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Ignite your passion for personal growth in community with our 2025 Leadership Development Group. Throughout this transformative year-long program, participants will embark on a journey to enhance their listening skills, fostering profound healing and connection with others during the 12-week Listening for Heaven’s Sake course. This experience will not only deepen their understanding of interpersonal dynamics but also cultivate a closer relationship with God through another 12-week segment focused on spiritual growth, aptly named Forming. Additionally, attendees will gain the tools necessary to guide others in their spiritual journeys through an immersive 12-week training on the Immanuel Approach, which emphasizes meaningful engagement with the Lord.
Discover additional information about each of these classes, and register below. You will be with the same group of community and leaders during this year, and our deep hope is that you will grow stronger roots with our compassionate Creator.
Classes
Forming, by David Takle
Forming is a fresh, life-giving approach to spiritual growth and restoration that may be very different from what you have tried before. Instead of relying on your willpower and self-effort to bring about change in your life, we help you build a relationship with God that has enough substance to change you from the inside out. An entrance to the Life Model course series, Forming is for people who want to grow in their spiritual maturity by engaging at deeper levels with God.
In this 12-week class, you will learn to engage with God and live from your true heart through a video series and time for quieting, listening and journaling, instead of continually striving to go, go, go and do, do, do. To use a metaphor, instead of rowing against the current of our inner life, in an effort to do what we think is right, Forming teaches us how to align our sails with the Holy Spirit so that we engage with God to change the direction of our hearts so that we can go places we never could get to by rowing alone. In Forming, you will engage with Scripture, your past and present experiences, and your emotions in healthy ways to reveal truths you may not realize are there.
Listening for Heaven’s Sake, by Equipping Ministries International
You will learn how to respond in ways that help the person solve their own problems—so you don’t have to! The skills you will develop will improve all your relationships while getting to know yourself better as well. In this 12-week class, you will learn how to:
o Build deeper understanding and more respect in every relationship
o Break eight bad habits that lead to frustration, misunderstanding and conflict
o Recognize who owns the problem
o Be genuinely caring and compassionate with everyone you meet without becoming anxious or overly involved.
This class provides biblical insight, practical equipping, and hands-on coaching to help you learn your role in helping others.
In addition, we will be doing exercises each week to help rewire our brains so we can live in joy and shalom, in closer connection with the Lord. We hope you’ll join us as we learn together how to grow more and more in healthy relationship with ourselves, God, and others.
Immanuel Approach Training, by Betsy Stalcup
Step by step we will work towards developing an interactive relationship with Jesus using the Immanuel Approach. Our end goal through this 12-week class is to develop a secure attachment to Jesus, one that will undergird all of life and enable us to trust him with our whole hearts. Being able to focus on Jesus and interact with him about every aspect of life is the most important skill we can have for all of life.
Time and Place
Location: Online via Zoom. (Zoom link will be sent to registrants before class starts.)
Time: 08:00 AM – 10:00 AM (EST)
Class Dates:
Forming: January 7 - March 25, 2025
Listening for Heaven’s Sake: April 1- June 10, 2025
Immanuel Approach Training: September 2 - November 18, 2025
Faculty
Rev. Brian Smith and Cindy Browning
Pricing
Class tuition is $259 for the year.
Below is the breakdown of the cost and what’s included:
$60/per course = $180
PDF Listening for Heaven’s Sake workbook= $15
Forming workbook + shipping = $26
Optional: You can purchase the Facilitator’s Forming workbook for an additional $24
Immanuel Approaching Training workbook + shipping = $38
Registration
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Payment
Class Tuition: $259
You can pay by check or PayPal below.
By check
Please make checks out to:
Healing Center International
Memo: Leadership Development 2025
Mail to:
Healing Center International
12022 Lake Newport Road
Reston, VA 20194
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