Certified Exchanged Life Recovery Coach
Steps to Certification
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GFI Equipping Modules
1. Exchanged Life Conference: 1.5 days (available live, on DVD, or online)
2. Spirituotherapy Workshop: 3.5 days (training event held in Pigeon Forge, TN in March, August, and November)
3. Solomon School Online Lecture Series (Recovery Coach edition): 25 video lectures with PDF notes
Required Reading
General
Handbook to Happiness* (Charles Solomon)
The Ins and Out of Rejection or The Rejection Syndrome* (Charles Solomon)
For Me to Live is Christ* (Charles Solomon)
How to Exchange Your Life for a New One* (Phil Jones)
Handbook for Christ-Centered Counseling* (Charles Solomon)
The Bondage Breaker (Neil Anderson) or Toward a Deeper Walk (Marcus Warner) FICM.org
The Normal Christian Life (Nee) or Bone of His Bone* (F.J. Huegel)
Altar’d (Jennifer Kennedy Dean) PrayingLife.org
Recovery Specific
Freedom from Addiction (Neil Anderson & Mike Quarles) FreedfromAddicton.org
Beside Still Waters* (Cherri Freeman) LoveThemToLife.com
Addiction: The Facts (George Crabb & Steve Curington) RUrecovery.com
Helping Others Overcome Addiction (Steve McVey & Mike Quarles) FreedfromAddicton.org
Required Video seminars
Love Them to Life Recovery Seminar Seminar notebook (Joe & Cherri Freeman – Click here for online access)
Freedom From Addictive Behaviors Conference Webinar notebook (Mike & Julia Quarles –$15 for online access)
Personal Ministry Practicum
40 hours of documented Recovery Coach ministry
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.
Recovery Coach Certification Checklist (PDF)
RC Certification Cost Summary (PDF)
*Resources available through the Grace Fellowship International store online or by phone (865-429-0450)
Additional Recommended Resources:
Audio: The backstory of GFI Recovery Coach Training: an interview with Joe Freeman: Click here
Books
Counseling Through Your Bible and/or Counseling Keys (Hunt) Hopefortheheart.org
Freedom from Addiction workbook and One Day at a Time (Anderson and Quarles)
Grace Discipleship Course I,II* (Turner)
Grace Life Handbook (GMI)
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
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.
Please contact us if you plan to move forward with this equipping track!