What is a LifeCare Coach?

LifeCare Coaches help people make present and future oriented progress in their personal and professional lives. You will learn to help people implement strategies designed to improve their relationships, build their careers, and generally live a more fulfilled life.

Is This FREE course For You?

Have a look at the checklist to the right and ask yourself if this describes your goals and gifting:

  • You love helping people work through challenges, but you don't want to enroll in an advanced degree program or pursue mental health licensure.

  • Working with others is deeply rewarding, but despite your life experience, sometimes you're not sure how to help people take next steps.

  • You are ready to set aside a little time each week to learn pro-level skills that will equip you to help others in your daily life, ministry, and work.

  • You can identify someone in your current sphere of influence who would benefit from you coaching them using the new skills you gain on the course.

How does this work?

Easy-to-read chapters are accompanied by online, on-demand modules for each section of the course, so you can work at your own pace!

Short quiz pop-ups help you test your knowledge and prep for practice exercises where you can apply your new skills and knowledge in real time.
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Suitable for group training too!

LifeCare Training is designed to train both individuals AND groups! Congregational care teams, Christian business leaders, missionary teams, non-profit staff and more can be trained to support well-being and goal attainment of people in their sphere of influence.

These testimonials are from a live training at Ivy Church in Manchester, England. LifeCare can be used as a resource to help groups lead their own coach training events, or a live training with an instructor from the Forward Foundation can be booked by emailing us at [email protected].

Is this FREE course right for my group?

Have a look at the checklist to the right and ask yourself if this describes the goals of your team or organization:

  • The people you serve are working on some combination of behavioral change, examination of thoughts and beliefs, emotional processing, relationship improvement, goal setting, and the like.

  • You have more people seeking 1:1 help than you have time or people to meet with them.

  • You value pragmatic discipleship that leverages research-based coaching skills to help people incorporate their faith into their work, relationships and everyday life.

Community Church training Homer, Alaska

Opportunity for personal growth through equipping

Live group training allows participants to practice on one another and receive both peer and instructor feedback after practice sessions.  Live group training allows coaches to learn how to coach, and to learn what it is like to receive coaching. To inquire about group coaching, email us at [email protected].

Want to go pro?

If you'd like to become a professionally accredited Life or Executive Coach with the Association for Coaching or the International Coach Federation, or just want the live training experience to help you gain further mastery of the LifeCare coaching skills, continue your training with a 2.5-day live event once you've finished these modules.

We hold live equipping events 1-2 times per year that include additional live instructor training, several sessions of coaching, coach observation and feedback, the experience of being coached by another student, and additional self-study assignments.

Accredited by the internationally recognized, Association for Coaching!

Also fulfills the training requirement for coach accreditation through the International Coach Federation's (ICF) portfolio path.

More Course Graduate Testimonials...

“I’m often the one helping others. The training gave me a chance to talk to someone about my own life who wasn’t there to judge me or fix me. It helped me grow, and made me want to help others grow as well.”

Course Graduate

“Even in the first session, I started to learn how important it was to not try to fix people, to not try to give them the answers, but to bring them to the place where they can understand that there is an answer, and that nothing they’ve done is too much to separate them from God, or a healthy restorative life.”

Course Graduate

Course curriculum

    1. 1.1 - Welcome and Overview

    2. Practice sessions

    3. Course Structure

    4. External Video 1 - Grandmothers

    5. 1.2 - Global Code of Ethics

    6. 1.3 - Contracting

    7. 1.4 - Core Conditions

    8. 1.5 - Core Conditions Pt.2

    9. External Video 2 - Empathy

    10. 1.6 - Core Conditions Pt.3

    11. External Video 3 - Nail

    12. External Video 5 - Stop it

    13. 1.7 - Working Inductively

    14. Module 1 Quiz

    15. Practice Session 1

    1. 2.0 - Appendix 1

    2. 2.1 - PROPER IV pt.1

    3. 2.2 - PROPER IV pt.2

    4. 2.3 - PROPER IV pt.3

    5. Module 2 Quiz

    6. Practice Session 2

    7. Practice Reflection Form 2

    1. 3.0 - Motivational Interviewing for Coaches Intro

    2. 3.1 - Spiritual Reflections on Change

    3. 3.2 - Status Quo

    4. 3.3 - Considering Change

    5. 3.4 - Research and Resource

    6. 3.5 - Conviction

    7. 3.6 - Action

    8. 3.7 - Regression

    9. Intrinsic Vs Extrinsic Motivation Video

    10. Module 3 Quiz

    11. Practice Session 3

    12. Practice Reflection Form 3

    1. 4.0 - Personal History Journal

    2. 4.1 - Personal History Journal Pt.2

    3. 4.2 - Personal History Journal Pt. 3

    4. 4.3 - Personal History Journal Pt. 4

    5. Module 4 Quiz

    1. 5.0 - Letter From The Lord

    1. 6.0 - Cognitive Behavioral Coaching

    2. 6.1 - CBC - Auto Thoughts, Intermediary Beliefs, Core Belief

    3. 6.2 - CBC - Actions and Context

    4. 6.3 - Identifying Auto Thoughts

    5. 6.5 - Identifying Intermediary and Core Beliefs

    6. Module 6 Quiz

    7. Christy CBC - Capturing Thoughts

    8. Practice Session 6

    9. Practice Reflection 6

About this course

  • Free
  • 107 lessons
  • 10.5 hours of video content

Central Church, Edinburgh, Scotland

There are endless ways to use LifeCare skills in your current job or ministry to comfort and encourage others.

The amazing plans these course participants have to use LifeCare are inspiring! How will you use your new skills to bless others?

Instructor

The LifeCare Course

Solome Skaff

Founder

- Church Staff 15 years - Missionary & Field leader 5 years - Non-Profit leader 6 years - Creator, Accredited LifeCare Coach Curriculum - Master of Arts in Counseling, Dallas Theological Seminary - Master of Science by Research in Counseling and Psychotherapy, University of Edinburgh, Scotland - Licensed Professional Counselor & Clinical Supervisor - 20+ years of experience in pastoral and professional counseling and coaching.

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Watch the video modules free. If you want to get the reference material and course exercises, please purchase the 2 LifeCare course books here.

Who is The Forward Foundation?

We provide professional counseling, coaching and equipping that is faith-based and research-informed, to help people get unstuck and move Forward in life from a solid Foundation of purpose and meaning.