Understand your story.
Experience healing and growth.
Become more fully alive.
Becoming is an 8-24 week guided journey designed to help you better understand your story, grow in emotional and spiritual wellness, and discover how God can use your experiences in the lives of others.
Register now for Becoming classes
Registration is now open for our Becoming classes. Choose the time that works best for you and we look forward to seeing you at a group!
Your story has shaped you
Our experiences influence how we see ourselves, relate to others, respond to difficulty, and understand God. Yet many of us enter adulthood without ever slowing down to consider how these experiences have shaped who we have become and impact our relationships
Becoming creates a place to do just that. Through structured teaching, personal reflection, practical application, and community, you'll begin developing greater language and understanding for your story while considering what God may be doing in and through it.
You might find yourself asking:
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Why do I react this way?
Begin to understand the experiences and patterns behind some of your emotional responses.
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Why do I keep getting stuck here?
Explore patterns that may have once helped you cope but no longer help you move forward.
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Why are certain relationships so difficult?
Consider how your story has influenced the way you experience connection, conflict, trust, and belonging.
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What is God doing in my story?
Explore suffering, redemption, and the ways God may use your experiences for healing, growth, and purpose.
A BRIDGE BETWEEN COUNSELING + CHURCH MINISTRY
Becoming provides an opportunity for deeper personal and spiritual growth within a supportive, Christ-centered community. It incorporates principles of Narrative Focused Trauma Care (NFTC) to help participants understand how story, relationships, suffering, and our experiences shape the ways we see ourselves, others, and God.
Becoming is an educational and formational program, not therapy. It can complement professional counseling through education, reflection, community, and opportunities for personal and spiritual growth.
the becoming experience
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learn
Gain language and understanding for your experiences and the ways they have shaped you.
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reflect
Slow down and engage your own story with greater honesty, curiosity, and compassion.
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Connect
Experience meaningful learning and reflection within the context of community.
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grow
Consider how God may be bringing healing, growth, and redemption through your story.
the becoming journey
Start with eight weeks. Continue for up to 24.
Becoming is designed as a three-phase journey. Each eight-week experience builds upon the one before it, moving from understanding your own story toward greater wellness and, for those who continue, learning to walk well with others.
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PHase 1: understanding your story
WEEKS 1-8
Begin by understanding what has shaped you.
Develop language and understanding around your experiences, relationships, emotions, suffering, and the patterns that influence who you are today.
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phase 2: Story Group Intensive
WEEKS 9-16
Move from understanding toward greater wholeness.
Process through specific experiences of harm in such a way new meaning and greater depths of insight are discovered, as you move toward Becoming more Fully Alive.
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phase 3: Walking With Others
WEEKS 17-24
Let what God is doing in you shape how you care for others.
Develop skills in listening, presence, group participation, and leadership. For those interested in serving, completion of the full pathway can provide preparation toward lay counseling ministry at Northland Church.
Your first eight weeks of becoming
You don't need to commit to the entire 24-week journey to begin. Understanding Your Story is the introductory Becoming course and is designed to help you learn more about yourself, your story, and what God is doing in and through you as you journey toward healing, growth and wholeness.
What we’ll explore:
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01 | Introduction
Beginning the Journey
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02 | Community
Why relationships matter
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03 | The Mind + Body
Understanding how our experiences affect us
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04 | Human Emotion
Developing language for what we feel
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05 | Relationships
How our stories shape connection
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06 | Human Suffering
Making space for what has been hard
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07 | Redemption
Exploring God's redemptive work
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08 | Story Work
An introduction to engaging your story
becoming may be for you if you want to:
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understand yourself
Gain greater insight into your story and the experiences that have shaped you.
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recognize patterns
Become more aware of patterns within your emotions, relationships, and responses.
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grow in wholeness
Develop greater emotional, relational, and spiritual wellness.
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explore your faith + story
Consider where God has been and what He may be doing within your experiences.
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experience community
Learn and reflect alongside others in a supportive environment.
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care for others
Become better equipped to listen, be present, and walk compassionately with people in their stories.
from your story to their story
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UNDERSTAND your story
Develop language for what has shaped you.
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story group intensive
Move toward greater emotional, relational, and spiritual wholeness.
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walk with others
Learn to enter the stories of others with greater wisdom, compassion, and presence.
Rooted in story.
Centered on redemption.
Becoming incorporates principles of Narrative Focused Trauma Care (NFTC), which recognizes the important role our stories and relationships play in shaping how we understand ourselves, others, and God.
Rather than approaching our stories with shame or judgment, we learn to engage them with greater curiosity and compassion. As we begin naming what has shaped us, we can recognize patterns, better understand our responses, and consider how God may be bringing healing, growth, and redemption within our stories.
important to know:
Becoming is education and formation, not therapy.
Becoming provides education, support, encouragement, reflection, and community around story and personal growth. It does not diagnose, assess, evaluate, or treat mental health conditions and does not provide crisis intervention.
Becoming may complement professional counseling, but it is not a substitute for care from a licensed mental health professional when professional treatment is needed.
ready to begin becoming?
Begin with Understanding Your Story, the introductory eight-week Becoming experience. Complete the form below to let us know you're interested, and we'll send you information about upcoming classes, dates, times, and next steps.