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In order to help ministry workers do this, we have started offering quarterly MTD Cohorts for sustaining missionaries field workers who would like some assistance in getting their MTD to a healthy place.
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Coaching cohorts are intended for seasoned missionaries field workers who want to raise more funding. The objective of this weekly, one-hour group call is to help create and validate specific goals to help increase MTD health. The cohort provides camaraderie, structure, accountability, and encouragement around an 8-week focused time of MTD.
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- Shared Knowledge: We all have something we do well in MTD. The cohorts are a place to share that knowledge; for support-raisers to teach one another. A coach will facilitate this conversation , and fill in gaps where needed. But, mainly, the cohort is teaching the cohort.
- Accountability: Updating the group each week on what they said they were going to do often provides the motivation needed to reach goals.
- Camaraderie: People work better when they know they’re not alone. Cohort leaders will ask questions to bring out obstacles group members are facing and help work toward solutions. When group members can hear how others are overcoming the same obstacle, it builds camaraderie and strengthens resolve.
- Structure: Cohorts provide structure during what can be a very unstructured time (raising new support). This structure ministers to the individual both by reducing stress and keeping them focused.
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