Marriage Coaching: Heart, Hope & Skills for a Great Relationship
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Overview
Combining years as marriage coaches with an extensive background in counseling and therapy, Jeff and Jill Williams’ book, Marriage Coaching: Heart, Hope & Skills for a Great Relationship is a resource that can breathe new life into a struggling marriage, or serve as a must-have resource for those interested in coaching other couples to a better relationship. Within its pages, Jeff and Jill show exactly what marriage coaching is, explain what it means to have your marriage as the client, lay out the essential ingredients for your marriage to be great and give the practical steps on how to coach your marriage. This fresh approach to building and sustaining a great marriage relationship is followed by practical instruction in the heart and skills needed in the areas of effective listening, goal setting, and support, encouragement and accountability. A bonus chapter on Crisis Management is included at the end of the book for those relationships needing immediate help.
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Top Highlights
“Asking and listening, and giving the clients choice of goals and action steps are the core of Marriage Coaching that distinguish Marriage Coaching from counseling or mentoring approaches. While counselors and mentors may ask, listen and encourage goal-setting, generally they also take liberty to give unsolicited advice and to require homework or compliance with recommendations as a condition for serving them.[21] In Marriage Coaching, as soon we finish sharing an idea for an action-step we return to a coaching posture to ask the couple being coached, ‘What do you think about that? What do you want? Is there anything in those ideas that you would like to consider or to build on as a potential action-step or strategy to accomplish your goal?’” (Page 18)
“The objective of Marriage Coaching is to facilitate identification of growth goals that both partners are motivated to pursue, and the action steps to accomplish those goals. Once goals are determined marriage coaches help couples to develop action steps.” (Page 18)
“Marriage Coaching couples are careful not to prescribe or require couples being coached to choose specific goals or action steps. It is always the client couple’s choice about how to apply what they learn from their coaching couple. This is because coaches embrace the value of ‘Own Life Responsibility’[20] as well as respecting the right and importance of a couple to choose their own goals because they are the ones that have to live with the outcome of their choices.” (Pages 17–18)
“Three, Christian coaching is empowering. As the coach empowers the client to work on the issues that are most important to them, the client is helped to focus on the development of goals and the action steps necessary to achieve those goals.” (Page 11)
- Title: Marriage Coaching: Heart, Hope & Skills for a Great Relationship
- Authors: Jeffrey Williams, Jill Williams
- Publisher: Grace & Truth Relationship Education
- Print Publication Date: 2011
- Logos Release Date: 2020
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Logos Reader Edition
- Subject: Textbooks
- ISBNs: 9781468000801, 1468000802
- Resource ID: LLS:WS_6107135CD3B64D8185F08BAC0091DBEC
- Resource Type: Monograph
- Metadata Last Updated: 2022-09-30T04:11:11Z