Achievement
Can excellence stay strong without being your primary source of identity and security? If you lost everything and had Jesus, your family, and a few friends, would you be humbled by how rich that is, or quietly terrified?
Spiritual Formation Coaching for Christian Leaders
Brian BachmanExecutive Coach · MA, LPC
Formation should be visible in ordinary choices. In most successful Christians, it is visible on Sundays.
A leader can remain orthodox, active, generous, and respected while privately noticing that faith has less influence on ordinary decisions than it once did. The numbness is not the absence of God. It is the presence of a life that has been organized, for years, around something else. I trained at Covenant Theological Seminary, hold a Missouri counseling license, and have spent a decade in clinical practice. This coaching is where all of that comes together.
What formation looks like in practice
Three questions that show where the formation actually is.
Relationships
Do your spouse, children, and employees experience humility, repair, patience, and truth from you, or Christian language? They know the difference.
Stewardship
Do money, influence, time, and opportunity increasingly serve a kingdom larger than your own advancement? If you cannot name a mission that supersedes your wealth, you are probably serving the system.
Rest
You believe in Sabbath. Can you take one without checking in? A theology of rest with no practice of rest is a file written long ago that says you are only safe while producing.
Attention
Where did your mental energy go last week? Not every slice should be equal. But the chart should resemble the life you say you value.
Honesty
Can you say “I trust my competence more than I trust God right now” out loud to anyone? Formation starts there. It always has.
What this coaching is
Made for more has become marketing language. Something underneath it is profoundly true.
By more, I do not mean a bigger company or a more impressive version of yourself. I mean a life capable of love, joy, sacrifice, worship, play, friendship, creativity, service, and real presence. I mean one day standing back in awe at how much you delight in your children and your spouse. The same capacities that built your success are gifts, and it would be a shame to reduce them to corporate skills.
The work integrates Scripture, prayer, and spiritual practice with the psychological work of finding the old files that shape your spiritual life whether you have named them or not. Most formation work skips the psychology. Most coaching skips the formation. This does neither. A private starting point: the spiritual formation assessment .
A story I see often
A business owner’s faith had been formed in need. Twenty years of not needing anything had hollowed it out.
Details changed. Early in the company, when payroll was uncertain, God had been vivid. Two decades later the company was worth a great deal and he had not been afraid of anything in ten years. He was on the elder board and had not prayed honestly in three. He described it as God moving out. When we looked, God had not moved. He had, one competent decision at a time.
The work was formation: what actually shaped his decisions, money, and marriage, and the file underneath that said he was only safe while producing. As it loosened, dependence came back, and with it something he had not felt in years. Not a mountaintop. The sense of not being alone in the room.
How an engagement starts
Four steps from “something is off” to a plan you can actually run.
A 20-minute call about fit
You tell me what is actually going on. I tell you honestly whether it is the kind of problem I help with, and whether coaching or clinical care is the right door. No pitch, and no pressure to decide on the call.
We pick the right depth
One defined problem is Focused Coaching. A problem that crosses work and home is Integrated Coaching. If you want a full working model of how you operate, that is Private Advisory. I will tell you which one fits, including when the answer is the cheaper one.
I build the map
Integrated and Private Advisory engagements start with assessment and a written synthesis: strengths, blind spots, the patterns connecting your complaints, and the two or three leverage points that will change the most. See a sample Whole-Person Profile
We test it against real life
Meetings roughly every other week. Between them you run specific experiments: a conversation you have been avoiding, a decision, a boundary, a different response under pressure. The map gets corrected by what actually happens.
Three depths of engagement
The engagement should match the problem, not force every client through the same process.
Focused Coaching
$2,750 · 2 months
One defined problem, four private meetings, specific experiments between them, and a written continuation plan. For people who already know what needs attention.
Integrated Coaching
$4,500 · 4 months
Most clients start here. A problem that crosses several areas of life, a targeted whole-person assessment, a written synthesis, eight meetings, and a check-in between them.
Private Advisory
$7,800 · 6 months
A comprehensive Whole-Person Profile, twelve meetings, priority access, optional spouse perspective, and a final synthesis of what changed. For a select few who want the full model.
“Through Brian’s wisdom and direction, we’ve recalibrated my home life. Our family has never been so close. Instead of repeating generational failure, we’re fixing it.”
Questions
What people usually want to know before they book.
Is this spiritual direction?
No. Spiritual direction attends to your experience of God. This is coaching that integrates formation with psychological pattern work and practical change, under a coaching agreement, with defined engagements rather than open-ended sessions.
How is this different from Christian executive coaching?
Christian executive coaching keeps leadership and work at the center with faith integrated. Spiritual formation coaching puts formation at the center and lets work, marriage, and money be the places it shows up. Many clients move between the two.
Is this therapy?
No. It is coaching, and I will say so if what you describe needs clinical care first. I am a licensed counselor and my clinical practice is separate from this site.
What is the spiritual formation assessment?
A short private reflection, calculated in your browser and never stored, on where your formation is strong and where achievement has quietly taken over. It is not a grade or a diagnosis. It is a place to start.
Keep reading
Related pages.
Private whole-person coaching
If your success has outpaced your formation, the next season of growth is about becoming someone, not doing more.
A 20-minute private conversation. No pitch. We look at what has been forming you and decide together whether this is the right work at the right time.
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