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Email Jen THRIVE Conferences P.O. Box 2376 East Peoria, IL 61611-0376 Website: www.thrivetoday.org |
Teaching
Maturity Retreats – experience a profound weekend of teaching and hands-on exercises to help you and your people understand the need for maturity formation. Chris and Jen provide specific training so that your church understands deficits and the need for purposeful maturity development. Training occurs through practical lessons and exercises so that each stage of maturity is understandable and clear.
Each weekend maturity retreat is designed to help a church community identify their maturity and recognize the need for right brain training. A maturity retreat allows community members to discover their maturity and the earned maturity of the rest of their community. Participants have an opportunity to find individuals who can assist them and who they can help in order to actively mature and grow. This retreat helps community members identify (synchronize) the next step in their development. Each person learns to address fear and unprocessed painful events in order to complete unfinished life tasks. The maturity retreat is not designed to replace the community with a seminar nor is it designed to advance people into their next stage of maturity in the seminar itself.
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Training
Contact Chris if you would like Life Model teaching and practical application to your family, community, church and ministry. Learn what recent discoveries in brain science reveal and what Biblical wisdom teaches about how to reach your potential.
Contact Chris if you are interested in having the THRIVE training in your neighborhood or would like to attend a THRIVE Conference.
This training includes introduction to right hemispheric training (character development) for you and your people so you can:
Consulting
Chris consults churches, ministries, families, couples, leaders and communities on Life Model and THRIVE concepts. When we understand what we need to grow and mature, we can then correctly diagnose where problems arise and avoid them next time. Find strategic solutions to your problems.
Chris advises and directs individuals, couples and communities to achieve change and transformation so they are full of life and living from their hearts. Chris helps groups identify weaknesses and utilize their strengths so they reach their potential. Chris offers prayer ministry to help individuals, couples and groups address type A (Painful Absences) and B (Bad things that happen) traumas.
From Illinois Central College in East Peoria, Illinois, Chris transferred to
Chris sums up his ministry and mission as, “to help people be full of life and experience Jesus Christ as a reality”. Dr. Jim Wilder mentors and has trained Chris as Chris lectures nationally and internationally on material he authors concerning the effects of trauma and trauma recovery. Chris is known for his relational and community approach to trauma recovery and growth. Chris now operates THRIVE in East Peoria, IL. with his wife Jennifer of three years. Chris offers personal ministry and specializes in maturity and trauma recovery issues. Chris consults churches and groups on how to effectively reach their potential, avoid pitfalls, stay resourceful and rebuild after a crisis.
Current Activity
Along with his wife Jennifer, Chris develops the THRIVE training program and teaches individuals and groups Life Model principles. (Belonging, Receiving and Giving, Recovery, Maturity and Living from Your Heart) Priorities include prayer ministry, discipleship, THRIVE teaching and conference development. Chris spends much of his time writing, studying, fostering relationships and walking his Chocolate Lab, Samson. Chris enjoys speaking and training churches, groups and couples to be effective in their ministry, marriage and relationships.
Chris and Jen are active members of New Life Christian Church in Morton, Illinois.
Education
Accomplishments
Chris Coursey offers articles on topics pertaining to maturity, brain synchronization, the role and significance of redemptive Christian community, addiction and trauma recovery, primary attachments and bonding as well as other topics related to Scripture and the Christian experience. One article in particular was published in Promise, an international magazine in January of 2004. The article was on Bonds and Attachments.
Chris develops, organizes and speaks at THRIVE Conferences and is invited to speak at various Christian conferences and training seminars each year. The THRIVE conference has grown exponentially in the US and is now offered in Canada.
Chris is co-authoring a book with Dr. Jim Wilder on the subject of Thriving. Chris is currently authoring two books on Thriving and the Church. Read a chapter from Dr. Jim Wilder and Chris Coursey's new Thriving book.
Chris and Jen released two training videos, one called, Steps to Joy on synchronized dancing. The other, a pre-THRIVE 12 week study video is called, Sensible Strategies for Belonging. Both Chris and Jen intend to expand the THRIVE training with additional training videos and resources.
Jen and Chris are currently completing one additional skill guide workbook to complete the set of books that accompany the first three Tracks of THRIVE. These "brain training" and "character building" workbooks are the beginning steps toward creating a THRIVE training package for the church, as well as equipping those who come to THRIVE so they take the newly acquired skills home and train others.
Chris Coursey's Speaking Engagements
Chris speaks nationally and internationally on Life Model and THRIVE principles, redemptive community, recovery from trauma and Biblical principles to joyfully reach your potential.