Become a Certified Encounter Coach!
Transform others by bringing their hearts to Jesus with Encounter Coaching Certification from Leadership MetaFormation.
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Get a professional certification in the transformational discipline of Encounter Coaching! Learn how to use the coaching approach to get to the heart of the issue, then see Jesus walk into the room and speak directly to the person's deepest desires.
Change the way you communicate, lead, and help others grow with the transforming power of the coaching approach. This e-course bundle features 7 hours of coaching demos, a 5-hour live practice webinar and much more. From Master Coach Tony Stoltzfus.
Starting with an amazing Taste of Heaven encounter, Transforming the Heart unfolds the workings of the human heart You'll learn the MetaFormation Heart Model, how to work with beliefs and deep desires, coaching the emotional brain, and much more!
Receive specific encouragement and feedback on skills you learn in Living From the Heart in these seven 90 minute mentor coaching sessions with a Leadership Metaformation facilitator.
Upcoming events from Certified MetaFormation Trainers, including on-line courses, webinars and our amazing in-person Workshops
It's a whole different way to change--from the inside-out.
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.
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!
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.
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:
Add Encounter Coaching to your coaching toolkit
At half the cost of the full certification, you'll get:
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:
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