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Life Coaching at Indiana Wesleyan University (IWU) is a free service designed to help students clarify their purpose, explore challenging life questions, and make intentional decisions. By focusing on what students want and how to get there, IWU’s ICF-certified life coaches empower students to build habits and gain self-awareness, confidence, and direction for a purposeful college experience. This past year, 100% of clients reported accomplishing the goals that brought them to life coaching.
Life Calling and Career utilizes Handshake, an online job and internship platform. Current IWU students have access to view job and internship postings and then apply directly for opportunities based on their preferences.
Students can also use Handshake to set up appointments with our team for Life Coaching and Career Coaching.
Life Calling and Career is proud to offer free life coaching services for all Marion-campus students. Life coaching is a collaborative process of powerful questions, personal discovery, and intentional change. IWU’s certified life coaches partner with students to help them explore academic majors, their sense of purpose, career paths, and areas where they feel “stuck.”
Coaching enables students to gain a more holistic understanding of themselves, empowering them to make choices that align with their values, purpose, and strengths. All IWU students can meet with a Life Coach for multiple, personalized one-on-one sessions, typically 45 minutes each. Students may also explore Spiritual Direction with one of IWU’s certified Spiritual Directors.
We offer a variety of coaching concentrations tailored to student needs, including:
With these options, students can pursue the most meaningful path for their personal and professional development.
Our life coaches utilize a range of assessments and tools to help students discover their strengths and enhance growth. While several personal assessments are used, the most well-known include:
Our coaches facilitate workshops each semester on topics like personality assessments, leadership development, team dynamics, conflict navigation, and more. These specialized sessions create unique opportunities for students across campus to engage in personal discovery and professional growth.
Dr. Levi Huffman helps students cut through the noise to discover who they are and where they’re going. As a published researcher on the impact of life coaching with undergraduates and a trained Coach and Spiritual Director, he brings a mix of curiosity, candor, and compassion to his work. Levi’s vision is to ignite authentic transformation for students that lasts far beyond the university years.
Joe works with students who want to see results. He is a practical, active coach who deepens the learning process quickly and moves students toward meaningful change in every area of life. Joe loves helping students discover their unique purpose and create systems for personal and academic success.
Maggie partners with students to explore questions of purpose, values, and identity, encouraging them to embody meaning and vibrancy in every area of life. With a background in the arts and spiritual formation, she helps students integrate their whole selves in cooperation with God’s redemptive work in the world. Together, they imagine possibilities and discern practical steps toward lives of beauty and significance.
Michaela delights in exploring the unfolding story within each student. She brings imagination, energy, curiosity, and hope into each conversation. As a licensed educator and pastor, Michaela integrates spiritual aliveness with practical next steps.
“Life coaching is an amazing resource to take advantage of. You don't have to struggle alone – you can have an objective person who will help you truly find yourself.”
“Life coaching is a great opportunity to dig deeper, learn more about yourself, and find life paths that relate to what you discover.”
“Simply life changing process that opened up deep layers in my soul I didn’t even know were there.”
“Life Coaching is an awesome way to learn more about yourself in order to be a better student, friend, and person by becoming self-aware. If you want to find your purpose or even ways you can better interact with the world you are in, life coaching would be a good way to do just that!”
Ready to get started? Email lifecallingcareer@indwes.edu or, if you are a current student, log in to Handshake to set up a time to meet with any member of our coaching team.
