{"id":23474,"date":"2019-06-14T14:29:21","date_gmt":"2019-06-14T21:29:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.georgefox.edu\/dminlgp\/?p=23474"},"modified":"2019-06-14T14:29:21","modified_gmt":"2019-06-14T21:29:21","slug":"using-coaching-skills-to-mine-for-gold","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.georgefox.edu\/dlgp\/using-coaching-skills-to-mine-for-gold\/","title":{"rendered":"Using Coaching Skills to Mine for Gold"},"content":{"rendered":"

Camacho\u2019s Mining For Gold<\/em> is a rare book for me in that I know and have worked with the author. This connection influences the insights I have gained from the book. First, I know and have worked with Tom Camacho in his former role of Coaching Coordinator for Multiply Vineyard, the resource arm for Vineyard church planting in the USA. I was trained as a missional coach and have coached church planters, pastors, and coaches since 2012. While at our Hong Kong advance, Tom emailed and asked me to assist him in enhancing our coaching network. That email affirmed my research choice of developing coaching networks for church planting organizations as the focus of my doctoral work.<\/p>\n

Recently, in no small part as a result of the release of this book, Tom elected to step down from his position with Multiply Vineyard. He felt he needed to give his energies and focus to the activities surrounding the release of Mining for Gold <\/em>(as well as the fact that he is a busy senior pastor, husband, and dad!). I succeeded Tom and am now serving in his former position and am now finding out why he was always so incredibly busy and yet excited at the same time!<\/p>\n

So for the reasons mentioned, I looked forward to the release of this book. This book is written in a popular voice and is easy to read and approach. I think that speaks to Camacho\u2019s intent to write a book about coaching that reduces the mystique of coaching while emphasizing the transformative benefits of coaching. Camacho\u2019s focus is on developing leaders who thrive from \u201cthe sweet spot\u201d of how they were wired or designed by God. The gold is what God has uniquely gifted them for, and the mining process is a metaphor for the coaching process.[1]<\/a><\/p>\n

Camacho\u2019s is focusing on ministry leaders developing coaching skills to raise other leaders, not necessarily becoming coaches themselves. His four key concepts are; gold is everywhere, open your eyes to see it, learn the skills to draw it out, and develop others continuously. Gold is the potential within every believer. Camacho leans into the greater need of developing leaders rather than developing followers to perform the leaders envisioned tasks. Therefore, adaptive leaders should always be looking to develop others into what they are best suited for rather than simply filling a gap. Adaptive leaders best learn the skills of seeing and drawing out by becoming recipients and students of coaching themselves. Much like discipleship, this is intended to become an ongoing self-reproducing, iterative process.[2]<\/a><\/p>\n

As can be seen from his writing, much of the book is drawn from Camacho\u2019s own experiences and self-discovery. He utilizes an appropriate amount of vulnerability in sharing stories and experiences from his own life. Camacho is uniquely experienced to write this book as it comes from the struggles of his church planting and pastoring experiences. I find Camacho\u2019s focus on utilizing coaching skills to develop leaders within the local church as a reflection of his epiphany.[3]<\/a><\/p>\n

This source will be included in my research as it exhibits an innovative front-line use of coaching skills by leaders impassioned to develop leaders around themselves. This innovative approach to developing leaders speaks to the entrepreneurial spirit of church planters and why I find them so stimulating to coach. I bless Camacho and where his released book takes him. In the meantime, I need to get back to the work of enhancing the coaching network to support these coaching efforts. Perhaps following my completed research and dissertation, I should consider writing a book about the coaching supervisors needed to sustain such an organizational coaching \u201cmining operation?\u201d<\/p>\n

[1]<\/a> Camacho, Tom, Mining for Gold: Developing Kingdom Leaders through Coaching <\/em>(London, UK: InterVarsity Press, 2019) pages unavailable from a review copy<\/em>.<\/p>\n

[2]<\/a> Camacho, Mining for Gold<\/em>, pages unavailable from a review copy<\/em>.<\/p>\n

[3]<\/a> Camacho, Mining for Gold<\/em>, pages unavailable from a review copy<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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