Study Groups
You are invited to join a Life Model Works Study Group.
Life Model Works study groups are designed to be spaces of growing in community around Life Model concepts. These study groups run three times a year, and more than 500 people have participated since 2021!
3
months
2
weekdays per month
75-90
minute sessions
Our training methods will include sharing gratitudes, interactive discussions, crafting and answering questions, reading poetry, practical exercises, storytelling, fun homework, and journaling.
Living From the Heart Jesus Gave You Study Group
What You'll Learn
Discusses how to grow in maturity, understanding trauma, and the significance of spiritual family. Discover how to become your best self!
*Recommended as a prerequisite before taking our other study groups as it is foundational to understanding the Life Model.
Upcoming Dates
- 90-MINUTE SESSIONS
- led by Deborah Woolridge
- Sept 18, 25
- Oct 9, 23
- Nov 13
- Dec 4, 13
Living From the Heart Jesus Gave You Study Group
What You'll Learn
Discusses how to grow in maturity, understanding trauma, and the significance of spiritual family. Discover how to become your best self!
*Recommended as a prerequisite before taking our other study groups as it is foundational to understanding the Life Model.
REGISTRATION CLOSED
Format
- 90-MINUTE SESSIONS
- led by Deborah Woolridge
The Other Half of Church Study Groups
What You'll Learn
Focuses on building healthy community around biblical concepts such as joy and hesed. The book also gives practical tools for effective discipleship.
*Recommended before taking the Renovated study group.
Details
- 75-MINUTE SESSIONS
- led by Michael Sullivant
REGISTRATION IS CURRENTLY CLOSED
Stay tuned for dates on the next group.
Escaping Enemy Mode Study Group
What You'll Learn
Learn how to recognize enemy mode in real time and shift back into connection with God and others. This guided study with Ray Woolridge gives you space to reflect, practice simple relational skills, and grow emotional resilience so you can stay grounded when stress pulls you off course.
REGISTRATION CLOSED
Format
- 90-MINUTE SESSIONS
- led by Ray Woolridge
STARTING SOON
Format
- 90-MINUTE SESSIONS
- led by Ray Woolridge
Start Date: April 9, 2026 - 12 PM PT/2PM CT
Apr 9 and 23
May 7 and 21
Jun 4 and 18
REGISTRATION IS NOW OPEN!
Renovated
What You'll Learn
Dives into soteriology, the study of salvation. In the book, Dr. Jim Wilder explains the importance of attachment over willpower in regard to salvation.
Details
- 75-MINUTE SESSIONS
- led by Michael Sullivant
REGISTRATION IS CURRENTLY CLOSED
Stay tuned for dates on the next group.
LEADERS
Deborah Woolridge
Deborah Woolridge has a calling to join God in walking alongside hurting people. She desires to model wholeness, maturity, recovery, belonging, knowing your heart and living the Life Model. Currently, she works with her husband Ray to impart the Life Model through Leader’s Collectives and the online book study of Living from the Heart Jesus Gave You.
Ray Woolridge
Ray Woolridge holds master’s degrees in Strategic Studies and Theology. He is a skilled public communicator and a leadership coach who enjoys helping leaders discover their uniqueness and unleash their potential. He is a retired US Army Brigadier General with forty-three years of military and civilian service with the Department of Defense.
Michael Sullivant
Our model for spiritual formation includes emotional and relational maturity. We develop the character of Christ in such a way that we spontaneously love our enemies. Our identity and actions derive from ongoing, mutual mind with God in real time. We can heal our character by extensive relational practice with our hesed people. We avoid striving and misusing strength through disciplines of indirection. Life is now driven by the most powerful force in the human brain – attachment love – rather than the feeble, overly focused will. We become a new people who are being saved here on earth by the active presence of God. The example of our Jesus lives in our hearts by his Spirit.
