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Branches is now offering several auxiliary types of counseling on Fridays at Branches. We built a slate of helping partners that can take specific additional needs and address them with expertise that is rooted in the word of God. Each session will be $50, which is less than traditional counseling. Call 615-904-7170 to sign up.
We are currently offering:
Financial Planning
Larry Roby, President and CEO of Senior Financial Advisors will guide you through financial planning. These sessions may be individual or in a group. You can spend 50 minutes with your own financial advisor trying to establish a budget, understand retirement, get out of debt, etc.
Parenting Teens
Jeremy Lee, owner of Parentzilla, helps teenagers and their parents connect on a personal level. In the past few years he developed a strategic approach to building connections for parents and teenagers through the adolescent journey.
Healthy Choices
Rob Nicodemus is a certified life coach & many of you know Rob and his passion for and understanding of healthy eating. Rob can help you develop you own plan and then find a way to stick to a better lifestyle.
Inner-Healing Prayer
Inner-Healing Prayer is a tremendous tool that we use often during Intensives at Branches. It is not counseling but it is a means of allowing the Holy Spirit to guide you to the places of hurt and wounds that you have not found on your own and then heal you there. Karen Keegan teaches Inner Healing Prayer for us at NLU and has agreed to be a regular for those who would like to experience Inner Healing Prayer on Fridays.
Freedom In Christ
Rob Nicodemus will also be offering sessions on Freedom In Christ, a guided path to seeing yourself as Christ sees you. This is discipleship and mentoring. Again, this may be a single person or classes so call if you are interested.
Developing Job Skills
Developing Job Skills is an offering to help people who are stuck in unfulfilling jobs, need more income, or are just trying to discover skills that might help them in their career. Cindee Roby is a qualified Microsoft Trainer. She will be available to teach you Outlook, Access, or Excel. This is an amazing opportunity to better yourself with training.
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What Is Coaching?
Coaching is a relationship. It is a synergy between listener and searcher to create change, growth and performance at a higher level. Coaches help people discover purpose and meaning, and experience maximum performance in all areas of life. Coaches help people move from potential to action, from dreaming to doing, from seeming to being.
What Do Coaches Do?
Coaches listen, aggressively. They imagine and explore. Coaches hear where you are and where you have been and then help you say where you need to go. Coaches encourage, challenge and motivate. Your coach will help you develop an action plan after each meeting and then hold you accountable as you work your plan.
- A good coaching relationship produces power for change. There is a confidence and courage created in the client that is found in few other relationships. Questioning, challenging, clarifying and empowering, the coach helps the client find the power to change.
- A good coaching relationship develops tools for excellence. The client and coach together pursue deeper understandings and use inspired imagination to explore options, evaluate risks, and calculate the skills needed to perform at peak levels.
- A good coaching relationship establishes honesty. A clearer picture of the circumstances, a frank appraisal of objectives and a positive but realistic examination of performance help the client become all that he or she desires to be.
- Honest, caring conversation between coach and client makes this possible. Finally, a good coaching relationship is surrounds the client with prayer and spiritual direction. Support and encouragement are the natural gifts of a good coach. With an assurance that there is a loving God who believes the best about him or her, the client is excited about attempting what before has seemed impossible.
Where Does Coaching Work?
Everywhere. Anywhere. In any area of life that you desire to be better, perform more effectively, or accomplish more coaching can help. Job. Life Purpose. Parenting Skills. Money Management. Marriage and Family. Career Change. Ministry Focus. All of these are ideal prospects for creative coaching. The benefits of a good coaching relationship are limited only by our imagination and our willingness to endeavor to be our best.
