Within the context of the world of work, we are able to coach you to grow personally and spiritually as well as professionally. You may enhance your spirituality as a resource for work.
Spiritual Coaching can assist you to:
- Build your own spiritual foundation for leadership and professional work
- Draw closer to God, as you understand God
- Be blessed, cherished, and supported by God at deeper levels
- Pray more deeply
- Get guidance more clearly
- Find and clarify your vocation
- Work with more compassion and caring
- Have more energy to be with marginalized people and to work for social justice.
Our methods and approaches include:
- Assisting you to more fully integrate your work life and spirituality
- Praying with you and experimenting with new forms of prayer
- Interpreting dreams to discover how God may want you to grow and approach issues
- Dialoguing with you by, alternately, asking provocative questions and listening most of the time
- Looking for your resources that you underplay and helping you to develop them
- Assisting you to create new stories about your life, as we work together to deconstruct old, problem-saturated life stories and to replace them with new, powerful, Spirit-inspired stories about your possibilities.
Biographies
Bill and Kathy Murray are both uniquely qualified as ordained ministers with a long track record of business and coaching experience. Bill Murray earned an M.Div. from Yale Divinity School and an MBA from the Harvard Business School. His academic background and work experience uniquely qualify him for coaching leaders and professionals to build a spiritual foundation for their work life.
Bill is an Executive Coach who has been awarded the Master Certified Coach credential. Bill has fulfilled leadership responsibilities in major corporations, hospitals, and universities. He has coached and trained hundreds of leaders and professionals in interpersonal skills. For over 30 years he has felt called to minister to people in the workplace to help them improve the quality of their work lives and spirituality. His passion is coaching, and his mission is to serve in the deepest sense of the word.
Kathy Murray is an ordained interfaith minister and a licensed psychotherapist. She received a Minister of Spiritual Counseling degree from the New Seminary in New York City and an M.S.W. from New York University. She has extensive experience in the business world, having worked for several major companies, working her way up to be Marketing Manager for a high-tech market research company. Her success at being a spiritual coach to her coworkers motivated her to become a professional counselor. She currently is a counselor at the Duke University Medical Center and a coach at Eagle Alliance Executive Coaching.
A More In-Depth Look at the Aims of Spiritual Coaching
Note in this circle, that each sector touches both of the others. No matter which piece you choose to focus on, you will also improve the other two. So, start our coaching wherever you choose, and change that emphasis whenever you wish. As a leader or as a professional, develop your soul and spirit by:
- Cultivating a spiritually grounded leadership or professional service with your own spiritual resources and practices.
- Learning to love more: yourself, others, and God
- Understanding yourself better, connecting more with others, letting God into your life more
- Finding more meaning and a deeper sense of purpose in your life and work.
GOD — Spiritual Growth
- Develop a spiritually grounded approach to your work
- Cultivate your own spiritual resources and practices and adapt them to support your call to service and leadership.
- Connect with our Source for healing and empowerment
- Find your own path to God as you understand and experience God
- Discern God’s call and your mission
- Create a compelling life vision of how you can fulfill your mission
- Draw closer to God in in whichever ways you choose:
- Prayer
- Meditation
- Visualization
- Spiritual exercises
- Dream work
- Focusing
- Service to others, especially servant leadership
- Finding community with others seeking God.
SELF — Personal and Professional Growth
Personal Growth:
- Tap into your own wellspring to create a new, richer life
- Love yourself with extreme self-care
- Develop your emotional intelligence, including being emotionally comfortable and competent
- Learn to draw spiritual meaning from your dreams by dialoguing with your unconscious
- Set goals and achieve them more fully
- Increase personal effectiveness, time management, and handling stress
Professional Growth:
- Cultivate a sense of mission, transforming career into calling
- Find meaningful work that expresses your true essence: What did God put you on earth for?
- Develop leadership skills and professional approaches that fit your unique strengths, interests, and values
- Use the tenets of servant leadership to enhance your management skills
- Communicate and listen more effectively
- Learn from feedback, designing your own 360-degree multi-source feedback program.
OTHERS — Growing in Relationships
- Serve others as a servant leader or professional
- See committed relationships as a spiritual path
- Improve communication skills
- Enhance intimacy, both giving and receiving more affection
- Let relationships be an opportunity to grow
- Find a deeper sense of belonging, support, and community in groups.
Please also see:
- Executive Spouse Relationship Coaching
- William Murray’s article, “The Power to Empower, the Transformational Energy of Servant-Leadership.” (Rich Text Format)
- TeleWorkshops and workshops on people skills in Group Executive Coaching.
Wouldn’t you like to move up to your next level of personal effectiveness, spiritual fulfillment, and intimacy? Please contact William Murray.
