Design training environments that grow your people (and your church).
Many churches lack truly effective training and leadership development—limiting their capacity to grow. If you’re a ministry leader of any kind, it’s not your fault! Most church leaders have been equipped to teach, not to train.
Training Design Lab gives you a simple, repeatable framework you can use in any context to move beyond information transfer and into real skill development—multiplying leaders, strengthening ministry teams, and accelerating your church’s overall growth.
Does any of this sound familiar?
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Your staff spends most of their time running programs instead of developing people.
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Your volunteers are eager to serve, but they aren’t prepared to lead—so your ministry initiatives struggle to move forward.
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You feel responsible for developing training environments, but you’re not sure where to begin.
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Each ministry in your church approaches leadership development differently, leaving you without a consistent standard for training people.
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You rely heavily on leaders who were formed somewhere else and rarely see new leaders raised from within your own church.
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You may be multiplying disciples, but you’re not confident that the next generation is being equipped to carry that disciple-making work forward.
We’ve been there.
That’s why we developed the Training Design Lab.
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Identify what’s working in your current training—and fix what isn’t.
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Learn how to train people, not just teach them.
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Create engaging environments that help leaders grow through coaching and feedback.
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Design trainings that build skills, not just understanding.
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Develop a simple, repeatable training process you can use again and again.
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Strengthen the way your church trains and develops leaders across every ministry.
3 Ways to Become a Training Design Specialist
Training Design Starter Kit
A self-guided, on-demand way to learn the basics and get moving fast. Get the essential tools and start crafting practical training experiences using a simple, repeatable framework.
Training Design Lab
A half-day, in-person experience for your team or multiple church teams in your network. Get a practical framework you can apply right away, then begin designing a training experience with real-time coaching from our Clarity House guides.
Gain the tools, clarity, and confidence to keep building and scaling training across your church or network.
Training Design Lab Premium
A two-day, in-person experience for a single church or network team. Includes everything in the Training Design Lab, plus hands-on guidance for designing and implementing multi-session training courses. Receive real-time feedback as you develop a specific training experience to use within your church.
Rethink what you train people for, how you train them, and how training fits into your church’s broader disciple-making strategy. The result is a churchwide shift from simply teaching to equipping people with skills they can live out beyond the classroom.
What You Get
| Training Design Starter Kit | Training Design Lab | Training Design Lab Premium | |
| Delivery Method | online only | in-person | in-person |
| Learning Experience | self-guided | coach-guided | coach-guided |
| Time Commitment | self-paced | half-day | 2-day |
| Training Design Companion Guide | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| Training Design Deck | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| Training Design Session Builder | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| Framework for Scalable Training Design | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| Develop Trainings That Lead to Real-World Application | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| Grow into a More Effective Trainer | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| Churchwide Shift from Teaching to Training | ✔ | ✔ | |
| Build a Training Design Team | ✔ | ✔ | |
| Real-Time Coaching Feedback | ✔ | ✔ | |
| Multi-Session Course Design Training | ✔ | ||
| Customized for Your Church or Network | ✔ | ||
| Best Practices for Planning Your Training Space | ✔ | ||
| Master Facilitation Tips | ✔ | ||
| 15% Discount on Training Design Starter Kits for New Staff/Leaders | ✔ | ||
| 20% Discount on Training Design Starter Kits for New Staff/Leaders | ✔ |
Bring the Training Design Lab to your church.
Schedule a conversation with us to explore how the Training Design Lab could serve your church or network.
Frequently Asked Questions
Who is the Training Design Lab for?
It’s designed for pastors, church leaders, and ministry teams who want to strengthen their training efforts and grow leaders from within their church. If your current training efforts aren’t developing confident, equipped leaders, this is for you.
Do we need prior experience in training design?
No. The Training Design Lab is for leaders at every level—especially those who want to move beyond simply passing along information to developing real confidence and skill in others.
Do I need to purchase a Training Design Starter Kit for each team member or can I use it across my entire team?
The Starter Kit includes a single-user license and is not intended to be shared. Each purchase includes a physical Training Design Deck shipped directly to you. Additional Starter Kits can be purchased for other members of your team.
What is the Training Design Deck?
The Training Design Deck is a physical card deck that guides you through exercises you can use in any training environment. It includes three types of exercises: “Launch Strong” to build early momentum toward your training goal, “Train Strong” to help people apply the key concepts of your training, and “Finish Strong” to strengthen motivation and follow-through after the training ends.
What is the Session Builder?
The Session Builder is an editable template with built-in formulas to help you design organized, structured training sessions.
What makes the Premium experience so different?
Training Design Lab Premium is for teams who want customized, hands-on support in designing their training pathways. You’ll identify a specific training your church needs and build it with real-time coaching and feedback. While the regular experience focuses on one-off trainings, Premium goes further—equipping you to design multi-session courses.
