Training, Mentoring and Partnership Programs
Build resilience in three simple ways
Resilient Communities Center offers three kinds of work: training for practitioners, mentoring for local groups, and partnership with organizations adapting their own programs. Formats range from a single $50 online module to a 20-week cohort to a full residency in Atlanta.
Every program is participatory rather than lecture-based, built on storywork, somatic practice, and inquiry-based facilitation, whether you join virtually or onsite. All listed prices are assessed on a sliding-fee scale, and voucher scholarships are available.
Programs and Pricing at a Glance
Program | Format | Length | Cost | Next start |
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Poverty, Corruption, Injustice | Online module | 3 weeks | $50 | March 4 |
Adult Learning | Online module | 3 weeks | $600 | March 25 |
Bible Telling | Online module | 6 weeks | $1,200 | April 15 |
Principles & Practices | Online module | 8 weeks | $1,600 | January 7 |
Learning Community | Online cohort | 20 weeks | $3,000 | January 7 |
Vision Casting | Onsite workshop | 2-3 days | $3,000 | By arrangement |
Internship | Atlanta, in person | 7 weeks | $2,500 | Every June |
Residency | Atlanta, in person | 12 months | $18,900 | Every January |
All listed prices are assessed on a sliding-fee scale, and a voucher-based scholarship program is available. Invite a friend and save 10% per person. Vision Casting costs an additional $1,000 for travel outside metro Atlanta. Residency and internship prices do not include travel.
We never want finances to be a barrier. If the listed price does not work for you, tell us and we will work out what does.
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Training
Build a flexible framework for flourishing
Through Bible study, facilitated discussion, coaching, and field work, you experience holistic restoration firsthand and begin mapping pathways to resilience building in your own context. All content is participatory, using somatic practice, meaning exercises that work through the body as well as the mind, and inquiry-based facilitation.
Learning Community Package
Vision Casting is a 2-3 day onsite workshop for a church, nonprofit, or community organization and its local partners. It costs $3,000 and includes a 30-seat license with reuse rights. Add $1,000 for travel outside metro Atlanta.
You explore God's heart for human flourishing and begin using practical tools covering
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theology of shalom,
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community-led disciplemaking,
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markers of healthy households, and
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integrative development plans.
Core Content
Learning Modules
Four online modules, each available on its own. Together they cover a relational framework for human flourishing from four angles: program design, justice and poverty, community discipleship skills, and story-led formation. Take one or take all four.
Principles & Practices — 8 weeks, $1,600, Thursdays at 9:30 a.m. ET, begins January 7
Poverty, Corruption, Injustice — 3 weeks, $50, Thursdays at 9:30 a.m. ET, begins March 4
Adult Learning — 3 weeks, $600, Thursdays at 9:30 a.m. ET, begins March 25
Bible Telling — 6 weeks, $1,200, Thursdays at 9:30 a.m. ET, begins April 15
Registration adds a processing fee to listed price.
Learning Community Package
The Learning Community is a 20-week facilitated cohort for practitioners, priced at $3,000 per person. It covers the same four areas as the Core Content modules, but includes additional learning materials and digital classroom access.
You develop principles for adaptive design, learn to identify relational poverty and trauma, foster curiosity and humility, connect to local stories of healing and repair, build a personal development plan, and practice replicating the process with others.
Facilitated virtually. Cohorts begin January 7.
Atlanta
Short-Term Opportunities
Two in-person options for training and mentoring in Atlanta. By the end of either, you will have practiced approaching communities with appreciation and gratitude, recognizing relational brokenness at the root of poverty, shifting goals from individual outcomes to communal impact, asking open-ended questions that foster mutual learning, using movement to identify resiliency and trauma, and activating practices of spiritual formation.
Residency
The Residency is a 12-month in-person program in Atlanta that launches every January. It costs $18,900, not including travel. Participants co-facilitate trauma-informed community development alongside local leaders.
Internship
The Internship is a 7-week in-person program in Atlanta that launches every June. It costs $2,500, not including travel. Participants co-facilitate youth development programs alongside local leaders.
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Mentoring
Support healing around a flourishing framework
We host mentoring groups in Clarkston, Decatur, and metro Atlanta. These are local circles built on the belief that the different parts of a life belong together, that what you already have is worth appreciating, and that some things need repair.
Groups are free and currently meet in coordination with Friends of Refugees, with English as an Additional Language support and somatic practices included for inclusive access. Fill out a short intake form to learn more and schedule a consult call with one of our mentors.
We/ve Curriculum
We/ve, pronounced "weev," is a seven-step process that helps communities name where they already thrive and grow capacity where they feel disconnected. The name combines the contraction "we have" with the image of weaving separate parts into a whole.
Each We/ve group is a small circle of neighbors meeting regularly to share stories, build resilience, and strengthen relationships. The curriculum integrates spiritual formation, is guided by inquiry and creative prompts, and is customizable to a community's own needs and experiences. It draws on Discipling for Development's work in transforming spaces and trauma-informed care.
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Story-Driven Prompts
We believe there is a story that helps us reorient our lives to honor the many parts that make us human and relational. Formed out of the tapestry of stories found in Clarkston, we welcome the legacies of all our New American neighbors.
Locally-Led Participation
We believe agents for resilience building are already present in our communities. We primarily launch new groups through partnerships, with English as an Additional Language and somatic practices included for inclusive access.
Partnership
Expand your potential to impact flourishing
If your church, ministry, nonprofit, or business is rethinking how it impacts its community, we offer coaching to launch new programs or make existing ones more formational and collaborative. Conversations usually cover exchanging organizational knowledge for greater local collaboration, reaching more people by reformatting existing programs, strengthening a team by investing in staff resilience, and building the conditions a real partnership needs.
There is no fee to explore a partnership. We plan it together, shaped around what your organization already does.
If your team then enrolls in a program, you pay that program's listed price. A Vision Casting workshop for your staff and local partners is $3,000. Learning Community seats are $3,000 per person. Coaching session packages begin at $500. All are assessed on our sliding-fee scale.
Start with a free 30-minute consult.
PARTNER TESTIMONIALS
Resilient Stories
This program incorporates unique perspectives and teaching styles that supported me in engaging my community, especially those on the margins, so that they might encounter Jesus and experience his power in their life and circumstances.
⸺LISA RAMSEY, CO-DIRECTOR, CAMA SERVICES, LEARNING COMMUNITY PARTICIPANT
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