more deeply the passage of Romans 7:29-8:9, and how these words are inviting you into a desire-filling life connection (vs. trying harder through greater discipline).
- Review an old paradigm of change based on changing behavior with the hope it results in a heart change.
- Explore a new paradigm of life change – inside => out, with focus on building a life connection with Jesus.
- Introduce Desire Prayers, where we learn to ask God for our desire (instead of an outcome in life).
- Review the five guidelines to desire prayers.
- Learn six different types of desire prayers.
- Practice forming desire-filling questions for Jesus (desire prayers).
- Practice coming up with creative Desire Prayers.
- Have opportunity to encounter Jesus praying Desire Prayers.
- Practice speaking Words of Life to a specific desire a person is longing for.
- Explore the two paths in the brain.
- Look at the Coaching the Heart process.
- See and practice how to access the emotional brain.
- Look at how to identify an unmet desire for someone and how to go to Jesus to have that desire filled.
- Become more familiar with the Drilling Down to Desire process.
- Practice coaching one another from a place of strong emotion or trigger to identifying the missing desire and then invite Jesus to fill that desire.
- Practice coaching one another from a dream (desired outcome) to identify the desire underneath the dream and then invite Jesus to fill that desire.
- Learn how heart desires can get twisted.
- Start looking at beliefs and how they form in our hearts.
- Look at how beliefs operate to protect your heart.
- Become more aware of your own twisted desires.
- Look at the coaching tool – Fellowship of Suffering, as another way to fill desire.
- See a demonstration of how to coach a twisted desire.
- Practice coaching a twisted desire.
- Learn about Beliefs, and how those beliefs form as well as how they function to protect the heart.
- Get introduced to the 2 Guardians of the Heart.
- Observe how to identify a Belief in a coaching demo.
- Practice coaching to a belief.
- Look at coaching tools to deal with the Two Guardians of the Heart – Beliefs & Emotional Memory.
- Observe the Belief change process in a coaching conversation.
- Practice how to help others evaluate their Beliefs, and help them encounter Jesus in the process.
- Become aware of some of your own beliefs.
- Observe how to evaluate a Belief in a coaching demo.
- Practice some additional tools for evaluating a Belief.
- Look at renouncing and replacing an old belief.
- Process Dangerous Prayers and how to use them.
- Learn to use Declarations to both help someone summarize what they experience and assist them to Lean In.
- Practice ‘Leaning In’ within a coaching conversation.
"I had several breakthroughs in the practice sessions that should bear good fruit. I would (and have!) recommend this seminar for anyone who wants a closer more intimate walk with Jesus, and wants to help others in their journey too."
Ruth Kleppel
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Upcoming Modules:
Tuesdays 9-11AM Eastern Time
Todd Olsen Mathew Swinson
$1,695
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