Go from using coping skills to being a skilled champion
Champions Cohorts (℠) are the perfect blend of counseling, coaching, Bible study, and a wellness program for Christian women.
Designed to bring sustainable whole-person changes.
Designed to bring sustainable whole-person changes.
"Clinical meets Biblical for the win!"
The "secret" is in the blend...
Champions Cohorts for Christian Women (℠) has a proven strategic blend (℠) of online skills groups, in-person community, and step-by-step coaching using a clinical, Biblical, and functional format. Following a semester-model we stick together as a cohort supporting each other's personalized strategic plan to go from using coping skills to being a champion in your everyday life.Let's see if this could be for you!
These come from previous cohorts. How many of these would you check off???
- Connect the dots for me with body, spirit, soul, relationships, and maturing in Christ.
- Give me tools or skills to fight barriers to joy and instead build joy back.
- Know how to handle ambiguity and not need to control things...or people.
- Decrease anxiety or stop feeling depleted or deflated or depressed.
- Stop the comparison, jealousy, guilting, judging myself, or feeling like a failure.
- Grow in emotional expression, regulation, and connection with others.
- Have a healthy view of God and be able to hear God's Voice more easily.
- Thoughts or emotions get in the way, or I get stuck.
- I feel lonely or isolated and want to be confident to reach out to others without feeling like a burden.
- I need a healthy rhythm but I'm not sure how to get there right now.
- Be emotionally and spiritually mature.
- Stop the insecure shaming voice in my head.
- I'm tired of just coping, I want to grow healthier in sustainable ways in my identity in Christ.
- I don't just want a group that's like another small group, I want proven tools to make a real difference.
- Right now I'm not experiencing any suicidal thinking*.
- Overall, I want to break out of this "status quo" so I can brilliantly live my life just as God designed.
If you checked off more than 3, and you're not experiencing the crisis needs*, then these cohorts could be for you.
Choose Your Strategic Cohort
Each with the perfect blend of coaching, Bible study, and wellness within our 8 Stages To Go From Coping to Champion (℠).
Start with one cohort and then continue to grow in the next cohort.
- Foundational Champions Core Skills and Tools (℠). A Cohort for any life season.
- Foundational Refresh & Refocus Whole Health (℠). For women who want to go from distracted and depleted to refreshed and refocused. Considered a foundational Cohort with a specific focus.
- Maturing Champions Leadership Skills & Tools (℠). For women who know the foundational basics (of DBT Daily and Biblical Leadership Growth) and want to strengthen your spiritual-emotional maturity, healthy relationships, and authority in your identity in Christ.
- Seasonal Focus Cohorts:
- Champions Dating in Holy & Healthy Ways (℠). For single Christian women learning to date or returning to dating. Offered in the Fall & Winter.
- Lovely Champions. Love the way you look (℠). For the women who want to see themselves, and care for their body, the way God does. Get any disordered eating, or body image issues out of the way. Offered in the Spring & Summer.
- Back To School Success. For High School and College Students. Every student can actually use these skills (unlike some classes you wonder about). Learn more here.
Within each cohort, you will find the blend of...
Clear Vision & Plan
Yes, you can Go from coping to champion. We start out by helping you make your vision clear. Then together we take the steps along the way to make our 8 Stage Plan personalized so it works for you.
Others who "get it"
The pre-group personalized plan, group coaching, between-group check-in's, Community Chat, and In-Person Gatherings maximize time with others who get it, and who are also ready to Do Something Different.
12 Skills
Worksheets with titles like "Building the life we want...without the anxiety", "Joy Robbers", "Emotional Tuning", "Stopping the Shame Sabotage", "Resolving Fears -All of them" ...
12 Tools
Experiments for expanding your world like, "Care without getting run over", "Strengthening integrity and wisdom", "Sustainable Life Pace", "I feel AND/But I know", "However...Instead"...
Tactical & Practical
Get 12 Skills that can be applied in clear and practical ways, and include tactical steps for helping you implement for sustainable change. Tools are designed specifically to both provide ways you can see your progress and ways you can implement easily in your daily life.
Biblical & Clinical
Authentically grow with confidence as a Christian woman knowing the group dovetails our identity in Christ with proven clinical resources. Coaching includes proven clinical DBT-Based, CBT, and Family Systems. Biblical tools include Scripture references, and Bible Study methods.
Daily Rhythm
Whole Person Growth Tracker and Momentum Check-In's provide the needed reassuring back-up when you are developing consistency or fortifying that sometimes elusive skill of discipline, making both enjoyable along the way.
Monthly Predictability
The Growth Trackers and Check-In's deliver summaries of daily data you provide that can lead to think-ahead confidence for how hormones impact emotions, thoughts, and relationships on a monthly basis. Discover a monthly rhythm of how God created your spirit-soul-body.
Personalized
We provide the format with step-by-step support. You make it yours. Create your own Skills & Tools Binder or Toolbox to know the most helpful tools and skills for you in the moment you need the support. No more guessing. You can develop your long-term realistic rhythm for sustainability.
Functional
The Trackers and Check-In's are focused on a whole-person Biblical approach for you. We consider root causes, immediate life-style factors, and also prevention. Looking at things from a gut and brain wellness POV, you get tools to take to your medical provider for their input.
Others wanted to share too...
"Liz is easy to trust, fun to work with, and her step-by-step processes rooted in our identity in Christ are clear, easy to implement, and able to be personalized." ~ K."
"I tell my friends about her and we quote her "Liz-ism's to each other." ~ Ca.
"I loved the tactical tools and supportive coaching!" ~ S.
"I appreciate how every time you brought in both the Biblical and scientific research." ~ M.
"The However, Instead skill was helpful for re-wiring my brain as I break reoccurring patterns in my behavior. The scientific facts detailing how mind, body, spirit work together (combined with scripture), got me excited. Why is it that no one seems to be TALKING about this in the wellness community- but thankfully, we are now !!" ~ Ki
What each cohort is getting for 6 months:
- Cohorts gathered around same life-stage or same age-range for maximum connection.
- The pre-Cohort Group, Cohort Group, between-Cohort Group, community chat, and in-person Cohort Gatherings to maximize the program (℠).
- Our 8 stages to Go from Coping to Confident (℠).
- Personalized: Momentum Markers Check-Ins (℠). Monthly Whole-Person Goal Planners (℠). Skill & Tool Binders.
- 12 coaching Cohort Groups with no more than 7 other women including me. Each group includes the quality-of-life skills & tools with a whole-person focus to help you gain practical and actionable tools.
- Meeting Every-Other-Week Online for Cohort Group.
- Monthly or Quarterly In-Person gatherings for application and implementation.
- Let me say a little bit more of what you can expect:
- Before we even gather as as cohort, you and I connect over a video call so I might share with you all the helpful ways to get the most out of your cohort.
- At the first Cohort Group gathering, there will be apprehension, and also excitement. This meeting will most likely be online so you can best use your time between meetings, kiddos, or classes.
- In a 60 minute Cohort Group get 30 minutes of coaching and 30 minutes learning a Biblically-based clinical DBT skill.
- Between Cohort Groups, apply your tactical personalized strategic plan and respond to supportive check-in's.
- The whole time be supported and challenged through each step.
- Apply in real-time the skills and tools - both online, and at the in-person gatherings so you're confident taking it from cohort to community.
$175 per month includes all this in your niche Champions Cohort (℠). Each cohort stays connected for at least 6 months.
- After the 12 times we meet, the connection can continue. You can continue to be strengthened within your Champions Cohort after the 12 Cohort Groups by taking the next step together into an Advanced Champions Cohort or into a Seasonal-Focus Champions Cohort.
Ok, I think you're probably liking the idea of getting 12 Skills & 12 Tools that are Tactical & Practical AND Biblical & Clinical. I hope you're also getting as excited as I am about the proven program (℠) to help you develop a Rhythm with Monthly Predictability around life-stage or hormonal shifts that can help keep you growing in your identity in Christ.
Because I also teach basic financial literacy, let's break this down a little bit for your budget... $175 / month = $87.50 / cohort group. This is much less than an average life-coaching or individual counseling session with a skilled therapist.
- With the Champions Cohorts (℠) proven blend you know the step-by-step format that can help you see the difference in your daily life.
- You can go from coping to confident, you can go from overwhelm to overcoming. When we read "you're more than an overcomer", we know there is proof God calls us to apply what he has put before us.
- Your job is to put it into practice. My job is to support you along the way.
Previous cohort members and professional colleagues wanted to share a few words for you...
“I strongly recommended this group to a close friend.” - Kelly
"I didn't feel alone, and loved being with other women who got it." - Steph
"Practical skills to regulate my emotions and tolerate distress esp. in my life transitions." - Katie
“5 out of 5 overall satisfaction with our group!” - Carol
“I received the support I needed and I feel I have changed a great deal!” - Judy
"Liz understands the challenges that women may face in attending church, Sunday schools and bible studies, but still needing help in addressing their emotional health and relationship issues." - Jennifer Wu, licensed therapist
"Liz! Liz, we need these keys, this content is needed!" -Susie Moore, Author of Let It Be Easy (shared on a call talking about the Lovely Cohorts and the Core Skills & Tools.)
I'll spill more. I lived the struggle....
"It wasn’t supposed to be like this", was my daily cry to the Lord. I was a gymnast who carried the Olympic torch, had a successful design business, and then went into ministry. I was leading a thriving church-based counseling center but experiencing anxiety and panic. God led me to a whole-person medical professional, then to another, and another, and then led me to a skilled counselor. I learned the hard way about how God designed our spirit, soul and body to function together. He ended the anxiety, deep-seated fear, constant competive internal shame. and panic.
20 years later, I've enjoyed following the Holy Spirit into private practice, Clinical Direction in facilities, and working in treatment teams with brilliant professionals for clients and group members. Whether your heart is crying out to end the anxiety... Or whether you're done with working the workbooks and the mindset courses alone... or you want someone who gets the impact of hormones on emotions and thoughts as a Christian...These Champions Cohorts can provide the tools, skills, and support that address you as a whole person, a beautiful woman made in the image of God.
But here's an insider scoop - not a single cohort member has shown up Day1 feeling 100% confident they have this in the bag. Just about everyone shows up asking , "Is this is gonna work?"
Here's a pro tip for you - When you work it, it can work for you. Your role is to partner with God and put these into practice. Since this is coaching and not calculus or chemistry, I can't guarantee each skill, tool, worksheet, or group application will be the answer for your problem. But I do commit to providing you with the proven blend, supporting you step-by-step within the Cohort, and listening to the Holy Spirit for each next step as your Cohort Leader.
So grab your cuppa and prepare to spill too! I can't wait to meet you and cheer you on inside your Champions Cohort.
All my best,
Liz
Q & A Time!
How is this a "proven blend"?
These cohorts started out as in-person groups when I was leading clinical skills discipleship small groups.The women were asking for practical and tactical ways to make changes to emotions, relationships, thought processes or mindsets, and their careers. We wanted to match what we were learning from the Bible about how to follow Jesus. I started sharing clinical skills that are based in Scripture and we connected those skills to Biblical leadership.
To see how that made a lasting difference for us, we would track our progress using reliable and valid outcome measures.
Since those first groups, I've used the results of those outcome measures to show us how we can practically and tactically apply Scripture in our daily lives and get sustainable results. Each cohort (℠) continues to give feedback using reliable and valid outcome measures we can can prove the effectiveness.
Brilliant Q's cohort members asked ...
- Why do we meet every-other week for 12 weeks so the cohort is together for 6 months? ~ This timing is one of the Difference Makers. Meeting every-other-week gives you the time to learn, experiment with, and then adjust the skill or tool. Meeting for 6 months allows you to go through the full process of change while creating a sustainable rhythm for that change to continue. Groups, studies, clubs and such that meet for the typical 6-8 weeks or so will provide skills but they are not designed to help you get to the personalization stage, much less to the sustainability stage. Champions Cohorts are designed to be with you step-by-step.
- What are the clinical Skills? ~ Coaching includes proven clinical DBT-Based (Dialectical Behavioral Therapy Based Skills), CBT (Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Skills), and Biblical Leadership Growth Tools. The skills you learn within the cohorts come from Dialectical Behavior Therapy, which is an evidenced-based treatment that helps people to increase mindfulness skills, regulate emotions, tolerate distress, and be effective in relationships. DBT can effectively be used within multiple frameworks and research on adapted DBT (like the skills we use) outpaces that on standard DBT. The word “dialectical” means having a synthesis of two opposing views. As Christian women, we do this everyday. We are here on earth, while also knowing our home is in Heaven. We live in physical bodies yet we are created with an unseen spirit. And there are so many other ways we do this daily. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Skills involve strategic, goal-oriented efforts to change both thought patterns and behavioral actions. Champions Cohorts (℠) combine these evidenced and researched skills with our core beliefs as Christian to develop sustainable Biblical Leadership.
- Is this a therapy group? ~ No, we will not be doing any therapy in this group, even though your leader is a state-licensed LPC-S. We will be focusing on learning, applying, supporting, and maintaining the skills and tools to help you make actionable changes and then sustain those changes. If you would like a therapist, referrals can be provided.
- Is this a bible study or a prayer group too? ~ No, while this is a Christian group, led by a Texas state licensed clinical Christian counselor, we will not be reading Scripture or praying for each other. I commit to praying for each group member and that the Holy Spirit will lead us each time we meet for coaching, skills, and tools.
- Will we be doing therapy or processing in this group, so that people might share their issues that I'm not ready to hear? ~ We will have time to share each group but sharing is led by specific questions to help each group member apply where they are at this time. This is a structured, supportive coaching skills group so we won't be doing any therapy or any processing together. If you would like a therapy group, referrals can be provided.
- Are the Biblical tools connected to a specific denomination? ~ The biblical principles are not associated with a specific denomination. You will find the tools and the biblical basis in the clinical tools affirm Jesus is the Son of God, the Bible is the infallible, inspired Word of God, there is only one God, Jesus is the only way to God, and that God is eternally existent in three persons—Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.
- What happens when I click the link, am I committing to the Cohort? ~ When you click the link you are provided a secure interest link where you can choose the best Champions Cohort (℠) time for you based on the options for this current cohort. That will take about 5 minutes to complete. After you submit your Interest, I will reach out to schedule an Introductory 15 minute phone call to introduce myself personally so we get to cover all the details along with providing you a clear orientation before the Cohort starts. After our phone call, I will email you a secure registration link that includes many of the questions we have used for years to help demonstrate the proven resources. Then you sit back and invite the Lord to prepare you for your first Cohort Gathering.
If you are looking for a group offering the therapeutic full DBT Protocol, please check local resources. Our cohorts are not designed for high-acuity needs as we do not provide therapy within a DBT Multi-Modal Adherent Protocol.
* If you are currently experiencing deep depression, extreme panic or debilitating anxiety, or intrusive thoughts of harming yourself or not wanting to be alive right now, please contact your medical provider, visit your nearest urgent care or ER, or call the "988" Lifeline.
* If you are within the state of Texas, you could also reach out to The Timothy Center for Christian counseling, PHP, or IOP at 512-331-2700.
* If you are currently experiencing deep depression, extreme panic or debilitating anxiety, or intrusive thoughts of harming yourself or not wanting to be alive right now, please contact your medical provider, visit your nearest urgent care or ER, or call the "988" Lifeline.
* If you are within the state of Texas, you could also reach out to The Timothy Center for Christian counseling, PHP, or IOP at 512-331-2700.
Free seasonal workshops:
See what it feels like to be in the coaching group portion of the Champions Cohort (℠). These free workshops include at least 1 skill and are offered seasonally.
Click the button below to see the current free 45 minute workshop and take home a free workbook.
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The groups, skills, and tools are not designed for high acuity needs.
If you are currently experiencing deep depression, extreme panic or debilitating anxiety, or if you are experiencing intrusive thoughts of harming yourself, or not wanting to be alive right now, please contact your medical provider, visit your nearest urgent care or ER, or call the 988 lifeline or the Focus on the Family (FOTF) counseling line 1-855-771-HELP (4357).
Your life is lovely and valuable. You were designed for a purpose for such a time as this. If you are outside of Texas, please call 988 lifeline or FOTF. If you are within the state of Texas, you could also reach out to The Timothy Center for Christian counseling at 512-331-2700.
If you are currently experiencing deep depression, extreme panic or debilitating anxiety, or if you are experiencing intrusive thoughts of harming yourself, or not wanting to be alive right now, please contact your medical provider, visit your nearest urgent care or ER, or call the 988 lifeline or the Focus on the Family (FOTF) counseling line 1-855-771-HELP (4357).
Your life is lovely and valuable. You were designed for a purpose for such a time as this. If you are outside of Texas, please call 988 lifeline or FOTF. If you are within the state of Texas, you could also reach out to The Timothy Center for Christian counseling at 512-331-2700.
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