Gita Coaching helps devotees succeed by enlightening their minds with the wisdom of the Bhagavad-gita As It Is, discovering and applying its success principles, and discovering devotees' worth and potential. A Gita coach acts as a support, motivator, and guide to help devotees set goals, develop action plans, and overcome obstacles in areas like health, sadhana, career, and relationships. Coaching incorporates the principles of setting goals, developing ideas/instructions, considering tests, and taking action to achieve long-term benefits like internalizing the Gita's teachings and greater overall success.

1. Helping Devotees Succeed

2. GITA COACHING
● a process
● applying the Bhagavad-gita
● meeting challenges
● achieving our goals

3. GITA COACHING HELPS DEVOTEES
SUCEED BY:
Enlightening the mind with the wisdom of the
Bhagavad-gita As It Is

4. GITA COACHING HELPS DEVOTEES
SUCEED BY:
Discovering and applying success principles of
the Bhagavad-gita As It Is

5. GITA COACHING HELPS DEVOTEES
SUCEED BY:
Discovering devotees' worth and potential

6. GITA COACHING HELPS DEVOTEES
SUCEED BY:
Finding together solutions that exactly meet
their needs

7. GITA COACHING HELPS DEVOTEES
SUCEED BY:
Inspiring personal improvement

8. GITA COACHING HELPS DEVOTEES
SUCEED BY:
Appreciating and optimizing what they already
have

9. GITA COACHING HELPS DEVOTEES
SUCEED BY:
Discovering new possibilities

10. GITA COACHING HELPS DEVOTEES
SUCEED BY:
Inspiring contribution

11. WHAT IS GITA COACHING?
● a weekly or a fortnightly focused conversation
● see where you are, choose where you want to
be, plan how to get there

12. WHO IS A GITA COACH?
● Success partner
● Support
● Trainer
● Motivator
● Guide
● Etc.

13. 4 ROLES OF A GITA COACH
● Example
● Support
● Guidance
● Challenge

14. GITA COACHING ASSISTS
DEVOTEES IN THESE AREAS
● Health
● Sadhana
● Service/Career
● Relationships
● Finances
● Etc.

15. GITA COACHING MODEL
G- Goals
I - Ideas/Instructions
T - Tests
A - Action

16. GOALS
Choose an important area of your life you want to
work on and write down goals you want to achieve
in that area.

17. IDEAS/INSTRUCTIONS
Choose one goal you would like to work on right
now and find spiritual instructions and professional
knowledge that will help you achieve it.

18. TESTS
Write down what internal and external tests or
obstacles you have to pass in order to achieve it.

19. ACTION
Write down a weekly action plan to start moving
towards achieving your goal.

20. GITA COACHING WORLDWIDE
● Over 2000 coaching sessions with over 700 residential and congregational
ISKCON devotees, many of them leaders
● Coaching with over 20 organizational teams
● Over 2000 Gita Coaching blogs (http://gitacoaching.blogspot.com)
● Hundreds of courses and lectures and other services at ISKCON centers
and other venues in these 30 countries: Albania, Argentina, Belgium,
Bulgaria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Chile, Croatia, Denmark, Ecuador,
England, France, Germany, Greece, Holland, Hungary, India, Ireland, Italy,
Macedonia, Northern Ireland, Peru, Poland, Portugal, Republika
Srpska, Serbia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, USA.

21. GITA COACHING BENEFITS
● Powerful ideas
● Improved sadhana
● Better relationships
● Life/Time management
● Goal setting
● Motivation
● Overcoming internal and external obstacles to
success
● Sastric success principles

22. QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
ABOUT GITA COACHING
● Question: Is Gita Coach someone who will tell me
what to do?
● Answer: No. He will ask you what you want to do
and assist you in doing it (presuming it's Krsna
conscious). He doesn’t work on you but for you
and with you.

23. QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
ABOUT GITA COACHING
● Q: Does having a coach means I'm incompetent?
● A: A sports champion whose coach helps him
achieve results is not incompetent. He is highly
competent. Still, he uses a coach to achieve even
better results.

24. QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
ABOUT GITA COACHING
● Q: Should I accept coaching from a junior or
someone less advanced?
● A: Coaching is a service. It doesn't mean the coach
is superior or better. Srila Prabhupada said: "If you
find that in a filthy place there is some gold, take it
out."

25. QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
ABOUT GITA COACHING
● Q: Is a coach really necessary, since I can think for
myself?
● A: A coach encourages you to think for
yourself, even more deeply than you usually do. He
will not think for you.

26. QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
ABOUT GITA COACHING
● Q: Can a coach be useful to me if he has less
knowledge than I have?
● A: A coach is expert in the process of coaching. He
doesn't have to be expert in any other field, though
he may be.

27. QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
ABOUT GITA COACHING
● Q: Isn't training enough
(courses, classes, instructions, advice, etc.)?
● A: My experience, at least, shows that it's not.
Coaching complements all kinds of training by
helping apply what has been learned.

28. QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
ABOUT GITA COACHING
● Q: Are there ISKCON leaders or other devotees
who have benefited from coaching so far?
● A: Yes, there are many, but we don't mention their
names due to confidentiality.

29. QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
ABOUT GITA COACHING
● Q: Is a coach like a siksa guru?
● A: No, but he does facilitate understanding the
benefits of spiritual instructions (siksa) and
following them with determination and enthusiasm.

30. QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
ABOUT GITA COACHING
● Q: In what ways is coaching connected to Krsna
consciousness?
● A: It helps devotees learn and practice Krsna
consciousness more successfully. It also helps
improve leadership, management and preaching
skills.

31. APPLY THE BHAGAVAD-GITA AS IT
IS WITH THE HELP OF A COACH
● a process of learning, renewal, application, and
feedback
● fairness, integrity, honesty, human dignity and
spiritual intelligence
● actualize this spiritual, principle-centred approach
for achieving your goals and solving problems

32. HOW DOES GITA COACH ASSIST
YOU?
Helps you to envision and clarify what and where
you want to be

33. HOW DOES GITA COACH ASSIST
YOU?
Holds you accountable to act on your highest
priorities

34. HOW DOES GITA COACH ASSIST
YOU?
Holds you responsible for taking action to create
results

35. HOW DOES GITA COACH ASSIST
YOU?
Helps you to improve how you approach interaction
with others and create a foundation of trust and
mutual benefit

36. HOW DOES GITA COACH ASSIST
YOU?
Does not work on you but works for you and with
you

37. HOW DOES GITA COACHING HELP
YOU?
Helps you apply the process of deep understanding of
other people to create interdependent and mutually
beneficial relationships

38. HOW DOES GITA COACHING HELP
YOU?
It plugs you into the power of 1+1=3, helping you
work with others to discover the best solutions

39. HOW DOES GITA COACHING HELP
YOU?
It helps you release your potential by making time for
the things that renew and enliven you

40. FORMING NEW HABITS TAKES
TIME
● transform your life through the principles of the
Bhagavad-gita
● become more effective
● more than a cosmetic change
● requires a change in habits
● takes time

41. A COMPREHENSIVE FOUNDATION
FOR CHANGE
During the coaching process, we work together to
understand and develop spiritually-based habits of
personal, interpersonal, professional and
organizational effectiveness.

42. LONG-TERM BENEFITS
● able to internalize and practice the principles of the
Bhagavad-gita
● greater success in all areas of your life

43. CONTACT
akrura@gmail.com
Skype: akrurad
http://gitacoaching.blogspot.com