Summary
Great coaching is not about fixing people or supplying answers. It’s about creating the conditions where insight can be drawn out. In The Confident Coach’s Toolkit, participants are introduced to a coaching framework that integrates SPA (Stillness, Presence, Affirm), the Core 9 Catalytic Questions, and the Frontstage/Backstage® lens to foster clarity, confidence, and sustainable change. Informed by a broad and well-established body of research across positive psychology, neuroscience, neurotheology, and PERMS-based wellbeing, this session demonstrates why high-quality, identity-anchored questions consistently strengthen resilience, focus, and follow-through. Anchored in Proverbs 20:5, “The purpose in a person’s heart is like deep water, but one who has insight draws it out,” coaches and ministry leaders experience how regulated presence, meaningful inquiry, and reflective dialogue move clients from drift to direction and from pressure to purpose. Participants leave with a simple, repeatable toolkit they can immediately apply to elevate coaching impact and client ownership.
Learning Objectives
Explain the Core 9 as a coaching framework using the Frontstage/Backstage model and connect it to Proverbs 20:5 as a biblical foundation for catalytic inquiry.
Apply SPA-informed, Core 9 questioning techniques reinforced by research from positive psychology, neuroscience, neurotheology, and PERMS-based wellbeing to increase client clarity, resilience, and self-regulation.
Integrate the Core 9 into coaching conversations and engagement plans to generate insight, ownership, and sustainable breakthroughs without rescuing, fixing, or over-directing.