Transform Your
Church Leadership and
Emotional Intelligence
A 14-Week Journey to Empower
Pastors, Church Staffs, and Volunteer Leaders
The Transformational Church Leaders
and Emotional Intelligence Coaching Cohort
Launches the Week of
February 23, 2025
Full Cohort Registration Opens February 6, 2025
Sign up below for all the cohort updates
Let's go!!
The Challenge You Face #1:
Emotional Exhaustion at Home
Every Sunday, Associate Pastor Mike puts on a brave face for his congregation. But behind the scenes, he's struggling. At home, his marriage is strained, and he feels disconnected from his preteen and teenage children. The constant arguments and silent treatments leave him emotionally drained before he even steps into the church office. As he tries to lead his departments and teams, Mike finds himself short-tempered, unable to focus, and having lost his overall ministry passion. The weight of everyone's problems at church, combined with his own family issues, is taking its toll.
The Challenge You Face #2:
Emotional Burnout in Church Leadership
Every Sunday, Sarah puts smiles and kindness on for her department, team, and the congregation. But behind the scenes, she's struggling. The weight of everyone's problems, the constant need to be "on," managing staff peer-to-peer conflicts, and the pressure to grow the church are taking their toll.
The Challenge You Face #3:
Emotions, Coping Mechanisms, Moral Failings and Crisis
David, a dedicated volunteer leader of the First Impressions team, appeared to be a pillar of strength. However, overwhelmed by life's demands and lacking emotional management skills, he turned to alcohol as a coping mechanism. This hidden dependency culminated in a drunk driving incident that injured a person in the community, exposing David's struggles to the entire church community. The fallout was immediate and far-reaching:
- The Lead Pastor faced the daunting task of confronting David, initiating restoration, and removing him from leadership
- Countless hours were invested in counseling, rebuilding trust, and managing the church's response
- A time-consuming search began for a suitable replacement, then more time invested to train them
- What should have been a season of growth and ministry impact has become a period of damage control and rebuilding.
This crisis highlights the critical need for emotional intelligence training in church leadership, demonstrating how neglecting emotional health can derail ministry impact and consume valuable resources
The Looming Problem in Every Church
They are not alone. Across the country, church leaders are facing an epidemic of emotional exhaustion, relational strain, and spiritual depletion.
70% of pastoral staff
constantly fight depression or fear of inadequacy
50% of millennials & 75% of Gen Zers
have left roles in organizations due to mental health around organizational conflicts
80% of lead staff
are estimated to have a diagnosable mental health issue at some point
65% of team leaders
desire to be more equipped to help others in distressing emotional states
The real problem? Most pastors, church staff, volunteer team/small group leaders were never taught how to effectively manage their emotions or navigate the complex relational dynamics of either family or ministry. They're expected to be spiritual superheroes at church, while their inner world and home life crumble silently in the background. And then, we act shocked by diminishing work energy, the divorce of staff marriages, pivoting out of ministry roles, intensified infighting, discovery of moral failings, or even worse.
What Other Pastors Have to Say...
Finally, a Program Designed for Ministry Leaders
Who Want to Thrive, Not Just Survive
- Tailored for pastors, church staff, and volunteer leaders
- Transformative blend of coaching, coursework, and community support
- Blend of Biblical wisdom, psychology, neurobiology, and organizational systems
- Immediate application in home, business, and ministry contexts
- Tools to navigate stress, conflict, and burnout in high-pressure church environments
- Supportive cohort of like-minded church leaders fostering growth and accountability
- Holistic approach addressing spirit, soul, and body for complete leadership transformation
- Proactive strategies to build resilient, emotionally healthy church team
- Lifelong EQ skills for sustainable ministry success and church growth
Driven Leaders
Ought to Know
What They Are Driven By
Your Journey to
Emotionally Intelligent Leadership
Insights From Theology - Psychology - Neurobiology - Ecology
[Samples of projected topics we will cover]
- Understanding Emotions: What are they? Where do they come from? And how do they affect us—physically, emotionally, and spiritually?
- The Spirit-Soul/Body Connection: How your emotions are tied to both your soul and body, and how they drive your actions.
- The Emotion Processing Model: How emotions shape what you say and do—and how you can take control before they take over.
- What Triggers Us: Discovering how certain things in our environment spark emotional reactions—often before we even realize it.
- Managing Stress & Reactivity: What happens when we’re in “fight, flight, or freeze” mode—and how to put out the fire before it spreads.
- Breaking Free from Negative Thoughts: Understanding how negative thoughts can hijack our emotions—and how to reclaim control.
- Recognizing Emotional Patterns: How chronic stress shows up in our lives and how to spot and manage it.
- Becoming Emotionally Sensitive: Developing the ability to recognize and respond to emotions in real time, before they control you.
- Handling Unwanted Behaviors: Recognizing and addressing behaviors shaped by stress or past experiences that impact your leadership.
- Transforming Your Desires: Shifting your emotional cravings from unhealthy patterns to peace and balance.
- Leading with Emotional Intelligence in Relationships: Managing emotions in your marriage, family, and leadership teams.
- Building Healthy Teams: Fostering emotional health and connection within your church or ministry team.
- Handling Conflict with Grace: How to diffuse tense situations and lead with patience, wisdom, and emotional clarity.
Online Course & Worksheets
As little as 15-minute recorded sessions each week (or you can choose the more advanced 30–60+ minute recorded sessions) with personal application worksheets (with on-demand access at any time).
Live Online Coaching
Optional 30–60+ minute live Zoom sessions to dive deeper into the material and ask questions. Or if you miss the live Zooms you can cycle back later, or gather the whole team to process in collaboration.
Peer-to-Peer Community
A private community to support each other throughout the process with other churches, staffs, and volunteer leaders. This is a great place to post questions, share insights, or just meet new friends.
What If Your Team Became
Transformational Church Leaders?
How would your church’s impact grow if leaders could tackle stress, improve communication, and create a culture of emotional health that fuels ministry success?
- Stronger Marriages & Healthier Families
- Personal Emotional Resilience
- Bringing Authentic Energy to Team Leadership
- Overcoming Teammate Ruptures
- Stabilizing Unhelpful Attitudes and Behaviors
Our training program combines almost 40 years of pastoral experience with the latest psychological, scientific, and Biblical insights to equip your team with tools for emotional regulation, relational health, and spiritual vitality.
In just 14 weeks, your church leaders will begin developing:
- Emotional Regulation: Tools to manage stress and conflict
- Leadership Strength: Practical skills for clearer decision-making and communication through healthy emotional processing
- Better Team Delegations: Tools to overcome emotional reactivity that compels micromanaging or failing to trust team members with responsibilities can hinder growth and efficiency
- Self-Awareness in Blame-Shifting: Transformational awareness by recognizing the roots of refusing to take responsibility for mistakes, blaming others, which erodes team trust and respect
- Long-Term Focus: Prioritizing long-term sustainability leads to valuable strategic decisions, rather than the emotional relief one feels to expedite decision-making that end in poor outcomes
- Team Cohesion: A healthier culture that promotes common language and paradigms around emotional frameworks, as well as mutual growth and ministry impact, giving energy through the team cohesiveness and relational bonds
Leave a legacy of healthy leaders.
Leave a legacy of a healthy church.
What's Included?
Program Features:
- Live, Then Accessible On-Demand Experiences: Don’t worry about missing a live session or falling behind. Pick up right where you left off and continue progressing. The training is designed to fit into busy schedules and accommodate staff with active roles.
- 14 Weeks of Recorded Content: Commit to as little as the 15-minute sessions each week, or choose the more advanced 30–60+ minute recorded sessions with application worksheets (available for on-demand access at any time). Each team member can invest as little or as much time as is custom fitting to them.
- Weekly Live Coaching: Optional 30-60+ minutes of live Zoom sessions to dive deeper into the material, process through personal application worksheets, to ask questions, or to just have community with other like minded Christian leaders.
- Community Access: A private community where participants can share insights and support each other throughout the process with other churches, staffs, and volunteer leaders. You can post questions, takeaways, and share what is transforming the heart.
- Flexible Time Commitments: As little as 15 minutes per week, or you custom choose up to 2+ hours per week (including sessions, worksheets, coaching). All content is accessible on-demand, and falling behind is not a disconnect—leaders can catch up at their own pace while staying aligned with the course content.
Experience the Course Samples
"What if we leave these emotional intelligence issues unaddressed? What is likely to be the consequence?"
- Increased unresolved conflict within church teams and congregations
- Higher rates of pastoral and leader burnout and turnover
- Strained relationships between leaders and congregants, building a culture of strain
- Decreased ministry effectiveness and church growth by the distractions of internal fires
- Poor impulse driven decision-making that ripples through the entire organization
- Common silent and unseen emotional viruses that erode trust and leadership credibility
- Difficulty retaining staff and volunteers, consuming resources of energy, time, and money
- Missed opportunities for maturing meaningful connections and spiritual growth
STORIES OF OTHERS WE HAVE HELPED
Lead Pastor
“My experience with Red Ink Revival was more than I anticipated or expected. It allowed me to discover some leadership traits and qualities that I had. Why they were there. I received healthy ways to address those things that ultimately will make be a better husband, father, and spiritual leader. The teaching and processing made me look profoundly at how I had developed as a leader. … It has been life changing for me. It’s has been one of the greatest revelations of my life.”
Ministry CEO
“Enlightening. Encouraging. Hopeful. Impactful. … this week helped me see what some of my patterns of behavior have been and why. It gave me hope. I have the tools, the community and a path to address them now. I feel I am now in a true place of overcoming. … I am truly overwhelmed with gratitude!”
Lead Pastor
“How would I describe my experience [with Red Ink Revival/Patrick Norris]? Life changing! Being a fourth-generation pastor, I’ve been in a few conferences in my life. I’ve been my whole life in church. … I thought I had a solid foundation of theology. But connecting the dots [of why I do what I do] was very difficult for me. … Getting to the core of why do I feel the way I do. This retreat was just in time for me. …My wife [witnessing what has happened since attending the retreat] said, ‘This is the biggest miracle of my life.'”
Who Is Our Instructor/Trainer?
I am Patrick Norris, a Christian/Pastoral integrative coach with over 40 years of Senior/Lead Pastor experience. I specialize as a Transformational Life, Behavior, and Relationship Coach. My skill set is in emotional resilience, relational intelligence, and unwanted behavior recovery, focusing on the intersection of Biblical theology, psychology, neurobiology, and organizational systems.
I begin with a Biblical “soul-based” approach, emphasizing that all mental function originates in the immaterial soul and is represented in the brain and body. This unique framework honors the interconnectedness of the soul and body while prioritizing emotional restoration through the faculties and capacities of the soul.
My professional training includes a masters level certification program from the International Institute of Trauma and Addiction Professionals, founded by Dr. Patrick Carnes. This was the launch and equipping with advanced tools in emotional management, relationship distress stimulations, compulsive/addictive recovery, and trauma reprocessing. Over the years, I have also traveled internationally as a keynote speaker, delivering transformative presentations on leadership, emotional health, and spiritual growth.
I have supported pastors, church staff, professional/college athletes, television/movie actors, and psychotherapists, using evidence-based techniques like Cognitive Behavioral Techniques, Trauma Reprocessing, Brain/Body (Somatic) Experiencing, and Mindfulness Practices. My principles are Biblically based and vetted, with foundational integrative Christian Devotion Exercises that animate the functions of the brain and body.
My mission is to help leaders help themselves and thereby help others. We make sense of their own stories, discover their emotional and spiritual root systems, and gain the tools for lasting transformation. Whether addressing organizational leadership, marriage and family dynamics, personal emotional recovery, or learn how to effectively minister to others, I provide a clear and practical path for leaders to thrive.
The diverse experiences I bring to this program ensure that it is tailored to meet the unique challenges church teams face, fostering emotional health, relational intelligence, and spiritual vitality for lasting impact.
Experience a Free Live
Preview Webinar
February 5, 4:00pm CST
Unlock a sneak peek into the world of emotional intelligence for church leaders in just 30 minutes! Join Patrick Norris for an electrifying, no-cost mini-webinar that will revolutionize your approach to ministry leadership. In this power-packed half-hour:
- Get a lightning-fast preview of our transformative EQ journey
- Experience a taste of our interactive coaching style
- Discover how EQ can supercharge your ministry impact
- Have your burning questions answered live
Why Attend This 30-Minute Power Session?
- Zero cost, zero obligation – just pure, concentrated value
- Perfect for busy leaders – big insights in a small time commitment
- Bring your whole team for a shared glimpse into EQ mastery
Exclusive Live Webinar Perks:
- Snag a special discount code for the full cohort
- Stay to the end and win a free 1-on-Team coaching session with Patrick
- Receive a mini-EQ training to apply immediately in your life and ministry
Don't miss this rapid-fire introduction to the game-changing 2025 Transformational Church Leadership and Emotional Intelligence Coaching Cohort. Whether you're curious or ready to dive in, this 30-minute session is your perfect starting point. Secure your spot now and take the first step towards transforming your ministry in just half an hour.
Can't make it live? Sign up anyway, and we'll send you the replay. But trust us – you'll want to be there in real-time for the full experience!
Webinar Schedule
Explore with me during a free live Introductory Zoom - and even invite your whole team. The webinar time is below (all times are CST in 2025):
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February 5 (Wednesday) at 4:00pm CST
Register your church/team now!!!
You will also find the replay here.
Transformational Church Leadership
and Emotional Intelligence
Cohort Training
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Accessible Pricing
Founder’s Cohort Pricing:
An investment of $21 per Week Per Person for a Lifelong Ministry Transformation.
- $3000 per church team (up to 10 leaders) for 14 weeks. [$300 per person = $21 per week per person]
- Additional team members: $300 per person, but we recommend finding another 9 extra leaders and invite them all in to another group purchase
- Flexible payment plans: $1000 per month for 3 months
- Optional: Have Patrick exclusively Zoom Live with Your Team [for an additional fee]
Other comparable programs in the religious sector cost $750-$1,250+ per participant. Secular programs charge up to $10,000 for a single participant.
Risk-Free Investment: Our Money Back Guarantee
We are confident in the value of this cohort, but we want you to feel just as assured. If, within the first 30 days, you believe the content, technology, or presentations don’t meet your expectations, you can request a full refund—no questions asked.
This is our commitment to ensuring this experience is a worthwhile and transformative investment for your entire team.
Have more questions? Want to connect?
Schedule a Private Exploration Zoom Call
with Me (Patrick)!
Ready to Transform Your Team?
Schedule a quick, private Zoom exploration with me to discuss how this cohort can benefit your church leaders and get all your questions answered. Let’s explore how we can equip your team with the tools to lead effectively, emotionally, and spiritually.
PRIVATE ZOOM: Schedule Your Private Zoom Exploration HereFrequently Asked Questions
(FAQ)
Answer the most common concerns, like time investment, how to catch up if someone misses a week, payment options, and how the program addresses challenges unique to church ministry.
How much time does each participant need to invest weekly?
What happens if someone misses a week or falls behind?
Can we add more participants after the program starts?
How do we encourage and reward our team to stay engaged for the full 14 weeks?
What is the return on investment (ROI) for this program?
What if our church budget is tight? Are there payment options?
Is there a fee break for teams of less than 10 participants?
How is this program tailored specifically for churches, and not just general leadership?
Can the program benefit a team with a mix of staff and lay leaders?
How do I know this program is right for my church team?
What happens after the 14 weeks? Are there ongoing resources or next steps?
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