Gather this fall with like-minded people and discover that you are not alone on the journey toward greater emotional health and resilience!

Come and join us as we practice exercises designed to help us:


What's Included

  • 10 weekly group video calls and the opportunity to interact with and learn from a group of peers.

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

  • 1 year access to the full course with all 12 video lessons taught by THRIVEtoday President, Chris Coursey.

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.

A Return to Joy Group

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!

This Habit Builder group will equip you with practical tools so you can develop Return to Joy as a skill, and will provide an online community to grow with.
LEARN MORE ABOUT HABIT BUILDER GROUPS

Course Curriculum

    1. Wednesday Group Details

    2. Wednesday Group | Weekly Syllabus

    3. Skill 11 | Return to Joy

    4. Course Welcome

    5. Course Downloads

    6. 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 about Joy, Sadness, and Anger

    3. Coaching Step

    4. Exercise 2: Texting With Immanuel about Disgust and Shame

    5. Coaching Step

    6. Exercise 3: Immanuel Journaling about Fear

    7. Coaching Step

    8. Exercise 4: Immanuel Journaling about Despair

    9. Coaching Step

About this course

  • $167.00
  • 45 lessons
  • 2.5 hours of video content

Preparing For Your Group

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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    Additional Details

    • Course Pricing

      To enquire about the possibility of group or family rates, email us at [email protected].
      Note: Only available if viewing the classes together from 1 screen.

    • Course Permissions

      Pricing for this version of the course is for individual use in the context of a facilitated group. Because this group provides you with people to practice with, the purchase of this course does not include permission to share the material with others.

      To enquire about group or family rates, email [email protected]. Note: Only available if viewing the classes together from 1 screen.

    • Group Refund Policy

      Because space is limited and planning is based on registrations, we're typically not able to offer refunds for our online facilitated groups.

      That said, if something unexpected comes up, we're willing to consider refund requests made at least 7 days before your group's start date. To request a refund or ask a question, please email our Online Courses team and include the name of your group and the reason for your request. If a refund is approved, it will be issued minus a 3% processing fee.

    • Course Access

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

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