I have never seen a retreat have more impact than your time with us as leaders!!! The group has concluded we need to have another Maturity Retreat soon for those who were not able to go through the first time. When are the soonest possible dates that you could do another? - Shelley from Christ is King Church in Nebraska
Maturity means living to your potential. Do you feel you have a long way to go in life before this happens? The good news is - it’s not too late, in fact, the time to act is NOW! Maybe you desire to make better choices, be more productive or live a godly, fruitful life. Perhaps you would like to see more life and substance in your family, church and community. Possibly you acknowledge there is room for growth and improvement. Whatever your situation, do not delay putting off this investment into your life and the lives of your family, friends and community. Consider attending or hosting Maturity Retreat today!
Imagine building a house only to realize the foundation is cracked and the structure warped. Your new house needs a facelift at the least and a new foundation at the most. This distressing realization will cost thousands of dollars and create numerous hours of upset. Similarly, painful absences in our maturing process create voids in our lives and hurt for our families. We recognize maturity deficits when our lives are defined by outbursts, rigidity, distrust, marriage failures, character weakness, fearful living, low satisfaction, inconsistency and the inability to stay calm during stressful situations, to name a few. When we have little or no groundwork to cultivate maturity, we are susceptible to be ‘hearers of the word rather than doers’. We feel like we are constantly swimming upstream but making little to no progress. This painful failure to live to our potential leaves us feeling discontent, miserable and frustrated. It’s time for restoration!
What is a Maturity Retreat?
A maturity retreat is designed to identify cracks in our foundation, expose faulty development and introduce repair skills to the problems in our lives. Excruciating deficits inhibit our growth process. Everything from the lack of positive feedback to an absence of healthy relationships can stunt and impede our ability to mature. Whether you grew up in a lifeless community or were raised by abusive parents (verbally or physically) everyone is a candidate for this brittle foundation known as immaturity. Even if you had decent, loving parents you may still lack essential life-giving ingredients required to lead the kind of life you endeavor to live.
Unfinished growth tasks can negatively impact every facet of life from job performance, personal relationships to one’s spiritual walk. How well we raise families and build churches depends on the practice and experience we had under our own roofs as children into adulthood. Immaturity means we are stuck and need assistance to accomplish specific life tasks necessary to grow. Maturing enables us to finish these essential goals and tasks which provide us with peace and joy. Maturity may be one issue you can’t afford to overlook anymore. Maybe it’s time for you to consider attending or hosting a weekend Maturity Retreat!
This weekend maturity retreat is designed to help a church community identify their maturity and enhance overall effectiveness individually and corporately. You will be introduced to the right hemispheric skills necessary to produce mature followers of Jesus Christ. The lack of right hemisphere emotional capacity causes people to lose their internal synchronization and do foolish things, waste energy, become anxious and fearful, resistant and evasive. The retreat will allow community members to discover the maturity of the rest of their community. Participants have an opportunity to find individuals who can assist them in their journey as well as discover who they can assist in order to gracefully advance in their maturing process. This retreat will help community members identify (synchronize) the next step in their development. 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. This retreat does not replace the THRIVE Conference training though it is designed to prepare groups, couples and individuals for the THRIVE Conference experience.
The retreat consists of teaching the six stages of maturity along with several exercises ranging from learning satisfaction to the development of a group identity. We will cover significant issues pertaining to maturity from fear and joy to community.
What will I Leave With?
You should leave this retreat with an identification of your own earned level of maturity. You will discover any ‘holes’ in your maturity. You will have the opportunity to learn the next step for you individually and corporately as a Church community. You will discover the essential need for multigenerational community in true maturity. You will have a clear idea of what maturity is and what maturity is not so that you and your people can get on track and THRIVE.
Who Should Come?
Maturity is a relevant topic for everyone from all walks of life. Many of us are parents, grandparents, brothers, sisters, aunts, uncles, cousins, coworkers, bosses or friends who interact with other people. We may have family members with young children or know someone with an addiction. We will look at what maturity is and why it is significant to us as the Church and as representatives of communities and families. Though most of us have little understanding of what maturity is by definition, we easily recognize deficits when we see them. The goal of this retreat is to educate and equip others in order help build better churches, communities and families. Let’s invest ourselves today!Testimonies of Participants
This was a great weekend. There was lots of material and it was well presented. I checked with at least two dozen of the 100 who attended and all were very glad they attended. Many asked how we can get another weekend to follow up this weekend? Of course I told many that is what the whole week long seminar (the THRIVE Conference) is about. It was a blessed time and I am very glad I worked with you to make it possible. Thank you!
John Lehman - Wellspring Counseling Center Florence, KS