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 extended episode, Kristy and Jen interview each other to wrap up the mini series of interviews with our team. They share some fun relational skill history and share with us their stories of ways relational skills have changed their lives in a transformational way!
π Listen to Episode 59: Return to Joy
πΒ Listen to Episode 89: Emotions Myth Busters
Our guest in this episode, Michel Hendricks, is a Thrive relational skills trainer, a consultant who helps churches and mission organizations incorporate relational practices in their ministries, and also the author of "The Other Half of Church". He shares some of the difficulties he ran into as a discipleship pastor and a parent, and how learning more about how God designed our brains and relational skills has help...
In today's interview, Thrive Premier Training grad and Thrive volunteer, Andy, tells us about how relational skills helped when facing some challenges in his marriage. He takes us through his journey of learning relational skills and how he and his wife incorporated skills into their marriage to improve their connection and build capacity together.
πΒ Listen toΒ Episode 94: How do Thrive and Relation...
In this episode, KΔmi shares how she was introduced to THRIVEtoday and the blessing it brought to her life. She talks about the benefits of learning to share joy (Skill 1) and the impact this has had on her family relationships. She describes learning βto be glad to be with peopleβ like sharing "a little piece of Heaven" with them!
πΒ Listen to Episode 12: Joy vs. Happiness
πΒ Learn more about Skill 1:Β https://thrivetoda...
Thrive trainer Pam Bryan joins us today to talk about Relational Skill #6: Identifying Heart Values through suffering. She shares personal stories about developing this skill and how it is helping her live from the heart Jesus gave her.
πΒ See our upcoming events:Β https://thrivetoday.org/upcomingevents
πΒ Listen toΒ Episode 40: What Your Pain Says About You
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.
π 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.Β
π Learn more about Skill 12
π Listen to Episode 61 from Chris Coursey
π Transforming Fellowship book: https://bit.ly/transformingfellowship
π Learn more about Skill 11
π 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.
π 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.
π 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.
π 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.
π Learn more about Skill 13
π Go through our Foundational 5 Intro course and get an overview introduction to the 5 most foundational skills.
π Watch our History of Relational Skills webinar
Thank you f...
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.
π Visit our Skill 2 page for more info and resources on Quieting.
π 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!
π 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!
π Watch the History of Thrive webinar.
π Learn more about Life Model Works: https://lifemodelworks.org
π Book: Living from the Heart Jesus Gave You
π 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?
π Learn more about Thrive Premier Training
π WEBINAR: The History of Relational SkillsΒ
π 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.
π 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.
π Take the 28-Day Joy Challenge! https://4habits.org
π 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.
π Listen to our free webinar "Stories of Emotions".Β
π Visit our Skill 11 page for more info and resources on the skill of 'Return to Joy'.
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