“Passionate about health, healing, and wholeness, I seek to accompany others on their journey to living and leading well. Coaching and retreat facilitation allow me to walk with God’s people as we seek to live as whole and holy people. Together, we can grow as healthier leaders and healthier communities.”
Tammy Devine
Devine
Coaching
One-to-One Coaching (Virtual)
Coaching may address specific personal goals, centered living, ministry or life challenges personal or professional. You set the agenda. My purpose as your coach is to assist you in living from your strengths as a whole person so that you may live an abundant life here and now.
Retreat Facilitation
Gather staff, key leadership, or groups to step away rest, reflect and renew. Tools and practices for personal development, fostering a healthier team culture.
Small Group & Cohort Coaching
Gather a group of colleagues (3–5 people) who share a similar goal. Be intentional about your work and learn and grow together.
Consulting for Healthier Culture
I am often sought after to help others live and lead from a wholistic perspective. I use my consulting and coaching experiences to accompany leaders in their transition toward living into a healthier culture.
Guiding Beliefs
Through Devine Coaching: Health, Healing, and Wholeness, I seek to support you in discovering who you are and remembering whose you are.
Purpose
We each have a reason for being. We are created with a purpose. I believe our lives are vessels to share God’s love. We each are uniquely equipped with gifts to share. Some gifts are easily recognized. We feel stronger, things come easier and are more fun when we are operating from our strengths. Identifying our strengths as a visible example of our God-given gifts helps us live aligned with who we were created to be.
Presence
When we live aligned with our gifts and core values we show up differently. Core values serve as a guide in our decision making. Values can be accumulated and so claiming our core values helps us live authentically. Aligned, we let go of what and who others think we ought to be. When we are living out of our gifts and values we find a deep sense of peace and purpose. Our physical, emotional and spiritual lives become synchronized. A connected presence allows us to be grounded, resilient, able to navigate the challenges of life easier. Centered, we are better able to face struggle. Living in this grounded presence we recognize our own needs, more attuned to the needs of our neighbor and creation. This resilient presence draws strength from God even when in the midst of illness, death and dying.
Practice
A life of presence takes practice. Each of us will find our own unique practice that may change as we listen and are attuned to our needs. For some it may be a prayer practice, or a routine of physical activity, or mindful eating, sabbath practice. Practice requires intention, motivation, commitment, accountability and celebration.
About the Devine Coaching Logo
While reconnecting with my roots in Ireland, I was drawn to this Celtic design. Each triangle represents a key component to living authentically: purpose, presence, practice. I have discovered these three to be vital on my own personal growth journey. The three p’s are woven into my coaching, consulting and retreat leadership. Living with purpose, being a presence, and incorporating healing practices into life are essential for health, healing, and wholeness.
Tammy
Devine
My Journey
I am a strategic and systemic whole person promoter of wellbeing, through education and inspiration. I collaborate with through leaders as an external wellness consultant and coach to integrate wellbeing.
I continue to grow into understanding who I am and daily seek to remember whose I am.
Growing up on the farm, I loved caring for and nurturing animals and being in nature. Uncertain of my direction of study, I pursued nursing. I especially loved labor and delivery, where I was with couples, coaching and caring for them through those often long hours of pain, waiting, patience, and uncertainty.
I married young and raised my daughter and son. I became a Parish Nurse Coordinator, combining nursing and ministry, walking with congregations, health cabinets, and parish nurses as they practiced health ministry. I began seminary, earned my Master’s in Leadership, grew in my understanding of self, and discovered my voice. After years of an abusive marriage, divorced. I became rostered as a Diaconal Minister (later recognized as a Deacon) in the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA).
My first call was to a Lutheran long-term care facility where I helped them move from an illness model to a wellness model—recognizing we weren’t going to cure them of aging, but we could help them live and die with dignity. I expanded health ministry to Catholic, Presbyterian, Reformed, and Lutheran congregations.
My second call was to serve as the ELCA Wellness Manager for the Board of Pensions, later known as Portico (the financial, retirement, and health care arm of the ELCA). I became a Professional Certified Coach (PCC) (opens in a new tab) through the International Coaching Federation (ICF) (opens in a new tab), a Boundless Compassion (opens in a new tab) facilitator, and trained with Positive Intelligence (opens in a new tab).
I married a kind and compassionate man, and together we are blessed with four children and 11 grandchildren.
I began Devine Coaching in 2018 and continue to feel called by health, healing, and wholeness, where I share my passion for walking with others, inviting them to be the best version of themselves.
Education and Training
I completed the 2-year program at the Grace Institute for Spiritual Formation. I received my coach training through Auburn Theological Seminary and serve as a spiritual coach (ICF certified).
I earned a Master’s in Leadership from Luther Seminary. I am a registered nurse (BA, Augustana University, Sioux Falls, SD) and have served as a parish nurse/coordinator.
Retreat Facilitation
Discover my current retreat offerings, and learn about my previous retreats.
Publications
In “Called to Wholeness,” I narrate my own journey to a sense of call from God, resulting in my current vocation. My study, along with practices such as spiritual autobiography, have helped me help others by discerning their own vocational journey. The article concludes with a series of framing questions to help define and guide these journeys.
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