READY TO EXPERIENCE IMMANUEL?
The Immanuel Encounter is all about engaging in a heartfelt experience with Jesus. It's about building and nurturing a deep bond of trust and love with Him. Through small groups led by mentors and weekly exercises, our training will teach you how you can experience Immanuel daily.
Our Immanuel Lifestyle curriculum is designed to help you develop the understanding and skills necessary to live in a healthy, interactive relationship with God and others in everyday life; experience God's love, secure attachment, and healing power; grow in spiritual, emotional, and relational maturity; and share joy and transformation with others.
A FEW TOPICS WE PRACTICE:
Joy: Learn to Share and Receive It
Attunement: What It Is and How to Practice
Relational Circuits: What They Are and How to Turn Them On
Connection: Secure Attachment with God, Ourselves, and Others
Building on the Immanuel Lifestyle curriculum*, this training program teaches you how to guide others through an Immanuel Encounter. Along with some teaching, each student has several opportunities throughout the course to practice guiding a session with feedback from a mentor.
TOPICS INCLUDE:
Joy and Capacity​​​
What the Immanuel Encounter Is and Isn't
The Basic Elements of the Encounter Process
Encounter Guiding Skills: Attunement, Reflective Listening, Open-Ended Questions, and many more!
* The Lifestyle course is a prerequisite.
The Immanuel Encounter program was developed by licensed therapist and prayer minister Margaret Webb, and is an Immanuel Prayer training based on the works of Dr. Jim Wilder and Dr. Karl Lehman.
HOW IT WORKS - THE PROCESS
Here are the ways you can join our Immanuel Encounter program!
Check out a Webinar
We often host introductory webinars so you can get a feel for what the Immanuel Encounter program is like. Make sure to sign up for emails to stay in the know for the next one, or visit our online recordings and watch a pre-recorded one.
Join an Immanuel Guided Training Course*
After the life-changing experience of the Lifestyle course, we encourage you to join us in this 10-week class to learn how to become a guide. ​
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*Requires completion of IE Lifestyle Course within two years of registering.
FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTION
Answers to common queries our students have before starting their journey.
What is the Immanuel Encounter?
How do I know if it's God or just my imagination?
The Immanuel Encounter is a process of connecting personally and interactively with the Lord, and removing barriers and hindrances to an intimate, interactive lifestyle of connection with him. The goal is to build and deepen a securely attached relationship with the Lord, one that increases our capacity to stay connected to him even in difficult life situations or painful experiences.
This 12-minute video, composed of clips from our live classes, offers a more detailed teaching about discerning whether an Immanuel Prayer experience is really from God - and what to do if you're concerned it's not from God!
What's unique about Alive & Well's training?
Does Jesus always show up?
There are many trainers out there and we love learning from them as well as sharing our unique gifts and experiences. Based on our own experience, as well as feedback from others, Alive and Well’s greatest strengths are:
BREADTH: Embracing diverse ways to experience God.
DEPTH: Asking profound questions for a deeper
connection with God.
EASE & FLEXIBILITY: Convenient, accessible video
training options.
CROSS-TRAINING: Life Model based, integrating practical exercises for ongoing connection with God.
In this 5-minute video, Immanuel students, mentors, and trainers share some of their thoughts and experiences about when people have a hard time connecting with Jesus in the way we are used to expecting in Immanuel Prayer.