Leading Healthy Cohort: How to Thrive in Ministry & Marriage

Join Lee Lewis, soul care pastor, trainer and coach for the Leading Healthy Cohort starting this month!  This life changing cohort help pastors and ministry leaders move from serving to thriving in their ministry and marriage. Engaging cohort calls, assignments and coaching will be highly practical and this experience will equip leaders to strengthen spiritual, emotional, and relational health—learning to lead from overflow, not exhaustion.
Lee Lewis is a soul care pastor at Radiant Church in Austin, Texas. He has over 20 years of experience as a pastor, counselor, and trainer. He is a leader care consultant for Soul Care Consulting, and a frequent speaker for biblical soul care conferences. He is married to Andrea and they have four children.

Intended Audience:
Lead pastors, church planters and elders with a desire to focus on their health as a leader and the health of their plurality.

Purpose:
Helping senior leaders to grow in spiritual, relational, and emotional health and multiplying
health in leader teams.
This Leading Healthy cohort is specifically designed for training and coaching leaders in the area of spiritual, emotional, and relational health. While much of the reading will target lead pastors, this cohort would be appropriate for elders as well. The beauty of a cohort is the collaboration, mutual encouragement, and friendship this format offers. Our breakout group time will be highly interactional where I hope we can learn from one another as well as hold one another accountable for healthy rhythms. 90-minute group sessions with individual coaching calls and a Leader Health Assessment™. Practical frameworks, reading, and community designed to help you lead and live healthy in every area.

Length: Ten 90-minute sessions 1:30-3:00pm CST beginning November 11th, 2025 and ending on March 31st, 2026 plus coaching calls.

Size: 12-15 participants


Cohort Overview:
Step 1: Register by following instructions on the SCCI website.
Step 2: Take the Leader Health AssessmentTM (Link will be sent after registration)
Step 3: Review results with a cohort leader
Step 4: Joins video calls for whole group and coaching calls
● Learn the key attributes of a healthy leader
● Develop a plan for healthy and sustainable leadership
● Learn how to multiply healthy ministry leaders for sustainable ministry
Step 5: Attend “Lead Healthy” Retreat and debrief
Step 6: Review, Adjust Personal Leader Health Plan
Step 7: Consider Follow up with Soul Care 360TM/Consult

Time Commitment:
We encourage you to consider whether you have time to invest in this cohort so that you will receive the most benefit from your experience. The bi-weekly video conference calls (typically 1 large group: 1.5 hours and coaching calls as scheduled)

There will also be 2-3 deep dive coaching calls (the first being individual with the review of LHA results) with half the group sometime in the 4 months. You will need to factor in the time required to complete all monthly assignments, which includes time for developing each aspect of your plan.

Cost:
● Tuition: $999 plus + required books/reading (which includes the following)
● Monthly full group cohort video conference (1.5 hours)
● Administration and scoring of Leader Health Assessment
● LHA personal coaching call
● Smaller group health coaching calls

Cohort Monthly Themes:

#1 - November Theme: Establishing a Baseline for Leading Healthy
● Pre-Assignment (before our call): (1) Take Leader Health Assessment; (2) Schedule private consult with assessment recommendations; (3) Read & Respond: the first 6 chapters of Resilient Ministry by Burns, Chapman, and Guthrie.

#2 - December Theme: Theological Framework for Leading Healthy
● Pre-Assignment: (1) Your “Theology of Health” framework; (2) Develop personal plan for
spiritual, emotional, and relational health; (3) Read & Respond: chapters 7-10 of Resilient
Ministry by Burns, Chapman, and Guthrie.; (4) Read & Respond: Part 1 of Your Life in Rhythm by Miller (35 pages).

#3 - January Theme: Practical Framework—A Plan for Spiritual Health and Self Care
● Pre-Assignment: (1) Mapping Spiritual and Self-care Rhythms; (2) Read & Respond: Part 2 of Your Life in Rhythm by Miller; chapters 1-8 in The Imperfect Pastor by Eswine; (3) chapters 11-12 of Resilient Ministry by Burns, Chapman, and Guthrie.

#4 - February Theme: Practical Framework—A Plan for Growing in Family Stewardship, and Emotional Intelligence.
● Pre-Assignment: (1) Guided interview with spouse; (2) Read & Respond: Part 3 of Your Life in Rhythm by Miller; (3) Read & Respond: Chapters -1-5 in Lead by Paul Tripp

#5 - March Theme: Practical Framework—A Plan for Growing as a Manager and Leader.
●Pre-assignment: 11-12 of Resilient Ministry by Burns, Chapman, and Guthrie.
Read chapters 1-4 in The Plurality Principle by Dave Harvey

Required Books: (please purchase soon)
Read and respond requires you to do all assigned reading before next call and to jot down
take-aways in a Lead Healthy Journal. Please keep a journal throughout the cohort.
Resilient Ministry by Burns, Chapman and Guthrie
Lead by Paul Tripp
Your Life in Rhythm by Bruce Miller
The Imperfect Pastor by Zack Eswine
The Plurality Principle by Dave Harvey
How to Thrive as a Pastor’s Wife by Christine Hoover (please have your wife ready this before
retreat).
Other Recommended Books:
Trellis and Vine by Collin Marshall and Tony Payne
Dangerous Calling by Paul Tripp
The Contemplative Pastor by Eugene Peterson
Way of the Dragon or the Way of the Lamb by Jamin Goggin and Kyle Strobel
Leading on Empty by Wayne Cordeiro
Soul Rest by Curtis Zackery
Reset by David Murray
Gentle and Lowly by Dane Ortlund
Sabbaticals by Rusty McKie
The Pastors Wife by Gloria Furman

Call schedule from 1:30-3:00pm CST:
November 11
November 25
December 9
January 6
January 20
February 3
February 17 [wives are welcome on this call]
March 3
March 17
March 31