Workshops

Registration includes access to four 1.5-hour training workshops with sought-after Christian leaders, teachers, authors, speakers, and coaches. All of our training and workshops have a biblical foundation and will help you integrate God’s Word into your life, ministry and work.

 

You can choose from 36 training workshops. Note that there are morning and afternoon options for Friday and Saturday.

Friday Morning Workshops

Friday, October 20 in the morning (11:00 AM – 12:30 PM).
Bethany Murdock

Asking Great Questions: The Art of Drawing Out Your Clients

Speaker: Bethany Murdock

Competent people helpers ask great questions and the success of your practice or ministry is often impacted by the questions you ask (or don’t ask!). There is a need for knowledge, discernment, and wisdom in this area, so that you can better fulfill the mission and calling God has placed on your life as you work with those He brings to you.

 

Learning Objectives

Participants will:

  1. Develop practical strategies to gain deeper insight into a person’s life and story, without becoming intrusive.
  2. Learn from the example of Christ and how He modeled asking people heart-piercing questions in a simple, authentic way.
  3. Learn how to increase EQ (Emotional Intelligence) to be a more effective people helper and better understand and recognize a client’s emotions, in order to ask the right questions at the right time.
Steve Siler

Music for the Soul: A Timeless Resource for Your People-Helping Toolkit

Speaker: Steve Siler

God designed human beings to be profoundly moved and impacted by the gift of music. Music communicates with us in ways that are sometimes beyond the capability of words alone. This workshop will look at the compelling brain science behind music and songs, as well as explore their many physiological and emotional benefits. Several examples will be examined for creative and effective ways music can be incorporated as an important resource in your toolkit.

 

Learning Objectives

Participants will:

  1. Better understand how songs are uniquely helpful and powerful in creating breakthroughs.
  2. Learn how the use of music can be instrumental in connecting with God and relieving stress, anxiety, doubt, fear, discouragement, and more.
  3. Develop strategies for the ways music can be used to unlock creativity throughout the people-helping process.
Cedric and Michelle White

The Bethesda Coaching Model: Focus, Resolution, and Referral

Speaker: Cedric White and Michelle White

In a society where there are so many needs and demands placed on caregivers, life coaches, and counselors, how do you set healthy and balanced boundaries? Sometimes it’s difficult for people of faith to recognize limitations. Your reputation is sound, and now your phone is ringing off the hook—how do you manage this reality?

 

Learning Objectives

Participants will:

  1. Develop strategies to identify and operate in their focused ministry lane and minimize the tendency to “drift.”
  2. Learn practical ways to lovingly and respectfully say, “No” when it’s needed and do so without carrying a sense of guilt.
  3. Be able to assess when your “time is up” with a client and how to make solid decisions about next steps.
James E. Ward Jr.

Inside-out: Living in a World that is Upside Down

Speaker: James Ward, MDiv
Also available for virtual attendees

The storm didn’t happen to Jesus—Jesus happened to the storm! When asked about the coming of God’s Kingdom, Christ responded by explaining that the Kingdom of God is not external, but within us. He went on to describe how spiritual decay and moral depravity would increase in the culture and reveal a stark contrast to the internal renewal of the Spirit. This workshop will equip you with Kingdom keys and principles to live life from the inside out, as God intends for every believer.

 

Learning Objectives

Participants will:

  1. Discover biblical strategies to win our “battles for the mind.”
  2. Learn how to respond to and affect circumstances while not being affected by them.
  3. Learn how to master the principle of self-control and allow this fruit of the Spirit to transform our lives.
Michelle Nietert

Developing Your Practice: Tools for Attaining Clients and Confidently Delivering the Initial Session

Speaker: Michelle Nietert, MA

Successfully starting, developing, growing, and sustaining a coaching or ministry-based practice is essential to long-term viability and influence. First impressions matter. Learn from a seasoned expert on proven strategies that have been field-tested with mentees over the past 25 years and used to equip and empower counseling and coaching practitioners.

 

Learning Objectives

Participants will:

  1. Learn strategies for recruiting potential clients and receive needed referrals and endorsements for future marketing.
  2. Create their initial intake session paperwork, a call/meeting prep form, and a client service contract.
  3. Gain strategies on how to confidently move clients toward change by observing or participating in short role-plays and leaving with resource recommendations.
Dan Chrystal

Communication and Conflict: When People Drive You Nuts

Speaker: Dan Chrystal, JD

Some say the world would be a perfect place if it just wasn’t for the people in it. The truth is, people are imperfect, prone to selfishness, and far too often are either causing conflict or can be found in the middle of one. The Church, much like families, schools, and places of work, is also full of imperfections. Because we are perfectly imperfect—and conflict is inevitable—we need help navigating the minefields. This workshop incorporates humor and sound teaching as we walk through the stages of communication and the lifecycles of unhealthy and healthy conflict.

 

Learning Objectives

Participants will:

  1. Gain helpful insights on the nature and dynamics of relationships.
  2. Learn the four key stages of communication and the lifecycles of both unhealthy and healthy conflict.
  3. Be equipped with practical tools and strategies to navigate difficult interpersonal situations with greater confidence and composure.
Gayle Timberlake

Full Inheritance: Unlocking Joy and Rest from a Biblical Perspective

Speaker: Dr. Gayle Timberlake

In today’s busy world, people are no longer willing to settle for low joy and high stress. Did the earliest Christians understand something we don’t know about thriving in difficult times? Have we forgotten a solution that never should have been lost? This workshop will help you unlock ancient wisdom and valuable insights passed down to create a full inheritance. Come explore the rest and joy found in the timeless traditions of Jesus.

 

Learning Objectives

Participants will:

  1. Explore deeper intimacy with Jesus (Yeshua).
  2. Gain valuable tips for thriving in difficult times.
  3. Discover new pathways to emotional maturity that can be shared with family, clients, and fellowships.

Friday Afternoon Workshops

Friday, October 20 in the afternoon (2:00 PM – 3:30 PM).

Jill Monaco

The Freedom Framework: Bringing Christ into the Helping and Coaching Process

Speaker: Jill Monaco

Every Christian coach and people helper needs to know how to help clients connect with the Holy Spirit as their true source of guidance in a coaching session. This workshop on the Freedom Framework will show you how to combine listening prayer and specific coaching questions so your clients are better able to find the breakthroughs they need and desire.

 

Learning Objectives

Participants will:

  1. Learn how to position themselves as the go-go person in their niche by incorporating effective ministry and coaching tools.
  2. Learn a proven coaching methodology and the step-by-step process that can be confidently used in coaching, counseling, or ministry sessions.
  3. Personally experience the Freedom Framework and understand the qualifications for the certification process in the Freedom Coach Model.

Cultivating an Emotional and Spiritual Growth Environment in Today’s Family

Speaker: Joshua Straub, PhD

King Solomon wrote that, “Patience is better than power, and controlling one’s emotions, than capturing a city” (Prov. 16:32, CSB). It’s hard to learn, however, to “control emotions” when our default is to either minimize or numb them altogether, or to punish or dismiss them with our children. This workshop provides practical ways to both coach and minister to families by helping them foster emotional awareness within their homes and implement activities for familial spiritual growth.

 

Learning Objectives

Participants will:

  1. Name and describe the core components of emotional intelligence and what God’s Word teaches us about emotional growth.
  2. Identify foundational commitments to developing an emotional growth environment in the home and how these commitments inform the way parents connect with their children in the midst of fear, anger, or sadness.
  3. Implement practical, everyday strategies that equip parents to cultivate a spiritual growth environment for their children that values emotions.
Scott Floyd

From a Grievance Story to Forgiveness: Helping Individuals Heal from Relational Wounds

Speaker: Scott Floyd, PhD
Also available for virtual attendees

Grievance stories often result from either real or perceived relational wounds. This workshop considers the nature of grievance stories through the lens of Elijah’s experience in 1 Kings 18–19. A key method of helping individuals address relational wounds is through forgiveness. Using Matthew 18:21–35, this session will then look at the nature of forgiveness—what it is, what it isn’t, and how to assist hurting individuals engage in the forgiveness process.

 

Learning Objectives

Participants will:

  1. Consider a definition of the term grievance story, and examine the nature, elements, and effects of grievance stories through the narrative account of Elijah in 1 Kings 18–19.
  2. Understand the nature of forgiveness when relational hurt has occurred, focused on Matthew 18.
  3. Learn therapeutic implications and approaches for working with individuals who have experienced relational hurts and have developed grievance stories.
Steve Siler

Music for the Soul: A Timeless Resource for Your People-Helping Toolkit

Speaker: Steve Siler

God designed human beings to be profoundly moved and impacted by the gift of music. Music communicates with us in ways that are sometimes beyond the capability of words alone. This workshop will look at the compelling brain science behind music and songs, as well as explore their many physiological and emotional benefits. Several examples will be examined for creative and effective ways music can be incorporated as an important resource in your toolkit.

 

Learning Objectives

Participants will:

  1. Better understand how songs are uniquely helpful and powerful in creating breakthroughs.
  2. Learn how the use of music can be instrumental in connecting with God and relieving stress, anxiety, doubt, fear, discouragement, and more.
  3. Develop strategies for the ways music can be used to unlock creativity throughout the people-helping process.
John Thornton

AfterLIFE: Real Answers to Life’s Financial Questions

Speaker: John Thornton, PhD

Every great coach, caregiver, and ministry leader seeks to give sound advice and wise counsel to their clients. However, even the best-laid plans sometimes fail due to unresolved financial challenges. This workshop incorporates the popular board game LIFE to help open up conversations that can expose potential hurdles that may lie ahead. Best of all, through this fun and engaging game, it provides a few simple tools anyone can use to overcome these financial obstacles.

 

Learning Objectives

Participants will:

  1. Evaluate the three uses of money and the two money challenges that are blocking those you help from moving forward.
  2. Identify three simple tools to make the most of your money.
  3. Play “The AfterLIFE Game” to discuss, uncover, and resolve life’s money challenges in a fun and non-threatening way.
Bob Dees

Resilient Living in a Chaotic World

Speaker: Maj. Gen. Bob Dees (Ret.), MS

Given the realities of tribulation all around us, resilience is a critical life skill from cradle to grave. How do we prepare for the storms of life, weather them, and then bounce back without getting stuck in the toxic emotions of guilt, false guilt, anger, and bitterness? How do we learn to navigate adversity and get better, wiser, and stronger in the process of posttraumatic growth? This workshop explores the dynamics of resilience, both personally and in helping others do the same—God Style!

 

Learning Objectives

Participants will:

  1. Gain greater appreciation for the chaotic challenges we face in today’s world, as well as a useful, biblical theology of suffering.
  2. Learn the key components of the Resilience Life Cycle and associated tools to navigate the Before, During, and After of adversity and trauma.
  3. Gain exposure to additional Resilience Resources, including actual play of the Resilience Training Game to reinforce key principles in a dynamic, fun learning environment.
Stephen Arterburn

Relapse: The Journey Toward Growth and Recovery

Speaker: Steve Arterburn, MEd

Addiction takes numerous forms and shapes beyond only substance use and abuse, and for many who are in the process of recovery, one or more relapses are not uncommon. Relapse prevention involves identifying and preventing high-risk situations that may trigger addictive choices. This workshop focuses on how to assist individuals in making balanced and healthy decisions while maintaining desired cognitive, emotional, behavioral, relational, and spiritual changes.

 

Learning Objectives

Participants will:

  1. Be able to articulate the four primary stages of relapse.
  2. Identify common relapse triggers and situations before things progress and result in a return to and repeat of addictive patterns.
  3. Understand how to develop an effective and Christ-centered relapse prevention plan.

Saturday Morning Workshops

Saturday, October 21 in the morning (11:00 AM – 12:30 PM).
Jill Monaco

Maximizing Kingdom Impact: Creating Your Signature Course or Program for Multiple Streams of Income

Speaker: Jill Monaco

Successful entrepreneurs leverage their expertise by developing a training course or signature program and implementing multiple strategies to maximize the impact. In this step-by-step workshop, you’ll uncover your zone of genius, discover what your ideal client is looking for, learn how to create the program content, choose the best technology, and implement marketing strategies to help people find you. Discover the most effective offers and marketing funnels to earn more in less time — while making a massive impact in others and for the Kingdom.  

 

Learning Objectives

Participants will:

  1. Learn a proven system to create a successful framework, model, or signature program from start to finish.
  2. Explore how to use your signature program in different revenue streams that will establish consistent recurring income, including a 1:1 coaching model, group coaching, memberships, challenges, and masterminds.
  3. Discover how to craft a marketing funnel with zero start-up cost for a dynamic, client-generating, no-sales strategy so you can focus on what you love – helping people!
Rita Murray photo

The Tech-Wise Coach: Digital Trends, Online Assessments, and Your Coaching Practice

Speaker: Rita Murray, PhD

We are all in the same boat. There’s no going back to an age before technology. In a rapidly changing world, our devices increasingly command attention and affection, so we must constantly assess our people helping practices and stewardship. This workshop looks at the relevant research and offers an intentional effort to help your coaching practice engage with technology in healthy ways while recognizing that you may miss some things, too.

 

Learning Objectives

Participants will:

  1. Classify different types of assessments and practices for administration and interpretation to discover new ways of connecting in your coaching practice.
  2. Discuss how smartphones are amplifiers in the war for our affections, how to set healthy limits, and take ownership of your devices and technologies.
  3. Develop a digital coaching discipleship plan, examine how to embrace social visibility as Christian coaches, and identify the difference between information and wisdom.
Bethany Murdock

Embracing the Power of the Squeeze: How to Thrive Under Pressure

Speaker: Bethany Murdock
Also available for virtual attendees

Mental, emotional, and spiritual pressure for leaders is at an all-time high in our world right now. Knowing how to effectively manage real-life stressors will either make or break our effectiveness as strong voices who help steer the lives of others through our practices and ministries. This workshop examines the dynamics of pressure and how to thrive no matter the situation.

 

Learning Objectives

Participants will:

  1. Gain understanding on how pressure is part of the journey God takes us through as leaders and how to embrace it, rather than escape it, by using what you have learned to teach clients what to expect as they go deeper in Christ.
  2. Develop the ability to settle the issue of conformity (what you are coming into agreement with internally as a coach or people helper), realizing that whatever is “in you” is what you will transfer to others.
  3. Learn why pressure brings the gift of an enlarged capacity and helps develop the ability, through pressure, to carry more vision, a higher standard for yourself as you coach and lead people, and gain greater spiritual authority in the process.
Rolfe Carawan and Lea Carawan

Transformed Living: A Unique Discipleship Approach for Changing Lives, Families, and Churches

Speaker: Rolfe Carawan, MEd, and Lea Carawan, MA

As a Christian caregiver or coach, your role is vital in encouraging and challenging individuals on their spiritual journeys. Find out how to identify primary obstacles and cooperate with God’s design to make changes that bring freedom and lasting transformation. You will gain invaluable insights and essential processes necessary for establishing a foundation that will help you make a lasting impact on individuals, families, and churches. Through successful transformation in your own life and relationships, you will be equipped to guide others through their own needed transitions.

 

Learning Objectives

Participants will:

  1. Be able to distinguish between principles, instructions, and personal convictions that shape a person’s behavior by uncovering the common misapplication of truth and developing a clear understanding of how these elements influence individuals.
  2. Understand the crucial link between beliefs, assumptions, and behaviors, by discovering how to engage in an intentional transformation process with others and recognizing the power of mindset in helping them align their beliefs with their desired outcomes.
  3. Be equipped with practical tools and approaches for lasting change, including the ABCs of transformation, a comprehensive framework that encompasses the essential steps needed for personal growth, and the E.A.S.E. Model, which offers practical guidance for assisting individuals in making sustainable change.

Tools and Tips for Better Coaching

Speaker: Dewey Wilson, PhD, and Lynne Wilson

Dr. Dewey and Lynne Wilson, as cofounders of Strong Marriages, will share various strategies, practical tools, and relational insights they have learned over the past 20 years in mentoring and coaching couples together. The focus is on creating resources, empowering people, and strengthening marriages to help create a healthy environment for authentic transformation.

 

Learning Objectives

Participants will:

  1. Learn why assessments are important and how using the right assessments will not only lay a good foundation for the helping relationship, but also provide a roadmap to better connect with those with whom you work.
  2. Better understand the art of listening, why agendas are important, how what it said can cause us to change directions, and discover certain obstacles that keep us from listening well.
  3. Be able to identify the dynamics associated when working with couples versus individuals, and what can sometimes cause progress to take one step forward and two steps back.
Grant Wood

Miracle Questions that Motivate Clients

Speaker: Grant Wood, MS, MA

This workshop will equip coaches and caregivers to formulate and employ questions and interview techniques that will help clients realize their hidden interior motives, insecurities, and barriers, as well as finding fuel for authentic change.

 

Learning Objectives

Participants will:

  1. Learn to identify and create meaningful questions to incite deeper conversation.
  2. Gain the ability to navigate potentially difficult issues like lingering insecurities, past habits and beliefs, and self-doubt, without losing the enthusiasm and purpose to keep pushing forward.
  3. Work to turn potential pitfalls into sources of motivation for long-term change in behavior and beliefs.
Sam Warren

Abiding in Love: Strategies for Spiritual Growth and Transformation

Speaker: Sam Warren, MA

People helpers frequently encounter Christ followers who wrestle with having a healthy understanding of God’s love and what it means to rest in and trust Him in the process. Precipitating factors may stem from poor attachment relationships in childhood, a history of trauma and abuse, experiencing major losses or crises events, and more. This workshop addresses key principles in learning how to create the right foundation and grow in the love of Christ for greater fullness in life.

 

Learning Objectives

Participants will:

  1. Gain understanding of the components of spiritual transformation, including one’s core beliefs, communication skills, and the change process.
  2. Learn how self-worth and self-identity impact spiritual transformation and one’s capacity to abide in God’s love.
  3. Be given opportunities through experiential exercises to engage in and to aid learning and application.
Dwight Bain

Difficult Conversations: Equipping Clients for Challenges and Effective Confrontation

Speaker: Dwight Bain, MA

Family secrets can be repeated over generations. Dysfunctional relationships, infidelities, addictive behaviors, and awkward subjects are frequently avoided because of fears and insecurities, which often create even bigger problems when silence doesn’t bring needed or desired solutions. This interactive workshop offers participants an opportunity to develop coaching and caregiving tools and strategies for effective confrontation and problem resolution to foster positive outcomes.

 

Learning Objectives

Participants will:

  1. Map out the most common family dysfunctions and patterns and how to effectively confront them with confidence.
  2. Learn communication strategies on when to assertively challenge, when to directly confront, and when to make an appropriate referral.
  3. Identify the key elements necessary to confront so they can help clients rewrite their family stories and break generational patterns.
Jay Smith

Caring for the Brokenhearted: A Model for Ministering to the Lost, the Hurting, and the Broken

Speaker: Jay Smith

Jesus was a champion for the brokenhearted. He came for the sick, not the healthy. Isaiah 61:1 says, “The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because the Lord has anointed me to preach good news to the poor; He has sent me to heal the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, And the opening of the prison to those who are bound.” This workshop looks at how Jesus ministered to the lost, the hurting, and the broken.

 

Learning Objectives

Participants will:

  1. Learn practical keys for sharing the Gospel with the brokenhearted and how they can enter into their own personal relationship with Christ.
  2. Examine the biblical principles Jesus used when ministering to the brokenhearted.
  3. Explore the many ways Jesus partnered with the Holy Spirit to see the brokenhearted receive healing.
Alita Renyolds

Do You Love to Coach? Now it’s Time to Market Your Coaching Practice

Speaker: Alita Reynolds

Christian Life Coaching can be an exciting and high calling. Beyond having the desire to identify or minister as a coach, there is a need to develop practical and effective strategies that help ensure success. This workshop addresses how to market your coaching practice online and create opportunities to impact people globally.

 

Learning Objectives

Participants will:

  1. Develop a balanced perspective for online marketing strategies.
  2. Understand how to market their practice and themselves in an authentic way.
  3. Be equipped with three proven marketing methods designed to gain clients.
Halley Scully
Rick and Kathy Ragan

Hope Together Global Initiative: A Roundtable Discussion

Speaker: Haley Scully, MA, Rick and Kathy Ragan

Hope Together is committed to fostering the development and training efforts of our people-helping network around the world. In this workshop, you will hear from experienced ministry teams and their unique frameworks for international training and mentoring in the lay counseling and coaching spaces. There will be opportunities to join the discussion, share ideas, and be part of a “ground floor delegation” for Hope Together Global. If you have a passport, feel called by God, and are willing to train or mentor international partners or just help guide the development of this outreach, then please join us for an exciting and innovative roundtable. 

 

Learning Objectives

Participants will:

  1. Gain greater understanding of international related needs for both caregiving and life coaching ministry opportunities.
  2. Learn about programs and strategies currently in place to help develop this work and ministry with indigenous leaders.
  3. Join the discussion in developing a feasible outreach plan for partnering with our members to engage, equip, and care for our growing Global Hope Together Community.

Saturday Afternoon Workshops

Saturday, October 21 in the afternoon (1:45 PM – 3:15 PM).
Dana Wicker

The Spiritual Disciplines: Helping Individuals Experience the Presence of God

Speaker: Dana Wicker, PhD

Christian lay caregivers address the whole individual, not only helping people deal with life problems, but also learn how to break the chains of bondage through a relationship with Christ. We will examine the use of spiritual disciplines in people helping in drawing close to the Lord, with a focus on practicing the presence of God and prayer. As an individual learns to go through the day sensing His presence, it creates greater intimacy and an awareness the person is not facing life’s challenges alone. This workshop will help lay counselors know when it is appropriate to use various spiritual practices and provide specific exercises that can be taught to clients.

 

Learning Objectives

Participants will:

  1. Develop and effective strategy for choosing specific disciplines to use with various life issues and to incorporate them into the overall helping process.
  2. Gain insight and understanding in how to open up to God using the discipline of practicing the presence of God.
  3. Identify a list of specific spiritual exercises, including several types of prayer, that can be used in sessions and as homework for clients.
David Carolan

The Joyous Coach: Bringing Joy to Your Life and Those You Lead

Speaker: David Carolan, PhD

Finding joy and learning to transfer it to others may at first seem to be a nice option or simply as the “icing on the cake” of an already good coaching session. By learning the language of joy, a few brain science insights, and some joy-increasing techniques, you will then be better able to bring joy to those you work with and create an environment for positive change.

 

Learning Objectives

Participants will:

  1. Discover and experience the keys to a joy-filled life, and then be able to transfer that knowledge and emotion to their clients. Joy training is easily interwoven into any coaching modality through several simple steps and processes.
  2. Gain understanding on why joy is not an elusive emotion that is hard to define, but can be used to build joy in your clients so they will be empowered to reach all their goals.
  3. Observe and practice joy-building and joy-keeping skills.
Tommy Lanham

ENTHUSIASM Coaching: Helping Your Clients Break Through to Their Enthusiasm Zone

Speaker: Tommy Lanham, MA

ENTHUSIASM is a God-inspired fire ignited deep within one’s soul that encourages someone to never settle, live with passion, and turn the world upside down. It is deeper than excitement, more meaningful than motivation, and more spiritual than most realize. Many people who work with a life coach are stuck in the monotony of the mundane and the mediocre. As Christian Life Coaches, we have the opportunity to help clients break out of this mindset and break through to their ENTHUSIASM zones.

 

Learning Objectives

Participants will:

  1. Discover the eight necessary decisions people must make to more consistently live in their ENTHUSIASM zone.
  2. Learn how to implement the tools needed to help clients work through those eight critical decisions.
  3. Develop helpful strategies for walking clients through the eight decisions.
Chi Smith

Chaos to Order: The Journey from Healing to Wholeness

Speaker: Chi Smith, MBA

What does God and His Word have to say about our health and wellness? We were created to be whole (in spirit, soul, and body), yet many face battles with various “con-ditions” and “dis-eases.” These have kept them from a more joyful and fulfilling life and one that leads from wellness to wholeness. This workshop addresses how to stop struggling with wellness and begin a journey toward “Being Whole.”

 

Learning Objectives

Participants will:

  1. Learn to identify and define the terms health and wellness.
  2. Learn how to “be present” in the moment and with God to better cultivate one’s whole self to wholeness.
  3. Learn strategies and practice how to coach and care for people using this paradigm of moving from wellness to wholeness.
Alita Renyolds

Branding 101: Creating and Organizing Your Signature Coaching Curriculum

Speaker: Alita Reynolds

Life coaching is increasingly becoming a niche field where coaches identify as subject matter experts in certain areas or demographics. This workshop focuses on how to create a “Signature Coaching Curriculum.” This includes practical, strategic, and tactical ways in which to launch with coaching clients, minimize the guessing in initial sessions, and by streamlining the process while still having the flexibility to tailor the process to your clients’ needs.

 

Learning Objectives

Participants will:

  1. Establish a framework for their niche Signature Coaching Curriculum.
  2. Understand how to save time with a proven system to successfully launch a new client and gain measureable results faster.
  3. Have an opportunity to compile experience and expertise into one system for streamlining one’s practice and saving multiple hours each week.
Gary Morais

The Equipping Profile: Expanding Your Coaching Practice and Care Ministry

Speaker: Gary Morais, MA

The people we serve often experience hopelessness with multiple challenges, such as pain, hurt, failure, blame, anger, criticism, struggling relationships, and feeling stuck. These struggles often stem from Root Source Thinking, and you can provide real results with biblically based, clinically proven solutions to see lives transformed by having the mind of Christ. This workshop introduces the Equipping Method to help solve many of the issues people face every day and whom you are called to serve.

 

Learning Objectives

Participants will:

  1. Learn how to solve life issues as coaches, pastors, caregivers, and counselors with the Equipping Profile, a biblically based and proven clinical solution that offers real results.
  2. Gain powerful insights into 10 root-source, Christlike thinking characteristics that impact daily life.
  3. Understand Root Source Secrets though case studies on how Christlike thinking can change and transform lives and relationships.
Todd Hall

Relational Spirituality: Building a Secure Base to Help Your Clients Flourish

Speaker: Todd W. Hall, Ph.D.

As society becomes more socially fragmented, many Christians feel disconnected, isolated, lonely, and struggle to grow spiritually. The Covid pandemic only exacerbated what was already a startling trend. People long for a deeper sense of meaning, yet often don’t know how to find it or search for it in unhealthy ways. This workshop offers a definitive model of spiritual transformation based on a relational paradigm that includes Trinitarian theology, biblical perspectives on the Imago Dei, attachment patterns, and research on interpersonal neurobiology.

 

Learning Objectives

Participants will:

  1. Understand how the connection crisis impacts relational, emotional, and spiritual wellbeing.
  2. Gain insight on the attachment process and how attachment patterns are relevant to people helping, as well as being able to identify the key characteristics of four main attachment filters and the two underlying dimensions of these four patterns.
  3. Learn how to use the comfort-challenge matrix with clients and articulate tailored interventions for the two insecure attachment patterns, including meta-skills, potential derailers, adaptive actions that need to be activated, and general interventions.

The Answer to Anger: Facing the Fire Within

Speaker: June Hunt, MA
Also available for virtual attendees

Many of us are taught that anger is bad and a negative emotion, so we stuff it, medicate it, and numb it. However, hidden anger only fuels the fire inside. This workshop offers practical and biblical tools, like “The Anger Pie,” how to deal with buried anger, handle angry people, and how to act rather than react to given situations. Along with a memorable demonstration of the “Anger Bowl,” discover how to experience greater peace and power over anger.

 

Learning Objectives

Participants will:

  1. Identify the four primary causes of anger.
  2. Be able to name seven practical and biblical steps to get rid of unresolved anger.
  3. Learn how to employ the “Quick Answer to Anger” in order to curtail present anger.
Lu Mackey

Caring for the Whole Person Throughout the Whole World: Multicultural Competency in People Helping

Speaker: Lu Mackey

More than any other time, the nations are right in our backyards, and in today’s post-pandemic world, people are desperate for connection, genuine relationship, and healing. This workshop addresses the critical need for caregivers and coaches to be culturally aware, sensitive, and have the necessary competence as ministry leaders to help ethnically diverse people. Jesus transforms us all—people from every nation, tribe, skin color, and language. Join us for an insightful opportunity to learn and grow in your people helping skills.

 

Learning Objectives

Participants will:

  1. Learn the core principles of multicultural competency related to people helping ministry and practice.
  2. Be given practical tools in working with ethnically diverse clients.
  3. Be empowered through “stories” to better serve people from different cultural backgrounds regardless of the language they speak.
Daniel Moreno

A Place of Belonging: The Need for Disability Ministry

Speaker: Daniel Moreno

People of all abilities need a faith community where they fully belong. Through training and resources, our goal at Joni & Friends is to equip individuals and churches with practical tools for fully including people of all abilities into the life and ministry of the church, and helping those with disabilities to find their place in the Body of Christ.

 

Learning Objectives

Participants will:

  1. Learn about the great need the Church has for disability ministry.
  2. Discuss practical tools and strategies for disability ministry.
  3. Be able to communicate the necessity of disability ministry to your church.
Tim Smith
Christie Meldrim
Grant Wood
Christie Meldrim
Grant Wood

A Survival Guide for Coaches to Blended Families

Speaker: Tim Smith, MA, Christie Meldrim, MA, and Grant Wood, MS, MA

Are you a coach or counselor working with blended families? Do you want to navigate the unique challenges of blended family dynamics with confidence and expertise? Look no further! Our comprehensive workshop is tailored just for you.

 

Learning Objectives

Participants will:

  1. Learn how blended families can start their families off strong.
  2. Identify the importance of co-parenting in the blended family.
  3. Explore how to build a solid relationship with your new spouse’s children.

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