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Coaching at End of Life

Learn A Coach Approach to Being With the Dying and the Grieving

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    • End of Life Coach Training for Experienced Coaches
    • ACC Credentialing Pathway (Level One)
    • Coach Yourself Through Grief: Applying Coaching Principles to Your Grief Journey
    • A Coach Approach to Ministering to the Dying and the Grieving
    • Introduction to Coaching at End of Life
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    • Orientación en la Etapa Final de la Vida – El Libro
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  • Home
  • About
    • What is End of Life Coaching?
    • About Don
    • Living Losses
    • A Healthy Grief Mindset
    • Directory of Certified Grief & End of Life Coaches
    • Privacy Policy
    • Contact
  • ICF Level Two Certification
    • Training Description and List of Classes
    • Dates/Times & Registration
    • Pricing and Payment Options
    • A Guide for Students
    • Requirements for Graduation
    • Mentor Coaching
    • End of Life Coach Training Faculty
  • Supplemental Programs
    • End of Life Coach Training for Experienced Coaches
    • ACC Credentialing Pathway (Level One)
    • Coach Yourself Through Grief: Applying Coaching Principles to Your Grief Journey
    • A Coach Approach to Ministering to the Dying and the Grieving
    • Introduction to Coaching at End of Life
    • Mentor Coaching
    • Support for those who are grieving
  • Coaching
    • Coach With Don
    • Directory of Certified Grief & End of Life Coaches
    • Coaching for Funeral Directors
  • Bookstore
    • Overview
    • Coaching at End of Life
    • Life Lessons from Dragonflies
    • Coach Yourself Through Grief
    • Finding Beauty in the Crevices of Pain
    • Ministry 3.0
    • Dying To Live
    • Orientación en la Etapa Final de la Vida – El Libro
    • Instrúyase a través del Dolor – El Libro
    • Book Bundles

Faculty for the ACC Credentialing Pathway

Dr. Don Eisenhauer, MCC

Dr. Don Eisenhauer, MCC, is the founder of Coaching at End of Life, LLC.  He is a pastor and a Master Certified Coach (accredited by the International Coach Federation).  He is the author of the books Coaching at End of Life and Coach Yourself Through Grief.  Don has a passion to help people live fully until they die. He enjoys teaching and equipping coaches, hospice workers, funeral directors, clergy, friends and family members to better support and care for the dying and grieving in their midst.

Don comes to the field of coaching with a wealth of practical and educational experience in end of life care, including:
• 15 years of pastoral ministry
• 19 years as a hospice chaplain, grief care specialist, and grief support group facilitator
• a doctorate in counseling
• ongoing seminars/presentations on end of life issues

Don serves as an End of Life Coach for a Funeral Home.  He is a faculty member for other coaching practices, and he leads trainings and seminars throughout the world.  He is also the co-founder of the Bereavement Management Group, providing software to help in the care of the grieving.

 

Dawn Alitz, ACC

The Rev. Dawn Alitz, Ph.D., Director of Coaching at Luther Seminary
Dawn’s expertise is in the area of adult faith formation, coaching, and program coordination. She has over twenty years of experience in congregational leadership in both mission-start and established congregations. She holds an Associate Coaching Credential with the International Coaching Foundation and an Individual Team Coaching Accreditation through EMCC Global. Dawn is well-known within ELCA and ecumenical circles for her work with adaptive leadership, mentoring and coaching other pastors, developing online learning opportunities, and collaborating with various networks of educational and synodical professionals. Her Ph.D work centered on the spiritual development of adults as they became parents. Dawn is the Director of the Thriving in Ministry Sustainability Grant which is focused on developing coaching support for ministry and discipleship. Dawn’s role as Director of Coaching places her in a unique position to design, pilot, and build out new business models for theological education, lifelong learning, and congregational leadership support.

 

Jill Beverlin, PCC

Jill Beverlin, PCC, began training as a coach in 2013 and has worked with CoachNet Global and Coaching at End of Life to earn her credentials with the International Coach Federation (Associate Certified Coach in 2017; Professional Certified coach in 2019). Jill serves in the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) and has been their national Coordinator of Coaching since 2018. In addition, she served with the Grace Institute for Spiritual Formation from 2015-2019 and recently joined the Coaching at End of Life faculty in 2020.

Coaching has been a true lifeline for Jill and became an invaluable tool for moving forward following the death of her youngest son. She views coaching as a gift that offers a safe space for others to process what life is bringing them, unleashes the healing power of naming things out loud, and ultimately reveals a way forward.

Jill lives in Appleton, WI with her husband Dave and near their adult son, Andy. When she is not coaching, she enjoys being with family and friends and exploring the beautiful outdoors while hiking, kayaking, and cross-country skiing.

 

Jason O’Neill, PCC

Jason O’Neill, a Professional Certified Coach (PCC), has been coaching formally since 2012 and informally since he could begin talking, as it seems most anyone (including strangers*) feels drawn to share with him to receive his support in healing** soul wounds. He also has a B.S. degree in Psychology, which informs his coaching.

Some other descriptors for Jason, in no particular order: Advocate, Accomplice, and Co-Conspirator for all those on the margins. Intuitive Empath. Transgressive Artist. Lifelong Learner. Writer. Singer. Model. Queer. Son. Uncle. Husband. Parent to rescue animals — currently three cats (Sophia, Koa, and Nahla, pictured here) and two dogs (Violet and Rosie), and one cat (Angel) who crossed the rainbow bridge in February 2020.

*Are any of us ever really strangers? We all have a soul connection. As Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. wrote in his Letter from Birmingham Jail: “In a real sense all life is inter-related. All [people] are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly.”

**The name Jason comes from Greek Ἰάσων (Iásōn), meaning “healer”, from the verb ἰάομαι (iáomai), “to heal.

 

Nathan Swenson-Reinhold, PCC

Nathan Swenson-Reinhold is seasoned leader and ordained pastor with 22 years of experience organizing, equipping, empowering, and deploying organizations and communities of faith. Through Summit Coaching and Behavioral Consulting (www.summitcbc.com) and as a Partner with GSB Fundraising (www.gsbfr.com) he has the privilege of living his life’s mission of empowering and resourcing leaders who power organizations that transform the world.

Nathan holds a doctorate in leadership and cultural architecture from Portland Seminary of George Fox University in Portland, Oregon, has a professional coaching certification (PCC) through the International Coaching Federation (ICF), and is a certified behavioral consultant through both PeopleKeys and Take Flight Learning. He also has specialty training in church growth through Natural Church Development as well as stewardship coaching.

He is married to Erin (who is an ordained pastor, therapist, and coach), and together they have two adult children – Sam, and Ephraim, and a teenager who keeps her parents sorted out at home. Her name is Emma.

 

Sonja Ware, ACC

Sonja Ware is an Associate Certified Coach (ACC) with the International Coaching Federation (ICF),a Coach Trainer for the Evangelical Lutheran Church (ELCA), and the Coordinator for Mission Development and Congregational Vitality Coaching in the ELCA.

She has experience in coaching individuals as well as groups, focusing on leadership coaching and organizational consulting for nonprofit and volunteer organizations, life coaching, and end of life coaching, including grief coaching.

Sonja Ware has received Coaching Training with CoachNet (ACC level, 2020/21) and Coaching at the End of Life (PCC level, 2022).

She has also received extensive training in Psychodynamic Theory at the Psychoanalytic Center of Philadelphia (PCOP), where she now is an Academic Analytic Member as well as a Faculty Member. In her coaching, she listens with a psychodynamically trained ear, sensitive for unconscious processes as well as transference-countertransference dynamics.

Sonja Ware is Co-Pastor at Renewed Spirit Church in Reading, PA, and owner of Sonja Ware Coaching & Consulting LLC.

 

Charlie Zimmerman, PCC

Rev. Dr. Charlie Zimmerman is a retired ELCA pastor who has been PCC Certified Coach since 2019. He also serves as an ELCA Coach Trainer and Mentor Coach. He helped develop Mentor Coaching for Synod Coaching Coordinators in the ELCA, and has mentored coaches in 3 synods. He has helped rostered leaders navigate time management, self-care, strategic planning, staffing issues, and other challenging life/work issues. His passion is helping people grow into the full stature for which God created them.

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“Don’s end-of-life coach training is an absolute life-changing program. On my first day of class with him, I brought zero coaching experience to the table, but carried a ton of grief on my shoulders. By the end of Don’s program, he not only molded me into a professional coach, but he also helped me cope with the pain of my own tragic loss. His wisdom, his compassion, and his unwavering effort to prepare his students for the coaching field are what make Don an exceptional educator and mentor.

Thank you, Don, for being you and for doing what you do. You’ve made me a better man!”

-Andy Karam

 

“The grief and end of life coaching program is amazing.

Don has done a wonderful job putting it all together. It begins with the basics of coaching till you accomplish competency in life, grief, and end of life coaching.

I have done several ICF accredited programs prior to this one, but never gained the confidence in my coaching skills. With this program, and Don’s help, I became the coach that I was striving for.

Thank you Don!”

-Dr. Lina Al-Aswad

 

“I always felt like something was missing in the previous coach training courses I took until I found Don’s Coaching at End of Life program. Don is masterful as both a coach and a trainer and does a exceptionally thorough job of equipping coaches at the highest professional level. His training style is one of a kind and I highly recommend this coach training program.”

Ali Kennedy

 

“Grateful for Dr. Don and his life-changing work and mentorship through his End of Life Coaching Program. He made learning about coaching and the topic of life, grief and end of life, transformative for us as his mentees, which in turn provides a profound impact on the people that we coach. I highly recommend him as a coach and mentor, and his programs.”

JM dela Rama

Don’s Books

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Contact

Dr. Don Eisenhauer, MCC
Coaching at End of Life LLC
Email: don@coachingatendoflife.com
Phone: 484-948-1894

Finding Beauty in the Crevices of Pain

A Passage Through Grief and Widowhood

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