Leader Health Cohorts

Honest Conversation, Spiritual Practice, & Deep Personal Renewal

Imagine twelve pastors meeting together monthly for a day at a retreat center…

…talking about their stories, families of origin, relationships with God, struggles, and emotions, all in a context of acceptance and confidentiality.

Imagine them being heard and cared for, while also hearing and caring for each other.  Imagine them experiencing guided spiritual practices like silence and solitude, and encountering God through nature, then reflecting on them together. 

Imagine these leaders deepening their personal health and spiritual vitality; finding friendship and camaraderie; and experiencing personal transformation that would shape their relationships and ministry for years to come.

This is the Leader Health Cohort journey.

God designed human beings for attachment—to Him and to one another. Sin distorts that attachment. Trauma fractures it. Shame hinders it. The ministry of Jesus restores it.

We Want Leaders to Experience…

  • Healthier relationships with God, yourself, and others.
  • Closer, more vulnerable connections with your spouse and children.
  • Deeper love, joy, passion, peace, and strength.
  • A slower pace — seeing the value of spending one day a month with God, even after the 10-month journey ends.
  • A clearer sense of your calling.
  • Less defensiveness, avoidance, control, resentment, striving, and hiding.
  • More motivation and empowerment to finish well as a follower of Jesus.
  • Increased hunger to see the mission of Jesus accomplished through His Church.
  • Greater dependence on God, expressed in new and different ways.

What to Expect

Each of the 10 Monthly Gatherings Include:

  • One full day at a retreat center, with lunch provided
  • Teaching and discussion
  • Guided group sharing and response
  • Directed individual experiences and group processing
  • Prayer

Between Gatherings:

  • Pre-work to prepare your heart and mind
  • Optional one additional meeting per month with a few leaders in the group

Cohort Costs

For our first cohort, we’re offering a special founding-cohort rate of $2,500 total for the 10-month journey, which includes lunches and printed materials. Future cohorts will be $3,000.

Books + Assessments

Any extra materials will be purchased separately by each participant.

10 Cohort Gatherings

Monthly in-person meetings January–May, and August–December.

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Abe Meysenburg

Abe oversees Saturate’s Leader Health initiatives and Leader Care team. He has spent 25 years serving churches in Illinois, Washington, and Alabama. He planted a church with a few others in 2001, but has invested most of his time as a pastor equipping everyday followers of Jesus to shepherd and care for one another. He has been on the receiving end up of a great deal of shepherding care, both formal and informal. He is passionate about walking with ministry leaders through the unique challenges they face, and about helping people learn how to love one another well. He is the founder of The Shepherding Perspective, which provides shepherding consulting, care, and training to ministry leaders and local churches.

Abe is married to Jenn, and they have four adult children. He loves to read, listen to music, hike, exercise, sit around a fire with friends, ride his bike, eat amazing food, travel, and meet new people.

Join Us

We’re forming our first cohorts. Tell us where you are, and we’ll let you know when a cohort opens near you.

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Themes We’ll Address

  • Story
  • Attachment
  • A Theology of Emotion and Emotional Health
  • Design (CliftonStrengths)
  • The Gospel as Both a Means and an End
  • The Journey from False Self to True Self
  • The Father Heart of God
  • 3-D Transformation: Repentance & Faith, Healing, and Deliverance
  • Spiritual Formation

Resources We’ll Utilize