What It Entails:

1. Complete the course Understanding People. You will be part of an online cohort for this 8-week experience. You will receive personal feedback and encouragement from your cohort leader.

   Time requirements: 5-6 hours per week, to listen to the audio lessons, complete the written assignments and participate in the online cohort.
   Learning outcomes:

   • A grasp of the essential dimensions of human personality and human nature
   • An understanding of how wrong beliefs and wrong relational strategies develop and become rooted in thinking and behavior
   • An understanding of family systems and how to break cycles of generational dysfunction
   • A picture of human flourishing and true mental health
   • Knowledge of how people actually change and move toward maturity and health
   • Personal application of all this to your own beliefs, relationships and growth
2. Complete the course Counseling Skills and Practicum. This is an interactive 8-week online course. You will observe live counseling sessions and gain experience as a counselor and a client.
   Time requirements: 6-7 hours per week to listen to the audio lessons, complete the assignments and participate in the online cohort.
   Learning outcomes:
   • • A clear understanding of the skills and qualities of an effective counselor
     • Practice in applying these skills as a counselor, with evaluation and encouragement
     • Knowledge of the boundaries necessary for a counselor and how to apply them
     • Experience in moving people toward personal transformation
     • Assessment and affirmation of your giftedness and calling as a counselor
     • Some great new friends (our cohorts often become genuine healing communities)

What Makes Our Training Distinctive:

1. It’s highly personalized, you will receive feedback and interaction all along the way.
2. Hands-on practice and experience as both a counselor and client
3. It is deeply Jesus-centered, but not conservative in attitude or theology.
4. Our goal with clients is transformation, not just symptom removal. We want to help them:
   – Understand why they do what they do
   – Be emotionally healthy
   – Live out of their true identity as someone deeply loved
   – Be great lovers