Guide Development

guide Development

Be formed to walk with anyone

Most of us have someone in our lives we wish we could reach. But if we're honest — how confident are we that sharing the gospel with them would land as good news?

That tension isn't a character flaw. It's a formation gap. And it can be filled — not by learning better techniques, but by becoming more yourself.

We don’t form disciples to be experts or have all the answers. We form them to be disciples who live in a way that love is the most important thing they can offer, and wants to learn how to offer it well.

If you have people in your life who don't know God, and you want to walk with them in a way that feels genuine rather than forced, you might be exactly who we're looking for.

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What is a guide?

Guide development is the process of forming disciples in how to have meaningful, spiritual dialogue with spiritual seekers. It’s less about what you do and more about who you’re becoming — and what forms in you here doesn’t stay in a room. It moves into every area of your life: your workplace, your family, your neighbourhood.

At the heart of this is worldview dialogue. Worldview* dialogue is a way to have meaningful engagement and spiritual conversation with people by learning how to draw out and explore together someone’s way of seeing the world. When someone feels seen and understood, it opens up space for real, relational dialogue and not a platform of convincing someone into a new idea.
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What Guides gain

A deep well of spiritual, human, and intellectual formation in evangelization in today’s age including deeper understanding of how to connect with the world, how people engage with meaning, intentional accompaniment, and more. 
A community of others who are with you in the journey. 
Identify your own spiritual charisms and gifts, and step into living into your missional identity in any context you’re in.  
Your own spiritual accompaniment and guidance as you walk your journey with God.  
A place to grow, practice, and embody your missionary identity. 
Being a guide is as much about who you are becoming as what you are doing.

Key areas of Guide Development

Becoming Yourself

Better understanding our skills, capacities, and the way the Holy Spirit moves through us. An invitation to orient your life around love, To be yourself out of love. You were made by Love, to be loved, for love.

Worldview as a Medium

Understanding modern longing, fragmentation, and spiritual openness. A breakdown of the way people see the world and why it’s the most effective form of engagement.

Roundtable Dialogue

Specific ways to engage in loving, transformational dialogue through listening, witnessing, reflecting, paying attention to the spirit, memories, etc.

What to expect

Guide development begins with a vision night — an in-person (or remote depending on location) gathering where you'll hear the heart behind the work and discern if it's right for you.

From there, six sessions on Zoom over six weeks. Each session builds on the last, with asynchronous resources in between — including a series of daily devotionals — to help you stay rooted in what you're being formed in.

You'll also have access to our team through regular office hours for any questions, coaching, or support along the way.

After the six weeks, the journey doesn't end. Digital resources remain available, and office hours continue for anyone who wants ongoing support as they step further into the work.

The Guided Interview

Our posture is one of a round table. We sit with, not above. We listen, reflect, and invite with compassionate curiosity. We help people discover what’s already stirring within and build on that.

The best way to understand what guide development forms in you is to experience it yourself first.

A Guided Interview is an approximately two-hour conversation where you explore your own story — how you see the world, what's shaped you, and what God might be stirring in you. No preparation needed. You just show up.

The gift of it is simple: a safe space to have your story genuinely taken in by someone who is fully present with you. It's where the three key areas of guide development become real rather than just concepts.

During Guide Development, you'll have the opportunity to offer the same to someone in your own life. The most important thing isn't having the right formula — it's showing up as yourself, listening well, and staying curious. If that feels nerve-wracking, that's completely normal. We'll walk with you through it.

It was probably the first time I've ever had someone not try to talk to me like I was a problem that needed to be fixed. They just saw me as a person, and some of the things people had labeled as negatives in my life were actually seen as strengths and gifts from God.

Jenn

Sitting down and chatting with Colleen revealed some things from my past that were holding me back from sharing my faith and being authentic with those who don't know I have faith. After the revelation an opportunity presented itself naturally and I stepped out in faith. Now I can feel more authentic as myself and start sharing the faith part of my life.

Rebecca

Going into it unexpectedly was kind of the way to go, they give you amazing prompts and you just let the Holy Spirit flow and see where the interview takes you.

Asia

I want to be able to engage as myself / similar to the way Jason could lead with love.

Frequently Asked Questions

Therapy is a clinical relationship. A trained professional with specific modalities, a contractual agreement, and a focus on processing trauma and mental health. That's a good and necessary thing — and it's not what this is.

Guide development forms you in something available to everyone: how to be a genuinely present, curious human being with another person. When that happens well, it can feel therapeutic. But that's because real human presence is healing — not because guides are functioning as therapists.

We also have clear guidelines for when something exceeds what a guide is equipped for. If a conversation moves into territory that calls for professional care, we help you recognize that and refer well. You won't be left to navigate it alone.

We’ll gather on zoom and someone from the Glass Canvas Ministries team will lead the main teaching section. We want to make space during teaching to always stop and ask questions and figure out how these ideas apply to your life. We’ll leave space at the end for more Q&A, and a discussion time led by your Guide Manager.

We ask that you try to be at sessions but we realize life happens, and we will record if you can’t make it! We do invite everyone to experience their own worldview dialogue with someone from our team, and later on, engage in their own worldview dialogue. We’ll also have asynchronous resources to engage with outside of sessions. This will include prayers & meditations, podcast, and videos.

This is access to another Guide on the Glass Canvas Ministries team to help work through the material specifically in your context. You’ll be able to schedule time in their calendar during the day.

You’ll schedule a time with a guide on the Glass Canvas Ministries team. We will help coordinate this time. It will be at the Glass Canvas Ministry Center if possible, or accomdations for remote can be made if not. The dialogue needs no preparation. You can show up and the guide will lead the dialogue. There is an option to record if you want to listen back just for yourself, or potentially offer it back to the Guide Development program to help build ongoing resources (this is not required at all - just an option we can explain more with you)

Once we start exploring worldview dialogue, we’ll help set up a time with someone (or you can find someone yourself).

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