Certified Exchanged Life Counselor
Steps to Certification
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GFI Equipping Modules
Exchanged Life Conference: 1.5 days (available live, on DVD, or online)
Spirituotherapy Workshop: 3.5 days (training event held in Pigeon Forge, TN in March, August, and November)
Solomon School Online Lecture Series: 25 video lectures with PDF notes (site license available)
Required Reading
Handbook to Happiness* (Solomon)
The Ins and Out of Rejection* (Solomon)
For Me to Live is Christ* (Solomon)
How to Exchange Your Life for a New One* (Jones)
Handbook for Christ-Centered Counseling* (Solomon)
Man as Spirit, Soul and Body* (Woodward)
The New Life* (Wallis)
Discipling the Desperate* (Solomon) or Exchanged Lives (Best)
When Friends Ask for Help* (Sala)
The Bondage Breaker (Anderson) or Toward a Deeper Walk (Warner)
The Normal Christian Life (Nee) or Bone of His Bone (Huegel)
Absolute Surrender (Murray) or Victory in Christ (Trumbull)
Required Audio/Video
Christ is Life Conference 8 audio sessions – audio (Woodward / GFI)
The Two Lives of Marie Marshall 9 video sessions (LeFebre / The Life Bookstore)
Personal Ministry Practicum
40 hours of documented discipleship counseling
This module is fulfilled at the student’s location. The Practicum Supervision fee
covers the monitoring of the trainee’s progress, Core Knowledge Review, and four supervisory phone sessions.
Certification ELC Checklist (PDF): Certification ELC checklist
Certification Costs Summary (PDF): GFI Certification Costs
*Resources available through the Grace Fellowship International store
For the Certification track for Recovery Coach, click here.
Additional Recommended Resources:
Books
Blessed Reassurance* (Woodward)
Counseling Through Your Bible and/or Counseling Keys (Hunt) Hopefortheheart.org
Gems and Jargon* (Solomon)
Freedom from Addiction workbook and/or One Day at a Time (Anderson and Quarles)
Grace Discipleship Course I,II* (Turner)
The Healthy Christian Life (Minirth et. al)
They Found the Secret (Edman)
Multimedia
The Life seminar (Bill and Anabel Gillham) lifetime.org
Parable videos (Vine, Butterfly, Potter) (King) ChristianVideos.net
The Pineapple Story, The Snake Story (Koning) iblp.org
Internet
Day by Day by Grace daily e-devotionals (Hoekstra) livinginChrist.org
Grace Notes library GraceNotebook.com
Treasures of Truth course well-of-life.org
Counseling God’s Way course livinginChrist.org
Fathers Loveletter, Journey Home to Love videos Fathersloveletter.com
Although this certification is valuable, the primary credential of Christian counseling is the fruit of transformed lives. Some are documented in GFI books such as Discipling the Desperate and From Pastors to Pastors: Testimonies of Revitalized Ministries. Also see the media section (audio and video) for testimonies of how the Holy Spirit continues Christ’s ministry of healing and liberation through His ambassadors.
Contact GFI about your interest in moving forward with this equipping tack!
Audio recording of the monthly coaching call (May 26, 2020):