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

How we deal with emotions directly impacts our ability to stay present, love well, and reflect the character of Jesus. But when difficult feelings arise, we often react out of character simply because our brains lack a clear roadmap for returning to peace.

In this course, you'll use 'four-plus' (whole brain) recovery stories to build self-awareness, learn to attune to others, and develop your ability to return to joy when unpleasant emotions arise. Unlike stories told for entertainment, these unique recovery stories create real-time synchronization between storyteller and listener, and forge practical, repeatable roadmaps in your brain for navigating hard emotions whenever they arise.

Over the course of 12 lessons, you will:

  • Strengthen

    foundational capacity, which is essential to navigating emotions.

  • Learn

    the essentials of transformative storytelling and practice crafting stories that build stronger return-to-joy patterns and emotional resilience.

  • Develop

    the ability to recognize both high-energy and low-energy emotions in yourself and others.

  • Scroll Down to Learn More About the Return to Joy Skill.

Course Curriculum

    1. Before you Begin

    2. Skill 11 | Return to Joy

    3. Course Welcome

    4. PDF 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: Identifying the Presence and Absence of Foundational Skills

    3. Coaching Step

    4. Exercise 2: When the Well Runs Dry

    5. Coaching Step

    1. Section 2 Intro

    2. Exercise 1: Growing Awareness and Mindsight for Joy

    3. Coaching Step

    4. Exercise 2: Growing Awareness and Mindsight for Anger

    5. Coaching Step

    6. Exercise 3: Growing Awareness and Mindsight for Fear/Feeling Afraid

    7. Coaching Step

    1. Section 3 Intro

    2. Exercise 1: Growing Awareness and Mindsight for Sadness

    3. Coaching Step

    4. Exercise 2: Growing Awareness and Mindsight for Shame

    5. Coaching Step

    6. Exercise 3: Growing Awareness and Mindsight for Disgust

    7. Coaching Step

    8. Exercise 4: Growing Awareness and Mindsight for Hopeless Despair

    9. Coaching Step

    1. Section 4 Intro

    2. Exercise 1: Sharing a Joy Story

    3. Coaching Step

    4. Exercise 2: Sharing a High-Energy Return to Joy Story

    5. Coaching Step

    6. Exercise 3: Sharing a Low-Energy Return to Joy Story

    7. Coaching Step

About this course

  • $129.00
  • 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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