We were contacted by Who Hub, an online company requesting an interview with Coach Avis about her and Providential Coaching. We were honored to participate and wish to share this interview with you.
Mission: The best help the world will ever get will be me.
01What types of coaching do you do? Who are your clients?
Christian Life Coaching primarily to women ministry leaders, visionary leadership and life-affirming transformational coaching to Christian teams and Christ-followers.
02Can you provide a link to a site where we can get to know more about you, the type of work you do and/or the place where you do it?
Please visit us at: www.ProvidentialCoaching.com and while you're there, please submit your request for a Complimentary Coaching session.
03How did you get into coaching?I've been an unofficial coach and unknowingly coaching most of my adult life. I pointedly sought to become official after learning of Life Coaching as a profession. My certification is as a Christian Life Exhortation Coach.
04Do you have innate qualities, or is it something that you learned?What I do is what I was given from God. It's a gifting and blessing to me which benefits others. Training only fine-tuned my innate qualities and helped me to build, expand and grow in my gifting. I also have spiritual discernment which prompts me to probe deeper with the proper questions. It's not I but Christ who is in me. Christian Life Coaching is one way I minister for Christ.
05Can you describe briefly the technique or methodology you use?Jesus Christ was/is the best Life Coach there will ever be. We do not attempt to improve on His way of doing things but implement it in our practice. Like His, our Christian Life Coaching model deals with: Issues, Awareness, Vision, Strategy, Action, and Obstacles.
Why Obstacles? Any time we do something good, there is an opposing force working against us in the form of obstacles. Our clients must expect this and know how to overcome them through the word of God.
The coach must do what he/she does for the client, turn within for divine direction. I will be guided to do a Bible study, pray or sessions with my personal Christian Life Coach.
07What must the person you are helping contribute?In Christian Life Coaching, the client must contribute the image of Christ, uninterrupted time, honesty, commitment and a desire for change.
08What motivates someone to work more efficiently?Results!
09How do you work on the emotional plane?As a Christian Life Coach, first I begin praying (silently) using God's word and not my own to comfort and help the release of emotions that have begun. Then, I share personal emotional circumstances from my life and how I overcame them to:
Make the client feel comfortable
Give support
Give encouragement
Show the client he/she isn't the first to be on this road. Then,
Continue to listen as the client's emotions unfold, gently easing him/her through the torrential outpouring to calmness.
The client determines what's next: discussion, meditative time, praying together or bringing the session to an end. Our sessions always begin and end in prayer.
To achieve excellence, one must get into the habit of thinking positively. Positive thinking leads to positive action which almost always yield positive results. I must defer to Aristotle here:
"Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit."
The short answer would be, "Certainly!" As a Christian Life Coach, I believe this wholeheartedly.
The Simple Power of Listening™: "So then, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath." ~James 1:19
The Christian Life Coach learns to listen with practice and abiding by the word of God. When coaching, I'm aware my two ears and one mouth are to listen more and speak less. Coaching is not about me but my clients. In a coaching relationship, the client is free to say, "it's all about me," because it truly is.
If you are referring to other Christian Life Coaches, wonderful! If clients, we keep it professional but if I were ever summoned as a personal friend, I would know how to respond without a doubt.
13What is usually the main obstacle your clients face?Time Management. Unfortunately, far too many women have bought into the "super woman" or "wonder woman" mentality. They feel compelled to juggle everything (to perfection, mind you) which plummets them into guilt when one of the balls drop. This pattern is counterproductive, self-defeating and life-destroying.
God came so that we may have life and have it in abundance. As a Christian Life Coach, I help my clients achieve balance so that can enjoy abundant life living.
14How do you know if a challenge is the right one for a person?
It's the client's life, and it's my responsibility,, as their Christian Life Coach for them to choose their challenges. Assessment tools are used to help when in doubt. They've turned within for divine direction. We've prayed over it and they challenge themselves to great achievement.
15Can an excess of self-esteem be the worst obstacle?This may be one example when too much of a good thing won't hurt you. If you had used self-confidence (could be arrogance) or self-centered, I'd have a different answer. As a Christian Life Coach connected to the Source in daily prayer, devotion, meditation and fellowship, I receive divine revelation and insight.
Anyone with excessive self-esteem is functioning in a good place provided he/she doesn't use it to belittle, berate or in beguiling ways.
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