THE COHORT EXPERIENCE
Coaching, Community, & Space to Breathe
Extras Along the Way
Throughout the cohort, you'll receive additional resources, content, connections, and occasional surprises designed to encourage and support you between gatherings.
OUR APPROACH
More Than a Leadership Group
Most Next Gen and Youth Pastors don’t join a cohort because they’re failing. They join because they’ve realized that leading students, building volunteers, navigating parents, and carrying the emotional weight of ministry alone isn’t sustainable. You care deeply about the next generation — but leading students, families, volunteers, and staff can feel isolating fast. This 6-month cohort gives NextGen pastors and ministry leaders a trusted circle, personal coaching, and space to grow without carrying everything alone.
This cohort is built around the core challenges every NextGen ministry leader faces. Each month, we go deep on one of those real-world elements — things like communication, volunteer development, navigating conflict, curriculum and teaching, working with parents, and building a healthy team culture. You're not learning theory. You're working through the actual stuff that's sitting on your desk right now.
This cohort is built around WholeCare™ — a framework that looks at your leadership, relationships, ministry, health, and calling as one connected whole. The challenges you face in ministry rarely stay isolated to ministry alone. Over time, the pressure of leading, caring for students, managing expectations, and constantly pouring into others can affect your confidence, emotional health, family life, and clarity.
That’s why this isn’t just networking, leadership content, or another ministry mastermind. It’s a guided coaching experience led by someone who understands the unique pressures of NextGen ministry and knows how to help you move from where you are to where you need to be.
ABOUT US
Your Cohort Leader
Brian leads our cohorts, and he is supported by a team that few organizations can match. You can meet all of them on our about page
Brian Aaby
CHIEF STRATEGIST
Brian has spent over 20 years helping pastors and churches figure out where they’re going and how to actually get there. He’s led local church ministry, coached leaders nationally, and brings a clarity to hard conversations that most people spend years trying to find. He’s married to Elisabeth, dad to three kids, and you’ll usually find him hiking in the Pacific Northwest or catching a baseball game somewhere.