Jesus modeled a discipleship culture that was much deeper than just friendship and led to young men and women experiencing life transformation in and through them in their communities. You can use these evidence-based tools in counseling sessions with congregants to help them tap into their own internal motivation toward change.Helping young adults become BRAVE disciples.īRAVE Young Adults gathers at the Englewood campus each Tuesday at 6:00pm with the goal of being a community of disciples who are seeking to make disciples. Week 5 - After the Conversation: you'll learn best practices for cultivating trust after a brave conversation as well as the basics of motivational interviewing, a method for behavior change partnership developed by Drs.
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Week 4 - Giving Difficult Feedback: you'll learn the 3 primary forms of feedback, and how to choose the appropriate method for various situations.Values exercise for building curiosity and dialogue, as well as the Confrontational Archetypes for personal exploration. Week 3 - Curiosity in Confrontation: you'll learn how to build habits of curiosity (about yourself AND others) and how to encourage congregants to build this skill as well.Week 2 - The Role of Forgiveness: we'll explore the differences between forgiveness and reconciliation, and you'll learn my process for doing the work of forgiveness.Week 1 - Mindfully Improvised Confrontation: you'll learn the basis of Mindful Improv Thinking™ as well as the best practices for initiating and navigating brave conversations accordingly.Recordings will be available if you're unable to join live. Dates for the next cycle starting January 2024 are: Program will be offered in five 60-minute sessions delivered live Tuesdays at 10am. You'll also be provided with handouts and materials you may copy and disseminate to your congregation as desired, or use in a congregational training, small group or Sunday School class. In this program, you'll learn the Mindful Improv Thinking™ framework as it pertains to peace building through brave conversations. Mindfulness practice and improvised comedy offer a variety of skills that are deeply helpful for creating environments of love, curiosity and growth: the ideal environment for building trust through these brave conversations.īrave Church has been built to share this framework and these practices with pastors and church leadership so they can build, maintain, and/or restore environments of trust and love. whose parents all hold different opinions and perspectives and may answer those big questions differently. They shared experiences of mediating conflict, sitting in the presence of grief after tragedy, and holding space for the BIG questions of young people.
They shared about the Church's role in racial justice work, LGBTQ inclusion, and changing the narrative on mental health support. In preparation for this program, I interviewed pastors across the country about the kinds of brave conversations they experience. but the road to get there is paved with hundreds of difficult, awkward and sometimes painful moments that require vulnerability and courage. We avoid hard situations out of fear, or damage relationships in our overzealousness and anger. We procrastinate until things balloon into bigger situations than they needed to be. We are people of God and we're also human adults who may create unhelpful habits when it comes to confrontation. We miscommunicate, drop the ball, make each other angry and some people literally NEVER remember when it's their turn for the children's lesson! We disagree about hot button political issues.
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