Thrive Together Topics
Navigating Transitions Well
Feeling lost, confused, and overwhelmed by so many changes? These are common emotions expressed by cross-cultural missionaries.
With a coach, you will explore the challenges of change, gain clarity, and create achievable goals to support your emotional and physical well-being.
Package:
6 x 50-60-minute sessions with a skilled coach to identify your transition goals and guide you through your transition
Normal Value: $600
Cost to you: $0
Language Learning
Language learning takes intentional time and practice. Missionaries often spend several years trying to learn how to communicate in a new context.
This coaching process provides you with individualized guidance to discover and apply strategies for effective language learning. Together with your coach, you will address obstacles, build confidence, and receive ongoing support to help you reach your language-learning goals.
Package:
6 x 50-60 minute sessions with a skilled coach to identify your language learning goals and support you through your language learning journey.
Normal Value: $600
Cost to you: $0
Effective Support Raising
A 2003 study of more than 38,700 missionaries found that the #1 reason most don’t remain on the field is that they can’t sustain their support.
During the sessions, you will create a plan to raise the funding needed and find the encouragement and accountability you need to implement it. If a lack of funding is your biggest challenge while serving overseas, this Thrive Together coach is here to help.
Package:
6 x 50-60-minute sessions with a skilled coach to help you develop a strategy to raise the funding you and your ministry need, and support and keep you accountable as you work through the process of support-raising.
Normal Value: $600
Cost to you: $0
Long-Distance Family Relationships
“As our family grows, I feel I am missing out on all the special memories that they are creating. I increasingly feel a pull to be part of family relationships, but it is so difficult to be connected when we are thousands of miles apart.”
Despite the availability of online tools, maintaining meaningful long-distance family relationships is an ever-present challenge.
We invite you to join the conversation and move towards maintaining a connected family.
Your coach will help you successfully navigate ways to stay connected with family members while living overseas. You will create action steps to narrow the relational gap between you and your family.
Package:
6 x 50-60-minute sessions with a skilled coach to explore the challenges that you face with living far from your family, be it children at college, parents, or other extended family. You will also work through steps you can take to stay better connected and feel closer to your family.
Normal Value: $600
Cost to you: $0
Leadership
“What comes up again and again, especially in the last three or four years, is that leaders are exhausted. They’re tired, overwhelmed, overworked, and over-committed. ” — Carey Nieuwhof, Pastor & Leadership Author
Whether you have pursued a leadership role or found leadership thrust upon you, we can all grow as leaders.
Leadership is both a skill and an art. Working alongside a skilled coach, you will explore your unique leadership context and learn how to lead well right where you are.
You will explore how to:
- Clarify your vision for those you lead
- Inspire and develop others
- Use your time wisely for ministry and leadership
- Give your best while maintaining healthy margins for life
- Lead sustainably without burning out
Package:
6 x 60-minute sessions with a skilled coach allowing your cohort to work through balancing life and leading your teams, celebrate your successes and understand your frustrations, and work through the best ways to lead a successful team in your context that also has a kingdom impact.
Normal Value: $600
Cost to you: $0
Thriving Cross-Culturally
“Leaving a familiar setting and entering a foreign context has left me feeling lost, confused, and unsettled.”
Trying to navigate life in a new context where nothing is familiar can be mentally and emotionally exhausting.
Living cross-culturally comes with many challenges.
New tastes, sounds, smells, pace, where everything is different from ‘normal’, can quickly become overwhelming.
As an outsider, it can be difficult to know whom to trust and where you belong, which often affects your ability to form meaningful friendships.
Guided by a skilled coach, you will gain practical tools and tangible strategies to help you navigate these challenges with confidence and resilience.
Package:
6 x 60-minute sessions with a skilled coach to identify challenges you are facing as you begin to work and live cross-culturally, identify your goals to thrive in this culture, and guide you through this transition.
Normal Value: $600
Cost to you: $0
Re-entry to your Home Culture
“I was so excited about finally returning to my home country, but I was deeply shocked by how difficult it was to adjust back to life in my own culture.”
Reverse culture shock occurs when you return home after years of service in a different culture. Surprisingly, returning home can often be more challenging than adjusting to an unfamiliar culture abroad.
Re-entering your home routine may feel unexpectedly difficult. Symptoms can range from boredom and restlessness to isolation and a sense of not belonging. How do you bring healthy closure to your time overseas while embracing new opportunities in your home culture?
Together with your coach, you will discover practical and emotional tools to not just adjust but truly thrive in your home culture.
Package:
6 x 60-minute sessions with a skilled coach to identify fears, challenges, feelings of loss, and unexpected stressors that may arise with a return “home”. You will be guided through processing how you have been impacted by your return in order to best thrive back in your home culture.
Normal Value: $600
Cost to you: $0
