COHORT MEETING FORMAT

What does a cohort meeting look like?

  • Cohorts will meet in an online conference according to an 20-month schedule.

  • The sessions will provide new materials/videos every other month in the Teaching Sessions. The alternating months are used for accountability and encouragement.

  • The Teaching Session iClass will last 2 hours:

    • 5 minutes – Welcome, Prayer and Introduction

    • 20 minutes – Discussion around the 10-questions

    • 20 minutes – report out from previous month’s progress with training of local cohort and execution of local plans.

    • 60 minutes – video presentation/discussion. There will be 5-7 minute videos by an expert peer, each video ending with a question to be discussed by the group for 10 minutes each.

    • 10 minutes – development and group presentation of the challenge assignment for the 2 months ahead (to be executed in partnership with the Pastor’s local church cohort).

    • 5 minutes – Wrap and Prayer

  • The Accountability/Encouragement Session iClass will last for 1 hour:

    • 5 minutes – Welcome, Prayer

    • 10 minutes – discussion around the question assigned from the 10-questions

    • 40 minutes – brief review of each video with Local Church RAND Leadership Cohort updates from each participant

    • 5 minutes – Wrap and Prayer