Unlocking Epiphany Moments - Paperback

by Elizabethanne Stewart (Author)

Coaching often leads to a mind shift, a change in perspective. It's not about maintaining the status quo but about diving deeper, gaining clarity, understanding oneself, becoming more authentic, and encountering truth. This mind shift is an epiphany moment - a moment of discovery, good or bad - that shatters old ways of thinking and sets the future in motion. Though typically associated with religious experience or literature, epiphanies are foundational to coaching, ensuring that the coach and client enter a shared transformational process. Unlocking Epiphany Moments: A Primer for Life Coaches and Other Inner Guides represents an unexplored field relevant to anyone who provides inner guidance. Dr. Stewart claims that epiphanies offer a framework for generating meaning, providing a 'GPS' for the maze of life and allowing clients to deepen their exploration into their motivations and options and the forces that block them. This book defines various epiphanies while exploring the skills and strategies that coaches can cultivate to facilitate such powerful moments.

Author Biography

In addition to spiritual direction, Elizabeth-Anne Stewart focuses on life coaching, coach education, and writing coaching; on faculty at The Institute for Life Coach Training, she recently launched The Ministry Coaching Foundation to provide continuing coaching education experiences, coach mentoring, and personal renewal. She teaches business writing and creative writing at St. Xavier University, recently serving as Director of Education for ThrivingTogether, an ICF-accredited ministerial coaching program at the Catholic Theological Union, Chicago. The author of 12 books and many articles, her specialties include the mythic imagination, archetypes, and dream work. In 1989, Elizabeth developed "Image Guidance," a process that helps clients access their own inner wisdom through their own unique images. Mind-Shifting Imagery (2018), adapts Image Guidance for use in life coaching contexts.