Relational Skills in Real Life

One of the exercises we do when practicing relational skills is to notice what is happening in our bodies and minds and what is happening in the people around us. Chris shared how training our brains to be aware is crucial to knowing what we need and how to interact in a life-giving way with the people in our lives. 🔗 Learn more about the Foundational 5 Intro Course: https://thrivetoday.thinkific...

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! 🔗 Listen to Episode 59: Return to Joy 🔗 Listen to Episode 89: Emotions Myth Busters 🔗 Learn more about the Foundational 5 In...

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 a...

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. 🔗 Listen to Episode 94: How do Thrive and R...

In this episode, Kāmi 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 ‘to be glad to be with people’ like sharing "a little piece of Heaven" with them! 🔗 Listen to Episode 12: Joy vs. Happiness 🔗 Learn more...

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. 🔗 See our upcoming events: https://thrivetoday.org/upcomingevents 🔗 Listen to Episode 40: What Your Pain Says About You 🔗 Learn more about Premier Training: htt...

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 Premi...

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.  🔗 Learn more about Skill 12 🔗 Listen to Episode 61 from Chris Coursey 🔗 Transforming Fellowship book: https://bit.ly/transformingfellowship 🔗 Learn more about Ski...

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://thrive...

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 e...

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. 🔗 Learn more about Skill 0 🔗 Listen to Episode 9 Understand...

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 Cours...

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. 🔗 Learn more about Skill 13 🔗 Go through our Foundational 5 Intro course and get an overview introduction to the 5 most foundational skills. 🔗 Watch our History o...

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://thrivet...

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! 🔗 Learn more about Skill 4 🔗 The 4 Habits of Joy-Filled People book: https://thrivetoday.org/4-habits-people/ Thank you for listen...

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: J...

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 live...

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 o...

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 Fou...

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 Thank you for listening! Subscribe so you don&apo...

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'. Thank you...

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 Thriv...

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 emotions resources...

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 Thank you for listening! Subsc...

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 res...