Relational Skills in Real Life
Chris Coursey brings you the THRIVEtoday podcast, full of real-life stories of encouragement and transformation from people using relational skills every day! What are "Relational skills"? They are brain-based skills that give us the ability and capacity to build meaningful connections with the people in our lives. With practice, relational skills are what we use to maintain our relationships during strain, conflicts and difficulties so we endure hardship well as we stay connected. www.thrivetoday.org
Episodes
In this episode, Rebecca, who is also the Thrive Premier Training (TPT) Coordinator, talks about how going to training herself has helped her "level up" her relational skills, especially for parenting. You'll also hear ways to start preparing for training now - even if you aren't able to go this year - and other resources to begin building your skills.
🔗 Learn more about Premier Training: https://thrivetoday.org...
In this episode, Thrive Premier Training trainer Dana Bryan shares stories about Relational Skill 12: 'Act Like Myself', and how he was able to connect with Jesus and practice this skill, sometimes in difficult situations.
🔗 Listen to Episode 61 from Chris Coursey
🔗 Transforming Fellowship book: https://bit.ly/transformingfellowship
🔗 Learn more about Thrive Premier...
Claudia Hendricks, one of our THRIVEtoday trainers, shares stories from her life about the importance of Godsight (Skill 13) and practical ways she has been practicing this skill. She also shares some inspiring stories about what God has been doing as she looks at people and situations through His eyes.
🔗 Learn more about Godsight and our learning pathway for this relational skill: https://thrivetoday.org/skill13
Today we take a break from our current podcast interview series to have Chris and Jen join us for the 100th episode of our Relational Skills in Real Life Podcast!
In this special episode the Courseys share how they feel called by God "to live what we teach and train and tell the story of it." Doing this is vulnerable because they still make mistakes along the way, but so many have been encouraged by watching them transpare...
Jason tells about his family's journey to find hope that led to relational skills. He and Kristy discuss what Relational Circuits are and how keeping them on is a game changer in life. Jason shares that he enjoys being his best, relational self and that this skill helps him to be that for the people he loves in very practical ways.
🔗 Listen to Episode 9 Understanding Relational Circuits
Our guest this week, Barbara Moon, is a veteran in the Life Model and Relational Skills community. She has inspired us with the way she intentionally lives out her life sharing skills, maturity and healing everywhere she goes. In this episode, she shares some encouraging stories and tells about different ways she shares these life-giving skills with others.
🔗 Listen to Episode 94 from Chris Coursey on the Life Model: https://www.bu...
THRIVEtoday team and board member, Lizabet Nix, shares how practicing Relational Skill 13: Godsight, has transformed her life and interactions with others. Listen to her story and get some tips on how to learn this skill for yourself.
🔗 Go through our Foundational 5 Intro course and get an overview introduction to the 5 most foundational skills.
🔗 Watch our History of Relational Skills webinar
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Shannon Campau, one of THRIVEtoday team members, tells about her personal journey of learning Relational Skill 2: Simple Quiet. She shares about her challenges in practicing Skill 2 and the amazing difference it made in her life and relationships.
🔗 Visit our Skill 2 page for more info and resources on Quieting.
🔗 Explore Thrive Premier Training and consider joining us in person: https://thrivetoday.org/premier-training/
In this extended episode, Chris shares one of his favorite relational skills and the wonderful effect practicing it has on him and his family. He also shares the plan for the next few months of podcast episodes and gives a sneak peak into what we can look forward to!
🔗 The 4 Habits of Joy-Filled People book: https://thrivetoday.org/4-habits-people/
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What is the Life Model? How does the mission of THRIVEtoday and what we do fit into that? These questions and more are addressed in this episode, along with a list of great resources to help you on your journey to your God-given identity!
🔗 Watch the History of Thrive webinar.
🔗 Learn more about Life Model Works: https://lifemodelworks.org
🔗 Book: Living from the Heart Jesus Gave You
🔗 Book: Joy Starts Here
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How can we use the relational circuits (aka RCs) in our brain to stay connected? Every interaction we have, including connecting to God, is impacted by our brain's "master switch". Training this switch to stay on will help us be our best self at all times. Chris gives tips of how to practice keeping our relational circuits on and relational so that we can love the people in our lives no matter what's going on ar...
In this week's episode, we focus on information and testimonies about our Premier Training. Chris addresses commonly asked questions, such as:
- Why do I need this training if I am using other resources?
- What are the benefits of traveling to a live event?
- How do I fund my training?
- What if I don't have a partner?
🔗 Learn more about Thrive Premier Training
🔗 WEBINAR: The History of Relational Skills
🔗 WEBINAR: What is T...
The story this week comes from our friend Paul, who illustrates the need to grow our capacity before working toward healing on some of the really tough things in life. If we don't have the capacity to stay ourselves and connected to God when facing hard memories or traumas, we need to grow some more! Chris shares about why this is, and gives some resources to help.
🔗 Learn more about our Foundational 5 Course and other F5 reso...
Chris shares the story of a season when he and Jen went back to the basics in their own skill practice. Receive encouragement that practicing relational skills doesn't have to be complicated, and we can start right where we are.
🔗 Take the 28-Day Joy Challenge! https://4habits.org
🔗 Learn more about THRIVEtoday: https://thrivetoday.org/about
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This episode of the podcast dives into the topic of emotions: Are emotions bad? Why do we need them? What are/aren't emotions? We also hear a story from Todd, who is learning healthier ways to view and navigate emotions.
🔗 Listen to our free webinar "Stories of Emotions".
🔗 Visit our Skill 11 page for more info and resources on the skill of 'Return to Joy'.
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We all mess up from time to time. This provides the perfect opportunity to practice our relational skills as we repair! This episode features a story from Jeremy, whose day wasn't going smoothly with his daughter, and how he repaired and changed the course of their interaction.
🔗 Visit our Skill 4 page for more info and resources on the skill of ' Create Appreciation'.
🔗 The Thriving Mamas blog has many stories of pa...
This episode discusses times when emotions can be hard to manage and why some situations are harder for us to return to joy from than others. Chris walks through how to tell if you have adopted some unhealthy coping habits for these moments and how to change that to better ways to connect with God and not feel alone when you have big emotions.
🔗 Visit our Skill 11 page for more info and resources and for info on NEW Return to Joy r...
In this delightful episode about the importance of sharing joy with our loved ones, Chris explains some of the science behind connection and shares several helpful exercises that we can use to connect with those close to us in a meaningful way--just in time for Valentines' Day!
🔗 The 4 Habits of Joy-Filled Marriages Book
🔗 Learn more about Skill 3: Bonds for 2
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The tool we call "VCR" can be a life changing way to interact with our loved ones and even those who feel like enemies. Chris tells us stories about how to validate others' hearts and feelings, even when we may not agree with them, so that everyone can end up in a place of God's peace.
🔗 Do you ever find it difficult to face and manage your emotions or struggle with how to respond to others in their big feelings...
Join Chris and Kristy for a conversation addressing the topic of conflict and how relational skills offer us solutions that we can’t find with good communication skills alone.
🔗 Our next online event is on the theme of conflict. Join us live on February 22, 2025: https://thrivetoday.org/conflict-event
🔗 Watch our new 30-min webinar “Hope for Conflict”: https://thrivetoday.myflodesk.com/conflict-recording
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