PDF Workbook to help you navigate the course.
Unless someone modeled a specific relational skill for you on a regular basis while you were growing up, the skill will not magically appear the moment you become aware of it. Relational skills require time, practice and intention to develop. Here is where skill practice courses can help!
Practicing relational skills is essential if we want to see the fruit of understanding the theory behind the skills.
At THRIVEtoday we train in skill practices because that’s truly the only way new skills can be developed. The exercises are strategically designed to rewire your brain for building relational connection and growing in emotional and mental strength. Just like we must lift weights over and over to strengthen our muscles, relational skills require regular, repetitive practices to grow and develop!
The beauty of online courses, is you can do them at home and at your own pace. But sometimes we need a little support. No matter where you’re at, we have options for you to introduce and develop relational skill practices.
Start practicing at our your own pace with one of 16 options.
The opportunities to learn relational skills with others is growing!
For the Foundational 5 skills, once you have a grasp of the theory behind the skill, we have practice courses ready for you move onto. Watch video lessons with Chris Coursey to help you practice and build habits that improve your life and relationships.
The Habit Builder is our full course with 12 lessons and coaching sessions. The Taster course has just 1 lesson from each section giving you a taste of the skill.
Habit Builder courses are designed to provide a collection of skill practices that create new, life-changing habits.
These courses are focused almost entirely on practice, with just a touch of theory. Chris Coursey leads you through a series of simple exercises that, when practiced with repetition, will create new connections in your brain and provide a foundation for building and maintaining relational connections where you recover from unpleasant emotions, and live with a sense of peace and stability.
12 relational skill strengthening lessons with THRIVEtoday President, Chris Coursey.
Each lesson includes teaching videos, coaching videos, and detailed practice exercises.
PDF Workbook to help you navigate the course.
Access to a course discussion board to interact with others going through the course.
Taster courses provide a sample of our Habit Builder courses.
They include 1 practice exercise from each of the 4 sections, giving you a taste of what it looks like to intentionally practice relational skills. These budget-friendly courses are a great fit for anyone interested in building their skills, who would like to see the practices in action before making a bigger investment.
When you complete the Taster course and decide you want more content, we have you covered!
Email onlinecourses@thrivetoday.org for a coupon code before you purchase and get the Habit Builder course in the same skill tier only, minus the cost of the Taster course you already purchased.
We all encounter multiple emotions in ourselves and others on a given day. But we often don’t know how to process and respond to these emotions in healthy ways. The Return to Joy skill helps us develop our ability to recognize and feel our feelings, and then share and quiet those feelings so we can recover or return to a state of peace and connection.
Learning how to Return to Joy makes us more emotionally resilient and enables us to become like Jesus who remained His true self and recovered when things went wrong. As we grow this skill we learn to see emotions not as something to fear or avoid, but as opportunities to connect with others as we share both our joys and our pains!
Recommended Prerequisite: The Return to Joy skill is an advanced recovery skill that builds on a foundational understanding and practice of The Foundational 5 skills.
Deepen your ability to ‘Return to Joy’ after upsets. Practice interactive exercises and plug into the nearness of Jesus as you walk through either of these Skill 11 Habit Builder courses step-by-step.
Strengthen your relational capacity – the foundation to navigating emotions:
Learn to connect with Immanuel in your emotions and receive His attunement and comfort.
Our Relational Skills Practice Class offers you a low-commitment and affordable opportunity to practice the relational skills you need to thrive in life. This 90-minute class will walk you through a sample session from one of our Habit Builder Courses.
In these popular groups we go step-by-step through a Habit Builder course with a THRIVEtoday facilitator. Practice with others as you study the course material in the support of a group. Spend an hour per week learning with others who want to practice too.
This resource is designed for group leaders to take your Small Group through The Foundational 5 Introductory Course.
After purchasing, you can view and complete any course in your account right in the Thinkific app!
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