What are some of the key values behind peer coaching?
The coaching approach is based on several key values. The first is believing in people: believing in their relationship with God, in their ability to find the right solution without being told, and their ability to steward the life God has given them. A second key value is that God initiates change.\ In coaching, we believing the change process starts with God, and that his change agenda is readily seen in what believers are motivated to work on (in other words, God is able to motivate us to deal with what he wants us to deal with). Because this process is God-initiated, no coach has the power to change anyone except by getting in step with what God is already doing. A third key value is personal responsibility. Coaches help people take responsibility for their own lives and start taking the steps that move them where they want to go. Coaches don’t solve your problems for you: they help you discover that together with God you have the ability to face the challenges life has given you.
