For the first time ever, you have the opportunity to stay on the journey with TC alums through a membership community!
Membership window is currently closed. If you are an alum and would like to join the membership, email cpowell@transformingcenter.org
Revisit
Have the opportunity to revisit the teachings and stories from your community experience.
Cultivate
Continue to cultivate spiritual practices that will support a way of life that works for you back at home.
Experience
Experience the gift of being connected with those who understand the journey you've been on.
Some of us were excited and ready to bring our experiences back to our life in ministry, work, family, friends.
Some of us left wanting to go back and do it again.
Some of us were sad to say goodbye — uncertain where we would experience this kind of community again.
Some of us have a hard time holding on to what we experienced during that time.
Some of us are are still looking for the next invitation to walk with God and others in the intentional ways we shared in community.
We are launching this membership because
We know that people change incrementally, over time, with others in the context of spiritual disciplines that open us to God.
So even if our in-person gatherings have concluded, we want to stay connected!
An online membership for the TC would have been unthinkable 20 years ago!
Now, we have the opportunity to walk together in new ways.
This membership is a place for you to continue the journey of transformation by having access to the teachings from your community experience, an opportunity to connect with other alumni, and fresh encounters with God through facilitated practices and conversations.
Have you felt isolated in your leadership? Do you want to revisit your TC experience or hear the new teachings for each retreat? Are you seeking connection with other TC alumni?
This exclusive membership is a safe place to be honest about the challenges of spiritual leadership, to remember the teachings and practices that open us up to God, and to be supported by an ongoing community that sustains us in the hope and the mystery of God’s transforming work in the world — starting with us!
You do not have to walk alone.
Don't Turn and Walk Away
Rather than Distracting or Numbing
Instead of Withdrawing or Hiding
Our invitation to you...
Revisit the teachings to ground you
Reengage with spiritual practices to sustain you
Reconnect with Transforming Community to encourage you
Your TC experience didn't end after you left, and thanks to this membership, we can continue on together.
We miss you and can't wait to connect!
Included in the Alumni Membership Community
Access to teaching videos in a paced way, building your digital library, allowing you to engage content with intentionality and space.
TC Leaders from over the years are coming back to host conversations that support the work that God is doing in and through our leadership.
No matter what community you were a part of, TC Alumni have no trouble dropping into a deeper place with one another. You are not alone!
Each gathering, you will engage in a spiritual practice that invites you to integrate what you are learning into the life you are experiencing.
BONUS
As part of your Alumni Membership, you will receive complimentary access to Online Oasis events — live learning experiences about topics that are important for the spiritual health of leaders, hosted by the Transforming Center.
BONUS
In addition to your membership experience monthly, you will also receive access to podcast patron episodes.
BONUS
Through a carefully curated 7 video series, Ruth Haley Barton encourages leaders to move beyond “the honeymoon phase” into deeper levels of intimacy with God. Each video guides you through a different kind of prayer practice, so you can discover the rhythms that resonate with your life and leadership.
The Ways of Praying series marks the beginning of what we hope will be an ongoing offering, and as a member you’ll receive this and all future series like it.
What felt very clear on retreat perhaps now feels a bit fuzzy?
The TC experience has left you longing for a kind of connection that might not be possible in your current setting?
Having a hard time maintaining your rule of life without the supportive rhythms of TC?
"I have never been able to find a spiritual community like what I experienced in my Transforming Community. The opportunity to return to an intentional rhythm with alumni who share a common understanding of how to be present with each other's souls is truly an exciting invitation. Let’s go!"
"I went through the experience once and I thought 'all right, I've got it!' Then Covid came, a move across the country and a new pastoral position and I realized that I needed to be grounded again. I need to find out what these rhythms look like in my new context."
"It's rare for me to experience a space that is both safe — I can truly show up there, and sacred — in other words, I might see the face of God and be forced to change. Transforming Community is that space."
"I'm thankful because I found another family...a group and a community where we can just take this journey together. You can be vulnerable, open and authentic."
This community reminds me of a song from the movie The Wiz. Dorothy is singing about home and she says, "When I think of home, I think of a place where there's love overflowing. I wish I were home. I wish I were back there. With the things I've been knowing. Wind that makes the tall grass bend into leaning, suddenly the raindrops that fall have new meaning, sprinkling the scene, making it all clean.” That's what this place feels like to me. Home.
About the Transforming Center's Alumni Membership Community
Transforming Community alumni who want to stay connected, revisit teachings, engage in spiritual practices, and receive ongoing support in their leadership and spiritual journey.
A monthly recorded teaching video
A live connection on the 4th Tuesday of every month at 12 PM CST
Connection with fellow alumni for encouragement and support
All BONUS Podcast Episodes
FREE Online Oasis events
ALL NEW Ways of Praying Video series (releasing in Oct)
The live conversations will be recorded (outside of the breakout rooms) so that you can listen in on the meeting at a different time. You’ll also still have access to the monthly teaching and can join the next conversation when you're able. There’s always space for you in the community.
The core content includes one teaching video per month, which you can watch at your convenience, plus an optional live conversation once a month. In total, you could spend 1-2 hours per month engaging with the video content and participating in the live call. We encourage you to spend additional time engaging in prayer, reflection, or perhaps re-visiting your handouts/journals from Transforming Community — it's completely up to you!
You can join the Alumni Membership Community by using this link or by clicking any of the buttons found on this page. You can choose a monthly or annual fee of $49/month or $588/year.
While we look forward to continuing our Alumni experience with you, we recognize that your lives are busy, and your schedules may change down the road. You have complete control over your membership experience and can cancel your account at any time.
From all of us at the Transforming Center
When we think about our alumni, we can't help but feel a deep connection to where we have been on together AND to the journey we are still taking. Together, we can create this new experience of Transforming Community — for our own souls and for the sake of others!