This course will equip you with practical tools so you can develop Return to Joy as a skill.

Learn to connect with Immanuel in your emotions and receive His attunement and comfort.

  • Strengthen Your Relational Capacity

    Foundational to navigating emotions.

  • Develop Emotional Awareness

    Better recognize your emotions.

  • Identify Childhood Models for the Big 6 Emotions

    Explore what we learn from them and gain perspective and insight from Jesus.

What's Included

  • Skill education with THRIVEtoday President, Chris Coursey. Including a new section on 'Emotions Education'.

  • 4 course sections split into 12 manageable lessons including instruction videos + coaching videos.

  • PDF Workbook, downloadable and ready to print to help you navigate the course.

  • 1 year access to the course and discussion board to interact with others going through the course.

Course Curriculum

    1. Before You Begin

      FREE PREVIEW

    2. Skill 11 | Return to Joy

      FREE PREVIEW

    3. Course Welcome

      FREE PREVIEW

    4. Course Downloads

    5. Customizing Your Course

    1. THRIVEtoday Emotions Wheel

    2. Emotions Introduction

    3. Rhythms of Joy & Peace

    4. Sadness

    5. Anger

    6. Disgust

    7. Shame

    8. Afraid/Fear

    9. Hopeless Despair

    1. Section 1 Intro

    2. Exercise 1: Filling Capacity Gaps with Relational Circuits, Share Joy, and Simple Quiet

    3. Coaching Step

    4. Exercise 2: Filling Capacity Gaps with Create Appreciation and Godsight

    5. Coaching Step

    1. Section 2 Intro

    2. Exercise 1: Expressing Emotional Reactions for Joy, Anger, and Fear

    3. Coaching Step

    4. Exercise 2: Expressing Emotional Reactions for Sadness and Disgust

    5. Coaching Step

    6. Exercise 3: Expressing Emotional Reactions for Shame and Hopeless Despair

    7. Coaching Step

    8. Exercise 4: Window Shopping with Shalom

    9. Coaching Step

    1. Section 3 Intro

    2. Exercise 1: Godsight for Models of Sadness, Anger, and Disgust

    3. Coaching Step

    4. Exercise 2: Godsight for Models of Shame, Afraid/Fear, and Hopeless Despair

    5. Coaching Step

    1. Section 4 Intro

    2. Exercise 1: Texting with Immanuel: Joy, Sadness, and Anger

    3. Coaching Step

    4. Exercise 2: Texting with Immanuel: Disgust and Shame

    5. Coaching Step

    6. Exercise 3: Immanuel Journaling: Fear

    7. Coaching Step

    8. Exercise 4: Immanuel Journaling: Hopeless Despair

    9. Coaching Step

About this course

  • $129.00
  • 44 lessons
  • 4 hours of video content

What is the Return to Joy skill?

  • Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of compassion and the God of all comfort, who comforts us in all our troubles, so that we can comfort those in any trouble with the comfort we ourselves receive from God. - 2 Cor. 1:3-4

  • The Return to Joy skill (aka Skill 11) helps us learn to return to a place of joy, peace, and connection when we experience unpleasant emotions.

  • Learn more about Skill 11: www.thrivetoday.org/skill11

  • Why do we need this skill?
    ➤ Practicing this skill will help you learn how to identify the unpleasant emotions we all feel and get back to a place of God’s joy and peace. The more we develop this, the less we will feel the need to avoid emotions, the less we will get stuck in them, and the quicker we will be able to recover when we do get stuck.
    ➤ Learning to return to joy helps us to take good care of our relationships, even when we are upset.
    ➤ This skill will help us to be more tender with ourselves and with others who are feeling difficult emotions like fear, anger, or sadness, leading to deeper relationships.

Recommended Prerequisites

The Return to Joy skill is an advanced recovery skill that builds on a foundational understanding and practice of the Foundational 5 Skills.

  • Before starting this course, we highly recommend taking the Foundational 5 Intro Course if you haven’t already developed a strong foundation in The Foundational 5 skills.
  • If you find it difficult to maintain joy and peace consistently, even when life is going well, we encourage you to focus on strengthening your capacity-building skills (The Foundational 5) before diving into this course.
  • To learn more about the Return to Joy skill, listen to Episode 59 of our podcast.

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    Course Access

    You will have access to the course for 1 year starting on the date you purchase.

    Course Permissions

    Pricing for this version of the course is for individual use. As the nature of the material is to practice with others, you have permission to go through the content with 2 other people and share the PDF download with them. To enquire about pricing for groups of 4 or more, please contact us at [email protected].

    Skills for Everyone!

    As a nonprofit with a mission to spread relational skills to all people, we want to create accessibility to the skills. Our financial assistance program gives as much as 80% off select courses for those who need it.

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