Skill 11

Return to Joy

We all encounter multiple emotions in ourselves and others on a given day. But we often don’t know how to process and respond to these emotions in healthy ways. The Return to Joy skill helps us develop our ability to recognize and feel our feelings, and then share and quiet those feelings so we can recover or return to a state of peace and connection.

Learning how to Return to Joy makes us more emotionally resilient and enables us to become like Jesus who remained His true self and recovered when things went wrong. As we grow this skill we learn to see emotions not as something to fear or avoid, but as opportunities to connect with others as we share both our joys and our pains!

Please take note of the Recommended Prerequisites below, before purchasing.
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This course will equip you with practical tools so you can develop Return to Joy as a skill.

Strengthen your capacity by identifying gaps in the Foundational 5 Relational Skills and considering ways to fill these gaps.

  • Develop Emotional Awareness

    Course participants will explore ways the Big 6 Emotions show up both internally and externally in their lives and recognize models in their communities who provide examples of how to manage these emotions well.

  • Gain God’s Perspective on Emotional Models

    Course participants will identify childhood models for each of the SADSAD emotions, consider what they learned from these models, and turn to Immanuel for His perspective.

  • Receive Immanuel’s Comfort

    Course participants will learn tools to connect with Immanuel in emotions and receive His attunement and comfort.

Course Curriculum

    1. Before you Begin

    2. Course Welcome

    3. Course Workbook & Assessment

    4. Skill 11 | Return to Joy

    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

  • $74.00
  • 44 lessons
  • 1 hour of video content

What's Included

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

  • 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.

  • Access to a course discussion board to interact with others going through the course.

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].

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