Strategic Life Training is a two-year course that involves both an annual conference component (SLT Intensive) as well as a nine-month curriculum and mentoring component that is based in the local church.

The Intensive
In the United States, each of the two years of the course begins with a four-day conference, usually during the summer. The goal of the Intensive is to inspire and envision students and facilitators, and to lay a foundation that will help prepare them for the curriculum and mentoring component that will follow throughout the year. The Intensive is mandatory for all those who want to participate in Strategic Life Training that year.

Curriculum & Mentoring
This component of the course is based in the local church. Following the Intensive, students work through a 32-lesson curriculum that is spread throughout the year. Each lesson involves listening to an audio lesson and completing a written assignment. Students participating in the curriculum component of the course are required to work with a facilitator with whom they will meet on a regular basis.

In addition to completing the curriculum lessons students are required to complete a service project and an essay designed to help them apply what they are learning. Students will need to set aside between 3-5 hours a week during the 32-week term to successfully complete the course.

The Mentor-based model is critical to the success of the course. Our desire to see students work with a facilitator is based in our conviction that genuine transformation in a person's life takes place in the context of spiritual relationships with other men and women. The role of the facilitator is to encourage and challenge the students as they work through the material. Facilitators are chosen by church leadership and students in conjunction with SLT staff.

Our desire is to help students discover the work that God has called them to and challenge them to begin the process of training that will see them enabled for effective service in this area. The curriculum and mentoring component of the course is based in the local church so as to encourage students in this process without removing them from the people and situations in which they are called to serve.

We are committed to community and firmly believe that God builds relationally by joining the hearts of men and women. We sow into a sense of community at the yearly Summer Intensive where students come to learn, be inspired and encouraged, and to enjoy interaction with other men and women who share their heart and vision for the purposes of God in their generation. In addition, we have a growing alumni who continue to build with us and serve the vision of the course.

Curriculum

The first year curriculum focuses primarily on helping the student to build a complete framework, based on biblical assumptions, through which to interpret life.

Our goals for this curriculum are as follows:

• Introduce aspiring Christian leaders to the concepts essential to clear and assertive thinking and expression, in regard to a biblical worldview.
  
• Develop in students the ability to analyze basic assumptions dealing with the nature of God, the nature of man, and the nature of truth (presuppositional analysis).
  
• Develop an understanding for how God delegates responsibility to different areas of government—Self, Family, Church, Marketplace, and Civil—and their function from a Kingdom perspective.
  
• Instill a vision and motivation in the students for their lives to become a demonstration of an alternative way of living to the culture, as representatives of the Kingdom of God.

Topics covered in the first year include:

• Embracing a New Perspective of Christian Worldview by Adam Peacocke
• Why Do We Believe What We Believe? by Dudley Hall
• The Four Basic Philosophical Questions by Walter Duerr
• Practical Tools for Addressing Other Worldviews by Dudley Hall
• The Five Spheres of Government by Dennis Peacocke

The second year curriculum is designed to help students develop a strategic lifestyle so they can begin to walk out the vision articulated by the Christian Worldview. Students will learn how to build the patterns of discipline in their lives necessary for successful Christian living and leadership. Emphasis is placed on developing the skills of problem solving, strategic thinking, time management, and servant leadership.

Our goals for this curriculum are as follows:

• Introduce the students to the basic concepts of strategic thinking and living.
• Assist students in discovering significant clues to their personal destiny, and help them see how their destiny is tied to the community to which God has made them a part.
• Begin to challenge the students with the lifestyles and disciplines required to becoming successful spiritual leaders.
• Cultivate a vision for how the students' lives can contribute to the larger purpose of what God wants to accomplish in their generation.

Topics covered in the strategic living curriculum include:

• The Sovereignty of God in Our Personal Lives by Dudley Hall
• Recognizing Our Ministry Placement by Bruce Billington
• Building Generationally by Norm Willis
• Finding Your Disciplines by Adam Peacocke
• Personal Destiny by Dennis Peacocke

For more information, contact the SLT Program Administrator at SLTAdministrator@strategiclifetraining.com