Master ICF Core Competency #8 (Facilitates Client Growth) with focus on translating awareness to sustainable action. Explore the critical distinction between needs and wants using Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs, then integrate Fowler’s Stages of Faith Development to understand how clients make meaning. Begin niche development for life coaching positioning.

Move beyond goal-setting to help clients articulate their overarching life vision, core purpose, and season-specific missions. Practice the Worship-Work-Play framework for coaching clients toward authentic balance. Learn to facilitate conversations that connect daily choices to deeper meaning and calling.

Examine the intersection of coaching and mental well-being through ICF research and the PERMA model (Positive Emotion, Engagement, Relationships, Meaning, Accomplishment). Understand how to coach around well-being while maintaining appropriate boundaries, and explore how Christian principles both align with and transcend positive psychology frameworks.

Apply the SCARF model (Status, Certainty, Autonomy, Relatedness, Fairness) to understand what creates threat versus reward responses in clients. Master “coaching in-the-moment” (process coaching) that leverages present awareness for transformation. Discover how Jesus modeled this approach in Gospel encounters.

Synthesize your learning through the three qualitative markers of advanced coaching: coach the person, elevate the partnership, and expand presence. Explore industry trends, plan your next development steps toward earning your ICF credential, and commit to the sacred work of walking alongside clients pursuing lives of wholeness, purpose, and faith-aligned flourishing.