Dear Friends,
I have been working to help bring the Fellowship of Christian Athletes (FCA) ministry to Franklin County Vermont. This is a rung on the Mentoring Ladder that is sorely needed in our region - college aged kids reaching back down into the high schools to help students find their way. I am excited.
As part of my responsibility to the Board, I have been reading up on one of their core principals, 3Dimensional (3D) Coaching. The more I read, the more I am coming to appreciate that we are all coaches in some aspect of what we do. Parent/Child. Teacher/Student. Coach/Athlete. Provider/Patient. So these 3 dimensions that I am studying are applicable in all aspects of relationships.
A First Dimensional coach is very trans-actual in nature. We assign drills, we count laps, we set plays, we compliment and we discipline. Most of what we do is the core of what we know about the sport/subject/problem.
A Second Dimensional coach reaches for the relationship. We want to know our players as people. What makes them tick? Why do they act the way they do? What motivates them to achieve? The more we know, the better we are at applying the core skills and the better we can expect the athlete to respond to our directions.
A Third Dimension coach reaches for the heart. They are all about helping achieve a level of compassion and desire that goes way beyond the X's and O's of the game or the details of the subject, or the problem at hand. They are most interested in salvation. They want to reach a level way beyond anything earthly.
The 3D Coach uses every dimension of interaction to help bring the relationship to a new level and eventually to the ultimate level.
I know that the staff at MHI is already on-board with this 3D thinking. I know that every day you strive to reach your patients not only to improve their physical health or their relationship health but to reach that spiritual level that will heal all else.
My prayer for you today is one of encouragement to continue to find new and exciting ways to reach all three dimensions in everything you do.
Blessings,
Dave
