Relational by Design Training

Session 1: Designed for Joyful Connection (3.5 Hours)

Participants will be able to experience and describe God's design for relationships with Him, others, themselves, and creation.

• Describe CRC's C.A.R.E. Framework and its application to relational healing.

• Explain God's design for human relationships and how the Fall disrupted that design.

• Describe how the brain is designed for relationship and explain the role of joy in emotional and relational well-being.

• Identify the characteristics of the Authentic Spirit-Led Self and recognize barriers that hinder living from that identity.

• Practice interactive gratitude exercises that cultivate relational connection with God and increase embodied awareness.

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Session 2: Designed to Regulate — The Subconscious Systems (3.5 Hours)

Participants will be able to experience and describe how attachment, safety, and longing systems influence emotional regulation and support integration with God’s design for relationships with Him, others, themselves, and creation.

• Describe the functions of the attachment, longing, and safety systems and explain how they contribute to emotional regulation, secure attachment, felt safety, and healthy relationships.

• Identify attachment patterns, trauma responses, and signs of nervous system dysregulation.

• Explain how implicit memory, neuroception, and the Window of Tolerance influence emotional and relational functioning.

• Demonstrate co-regulation strategies while cultivating an Authentic Spirit-led presence that promotes emotional safety and relational connection.

• Engage in and reflect on relational practices that foster regulation, deepen connection with God, and support personal growth.

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Session 3: Designed to Relate, Remember & Reason (3.5 Hours)

Participants will be able to experience and describe how attunement, identity, and reasoning support integration with God’s design for relationships with Him, others, themselves, and creation. 

• Explain the functions of the attunement, identity, and reason systems and describe their roles in relational connection, self-awareness, meaning-making, and integration.

• Identify sources of pain and disruption within the attunement, identity, and reason systems, including misattunement, misplaced identity, confusion, and false beliefs.

• Demonstrate attunement skills that cultivate understanding, validation, compassion, and a sense of belonging within caregiving and relational contexts.

• Explore the characteristics of their Authentic Spirit-led self and identify barriers to living from that identity.

• Practice relational habits that cultivate joy in relationships with God, others, self, and creation.

• Apply principles of attunement, identity, and truth-based meaning-making to foster healing, hope, and restoration in relationships with God, others, self, and creation.

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Session 4: Designed for Integration & Healing from Pain (3.5 Hours)

Participants will be able to explain how integration across the body, regulation, relating, remembering their identity, and reasoning by making sense of their narrative supports healing and restoration to God's design for relationships with Him, others, themselves, and creation.

• Define integration and wholeness within the context of healing, restoration, and God's design for human flourishing.

• Identify the postures of curiosity, compassion, and agency that support movement toward healing and integration.

• Explain the conditions that promote brain change, relational healing, and lasting transformation.

• Describe a helpful posture toward pain and explain how behaviors make sense.

• Reflect on and apply integration-focused tools and practices within their relationships, caregiving, ministry, coaching, or clinical settings.

• Integrate CRC's C.A.R.E. Framework into their relational care by practicing skills that foster healing, connection, and restoration.

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This training offers 14 continuing education hours.  A certificate of completion will be provided.