Seminars

Mapping Your Identity

You are made to be interdependent. You have a superpower to share with the world. And you have read limits and boundaries. You need others to fulfill your calling In this seminar we lead you through a process of mapping your identity. You will affirm and embrace who God uniquely hand-crafted you to be. You will name your wounds, and struggle with sin, and also your great strengths. In this process you will learn to embrace your God-crafted and redeemed identity, as well as accept your limitations and need for others. You will see how God is to you first who he made you to be for the world. 

Deconstructing False Identities

You are uniquely designed to bring great glory to God. But you have constructed false identities that steal glory from God. They are the result of the profound insecurity you experience from the Fall. You construct false identities motivated by shame and pride. In this seminar we help you identify your false idols and repent of them by rejoicing in Jesus who covers you with his beauty.

Living for God’s Glory

You are God’s workmanship made for the glory of his Name. This seminar unpacks Psalm 139, God’s weaving of you and your purpose of knowing and showing God. We will study the names of God in the Bible, seeing how God’s names reveal who he is for you, and how they empower you to glorify God’s name. You will learn the ancient Christian practice of meditating on the names of God that surround you like a marching army and go with you as you step into your calling.  

Knowing the Story You Are In

You can’t know who you are and what you are for unless you know the story you are in. The Bible’s story of creation, fall, redemption and restoration is the big story you are in. It tells who you are and what you are for, to participate in God’s restoration of all things. This restoration includes inviting others into God’s story. You will apply this to your life through creating a Disciple Making Plan. 

Redeeming Your Wounds

All of us have invisible wounds of the heart. Even though we try to deny and suppress them, they pollute and paralyze us. There is hope. By Jesus’ wounds you are healed. The places where you are most deeply wounded can become life-giving when healed by the grace of Christ. This seminar explores heart wounds and the stations on the way to healing. We practice healing prayer as a means of the healing of our wounds. 

Pursuing Friendship and Community

Jesus wants you to engage in life-giving relationships as a friend, neighbor, citizen and in the church. This seminar explores friendship as one of life’s greatest goods and the church as the knowing, loving, healing and collaborating community of Jesus. It equips you with two practices of community: solidarity and hospitality. You will work through internal blockages that keep you from engaging in community and learn how to invite others to join you in a collaboration project. 

Shepherding Your Heart

The personal sphere is your most important, and often most neglected responsibility. You flourish as you love God with all your heart, mind, soul and strength. Idols of the heart compromise and enslave you. This seminar helps you shepherd your heart, cultivate your mind, grow in godly sexuality and physical and emotional health by tearing down idols and establishing healthy boundaries. 

Nurturing Your Family

The family is the cradle of civilization. It is a high calling and worth wholehearted labor, and also the source of our greatest wounds. Roles and relationships in the family are ever-changing. This seminar teaches the skills of prioritizing marriage, leading family worship, engaging in spiritual relationships, making sacred memories and telling redemptive stories. You will set goals for each role and relationship in the family. 

Flourishing @ Work

You are designed for work. Work is mandated and redeemed by God. This seminar explores work as mandated by God, your contribution to the world, mastery of your craft, a school of spiritual formation and a platform for witness. You will be encouraged to plow the fields God gave you by identifying external barriers that stand in the way to harvest and listening to the Holy Spirit in a “Holy Spirit counseling session” for guidance on how to address them. 

Blooming Where You Are Planted

God puts us in a place to be formed by it and to cultivate and care for it. The Bible’s story teaches the importance of place, and calls us to bloom where we are planted. This seminar looks at the importance of place in the Bible and in your story, and helps you set goals to bloom in the places where God has planted you. You will map your places, think creatively about cultivating your places, and leave with a new or renewed commitment to place.

“…the fusion of text, tools and classroom teaching drives biblical truths home and causes a holy wrestle with new thoughts that are maturing and faith building. Classroom conversations and dinners add to the discovery as well. Speaking, naming, listening, reflecting – all integral to the process.” Amy

“In the midst of the journey of refining, reorientation, and renewal that is living relationship with Jesus Christ, we grow in knowledge of God and ourselves, revealing and glorifying God in the complex facets of daily life united and integrated by the Holy Spirit through our God-defined identity and unique calling that flows from it.” Barb