Not Just the Basics…

Based on the book, The COACH Model for Christian Leaders, this workshop is made for those who are experienced as well as those who are not-so-experienced in coaching skills.


Topic and skills covered in this practical and interactive workshop:

  • How to listen actively so others feel you understand them.
  • How to ask powerful questions that initiate a change of thinking.
  • How to generate feedback that avoids defensiveness.
  • How to design action steps that will actually be accomplished.
  • How to follow-up to increase learning and accountability.

Over the course, you will become familiar with the COACH Model® and use it to coach other participants. By the end of the course you will have the skills and the confidence to use coaching in your work and home contexts.

Join the Coaching Workshop for Christian Leaders and get practical leadership skills training!

Not Just the Basics…

Based on the book, The COACH Model for Christian Leaders, this workshop is made for those who are experienced as well as those who are not-so-experienced in coaching skills.


Over the course, you will become familiar with the COACH Model® and use it to coach other participants. By the end of the course you will have the skills and the confidence to use coaching in your work and home contexts.

Topic and skills covered in this practical and interactive workshop:

  • How to listen actively so others feel you understand them.
  • How to ask powerful questions that initiate a change of thinking.
  • How to generate feedback that avoids defensiveness.
  • How to design action steps that will actually be accomplished.
  • How to follow-up to increase learning and accountability.

Join the Coaching Workshop for Christian Leaders and get practical leadership skills training!

A More Effective Way of Leading

Coaching skills will increase your effectiveness in your various ministry and leadership roles. People who take this workshop see significant advancements in their ministry impact, while seeing their stress and busy-ness go down.

Coaching is not a new program for your church or another thing to add to your already busy schedule. It is an approach to doing ministry. It’s a more effective way of leading.

The course is very practical and interactive, with lots of skills practice built in. It’s not a lecture.

Hear What Others are Saying

Chip Zimmer - Billings, MT

I recently participated in an 18-hour online basic coaching course that Patti led. It far exceeded what I thought was possible via the internet and was one of the best learning experiences in which I have taken part.

Over 6 days, Patti walked us through the basics of effective coaching, using materials developed by Keith Webb. I appreciated the simplicity and clarity of those materials and of Patti’s teaching. Interwoven into her instruction were opportunities for practice with fellow-students, which was invaluable. The practice made coaching come to life, as we learned to follow Keith Webb’s approach. Most impressive was how real this practice turned out to be. This “real-thing” sense was due to each of us coming into the course with our own problems for coaching, rather than using scripted role plays, and to Patti’s online platform, which permitted students to be paired together as coach and coachee during practice. A remarkable learning experience that made me a believer in online coaching and training. 

At the heart of the course was Patti herself. She was always encouraging, humorous in the right places and serious when she needed to be. She presented the curriculum with knowledge and care as she guided us through the various modules. By the end of her course, I felt confident that I could provide basic coaching in the settings I regularly confront – with family, friends and co-workers.

All in all, a great experience that provided me with the tools I need to serve others, even informally. Thank you, Patti, for providing us with your time and talent.

Pastor Dave Mikulsky - Pastor of Soul Care

After 30+ years of ministry, I have found her Coaching Workshop for Christian leader” a MUST for anyone in ministry. Just learning the coaching skill of how to ask quality questions has improved my pastoral and counseling effectiveness immensely. It has also benefited my own marriage! My only regret was that I did not have these tools 30 years ago.

Debby Mylar - Biblical Counselor, Certified RW Instructor

The Coaching workshop had a positive impact on my ministry to my family, my counseling practice, and my work as a mediator/RW instructor because it is an helpful process to apply to all of those situations to help identify issues, set specific and objective goals, and plans to achieve those goals and address issues. Patti is an engaging, fun, down to earth, excellent instructor from whom I learned a lot from. I have gone on to work towards a certification in life coaching and decided to do that based on the workshop I took from Patti.

Scott Owen - Certified RW Instructor.

During my 30+ years of pastoral and counseling ministry I discovered the value of good questions. So when the Coaching Workshop was offered to our RW Instructors community I saw it as a tool to help me move away from directing others to drawing them out. This course helped me to realize that I not only could use more questions but offered a better perspective on how questions can be used. I also found the teaching dynamics to be helpful in grasping and reinforcing the concepts. 
If you are interested in a tool to help others, I would highly recommend investing in the Coaching Workshop.
Scott Owen, Certified RW Instructor.