THRIVE applies the important teachings of Jesus to develop your character strength. THRIVE frees you from fears and emotional struggles that waste so much of your life, time and energy. THRIVE produces mature followers who are full of joy and peace. Each week of THRIVE provides intensive study and application. THRIVE develops the capacities of your nervous system so you and your family, community and ministry have the tools and resources to be effective counselors, parents, missionaries, pastors, students, leaders and directors. Everything from parenting and teaching to supervising and counseling depends on a mature, peaceful and synchronized nervous system.
THRIVE provides hands-on experience and application to gain capacity and improve one's ability to handle his/her own emotions so we stay productive, efficient and wise. Attendees rehearse, apply and transform their joy capacity, quiet skills, and return to joy strength. THRIVE Tracks I and II provide a forum for effective growth and recovery tools. Track III focuses on mindsight, heartsight and understanding your pain. Track IV will focus on specific problems at multiple levels and vary from year to year. So far Track IV covered topics such as Borderline, Narcissism, Dissociation, Organizations and Addictions. (See an overview of our recent THRIVE on Addictions) In June of 2008 we will have a Track IV Conference led by Dr. Jim Wilder and Dr. Karl Lehman called Healing Redesigned: Brain Science, Emotional Trauma and the God who is with us.
Much of the latest trend of techniques and theory designed to make us better parents, effective leaders and competent counselors lacks a solid understanding of the brain’s right hemispheric control center. This leaves those of us trying to apply their methods empty and disappointed. In fact, we at THRIVE liken ministries, businesses and Christian leaders to farmers looking at plows. They look for better and better plows but never notice that when the person with a tractor sells his plow to a man with a mule it does not work the same. We thrive when we build emotional capacity or, as Jim DeGolyer, an
Due to the overwhelming response from participants, we have begun to offer several THRIVE Conferences per year from the East to West Coast! This will not only provide flexibility and availability for the THRIVE training, but also keep the number of participants in these tracks to a manageable number so that we can provide the kind of face-to-face brain training that makes THRIVE unique. This gives ample opportunity to mark your calendars for one or even two weeks during the year to experience our hands-on THRIVE event!
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Activities THRIVE consists of six days complete with teaching, application, practice and rest. In Tracks I thru III participants cycle from joy to rest, from active to quiet together, and from individual to group activities. There is time to learn, train, play, meet others, and see the area. This training in a synchronized personal, spiritual, and community life is what makes THRIVE unique. Back to Top |
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Teaching Tracks Because THRIVE is designed specifically for persons who have experienced each phase of preparation before moving to the next level, please consider investing in each facet of THRIVE. It helps to understand GROWTH principles before we learn the failures to THRIVE and so on. The practice you receive from each track prepares you for the next level. In Track I we learn about Growth and Development, in Track II Recovery, and in Track III The Five Levels of Pain the Brain Knows (also called Synchronizing Our Brain and Story). |
Track IV Multilevel Synchronization - Diagnosis and Response includes complex multilevel problems like addictions, organizational dysfunction, leadership failures, dissociation, marriage/family, blended families, borderline, addictions, emotional healing ministry and more. Now Track IV advanced training is available for individuals and groups without attending the first three years of capacity training.
There are two clear reasons for Track IV. Since the topics change each year, we want people from different fields to see how the THRIVE skills could help them. We know they will need control center training afterwards to acquire the skills. Tracks I, II and III are for people looking for applications for their skills to real life problems and for them, Track IV will lead to a skilled diagnosis and application of their skills.
At Track IV you will be able to learn direct applications of emotional capacity building. A lack of right hemisphere emotional capacity causes people to lose their internal synchronization and do foolish things, waste energy, and become anxious, fearful, resistant, and evasive. At Track IV we assume all participants know and can contribute to the training material from their own experience in ministry. Each year will be something new and fresh for Track IV attendees! Be sure to look at our future conferences to see what is planned for Track IV. Beginning in 2008, Track IV will be separate from the three tracks.
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Benefits
Rarely these days do we hear about the impact our control center has on our lives, relationships, work, family, and counseling ministry. In fact, the role of our emotional control center is often overlooked and greatly underestimated. THRIVE provides you and your people with theory, practical application, training and resources available to be equipped and prepared for a renovation on your life, marriage, relationships, and ministry! THRIVE not only gives you more tools for your personal and relational tool belt but fills your bucket with creative ideas and hands on practice to suffer well, return to joy from distressing emotions, and build your capacity. All of these elements, whether absent or present in your life can make or break your marriage or your witness for Jesus Christ, and impact the people around you, to name a few. This conference is designed to help you become the person you are created to be and facilitate a group identity, fortify your individual identity, and strengthen bonds with your personal people. THRIVE is a lesson on becoming the kind of people who are salt and light at home, in the office and everywhere else. THRIVE is not only an investment of your time, energy and finances but this experience is an investment into your future, family, community, and just about every aspect of your life that you deem important!
To learn more about the benefits of this training, click here.
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Exposure to Joy and Its Effects
The THRIVE experience is a wonderfully designed environment for growing your existing bonds and a terrible environment for forming new romantic bonds. Save your romantic feelings for after the training. Because of the enriched joy environment, many kinds of bonds will grow that can’t be maintained later. People from low joy environments, with recent losses, who are recovering from divorce or otherwise alone, are at particular risk – most notably in the later tracks of THRIVE where people are beginning to become more acquainted with each other.
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Individuals coming to Tracks I, II and III
We liken your participation in the THRIVE Conference training to riding a teeter totter in your swimming suit. First of all, try to ride a teeter totter alone – it is far from fun or exciting because you have no partner or friend to join you. Who will respond to your “lift-offs”? Without someone on the other end you are left to do all the work yourself. Soon the experience will prove too demanding and strenuous. After all, teeter totters are not designed for one person but two. A partner makes your ride fun, meaningful and much smoother – just the way it is designed to.
Now, let’s say you find a stranger who agrees to sit on the other end of the teeter totter. The stranger is capable of riding the teeter totter with you but the problem is your swimming suit. How does it feel to sit before a stranger in your swimming suit? Would you feel uncomfortable, vulnerable or even exposed? Even though a stranger gives you the option of riding the teeter totter you need someone ‘personal’, a familiar face that you trust who puts you at ease.
This is what happens with the THRIVE Conference training. If you have a bonded partner join you in the fun, the experience is powerful and enjoyable. However, participating in this type of interactive training with a stranger leaves you wishing you planned better.
Because of the demand on individuals with the exercises and training experienced at THRIVE, coming with a bonded partner is ideal for you as a participant and us as the host. We find when attendees participate with a bonded partner the experience is intensely rewarding and enjoyable all the way around. Those who have had difficulty with the conference format in the past arrived either unprepared or without a partner. We understand finding a suitable or available partner is not always easy due to time or financial constraints. Many people come as a group but group members may already be partnered up or choose to participate in a different track. We encourage you to consider putting off your attendance until you can prayerfully find a bonded partner to join you in a track. Because THRIVE is a large investment we desire your conference experience to be fruitful, enjoyable and meaningful. If you plan to come alone, we feel it necessary to present and remind participants of the following statements regarding the THRIVE experience.
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What is the difference between THRIVE and Thriving?
