Individuals:
I’m available for in-person sessions with clients in northern Colorado, as well as coaching by phone or Zoom for clients who live elsewhere. To schedule a session, please use Calendly or email stillmountaincoaching@gmail.com.
Rates: Individual coaching sessions start at $90/hour, with discounts available for longer-term coaching contracts. Contact me by email regarding rates for spiritual direction.
Coaching sessions may focus on any of the following topics:
- Church or New Worshiping Community Leadership
- Vocational Discernment or Career Growth
- Sabbatical Preparation and Return
- General Life Coaching
Group Coaching and Retreats
I have experience coaching cohorts and groups of church leaders and seminarians, and have facilitated group retreats for church and Presbytery leadership teams. To inquire about rates and scheduling for please email stillmountaincoaching@gmail.com.
Past retreats have focused on:
- Values and Vision Discernment
- Wilderness Spirituality (read more here)
- Practical Spiritual Disciplines
What is Coaching?
The International Coaching Federation defines coaching as “partnering with clients in a thought-provoking and creative process that inspires them to maximize their personal and professional potential.” One way coaches do this through asking powerful questions to help our clients listen to their inner wisdom and gain new insight.
Coaching is for you if you want to experience personal growth, become a more confident leader, discern your vocation, clarify your values, or overcome negative cycles in your life. As a pastor who primarily coaches other Christian leaders, I see coaching as a way to make full use of the spiritual gifts God has given us and the Holy Spirit as the source of our inner wisdom.
Coaching is not consulting or mentorship. You are the expert on your own life, work, and circumstances. A coach’s role is to ask you the questions that help you discover what works for you in your context. Coaching is not psychological counseling or therapy. If it becomes clear that you would benefit from such forms of care, I can assist you in finding a qualified therapist, but I cannot provide such care myself.
What is Spiritual Direction?
Spiritual directors are companions who listen with their clients for signs of God’s presence and action in their lives. Thomas Merton wrote that “A spiritual director is one who helps another to recognize and to follow the inspirations of grace in their life, in order to arrive at the end to which God is leading them.”
Christian spiritual direction dates to the time of the desert fathers and mothers of the fourth and fifth centuries. Spiritually hungry seekers would come to these desert saints and say, “Abba, give me a word.” In turn they would receive guidance in the form of a wise proverb or parable.
Today, the practice is less directive. Contemplative listening is a spiritual director’s primary tool, rather than instruction. In the evocative model of spiritual direction, directors listen as their clients speak freely, reflecting out loud on their experience of faith. From time to time a director will offer a question or observation to prompt deeper reflection.
Spiritual direction differs from coaching in that its focus is on discerning God’s movement in the present moment, rather than on a client’s future goals or actions. Spiritual direction is not therapy, and directors will refer clients to qualified therapists when it becomes apparent that therapy is necessary.
