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 relational capacity - the foundation to navigating emotions:

  • Develop emotional awareness to better recognize your emotions and the thoughts and body sensations that accompany them.

  • Learn and practice the process of Feeling, Sharing, and Quieting your emotions.

  • Learn to unlock emotions by exploring and practicing ways to validate and comfort yourself and others.

Course Curriculum

    1. Before you Begin

    2. Skill 11 | Return to Joy

    3. Course Welcome

    4. Course Workbook & Assessment

    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: Growing Capacity with Relational Circuits, Joy, and Simple Quiet

    3. Coaching Step

    4. Exercise 2: Growing My Capacity with Appreciation and Godsight

    5. Coaching Step

    1. Section 2 Intro

    2. Exercise 1: When Emotions Become Toxic - Exploring Joy, Despair, and Anger

    3. Coaching Step

    4. Exercise 2: When Emotions Become Toxic - Exploring Disgust, Shame, and Fear

    5. Coaching Step

    6. Exercise 3: When Emotions Become Toxic - Exploring Sadness and Attachment Pain

    7. Coaching Step

    1. Section 3 Intro

    2. Exercise 1: The Feel, Share, Quiet Flow with Joy, Shame, and Anger

    3. Coaching Step

    4. Exercise 2: The Feel, Share, Quiet Flow with Joy, Despair, and Disgust

    5. Coaching Step

    6. Exercise 3: The Feel, Share, Quiet Flow with Joy, Fear and Sadness

    7. Coaching Step

    8. Exercise 4: Recognizing the Feel, Share, Quiet Flow Around Me

    9. Coaching Step

    1. Section 4 Intro

    2. Exercise 1: VCR with Sadness, Anger, and Disgust

    3. Coaching Step

    4. Exercise 2: VCR with Shame, Fear, and Hopeless Despair

    5. Coaching Step

    6. Exercise 3: Exploring More Responses to Emotions

    7. Coaching Step

About this course

  • $64.50
  • 44 lessons
  • 3 hours 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.

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].

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