Soul Metrics Coaching Services
People are not problems to be solved. They are mysteries to be explored.
– Eugene Peterson
Soul Metrics provides spiritual coaching for Christian leaders or for anyone who seeks to deepen their relationship with God, to gain a healthier sense of identity, and to develop a greater level of empathy for their fellow human beings.
We also provide debriefing sessions for those who have taken the GPS Spiritual Inventory.
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Soul Metrics Coaching Philosophy
The International Coaching Federation (ICF) defines coaching as “partnering with clients in a thought-provoking and creative process that inspires them to maximize their personal and professional potential. Coaching honors the client as the expert in his/her life and work and believes that every client is creative, resourceful, and whole.” We agree.
People are naturally creative. An essential biblical truth is that God made human beings in the image of their creator, God, which means that he has endowed all human beings with qualities that resemble God. One of God’s foremost qualities is that God is creative. God created creativity, and he embedded this quality within all people. It is perhaps humanity’s most excellent quality. If used for good, lives are enhanced and even saved. If used for evil, lives will be destroyed by the millions. However, it is an often-neglected quality. We often trust more in the prescriptions of experts than we do in our own God-given abilities to solve problems and create new ways of doing things. A coach encourages others to discover the creativity embedded within all people.
People are resourceful, or one might restate this as people are full of resources. God has filled every person with resources, much of which is untapped. While creativity is within each person, God also places unique gifts within each person. God, in his wisdom, also surrounds us with resources. No man is an island unto himself. Each person needs the resources of nature and fellow human beings. Often, we are all too quick to seek external resources before we have looked within ourselves for resources. A coach encourages others to dig deep to uncover untapped resources that God has placed for self-use and the sake of others.
That people are whole is an assumption that rubs against the underlying Christian assumption that people are broken. Of the three assumptions, this is perhaps that most difficult to embrace. One might also say that in Christ, we are in the process of becoming whole. The primary theological concept of justification is that through Christ’s atoning work, God sees his people as whole, though they are still incomplete. Through the lens of Christ, God views believers as whole. God sees us in our completed form and beckons us to it. In Christ, by the leading of the Holy Spirit, we have entered into a process of sanctification leading to wholeness. By making this assumption, we can choose to focus more on who we are becoming than who we have been and even who we are now — the process of becoming whole opens when we assume that wholeness is possible.
