Healthy Rhythms Coaching

Soul Care and Companionship For Ministry Leaders

“Healthy Rhythms for Thriving Leaders”

“We are living in challenging and uncertain times where leaders need support and encouragement to help them learn to navigate the world we are in. Leadership is hard, don’t do it alone. That is why coaching matters. Healthy Rhythms Coaching is designed to help leaders thrive by promoting healthy rhythms that connect spiritual and missional practices. ”
— From the Healthy Rhythms Institute Founders

How is your soul? Are you a pastor, ministry leader, seminarian, or ministry leader in training who is desiring soul care?

Then consider pursuing missional formation coaching with Rev. Kristen Yates. Rev. Kristen is an affiliate of Healthy Rhythms Institute (HRI), has her coaching certificate from them, and practices HRI’s distinct way of coaching, which draws its inspiration from the spiritual and missional rhythms of Lindisfarne and involves a combination of spiritual direction, practical theology, and traditional coaching methods.

Kristen is an ordained Anglican pastor with 15 years of ministry experience - including 9 years of church planting work and time serving as a Fuller Formation Mentor through The Fuller Center for Spiritual Formation. Kristen has extensive education and training, including an MTS, an MDiv, an MA in International Peace and Conflict Resolution, certification as a spiritual director, and training as a mediator. For more about Kristen, read here.

FAQs

What is Healthy Rhythms Coaching?

Healthy Rhythms Coaching (HRC) is a process for soul care where a coach comes along aside a ministry leader to help that person care for their soul, become a healthy missional leader, and realize their God-given Kingdom potential. The coach works with the ministry leader to establish life-giving rhythms, grow in the habit of spiritual reflection, and discuss steps and obstacles for moving forward in one’s ministry calling. HRC is not counseling, but it is focused on soul care and moving forward in one’s ministry in the strength of the Holy Spirit.

For more information about the Healthy Rhythms Institute, go to https://healthyrhythms.org. You can also listen to HRI’s podcast here.

What are the marks of a healthy missional leader?

According to Winfield Bevins and Mark Dunwoody, the marks of a healthy missional leader are:

  • Realistic Hope

  • Emotional Intelligence

  • Contemplative Action

  • Courageous Adaptivity

  • Culturally Sensitivity

  • Servant Leadership

What kind of coaching packages does Rev. Kristen offer?

  • 6 and 12 month one-on-one coaching packages (with an optional add-on for occasional spiritual direction/soul-care times.)

  • 9 month small group practicing communities

What does the one-on-one packages include?

  • Monthly 1-hr coaching sessions (in person or on Zoom/Facetime)

  • Approximately another hour of Rev. Kristen’s time each month (for email or phone call check-ins, review of monthly coaching worksheet, and prep work)

  • Free Healthy Rhythms Coaching Book and Resources through the Rhythms of the Way Library and Practices Page

  • Guidance with Creating and Ebb and Flow Rule of Life

  • Optional add-on for bi-monthly 1-hr spiritual direction/soul-care times. (There is an extra fee for this add-on.)

What does the practicing communities package include?

  • Individual engagement of a new practice each month

  • Orientation Session and Final Celebration

  • Monthly 1-1/2 hour gatherings of groups of 4 or more (in person or on zoom) where we debrief our experience of the practice, do some group spiritual direction, and build community

  • Forum for monthly online discussion

  • Guidance with Creating and Ebb and Flow Rule of Life.

  • Free Healthy Rhythms Coaching Book and Resources through the Rhythms of the Way Library and Practices Page

How do I know if HRC is right for me?

Before you sign up for a one-on-one package, you will have an opportunity to have one free 1-hr orientation session of HRC. Before signing up for a practicing community package, you will have an opportunity to participate in the orientation session.

What are the fees for HRC?

I understand that everyone comes from different financial circumstances, and I do not want fees to become an obstacle to you if God is leading you to seek out coaching at this time.  So if it turns out that MFC with me appears to be a good fit in this season, let’s set up a time to talk and see whether a fee is doable at this time and if so how much.  (In other words, you’ll pay on a sliding scale fee structure based on what you are realistically able to give at this time and what my circumstances are at this time.) Fees will be paid online through Coracle at this link.

How can I get started?

Contact Rev. Kristen by filling out the form below.