Coaching that empowers you to explore the answers within yourself.

Life and Spiritual Formation Coaching

 

Do you feel stuck? Are you going through a big transition? Are you unclear about your life purpose? Do you long to have a deeper spiritual life? If so, then coaching may be the spark that ignites the fire of exploration and movement forward.

We rarely get to clarity alone. Contact me to find out how to get the adventure started.

Life coaching assists clients as they:

  • Set and achieve goals

  • Explore possibilities

  • Clarify vision

  • Discover new learning

  • Navigate transitions

 

Spiritual formation coaching walks with clients as they:

  • Grow in their spiritual life

  • Deepen their relationships with God and others

  • Explore who God made them uniquely to be

  • Find their place in God’s greater story

  • Train for the marathon of life


 

What is Coaching?

 

Although coaching can be considered one of the helping disciplines, it is distinctly different from consulting, counseling, or mentoring. In the coaching relationship the client supplies the content expertise, determines the topic focus, and develops the goals.  Coaching is relationship-based, client-focused, and goal-oriented. Coaching helps people develop new insights as they process changes and challenges. Coaching focuses on forward movement and achieving goals. The coaching relationship provides a supportive environment for exploring and developing new awareness which leads to action.

Coaches believe in people and create a safe space for learning. Coaching is based on adult learning theory. Adults learn best when they are learning from life:  identifying challenges they are motivated to address, developing their own solutions, immediately applying them, and seeing the results. What adults learn on their own initiative they learn more keenly and permanently than what they learn by being ‘taught’.  (Malcolm Knowles, Design for Adult Learning, as referenced in Leadership Coaching by Tony Stoltzfus, page 10)

Hello, I’m Marsha Wakefield

I have worked with students and young adults in the academic and healthcare arenas throughout my professional life. I see the coaching skills of active listening, asking thoughtful questions, and promoting goal development, as beneficial in many areas of life, regardless of age or stage. In our busy world we don’t often take the time to slow down enough to really process our ideas. It takes intentionality in a safe and supportive environment to dream big dreams and put them into action.

As a Christian coach I believe that people are created in the image of God and uniquely designed for their contribution in the world. It would be a privilege to explore with you your unique challenges and contributions.

“The purposes of a person’s heart are deep waters, but one who has insight draws them out.” Proverbs 20:5 NIV

Contact

I would love to connect with you and discuss how life coaching and/or spiritual formation coaching could be beneficial to you in your current season of life.

If you have questions about the coaching process or what is involved in a coaching relationship, please feel free to ask. Questions are welcome!

A packet of information specific to my coaching practice is available upon request.

To schedule a free discovery call to find out if coaching is for you, please complete the contact page to get started!

Thanks,
Marsha Wakefield, MD, MHPE, CCLC