Open to Vineyard pastors | These cohorts are uniquely designed to guide pastors through the 8-month Emotionally Focused Formation experience that unpacks 12 topics for growing emotional health and leadership. In addition to coaching from seasoned leaders, pastors will receive bonus content from expert voices who speak to the intersection of spiritual formation and emotional health and healing. 

REGISTRATION
Fall 2025 Cohort is in progress. Click here to sign up for the next cohort, which kicks off on Wednesday, February 11, 2026. Registration for the May 2026 cohort is coming soon.

Open to Vineyard pastors | This new cohort offers pastors mentoring, individualized plans and coaching, and large-group learning as we establish healthy rhythms, embrace abundance, and engage in a life-long journey of pursuing health. 

Open to Vineyard pastors | This cohort takes an integrated approach to spiritual formation, combining retreat, formation practices, and community. We are passionate to see pastors refreshed and renewed in community with Jesus and others. 

Open to Lead Pastors [No longer accepting applications] | This 24-month cohort for senior/lead pastors (and spouses, if applicable) provides both personal and corporate financial education, coaching and specialized support. Funded by a grant from the Lilly Foundation. 

Emotionally Focused is a discipleship process that blends Christian spiritual practices and concepts from neuroscience and psychology to unpack your most formative life experiences and help you understand how they influence the person you are becoming. There are three core experiences that build on each other and should be engaged in sequence. Each experience pairs excellent content and practical tools with time for guided self reflection, small group processing and coaching!

WHO IT’S FOR
All opportunities are open for general sign-ups, unless otherwise noted. Click the links by each date to register.

Upcoming Opportunities

STEP 1: Foundations Intensives (2 days)
Get an introductory look into the emotional health topics of mission, authenticity, integrity, obedience & vows. The two days will include large-group presentation, time in solitude for reflection & prayer, and small-group sharing and coaching. And you’ll walk away with tools and language to help you explore places in your story that God wants to heal and reframe.
Save the date OR click the blue links for more info.

• January 7 & 8, 2026 – ONLINE (Wed/Thurs)
• January 23 & 24, 2026 – ONLINE (Fri/Sat)
• February 27 & 28, 2026 – FT. COLLINS – Vineyard Church of the Rockies (Fri/Sat)
• March 6 & 7, 2026 – EVANSTON, IL – Evanston Vineyard (Registration opening soon)
• March 13 & 14, 2026 – SYRACUSE, NY – The Vineyard Church (Registration opening soon)

STEP 2: Formations Experience (6-month coaching process)
Expand the tools and practices for showing up differently in your most important relationships. Through 12 one-hour online meet ups and weekly coaching in small groups, you will explore where you are stuck, who you want to be instead, and how to get there.

• Fall 2025 Cohorts are in progress
• A new Formation Cohort begins January 26, 2026. Click here to sign up!

STEP 2: PASTORS ONLY Emotional Health Cohort
This is a safe and challenging space designed just for pastors to engage in the Step 2: Formation experience, alongside seasoned coaches and with access to expert voices in emotional health. Completion of Step 1 (Emotionally Focused Foundation Intensive) is a prerequisite for joining. Contact Alison Groenendyk for details.

• Fall 2025 Cohort is in progress.
• A new Pastors Only Emotional Health Cohort kicks off Wednesday, February 11, 2026. Click here to sign up!
• Save the Date: New Pastors-Only Emotional Health Cohorts kick off in May 2026. More details and sign-up information to come.

STEP 3: Family
Dive into family of origin work to better understand and map how anxiety spreads in systems, and the impact on your current relationships.

• Fall 2025 Family Cohort is in progress.
• A new Family Cohort kicks off Thursday, January 15, 2026! Click here to sign up.