This book defines various epiphanies and explores the skills and strategies that coaches and other inner guides can cultivate to facilitate awareness.
This book defines various epiphanies and explores the skills and strategies that coaches and other inner guides can cultivate to facilitate awareness.
Education & training, Educational psychology, Inspiration & personal growth
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.
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An extremely creatively written book, incorporating ancient philosophy, poetry, and other wisdom works. This historical view is then mixed with modern challenges that life coaches and spiritual advisors can blend with the uniqueness of every client and the skills and accepted competencies of coaching. This is indeed a book with depth, uniqueness and stimulating knowledge for modern practitioners. ~ Patrick Williams, PhD, MCC. Author of Becoming a Professional Life Coach: The Art and Science of a Whole Person Approach
What's below the surface? As coaches, we are trained to identify and listen for what is at the core of the issue. As individuals, we often don't go deep enough to find out. I love how Elizabeth-Anne has not just started the conversation around these epiphany moments but has also defined and persisted there so that we can feel comfortable navigating in this space. A truly phenomenal and insightful read. ~ Peter A. James, PhD, MBA, PCC. President & CEO, HCG Consulting Solutions
This helpful guide for life coaches obviously springs from a wealth of experience and knowledge. The author emphasizes the difference between coaching and therapy, gives many examples of the types of situations and clients a coach may encounter, and provides both insightful archetypes and helpful questions for navigating these situations. ~ Amy Florian. Thanatologist, Speaker, Coach, and author of A Friend Indeed: Help Those You Love When They Grieve
A groundbreaking book on the power of epiphanies to elevate coaching and create truly transformational results. The author draws on extensive scholarship and practical examples from her years of experience to illustrate how transcendent insights can and should be brought into result-oriented coaching. ~ Bill Epperly, PhD. Spiritual Guide, Founder of Integral Awakenings, and author of A Monk in the World (Substack)
In a practical, straightforward and very readable way, Elizabeth-Anne Stewart has captured the spirit of "Unlocking Epiphany Moments" in coaching. For new as well as experienced coaches and those in the helping professions, her insights, talent and storytelling ability illuminate effective processes and results of what epiphany moments are and how to embody them for growth, and for living more consciously, meaningfully and purposefully. ~ Peter Metzner MA, MPA, PCC, BCC President & Founder Dynamic Change Inc.
This book is a must-read for coaches hungry to expand spiritual horizons with their clients. Bearing witness to the other’s epiphany creates the numinous moment where the magic takes place and sacred mysteries unfold with meaning. ~ DeeAnna Merz Nagel, D.Th. Coeditor, Case Studies in Spiritual Coaching: A Survey Across Life, Wellness, and Work Domains
How can coaches help clients use an epiphany’s flash of insight as a doorway to deeper self-awareness? Stewart’s lively and engaging primer offers practical approaches that can turn these precious moments of potential into lasting transformative change. Revealing the epiphany’s elusive power, this guide is an essential addition to every coach’s bookshelf. ~ Kay Leigh Hagan, PCC. Leadership Development Coach
Well done Elizabeth-Anne Stewart! “Unlocking Epiphany Moments” is the stepping stone to tapping into the consciousness of a Holistic Modality with a level of understanding and appreciation for Divine Archetypes and spiritual curiosity; it is this approach that will facilitate a relationship with coaches, professionals, clients and individuals who want to make a difference and get past the rumblings of everyday life. ~ Patrick Ramcharitar, CPC, ELI, CTDS, CWDS. President, Upfront Essential Coaching
I graduated from ThrivingTogether, an ICF-certified coach training program at Catholic Theological Union (CTU). This course has been helpful in many ways in my work as a parish priest. People come to see me, seeking a human connection to help them see clearly the situations they find themselves in. They could search the internet for AI based solutions to their dilemmas, if all they desired was a computer printout to lead them from Point A to Point B. It has been my experience, that in seeking out a coach, or a pastoral person, the client is desirous of a human connection to accompany them in their exploration of their life’s challenges. Computers can give efficient answers, but they are incapable of entering into heart speaking to heart communication. Dr.Stewart illustrates clearly the distinction between the AI BOT and the fully engaged human coach. Her book is filled with gems of practical knowledge available to both human and AI. The richness found in Chapter 15 points to what can only be found in the human coaching experience, that is the role of the “spirit” which provides inspiration to the overall dynamic between coach and client. ~ Rev. Brian G. Bricker, O.P. Associate Pastor, St. Pius V Church, Chicago, IL.
