You carry recurring triggers and pressures that
block you from being connected and present.

It is difficult to experience peace and freedom when you are in the grip of anxiety.

Introducing a solution:

Starting April 5

Anxiety resides in 4 spaces:

1. The space inside you.
2. The space between you and another.
3. The space inside another.
4. The space between others.

This 30 day challenge focuses on space #1.

Over the 30 days, you will:

- Name and move through recurring triggers.
- Identify your unique sources of anxiety.
- Understand how chronic and acute anxiety operate
- Begin the flip the power dynamic to reduce anxiety's grip.
- Develop a comprehensive list of life giving habits.
- Understand the spiritual nature of chronic anxiety and how blocks your awareness of God's love.
- Lower your reactivity and practice connected presence.

Your commitments

Watch 2 - 3 brief videos per week. (Each video is 8-12 minutes long.)
Participate in online discussion at least once per week.
Take 3 brief self assessments over the 30 days.
Optional: Join a 75 minute zoom toward the end of the 30 days.
Zoom is offered 10AM OR 330PM MST on Thurs May 6th.

About Steve

Steve is a Lead Pastor and has 25 years of full time ministry experience. He is a Spiritual Care Professional in the Association of Clinical Pastoral Education and holds sixteen hundred hours of supervised ministry in CPE. He studied Family Systems Theory and theology in Grad school and has since integrated his chaplain experience, systems theory and pastoral experience into a set of tools anyone can practice.

Steve starts by helping you notice, name and move through anxiety and pressure in yourself, going from reactive to connected and aware. He then equips you to notice anxiety spreading in groups and how to not only de-escalate it, but build cultural health.

Steve has been using and teaching these tools internationally on 4 continents for over a decade and they have allowed him to thrive in a high pressure, rapid growth leadership context.

Steve knows internal and relational pressure, the spinning mind, resistance to change, sabotage, facing criticism and struggling with the breadth of skill required. He also knows the power of the Gospel first for the leader, and how healthy leadership can ‘infect’ unhealthy situations to create healthy culture.

The tools Steve has learned and forged have been hard fought and they work. in 2019, these tools became the Harper Collins book Managing Leadership Anxiety: Yours and Theirs.

Capable Life is your opportunity for a lived experience of these tools. They are better practiced than read about. Steve’s deepest desire is for leaders to use these tools to find the peace, freedom and love they so eloquently share with others.

What the Kids are Saying

I underlined almost everything in Steve's book - is it SO good. Steve has heart to heart conversations full of compassion and wisdom.

As an Army combat leader with experience in every combat theater and special operations since Desert Shield/Storm, I've not encountered better leadership training than this prior. This was both very humbling and very necessary.

Steve presented a super engaging, interactive 90-minute introduction to emotional health / managing anxiety that wowed our packed out London church venue. It was uniquely insightful, extremely relevant, and great fun. Steve is so gifted at teaching and encouraging vulnerability. People were massively helped and are still talking about it now. They want more!

Not only does Steve Cuss have a masterful way with words, he has a unique understanding of the human heart. I’m thrilled that we brought Steve into our organization to train, resource and inspire us. Steve curated a healthy environment where our team wrestled with their own anxieties while learning to move towards the anxieties of others. It was an excellent time of story and experience. I strongly recommend this training for your organization.

Steve led a truly transformative experience for the students in our program. His depth of knowledge, skill, and pastoral experience created a safe space for honest conversation, and charted a realistic path forward for growth both as individuals and as leaders. I highly recommend Steve Cuss to you. He will help you hear what anxiety is saying, speak gospel hope to yourself and others, and step into a healthy, fruitful life.

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How much time will this take?

You can expect to put in 30 minutes per week. Approximately 20 minutes of that will be watching video modules and 10 minutes will be online discussion.

I am not a leader or a pastor, will this benefit me?

If you battle triggers, recurring pressures, false needs. If you struggle wit any relationships in your life, this can help you.

Do I have to participate in the online discussion?

You can do as little or as much as you like, but the old cliche is true, the more you put in, the more you get out. We encourage 'externalization' and 'brave practice' to experience deeper transformation. In other words, you gain more by talking about it than just hearing about it. And trying new concepts will really help you.

What if I can't make the zoom?

You can still participate. We will record the zoom and make it available for viewing on your own time.

When is the zoom?

Thurs May 6 at either 10am or 330pm MST. Choose the time that works for you. Registration info will be in the welcome email after you sign up.