What's Included

Professional Training | Biblical Content | Powerful Coaching Tools

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"Jesus does all the work"

A pastor introduces coaching to her church

What's Different About Encounter Coaching?

It's a whole different way to change--from the inside-out.

  • Heart vs Behavior

    Jesus taught that outward behavior comes from what's inside us. So Encounter Coaching focuses on the heart of the matter: the unmet desires (for love, security, significance, etc.) that drive our behavior, and the beliefs that guard those desires.

  • Emotional vs Rational Brain

    The goals-and-actions methodology of mainstream coaching works--IF you're dealing with rational brain problems. But what gets us really stuck (our fears and foibles, wrong beliefs, or defense mechanisms) happens in our emotional brains. That's where Encounter Coaching shines!

  • Encounter vs Self-Discipline

    Using self-discipline to keep the lid on what's in your heart is a losing battle. So Encounter coaching deploys a powerful set of tools to create experiential encounters with Jesus--right in your coaching sessions--to produce transformational change.

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"It's transformational"

A senior leader talks about using the encounter method

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How the MetaFormation program compares to others

MetaFormation coach training gives you more: more hours with certified trainers, more mentor coaching, more peer practice sessions... Our full certification program costs less than most others while offering much more:

  • Over 70 hours of live training with our certified coach trainers in three amazing workshops
  • Our exclusive Taste of Heaven encounters
  • Over 30 hours of group mentor coaching sessions
  • 24 weekly, structured peer practice sessions
  • Courses are offered both in-person and online to accommodate students around the world
  • Three paperback, 80-page course manuals
  • A total of 107 live instructor contact hours (many competing programs offer half of that, or even less!)
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Add Encounter Coaching to your coaching toolkit

Here's a great option if you are already certified but want to add Encounter Coaching tools to your existing skillset. Our Continuing Ed Certification lets you skip the stuff you already know and focus on just the Encounter method.

At half the cost of the full certification, you'll get:

  • The Transforming the Heart and Coaching the Heart courses (over 45 hours of live training with our Certified Coach Trainers in two workshops)
  • 16 weeks of peer practice sessions
  • 13 hours of Mentor Coaching
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"A breakthrough I've been looking for for 10 years"

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Learn how the Encounter Coaching Certification program works


The diagram above shows a timeline of what's required to complete the full version of the Encounter Coaching Certification program (we also offer a  Continuing Ed version for existing coaches who want further training). In short, there are four main courses (the left column).  We strongly recommend taking Foundations of Encounter Coaching first--the other three can be taken in any order. 

Each course has a peer practice component that follows it (the second column). The final three courses feature a set of group Mentor Coaching sessions (3rd column) that parallel the peer practice sessions. During this time, trainees are accumulating coaching experience hours (4th column), both inside the certification program and with your own coaching clients. when you've accumulated the required 100 hours, you submit the coaching hours worksheet and go through our graduation ceremony!

Here's a listing of the main requirements with an estimate of the number of classroom and homework hours required for each:


Continuing Ed Version
If you are already a coach and want to add Encounter Coaching to your toolkit, you can take our Continuing Education certification. You get credit for the basic coaching skills you already have, and don't have to repeat them. Continuing Ed participants complete the following:

  • Two core workshops: Transforming the Heart and Coaching the Heart (20-24 hours each).
  • An 8-week, virtual peer follow-up process immediately follows each workshop (12 hours each).
  • You'l participate in nine 90-minute Mentor Coaching calls (13.5 hour )
  • Read the required books for two core course and pass the  course quizzes.


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