What is Preaching Coaching
The goal of Peer Preaching Coaching is to enrich and strengthen your unique preaching ministry. In either individual or group coaching sessions, the coach helps the preacher explore aspects of their identity and their practices. The preacher directs the areas on which sessions focus. Sometimes the focus is on questions related to a particular sermon and strengthening a particular skill. Sometimes the focus is on the sermon development process and establishing authentic practices. Sometimes the focus in on aspects of identity and working through challenges, confusion, or crisis. Simply put, the focus of Peer Preaching Coaching sessions is directed by the preacher and may be about anything that impacts their preaching life. Because, ultimately the goal is to help the preacher lean ever more deeply into the unique goodness of who they are as preacher and their preaching to be rich and meaningful.
Who benefits from Preaching Coaching?
Peer Preaching Coaching is helpful to all preachers who desire to strengthen their preaching, to draw out their unique voice, and to infuse new life into their preaching ministry. Those who find Peer Preaching Coaching particularly meaningful are those who are in the early years of their preaching ministry and working to integrate theological education and authentic practice; those in mid-career who are rethinking and re-imagining their preaching; and those in their late career who hope to reinvigorate their preaching. If you are a preacher dedicated to strengthening your craft, Peer Preaching Coaching offers an opportunity to do so alongside a skilled and trained coach and a group of invested and committed peers.
Reverend Mandy England Cole 