The Refresh Initiative
A Year-Long Journey to Refresh Your Team’s Relationships, Culture & Discernment
3 Stages • 1 Year • Lasting Transformation
Is Your Team Ready for a Refresh?
Every ministry leadership team, every so often, needs a fresh start.
You’re launching a new ministry and seeking team alignment.
You’re onboarding new members and want to imprint them with clarified values and healthy culture.
You sense stagnation in your team’s motivation.
You’re experiencing dissonance in your team’s relational dynamics.
Your team is escalating toward a meltdown; without intervention, there could be significant fallout.
You need to upgrade your spiritual discernment in decision-making.
You believe you need to become a spiritual community, not just a task-oriented team.
You’re troubled by unhealthy power dynamics affecting collaboration.
You’re hoping for better quality relationships within your team
Your team has faced a troubled transition and needs a safe way to move forward.
The Refresh Initiative
A Year-Long Journey in 3 Stages
Refresh Your Relationships
Build relational foundations through personality insights & retreat
Refresh Your Culture
Clarify your shared values & story, and develop a Rule of Life together
Refresh Your Discernment
Equip your team for ongoing corporate leadership discernment
Assess
Adjust
Align
Stage 1
Refresh Your Relationships
Customization
A conversation to frame where your team is and what you need
Orientation
All-team Zoom sesion introducing the retreat
Personality Consultation
Choose from Myers-Briggs, Enneagram, StrengthsFinder or Working Genius
Retreat
Full day + overnight + half day facilitated experience
INVESTMENT
$4,000
$1,500 Signing Fee
Due at agreement
$2,500 Guide Fee
Before retreat
The Retreat Experience: 5 Sessions
Personality Type Consultation
Insights into how each person observes, interprets & re-enters the world
Holding Space
(Part 1)
Learning the art of Group Spiritual Direction
Holding Space
(Part 2)
Practicing the art of Group Spiritual Direction
Where Have I Been? Who Am I Becoming?
Personal storytelling in an atmosphere of honor
Communion & Commitments
Setting foundations of safety and trust
Followed by an all-team Zoom debrief & forecast session
Stage 2
Refresh Your Culture
Clarifying Your Shared Story
Clarifying Relationships
Honest Culture Evaluation
Shared Values
Shared Practices & Rhythms
Shared Rule of Life
INVESTMENT
$4,000
Delivery Options
6 Zoom Sessions / 6 months
or Retreat format
Each member connected to a trusted spiritual director
Stage 3
Refresh Your Discernment
Rule of Life – Commitment Ceremony
A meaningful experience marking your team’s shared commitment
Introduction to Corporate Leadership Discernment
Learning to discern together as leaders
Practicing Corporate Leadership Discernment
Hands-on practice of group discernment
Keeping It Fresh
How to live into what you’ve learned and who you’ve become
Delivered as a full day + overnight + half day retreat
Investment: $4,000 ($1,500 signing + $2,500 guide fee)
Followed by a final all-team Zoom to debrief and explore future partnership
Your Investment & Our Guarantee
Stage 1
$4,000
Relationships
Stage 2
$4,000
Culture
Stage 3
$4,000
Discernment
Total Journey: $12,000 over ~12 months Each stage: $1,500 signing fee + $2,500 guide fee (due before retreat)
Our Guarantee
At any stage, prior to the retreat, if you decide not to proceed further, we will honor that decision and refund the entire retainer. You will have no further financial obligations.
The Process at a Glance
Customization → Orientation → Preparation → Retreat → Follow-Up
Stage 1: Relationships Personality assessment → Retreat (5 sessions) → Debrief
Stage 2: Culture Spiritual Direction → 6 Sessions or Retreat → Debrief
Stage 3: Discernment Ceremony Planning → Retreat (4 sessions) → Debrief
Each stage follows the same proven rhythm – tailored to your needs, guided by expert facilitators.
Why The Refresh Initiative?
Lasting Relationships
Move beyond surface-level teamwork to genuine trust, safety, and mutual understanding
Living Culture
Replace unspoken assumptions with shared values, practices, and a Rule of Life that guides daily decisions
Discerning Together
Develop the capacity to make wise decisions as a team, rooted in your shared identity and calling
This is not a one-time event.
It’s a year-long transformation that produces teams who know how to be with and for one another.
Let’s Begin the Conversation
Every journey starts with a customization conversation – no commitment required.
Let’s explore where your team is and how The Refresh Initiative might serve you.
Frequently Asked Questions
Who Leads This Program and Who Will We Be Our Guide?
The Refresh Initiative is led by Joe Steinke, leader of the Soul of the Shepherd ministry at Gracebridge Alliance, Inc. Joe is building out a group of vetted individual spiritual directors with decades of ministry leadership experience that will be the Guides for each specific Initiative client. These Guides are experts in accompanying individuals and groups through the Refresh journey.
Current Guides can be found here: Soul of the Shepherd – About Us
When Does It Start?
The Refresh Initiative can begin at any time throughout the year. We will work with your calendar to create a schedule that aligns with your leadership team’s preferences and availability.
Costs for Travel and Hospitality for Guide
To facilitate the two retreats that bookend the Refresh Initiative, the Guides would travel to your location and spend 2 nights (one for each retreat). We would work with you to keep these expenses reasonable, but are likely to run between $750 and $1,250 for airfare, meals, ground transportation and lodging.
Why Individual Spiritual Direction?
If your individual team members are not already working with a personal spiritual director, we provide a recommended list of trusted spiritual directors to offer individual spiritual direction for all group members throughout the 10-month journey. This personalized support is essential for individual transformation alongside the group work conducted in your team Zoom sessions with your Guide. To the extent some team members are not already under individual spiritual direction, there may be some incremental expense for them to do so. This would be separate from the Refresh package, and could be estimated to be around $75 per session.
Planning for the Retreats
While the Guides will execute the retreat sessions, you will host the logistics of each retreat, making the necessary arrangements as to venue and hospitality for each day.
Resources Used in the Refresh Journey
Our conversations are informed by significant contributions from the following authors:
- Ruth Haley Barton: Pursuing God’s Will Together
- Pete Scazzero: The Emotionally Healthy Leader
- Robert J. Clinton: The Making of a Leader
We synthesize insights from these works into a gracious conversation that allows everyone to be heard, seen, and known, fostering honesty, empathy, and honor within your team. By engaging in the individual and group work highlighted in these authors’ writings, facilitated by a trusted Guide, you will experience the catalyst of team alignment for your ministry.