Podcast Notes

Episode 462 Coaching as Spiritual Practice Host: Brian Miller, Executive Director of CAM Guests: Eddie Hammett, MCC and Scott Wagoner, ACC

In this episode, Brian speaks with coaches Eddie Hammett and Scott Wagner about their new book, Coaching as Spiritual Practice: Deepening Faith While Deepening Impact. The discussion explores how coaching serves not only as a professional tool but also as a deeply spiritual practice that fosters transformation through reflection, silence, and connection between head, heart, and spirit. Eddie introduces the FAITH framework as a guide to meaningful coaching conversations, while Scott emphasizes coaching’s potential to bring wholeness and clarity, especially in today’s fast-paced and spiritually questioning world. Both coaches share personal stories illustrating how coaching has helped them and their clients navigate profound life shifts, deepen faith, and uncover purpose.

Key Highlights:

• Coaching as a Spiritual Practice Eddie and Scott reflect on how coaching—especially during the pandemic—revealed itself as a form of spiritual practice. It's not just about achieving goals, but fostering transformation. It invites clients to align their head, heart, and even gut, creating space for clarity, wholeness, and spiritual depth.
• The Power of Silence and Spaciousness Scott, drawing from his Quaker tradition, describes the powerful role of silence in coaching. Holding space—literally through quiet—allows deeper truths and insights to rise, enabling clients to access their inner wisdom and divine guidance.
• The FAITH Framework (developed by Eddie Hammett) A flexible coaching structure designed to guide reflective spiritual engagement:

  1. F – Forward: What's the forward movement from the current dilemma?

  2. A – Alignment: Where is there dissonance? Where do head, heart, and life experiences need alignment?

  3. I – Interest: What fuels passion or blocks engagement?

  4. T – Timing: What is right now asking of you? (Kairos vs. Chronos)

  5. H – Heart: What’s at the core of the issue? How is it impacting decision-making and clarity?

• Transformation through Coaching Both guests highlight coaching’s role in uncovering hidden beliefs, integrating life experiences, and catalyzing transformation—not just behaviorally but spiritually. Eddie shares a powerful parallel between his open-heart surgery and the clarity that spiritual coaching brings.

Takeaways:

• Create intentional pauses during sessions—silence can be sacred.

• Approach each conversation as an opportunity to explore meaning, vocation, and inner alignment.

• Use the FAITH framework to guide clients through reflection and forward movement, not just surface action.

More Resources:

Title: Coaching as Spiritual Practice: Deepening Faith While Deepening Impact Authors: Eddie Hammett & Scott Wagner Where to Get It: Click on this link to purchase on Amazon!

Also check out their website: Transforming Solutions: Leaning Into Life's Lessons

 

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