Your organization must sign our Posture Shift Licensed Partner Agreement. You can then name staff persons (pastors, teachers, camp counselors, coaches, etc.) and/or governance leaders (elders, trustees, superintendents) as your Licensed Trainers. All Licensed Trainers must attend a minimum of one (1) training at our 2-day Posture Shift Intensive Course which offer our Get Trained and Train Others tracks. Same course. Same Price. Two tracks. Train50 is our “licensure” (Train Others) track.

Staff who have completed the minimum training requirement (see question above) can be added to the Posture Shift Licensed Partner Agreement as your designated Licensed Trainers. Once added to the Agreement, they will receive immediate access to our Posture Shift Portal offering presentation slides, video clips, and PDF coaching tips to ensure that they can effectively teach throughout your organization. Posture Shift Portal is only accessible to Licensed Trainers who have met the minimum training requirement.

Our Posture Shift Licensed Partner Agreement requires an Annual Portal Fee and minimum Posture Shift Course Handbook purchase (50 books).

Posture Shift Course Handbooks | We do not want to sign Agreements in which no teachings ever occur. Our missional aim is to rapidly mobilize the Gospel reaching LGBT+ people throughout churches and para-church ministries. That requires teaching and a minimum of 50 books is a fairly low requirement. Additionally, we want to ensure maximum learning retention, so we require that every attendee of a Posture Shift training receive a copy of our Posture Shift Course Handbook to continue their learning after you host a training. Importantly, you can purchase Handbooks inside our Posture Shift Portal at discounted bulk rates only available to our Licensed Partners.

Annual Portal Fee | This fee is different for national, regional, and local ministries. We will disclose the fee at Posture Shift Intensives (or Train50) Course. This fee will be directly invested into expanding our teaching assets, coaching tools, and other premium content to maximize teaching impact within your organization.

Absolutely not! We would never expect a Licensed Trainer to attend one Posture Shift Intensives Course and then go and replicate the teaching in your organization. Most Posture Shift trainings that your named Licensed Trainers conduct among your people will be 1 hour, 2 hours, or maybe 4 hours in duration. Trainings can be structured to occur in a single event — or one hour per week for several weeks. Your Licensed Trainers are free to teach longer trainings — that is up to your organization to decide. Importantly, we routinely see Posture Shift having great impact in brief 2-hour teachings. Shorter teachings also help your Licensed Trainers advance their Posture Shift teaching skills.

As one of our valued Licensed Partners, you are permitted to teach Posture Shift to “your” people within “your” church or ministry. You cannot present our teaching at a third party conference or teach across multiple churches/ministries or among citywide leaders (such as a ministerial alliance). The reason is simple: our team has developed and trained Posture Shift hundreds of times over 15 years. We must preserve our right to protect our brand credential and integrity given the sensitivity of this teaching topic. If there is any confusion or damage created by Licensed Trainers teaching Posture Shift, we want that to be contained within your organization. By the way, such a challenge is one we can solve because we are partnering together. Creating confusion or damage across a range of leaders that our Posture Shift team has no relationship with could do irreparable harm to our work. We are simply aiming to lead with boldness while also exercising wisdom as we launch our licensure effort to rapidly mobilize the Gospel to reach LGBT+ people throughout the wider church.

Our Licensed Partner organizations will determine who they name as their Licensed Trainers under the Agreement. We advise that they name executive, teaching and governance leaders employed or elected to formal leadership positions.

We are super grateful for Christians who already have a deep passion and gifting for loving LGBT+ people! Thank you for following Jesus in reaching LGBT+ family and friends. As you know, there are some Christians who will fear that any kind of inclusion of LGBT+ people is biblical compromise. LGBT+ people can easily pick up on these signals or hear unhelpful comments and get propelled outside the church. In our work, we are aiming to create a new church history in which LGBT+ experience welcome and radical love inside the church. To get there, it will require executive and governance leaders along with senior staff taking ownership in teaching throughout your church or ministry. We are simply trying to adhere to best-practice leadership and honor local church authority while also encouraging such leaders to take the lead on this effort.