Maturity Retreat

with Chris and Jen Coursey

Equipping people with the skills to thrive

Chris and Jen Coursey lead and design the THRIVE conference and training program that uses Life Model principles to promote healing, maturity, recovery and joy in individuals, families, communities and churches. Chris is an ordained minister, a pastoral counselor, published author and international speaker while Jen is a teacher, conference facilitator, author and synchronized dance instructor. Chris and Jen run THRIVE training under a great group of people known as Shepherd’s House.

This Maturity Retreat strengthens you to bring change to your community! Here is one retreat that engages singles, couples and groups! You will be introduced to the 19 brain-based character skills and start to build joyful community while you learn to leave a lasting legacy for your loved ones! In one weekend you receive two focused days on maturity – the unexpected solution, power-packed teachings on the value of maturity, creative exercises and you learn two things that profoundly changed Chris and Jen’s marriage! You gain an evaluation of your marriage, family and relational maturity!

The goal of this seminar is to educate and equip you and your people to build healthy churches, communities and families.

Just below the surface there is a lot of frustration and hopelessness in many churches, couples and families because what started out as a dream come true just doesn’t work like it should.

A weekend maturity retreat is designed to identify cracks in our foundation, expose faulty development and introduce repair skills to the problems in our lives. Excruciating deficits inhibit our growth process. Everything from the lack of positive feedback to unhealthy relationships stunt and impede our ability to mature. Whether you grew up in a lifeless community or were raised by abusive parents (verbally or physically) everyone is a candidate for this brittle foundation known as immaturity. Even if you had decent, loving parents you may still lack essential life-giving ingredients required to lead the kind of life you pray to live.

Before the overview section of maturity teaching finished on the first night people have gone from dry to attentive, hopeful and excited as they realize what has been missing and how to find it. Don’t merely get by in life, invest in yourself and be more like Jesus with each new day.

“ I have never seen a retreat have more impact than your time with us as leaders!!! The group has concluded we need to have another Maturity Retreat soon for those who were not able to go through the first time.” — First-time Attendee

Unfinished growth tasks negatively impact every facet of your life, from job performance and personal relationships to your spiritual walk.

How well you raise families and build churches depends on the practice and experience you had under your own roof as a child. Immaturity means we are stuck and need assistance to accomplish specific life tasks necessary for growth. Maturing enables us to finish these essential goals and tasks that provide us with peace and joy. Maturity may be one issue you cannot afford to overlook anymore. This weekend maturity retreat is designed to help your church community identify their maturity and enhance overall effectiveness both individually and corporately.

You will be introduced to the right hemispheric skills necessary to produce mature followers of Jesus Christ.

The lack of right hemisphere emotional capacity causes people to lose their internal synchronization and do foolish things, waste energy, become anxious and fearful, resistant and evasive. The retreat allows community members to discover the maturity of the rest of their community. Participants have the opportunity to find individuals who can assist them and discover who they can help in order to mature and reach their potential. Maturity is an unexpected solution to troubled marriages, problems with children, addictions, depression, character weakness, spiritual dryness, the list goes on.

Jesus offered unexpected solutions throughout His earthly ministry. For example, rather than deliver Israel from Rome’s oppression like the rabbis expected, Jesus fed people miracle bread and taught them Kingdom life. Instead of preventing Lazarus from dying like his family hoped, Jesus shows up late and raises His friend from the grave.

There are numerous Scriptural examples where Jesus frequently responded to people’s problems and needs in unorthodox ways. All too often we Christians look to talk shows, magazines and the media to tell us what we need or how to fix what ails us. We even doggedly try to do all the right things in life and still fall short of the results we expect. Maturity is one solution you do not want to miss!

Reach Your Potential with Joy!

Discover the unexpected solution to problems in your life and family!

Maturity is relevant regardless of our history or circumstances. Many of us are parents, grandparents, brothers, sisters, aunts, uncles, cousins, coworkers, bosses or friends who interact with other people. Maturity retreats examine what maturity is and why maturity is significant to us as the Church and as representatives of communities and families. Though most of us have little understanding of what maturity is by definition, we easily recognize and feel it when maturity is missing.

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