All Day Pre-Conference Workshops
The Equipping Profile: Transforming Lives at the Speed of Thought
Speaker: Gary Morais, MA
The Equipping Profile Method offers rapid learning, clinically proven and biblically-based tools, and breakthrough solutions for your coaching practice and caregiving ministry to gain momentum in growth and help clients heal faster, resulting in greater impact and more referrals. People are looking for effective strategies to their challenges NOW! Not just talk, but practical, immediate solutions for a changed life. Christ calls us to provide biblical solutions to help those whom we serve. This workshop introduces you to a life changing assessment tool, real life case studies in the Equipping Method, integrating Scripture, and understanding how thousands of people have experienced greater freedom over the last 30 years.
Learning Objectives
Participants will:
- Learn how the brain works and how to transform lives at the speed of thought.
- Understand the difference between Symptoms vs. Root Causes of a client’s problem(s) in worldly thinking that triggers stress, fears, anxiety, poor relationships, anger, and more.
- Incorporate three simple steps using the Equipping Method to help clients get unstuck from hopelessness for Rapid Life Transformation.
Morning Pre-Conference Workshops
Helping You Help Others: Building Confidence and Competence in Lay Caregiving
Speaker: Haley Scully, MA
Having healthy self and situational awareness, effective boundaries for lay caregiving, and practical tools, can make people helping in a structured, but non-professional setting, consistent and feasible for individuals to adopt. Be equipped strategically with biblical concepts and resources that can make all the difference in not being overwhelmed or becoming burned out as you help others carry burdens without taking on their load (Galatians 6).
Learning Objectives
Participants will:
- Learn a model for caregiving relationships that will help establish and maintain balanced expectations and boundaries.
- Understand important mental, emotional, physical, relational, and spiritual health considerations as they provide care to others, as well as when to refer to professionals.
- Learn how to guard their hearts from temptations and their mouths from words that can be harmful when providing intentional care as a representative of the Lord and one’s church.
3 Vital Questions: How to Navigate through the Drama of Life for Yourself and Your Clients
Speaker: Kim Levings
Based on a book by David Emerald, this workshop will walk coaches and caregivers through a powerful model that can apply to any situation where an individual is “stuck” and not making progress. The 3 Vital Questions will provide helpful tools in using the principles of mindset, reframing, and outcome focus – moving your clients toward results and empowerment.
Communicating with Confidence: Converting the Fear of Public Speaking into Positive Energy and Audience Connection
Speaker: Dwight Bain, MA
Life coaching continues to grow as an emerging field and is a regular topic in the news today. Many are talking about the benefits on social media, newspapers, television, radio, magazines, newspapers, podcasts, blogs, YouTube, Ted talks, and more. The significant demand should result in a full schedule of clients and with new opportunities to share one’s message. This workshop is designed to empower coaches in their public speaking and boost confidence to share their message as paid communicators and subject matter experts.
Learning Objectives
Participants will:
- Identify the underlying anxiety and psychological barriers that block most life coaches from communicating effectively and speaking publicly.
- Learn how to incorporate 10 key communication strategies to use in personalizing a coaching message to impact one’s community as a paid speaker.
- Gain insight in how to utilize verbal, non-verbal, and paraverbal skills to connect with clients and organizations.
Become a Champion: Bringing Faith, Resilience, and Healing to the Brokenhearted
Speaker: Nick Vujicic and Jay Smith
As a ministry, Nick Vujicic and Life Without Limbs have seen millions all over the world come to faith in Christ and countless others who are brokenhearted, experience God’s healing touch. This workshop will train you as ministry leaders, caregivers, and life coaches, to effectively introduce people to a vibrant relationship with Jesus and do so in spirit-led and compassionate way. Core principles will be shared on how Nick has been used to encourage the brokenhearted, the physically disabled, the downtrodden, and those who wrestle with some of life’s most difficult issues. Specific keys in ministering to 12 unique demographic groups that represent our Champions for the Brokenhearted initiative will be explored as together, we can bring greater resiliency and hope to a world that needs to hear the Good News.
Learning Objectives
Participants will:
- Learn how to incorporate Faith in lovingly and effectively leading people to Jesus.
- Understand the keys to teaching and increasing Resilience in people when they are faced with physical, emotional, mental, relational, and spiritual disabilities and brokenness.
- Be given a vision for God’s Healing in championing the brokenhearted . . . including the trafficked, unborn, disabled, orphans, prisoners, abused, addicted, suicidal, bullied, veterans, and the poor.
Afternoon Pre-Conference Workshops
God’s Will in Your Wallet: How to Build a Financial Plan for God’s Glory Instead of Your Own
Speaker: John Thornton, PhD
Unresolved money questions can be the #1 hurdle that blocks clients from moving forward and reaching their goals. Jesus said to,
“Use worldly wealth to gain friends for yourselves, so that when it is gone, you will be welcomed into eternal dwellings” (Luke 16:9). This workshop provides three proven tools to help clients overcome the biggest financial hurdles between them and the life God is calling them to live. Learn this simple plan to overcome the financial fears that block many people helpers from being more effective and taking their coaching and caregiving to the next level.
The Answer to Anger: Facing the Fire Within
Speaker: June Hunt, MA
Do you know someone who has anger out of control? Consider this: anger is only one letter short of danger! Yet, it doesn’t have to be this way, especially because the Bible says,
“Be angry, but do not sin” (Ephesians 4:26). Anger is a God-given emotion; however, many believe it is always negative, always a sin. They stuff, hide, avoid, and deny it, but hidden anger only fuels the fire inside. This workshop offers life coaches and lay caregivers biblical and practical help when facing this all too common issue.
Learning Objectives
Participants will:
- Understand and formulate a clear definition of anger.
- Learn underlying characteristics and the four primary sources that cause anger.
- Discover biblical solutions for resolving past anger and practical tools to identify triggers, how to handle angry people, and act rather than react in volatile situations.
Famous at Home: Seven Coaching and Caregiving Decisions for Helping Leaders Put Their Families Center Stage
Speaker: Joshua Straub, PhD
We live in a culture that competes for our time, attention, and identity, and too often, it’s our family that gets the leftovers. In this workshop, Dr. Straub reveals the seven practical and life-changing coaching and caregiving strategies he uses at Famous at Home to help leaders prioritize their family, and in turn, show up well on their respective stage.
Breaking the Taboo: The Church and Mental Health
Speaker: Cedric and Michelle White
So many of life’s personal challenges and trials are difficult to comprehend. Is the problem physical, emotional, psychological, spiritual or a combination of factors? Today, the Church is facing a growing crises with the rise of mental health issues in the pews, as well as the pulpit. This workshop examines how to compassionately and spiritually respond to and serve one another through various mental health challenges.
God’s Word and Wisdom: Radical Results for Life Recovery Coaching and Caregiving
Speaker: Steve Arterburn, MEd
Behavioral and substance addictions, poor life choices, and bad habits often develop out of deep pain and woundedness. This workshop offers a biblically based Life Recovery Model that includes five profound truths from God’s Word that radically impacts the recovery process and five profound truths from God’s Word that reveal the pathway to recovery and how to apply them in coaching and caregiving ministry.
Counting the Cost: Generational Differences in Coaching and Caregiving
Speaker: Rita Murray, PhD
Today, we are experiencing a time and culture when six different generations, spanning over 100 years, now live together; five of them work, worship, and socialize together. These generational cohorts have significantly different ways they connect, communicate, participate in public life, and care about God and faith. This workshop will help create successful coaching practices and caregiving ministries by discovering relevant and biblical worldview strategies to better understand the “technology needs” that distinguish every generation.
Learning Objectives
Participants will:
- Recognize the Why’s and How’s of generational research, the nature of age as a variable, and key insights of each generation’s attitudes and behaviors.
- Brainstorm the “So what?” and “Now what?” questions that impact coaching and caregiving processes, while experiencing innovative tech-wise elements that cross generations.
- Evaluate generational roadblocks and identify effective approaches for exceptional coaching and caregiving.