Enjoy These Free Tools
Our dream is to spread the relational tools of Life Model as far and wide as possible so believers can be equipped to live from authentic joy and love rather than fear. Generous givers help us make these impactful resources available for free so you can get started on your Life Model journey! There is plenty more, but these freebies are a great place to start!
Growing a More Human Community
After 9 years of writing and research, Dr Jim Wilder has completed his Growing a More Human Community book series.
Click to watch the discussion of each book.
Life Mode Informed Therapy Curriculum Webinar
Are you a mental health professional looking to incorporate more of the Life Model into your practice? The Life Model Informed Therapy Curriculum, developed by our friend Monica Mouer of the Center for Family Transformation, is an incredible resource designed for clinicians who want to live out their personal healing and be their professional best!
The Life Model Informed Therapy Curriculum is an NBCC approved continuing education curriculum! Learn more about the development of the curriculum in this insightful webinar.
The Reason You’re Stuck and the Surprising Fix
Many struggle because they lack authentic spiritual community—essential for transformation. Genuine relationships help us become our best selves, but only when small groups are structured properly. Grace-based, relationally centered groups create deep, lasting connections that shape identity and behavior.
Join Ray Woolridge and Ed Khouri in this free on-demand webinar to discover how to engage in transformative, grace-based community.
GET ACCESS TO OUR RESOURCE LIBRARY
JoyStream is a growing library of Life Model Works resources you can stream on demand!
Your free or paid monthly membership gives you access to video and audio presentations from a variety of Life Model proponents, including Dr. Jim Wilder, Chris Coursey, Dr. Marcus Warner, Dr. Karl Lehman and more!
Each month new resources are added and the library grows! Whether it’s a video presentation from Annual Gathering, an audio teaching from event or roundtable discussion, or a webinar recording, you’ll be inspired by the information and moved toward Christ-like transformation with JoyStream!
Healing Church Hurt For All
Join Marlene Allen (Life Model Works) and Chris Caputo (Hesed Discipleship Network) as they discuss “Church Hurt” and explore solutions for healing and transformation in Church communities.
Topics include:
Three key challenges for ministry leaders and believers.
Seven dynamics of an emotionally healthy spiritual family.
A leadership shift to bridge the “Church hurt” gap.
As Churches face closures and leaders struggle, discover how Jesus is creating new collaborations to help ministries thrive post-COVID.
Finding Clarity & Peace through the Immanuel Lifestyle
Find clarity, peace, and joy with the Immanuel Lifestyle—a proven way to connect with God throughout your day. Many are experiencing deep healing and transformation through this approach.
Join ministry leaders as they share real-life impact stories, and participate in a live Immanuel Lifestyle exercise to quiet your mind, hear God’s voice, and interact with Him.
Featuring Ray Woolridge, Margaret Webb, John & Sungshim Loppnow, and Brent McIntosh.
The Key to Lasting Relationships
We were created for life-giving, joy-filled relationships that last. Too often, we have missed the key element that makes relationships stick: its grace! Grace is profoundly relational, yet, in so many of our relationships we find grace is absent. In part, this is because we have failed to understand grace is more than forgiveness of sins and "unmerited favor". There is something more profound we must understand.
Getting Fear out of My Life
God designed our bodies to escape danger. When our amygdala senses a threat, our bodies surge with powerful hormones which help us move like Superman: “Faster than a speeding bullet! More powerful than a locomotive! Able to leap tall buildings in a single bound! Look, up in the Sky! It’s a bird, it’s a plane, it’s Superman!” Haha. Right, we all want to escape danger and overcome obstacles like Superman. Here’s the problem, the fuel of fear is also toxic. Many of us live our lives in fear... There is a better way: the fuel of JOY!
Bringing Your Full Brain to Church
Learn from Michel Hendricks as he shares his story as a pastor of discipleship who realized he did not understand how people change. This began a journey that continued as Michel co-authored a book with Dr. Jim Wilder, The Other Half of Church, which Life Model Works is using to help churches nationwide! Michel Hendricks is Director of Life Model Consulting. He works directly with existing churches, ministries, and networks, to help them live out the Life Model. He will uncover half-brained solutions to whole-brain problems; discipleship practices that work, and those that don’t; how relational consulting works better than just reading a book and trying to apply it.
Introduction to The Life Model
If you’ve had questions – What is the Life Model? Why should I learn it? How do I put it into practice? – we have answers! The Life Model can build more peace and joy in your life, help when your relationships cause you more pain than joy, and improve your ability to hear God’s voice with more clarity. Dr. Jim Wilder (Co-creator of the Life Model and Founder of Life Model Works), Ray Woolridge (Former Executive Director of Life Model Works), Amy Brown (Trainer with Life Model Works, Thrive Today, and Alive & Well) team up to explain into the three pillars, practices, and outcomes of the Life Model.
Apps
Relational Bible Studies Course
Scripture in Community | Part 1
Scripture in Community | Part 2
Studying Scripture in Community Example
Blogs

Learning to Be Your Own Friend: A Counter-Cultural Path to Kingdom Living
In a world that often tells us to hustle harder, push through pain, and ignore our needs for the sake of performance, learning to be your own friend can feel like a foreign concept...

Storytelling Discipleship: A Practical Way to Build a Thriving Spiritual Community
A picture might be worth a thousand words, but a good story is a thousand words that can change someone’s life. From the time I learned to read and spell I wrote short stories, and I ...

Untangling Twisted Teachings: A Journey to Joy and Identity
At 45, I began the painful but freeing process of learning to live from the heart Jesus gave me. Ironically, it was “church hurt” that became the catalyst for discovering true hea...
Featured In
- Maturity and Joy: the Neuroscience of Effective Leaders
- Loving God with Our Minds: How the Brain Forms Character and Habits of Faith
- Jim Wilder on how our character is shaped
- How Can You Be Sure Someone Has What It Takes to Lead People? Look for 4 Rare Habits
- Podcasts
- Check out an ever-growing list of podcast episodes featuring members of the Life Model Works team! Click Here