Congregational Life Centre
Our mission is to help leaders acquire the skills and attitudes they need to lead
Coaching
Mentoring and coaching as a model for Christian education is not new. It was used by the prophets long before Jesus' time, and was a model Jesus used to train future leaders.
The coaching program is designed to provide support, education, challenge, and encouragement to those who want to explore and develop new ways of exercising their leadership.
In this process the learner's first task is to identify their learning goals, the areas they wish to explore, the skills and knowledge they wish to gain in those areas, and what assistance they need in that process. The Congregational Life Centre will outline a timeline and identify resources for a process to meet these goals.
Expectations
Our expectations of the learner are:
- they will be available at agreed upon times,
- they will return loaned resources as quickly as possible,
- they will ask for additional help when they need it. It is the learner's responsibility to ask for clarification and help when needed.
Our responsibilities as the Centre are:
- we will provide appropriate resources for the learner,
- we will be available at agreed upon times,
- we will hold as confidential all agreements and discussions.
Communication
We will communicate using the best available resources. We propose that the major communication be by a phone call once a week at an agreed upon regular time. We feel that where face-to-face contact is limited, frequent contact will have great benefits.
We can also use e-mail and whenever it is possible, a face-to-face meeting. We are developing our facility with Internet QuickCam facilitation which could be a format for the weekly contact.