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Dr. R. Chris Monroe

Master Certified Grief Coach

I have been in full-time ministry roles for 30+ years. In that time I did a lot of counseling until I discovered "Coaching." I was so excited to find a method that can assist individuals move forward and discover solutions to issues in their lives. My main focus is coaching individuals who are going through major shifts and transitions in their lives. Some examples might be: Loss of a loved one, a divorce, a crisis or shift in the family, a career change, retirement, a health change, etc. We never know when life will suddenly spring something on us and cause us to feel stuck, overwhelmed or out of control.

I am not going through a Shift or Transition

I am qualified to coach in many other areas. I have assisted clients who are musicians, teachers, business professionals, job seekers, professors, seminary presidents, authors, and non-profit chair-persons with a variety of concerns.

Packages

Discover your perfect program in our packages.

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Introductory Session
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Individual Sessions
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Try It Out Package
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Re-Frame Re-Focus
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Journey in Grief
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We Are Getting Married

What is Coaching?

Coaching is an ongoing relationship between a coach and a person who desires coaching. We agree that:

1. Coaching is not: therapy, counseling, advice-giving, mental health care, or treatment for substance abuse. The coach is not functioning as a licensed mental health professional, and coaching is not intended as a replacement for counseling, psychiatric interventions, treatment for mental illness, recovery from past abuse, professional medical advice, financial assistance, legal counsel, or other professional services.
2. Coaching is for people who are basically well-adjusted, emotionally healthy, functioning effectively, and want to make changes in their lives or find new paths to cope.
3. Coaching is designed to address issues the person being coached would like to consider. These could include (but are not limited to) career development, relationship enhancement, spiritual growth, lifestyle management, life balance, decision making, and achieving short-term or long-term goals.
4. Coaching will be an ongoing relationship that may take a number of months, although either party can terminate the relationship at any time. Most or all coaching may be through telephone or online contact.
5. Coaching can involve brainstorming, values clarification, the completion of written assignments, education, goal setting, identifying plans of action, accountability, making requests, agreements to change behavior, examining lifestyles and questioning.
6. Coaching is most effective when both parties are honest and straightforward in their communications.
7. Coaching is a confidential relationship and the coach agrees to keep all information strictly confidential, except in those situations where such confidentiality would violate the law.

Making the Most of the Coaching Relationship

Coaching fosters the realization of extraordinary results when you have a clear vision and goals, which are based on your values.

Working with a skilled coach is a powerful way to grow. Most clients work with a coach to accomplish several specific goals. Yet, don’t be surprised if you discover new parts of yourself, or if you find yourself adjusting your goals to match who you have discovered you really are in light of what you are learning.

Experiment with new ideas and be open to redesign the parts of your life that no longer serve you and your vision. Be willing to:
Change your behavior
Experiment and try new things.
Remove sources of stress in your life.
Redesign how you spend your time.
Re-look at the assumptions and decisions you’ve made.
Get the support you need to handle any obstacles that get in the way of you fully realizing your potential.
Raise your personal standards.
Identify comfort zones in which you are stuck. Be willing to step into areas of discomfort.
Be honest our relationship is a safe zone.

We have a set amount of time together, so you will want to have an idea of things you want to share and discuss in order to get what you want from the session. I have included a coaching prep form at the end of this document to help you prepare. The prep forms may be a prompt for you- like:
Successes and wins you’ve had since our last session.
Challenges you’ve faced and how you’ve handled them.
Opportunities you’re attracting.
Shifts or new awareness that excite you.
The outcome you want for this coaching session.
What you see as the next thing to work on.

Based on our coaching conversations, we will identify fieldwork consisting of tasks, actions, results or changes you commit to complete before our next conversation. The fieldwork is designed to keep you in action, always moving in the direction of achieving your goals.