faithwalking foundations
Increasingly experience life more fully alive, better aligned with the way of Jesus, on mission with God where you live, work, and play.
What is Faithwalking foundations?
A Spiritual Formation Process
Faithwalking Foundations is our cornerstone course and is offered as six 10-week modules each intentionally designed to take you on a journey of growth, transformation, and formation. Each module includes six group sessions, four coaching sessions, and assignments to be completed between coaching sessions. The modules focus on six topics, self-awareness, shame, anxiety, emotional maturity, integrity, and action.
why foundations?
God’s Intended Design for Your Life and All of Creation is Wholeness
More consistently live your beliefs
Better align your life with the life and teachings of Jesus
Increase your self-awareness and clarify your values
Shape your life into the one you believe God designed you for
Live a life of purpose on mission with God
Become less reactive in the face of anxiety and strong emotion
Format & rhythm
Information Alone Does Not Transform
The Bible has been available to us for hundreds of years, we have thousands of books at our fingertips, and we can find virtually anything we want online. If information were all it takes, more people would be experiencing transformation all around the world.
We believe that experience and practice of the right information is what lead us to be transformed, that’s why everything we do is designed around a cycle of information, practice, and reflection. The content, assignment, and coaching rhythm is how the information, practice, and reflection cycle will look during Faithwalking Foundations modules.
Content: You will participate in six group sessions that are led by a trained facilitator.
Assignments: You will have homework after every session intended to help you create space for reflection and apply the material in your life.
Coaching: Each participant will be part of a coaching group with one or two other participants and a volunteer coach in between large group sessions.
overview
Foundations Modules
New Foundations cohorts typically begin in January, May, and September. Modules are predominantly offered as online cohorts with some local circles opting for in-person gatherings. If you’re interested in a local group contact us to see if there is one happening near you. The modules are broken up into the following topics:
Awareness: Grow self-awareness and self-discovery. Reflect on both the positive and the negative of your first formation and discover how wounds from your past are impacting your life.
Shame: Learn how shame and your own sense of self-worth are impacting you in negative ways and get tools for addressing your shame and for moving beyond it. Learn how to increasingly live as one integrated self.
Anxiety: Learn how to see and manage anxiety. Learn how to grow in your capacity to thoughtfully respond in the midst of anxiety.
Emotional Maturity: Grow in your emotional maturity. Learn how to establish healthy boundaries and clear guiding principles for your life. Learn tools for developing healthier relationships.
Integrity: Gain tools for keeping yourself in alignment with what you say you believe. You will learn to stop allowing how you feel to run your life. You will learn what it means to join God in God’s ongoing work in the world. You will learn that living missionally is a way of live.
Action: Live a life of purpose on mission with God. Learn to love like Jesus loved, serve the common good, and work with others to make the world a better place. Learn to see brokenness in the places where you already spend your time.
I thought I had to give up definition to connect with other people. And what I’ve found is that without defining myself I never really was connected with them. The lack of awareness about this in my life and the impact is, is this kind of trail of shallow relationships I’ve left behind. And it’s been a lot of work for me now to actually invest in those relationships and, and show up in them and try to build a foundation in the relationships I’m in now, I actually have deep and lasting friendships.
Andy
Because of Faithwalking, I’m becoming more of who God wants me to be. It’s scary and it hurts sometimes, but I’m finding a deeper experience of God’s love a healing, a journey toward wholeness and I’m really thankful, really grateful for all of it.
Dan Baughman
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Upcoming Foundations Opportunities
The registration fee for each module is $175 unless otherwise stated below. Scholarships and financial aid are typically available for those who need them so please contact us if you do. All times are listed in U.S. Central Time zone (click here if you need help converting it to your timezone). Please contact us if you have any questions! The principles that you will learn in this process have changed our lives. We’re excited for the opportunity to be on this journey with you.
What if I have to miss some meetings?
To complete any single Foundations module, participants will have to participate in at least 9 of the 10 scheduled sessions. If you miss more than one of the sessions, you won’t be able to complete that module.
How much does Faithwalking Foundations cost?
The registration fee for each module is $175 unless otherwise stated below. Scholarships and financial aid are typically available for those who need them so please contact us if you do.
What if I can't financially afford to participate in Faithwalking Foundations?
While we do believe that Faithwalking Foundations is offered at a low price for the incredible value participants receive, we also know that each person's financial situation is different. Because of that, scholarships and financial aid are typically available for those who need them, so please contact us if you do.
What is the format for Faithwalking Foundations online?
The modules online are offered in 10 sessions of 75 minutes each. During your group sessions, you will discuss what you are learning, what you are getting present to in your own life, and how you are applying what you are learning. You will have four coaching sessions in between your main sessions. This follows our rhythm of information, practice, and reflection.
Do offer any in person classes?
There are groups around the world using our material and process in their local context. We call these groups Faithwalking Circles. Not all Circles offer in-person modules, but if that is something you are interested in, you can contact us, and we can try to help connect with one near you.
