Training
Please visit our training page for current courses and events including our Unlocking Your Life Purpose course, Trauma Awareness & Care Training (TACT), and Empowered to Engage workshop.
Coaching
Visit Kingdom Purpose Coaching @ www.kingdompurposecoaching.com
Debriefing
Many missionaries respond to the call to ‘go’ and face many challenges as they pioneer, engage, and immerse themselves in another culture.
However, they don’t always receive the support they need in terms of:
- having a confidential, listening ear so they feel heard and understood
- receiving assurance that what they’re typically experiencing is normal
- receiving empathy without judgment
- being validated
- having an outside perspective and sounding board, and if necessary
- help with processing ways to move forward.
We are seasoned missionaries and cross-cultural workers. Having lived in 6 countries across 3 continents, our experience is varied and includes raising our family in a pioneering situation in China, to living off-grid on the edge of the Navajo reservation in Arizona, USA.
We have experienced the key challenges most missionaries face – language learning, moving internationally, cross-cultural adjustment and culture shock, fundraising, raising children/TCK’s, re-entry, and much more. We also know the pain, pressures and associated consequences that can arise from poor leadership, interpersonal conflict, loss of donor support, and experiencing rootlessness, trauma, and loss. We understand first-hand the unique stresses that come with the territory of the missionary vocation.
We provide a completely confidential, independent listening ear at any stage of your missionary life and debriefing via phone or Zoom, on a donation basis. It is always our priority to create a safe space for people to share without fear or shame. You are not alone. We care. Please don’t hesitate to contact us.
We provide debriefing on a donation basis as we know how difficult it can be for missionaries, who are already raising support, to have enough funds for debriefing and so often people will go without. We therefore provide an opportunity for people to receive debriefing in a way they can afford, and which honours our time and the support they receive from us.
We are both trained in debriefing and have doctoral degrees in Cross-cultural Mission. Stuart is also a trained life coach and Michelle is trained in Animal-Assisted Therapy, “Grief Support and Counseling,” from the H. Norman Wright Institute of Grief, Crisis and Trauma Counseling, and is the author of Surviving Trauma, Crisis & Grief: Practical & Spiritual Steps to Help You Survive, Heal and Help Others. We have three grown up children and nine grandchildren.