New Group Dynamics Training

Our new Group Dynamics Training is now out! For years now, we're been doing small group leader training and development in our own little silos: Growth Groups, DE [discipleship essentials], Men's Frat, and more - all doing our own little thing. No Mas!

Gordon Carpenter, John Hilliard, and I knocked our heads together (yes, it might have hurt, but since we're guys, we're not confessing nothing!) to bridge this obvious redundancy and come up with a better plan. We identified the common ground in all our training, and other areas we thought were pivotal to successful and effective group processing.

Viola!

We cover the key basic issues that all group leaders, regardless of context, will face in their group setting. We honestly feel like this is the best 4 hours of group leader training we've ever worked on - we love it that much and feel that strongly about it.

We had 35+ people on Monday night for our first part of the training, and the response so far has been very positive. Part 2 is next Monday night in the Life Center (7-9pm). We're also hosting the training in its entirety on Sunday August 19th from 10:30-3pm (lunch included) for any who can't make it during the week.

I am strongly encouraging ALL of our Growth Group Leaders to take the new training for one of two reasons: 1) You might want a refresher on the basics - think of it as "Spring Training for your Group"; or 2) You'd have a clear idea of how we will train future small group facilitators and leaders at Living Word.