This is a great place to start learning about the Life Model with books, webinars & seminars, online resources, and more. Jumpstart your transformation today!
This is where transformation happens!
Small groups are necessary to develop community, learn relational brain skills, and grow in maturity, which is why we offer a variety of groups throughout the year.
Online Study Groups form three times a year and meet online for several weeks.
We are developing an online community hub for ongoing connection, interaction, and training.
Our Partners also offer related groups with the Life Model at the core.
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Collaboration, Acceleration, Transformation
This is where transformation takes root!
Integrating the three elements of the Life Model into churches, groups, and organizations is a passion of ours.
We provide personalized guidance to implement the Life Model, unique small group curriculum, and collaborate with practitioners to further develop and enhance what you can offer.
Bringing the Life Model to your church!
Small Group Curriculum that helps people bond and grow together.
Creating Life Model teams to advance transformation into new territory.
The good work of spreading the Life Model is only possible through the support of our generous partners.
We are especially grateful for our monthly supporters who keep the model developing and the staff working month after month.
Life Model Works has a God-ordained history, an amazing staff, a network of dynamic collaborators, and a proven model for transformation.
We invite you to discover Life Model Works and join the joy-filled movement growing a fearless people who love like Jesus!
This is a ministry growing at the speed of relationships and we’d love to connect with you. Just fill out the short form and one of our dedicated team members will reach back to you!
Also, if you are looking for our ministry partners, glance to your right and you’ll find their name. One click takes you to them!
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The Life Model explores the intersection of discipleship and brain science to find out how we are designed to mature and grow. We ask, “How do we grow into being a people who love as Jesus loved?” Think of the most difficult and seemingly insolvable problems in our world: Racial healing, crisis pregnancies, police-citizen interaction, the opiate addiction epidemic. These intractable issues are primarily relational and emotional in nature. They require developing character and maturity to bring lasting change, yet we often neglect this side of the problem.
Think about areas of Christian ministry where the Life Model brings a new perspective: Discipleship, spiritual direction, Christian counseling, campus ministry, missions, disaster relief. The Life Model speaks into these areas as well with theory and practice that have been largely missing.
Life Model Works is excited to announce we are convening Advanced Development Teams (ADTs). Their purpose is to devote a year to focus on a specific problem area with a team of invested people. We are looking for members who are already attempting to solve these problems and who would like to go deeper with the Life Model and others in their same field.
Dr. Jim Wilder (Ph.D., Clinical Psychology, and M.A. Theology, Fuller Theological Seminary) has been training leaders and counselors for over 27 years on five continents. He is the author of multiple books with a strong focus on maturing and relationship skills for leaders. His coauthored book Living From the Heart Jesus Gave You has sold over 100,000 copies and is printed in eleven languages. Wilder has published numerous articles and developed four sets of video and relational leadership training called THRIVE.
Michel Hendricks is the Director of Life Model Consulting. Michel Hendricks (MDiv, Denver Seminary; BS. University of Colorado, Boulder) has been a pastor, missionary, inventor and author. He has been a teacher and trainer for more than 25 years. He is the former pastor of spiritual formation at Flatirons Community Church near Boulder, CO. He has also served and trained in Argentina, Bolivia, Mexico, Kenya, South Sudan, and Uganda. He is the author of Basic Training for Walking with Jesus and co-author of The Other Half of Church. He works with churches and organizations to help bring maturity and the transformation of character back into the center of Christian practice.
Each ADT will focus on one of the above problems (and others not listed). Here is what an ADT will look like:
The first meeting of each month will focus on theory. Jim Wilder will lead us through the latest relevant brain science that directly relates to our focus area.
The second meeting each month will focus on practice. Michel Hendricks or another Life Model Works practitioner will lead the group in relevant practices that flesh out the theory from the first meeting. In this way, we form a healthy balance between theory and practice.
Each ADT member will form their own support team of 5-10 people for the year. Members will meet with their support team monthly to pass on what they are learning. Support teams also support the ADT member in prayer, financial support (if necessary), and providing feedback.
Once the 10 months are over, we will try to meet in person for a day-long intensive to share and plan the next steps. From this time on, Life Model Works will bow out, and the team will continue meeting at a frequency they determine to continue the learning community.
The cost to join an ADT will be $299/month for a year. If finances are a limitation, raising support from your support team is an option. Life Model Works is also raising funds to support ADT members who need financial scholarships. Here are some possible ADT focus areas:
We believe that these ATD communities will end up being the thought and practice leaders in their focus area and will spread the learning far and wide in the following years. As a result, the team at Life Model Works will refer future questions and development to the ADT team on a topic as the thought leaders in their area.
Groups will be started as they reach 15 members, and the first signups are encouraged to recruit people working in their focus area. If you are interested, please fill out the application below:
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