Below you will find the qualities of WayPoint members and the process for joining our professional community. We hope this will help you discern if WayPoint is right for you. If so, please complete a member interest form (found at the bottom of this page).
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Steps to Membership
We are a professional community committed to authentic, Christ-centered relationship and transformational learning. This involves commitment, vulnerability, trust and courage. It’s important to insure we're a good fit for everyone who comes into our tribes. For these reasons, our membership is invitational in nature and grows at the pace of relationship. We want to get to know you and allow you to get to know us.
Here's our basic process:
What if we've never met?
There are "WayPoint People" all over the world; people compelled by the love of Christ to deliberately cultivate transformational conversations. How can we get to know each other? If this is you, here's what you can do:
*The Encounter Course:
The Encounter Course is a series of six conversations with a small cohort of other transformational workers interested in exploring membership. The 90-minute conversations, held by teleconference, happen over a period of 6-8 weeks, and are facilitated by one or two trained WayPoint leaders. It's a great way to experience what WayPoint tribe calls are like. In addition to getting to know other potential tribe members, each call will include training on some great transformational tools you can take and use right away within your own sphere of influence. The content alone will make the course well worth your time, even if you ultimately decide not to join. The Encounter Course costs $165 and is typically held in the January-March timeframe. Specific dates and times have not yet been set for 2023.
**Invitation to Membership
After the Encounter Course, membership will be discussed and all interested and approved candidates will be invited to join and placed into a tribe of 4-6 participants (with a veteran shepherd for the first year). Click here for Membership Fee information.
Ongoing Membership
We are a professional community committed to authentic, Christ-centered relationship and transformational learning. This involves commitment, vulnerability, trust and courage. It’s important to insure we're a good fit for everyone who comes into our tribes. For these reasons, our membership is invitational in nature and grows at the pace of relationship. We want to get to know you and allow you to get to know us.
Here's our basic process:
- We build relationship with potential members. The initiative for the relationship can start in either direction. A current member may recommend someone they know or a potential member may express interest on their own. (Look for the button at the bottom of this page to complete an interest form.)
- The WayPoint Leadership Team receives and reviews recommendations/interest forms.
- If approved, we invite them to take WayPoint for a test drive by attending an Encounter Course.* (This is a pre-requisite for membership.)
- Then we formally extend a membership invitation.**
- All new members will be placed in a tribe of 4-6 people, with an experienced veteran member to shepherd them for the first year.
What if we've never met?
There are "WayPoint People" all over the world; people compelled by the love of Christ to deliberately cultivate transformational conversations. How can we get to know each other? If this is you, here's what you can do:
- Request a virtual coffee date with a member of our leadership team to ask any questions and share about yourself. Click here to email us.
- AND/OR if WayPoint seems like a good fit so far and you want to be considered for an Encounter Course, please fill out this Membership Interest Form to help our leadership team get to know you a bit better and the work you do.
*The Encounter Course:
The Encounter Course is a series of six conversations with a small cohort of other transformational workers interested in exploring membership. The 90-minute conversations, held by teleconference, happen over a period of 6-8 weeks, and are facilitated by one or two trained WayPoint leaders. It's a great way to experience what WayPoint tribe calls are like. In addition to getting to know other potential tribe members, each call will include training on some great transformational tools you can take and use right away within your own sphere of influence. The content alone will make the course well worth your time, even if you ultimately decide not to join. The Encounter Course costs $165 and is typically held in the January-March timeframe. Specific dates and times have not yet been set for 2023.
**Invitation to Membership
After the Encounter Course, membership will be discussed and all interested and approved candidates will be invited to join and placed into a tribe of 4-6 participants (with a veteran shepherd for the first year). Click here for Membership Fee information.
Ongoing Membership
- Membership is renewed annually in January.
- All tribes meet twice monthly for 90-minute teleconference calls.
- All tribes are self facilitated (except brand new tribes). Members take turns bringing content and facilitating conversations, exercises, mastermind formats, etc. depending on their own skill set, interests and the interests of the tribe.
- New tribes will be facilitated by 1 or 2 veteran members for the first year. During the course of the year, new members will partner with the shepherd to take on more and more of the facilitation responsibilities as they get the gist of how it works.
- All members are encouraged and generally expected to attend our Summit Conference which takes place every other year. This is a fantastic time for our virtual community to gather face to face and enjoy a rich time of experiential learning and spiritual community. (Conference fees will apply.)
Ready for the possibility of joining our professional community?
Please complete the member interest form. We will follow up with you about our next available Encounter Course, which is our introductory experience.
Please complete the member interest form. We will follow up with you about our next available Encounter Course, which is our introductory experience.