The Life Course Franchise

Our goal is to share the Life Course learning and the resources we have to so those with the heart and potential to run the Life Course in their own context are able to do so and see a similar impact in their ‘client’ group.

We believe our materials are unique in the ‘recovery market‘. Our group materials that are not focussed on the addiction but on the onward journey – a holistic approach to living well in recovery which promotes positive living and help identify safe alternatives to unhelpful behaviours.

We seek to break the cycle of recovery, relapse, recovery, relapse and embrace the place of spirituality and finding purpose in enhancing well-being.

Why join the franchise community?

We have a resource to support meaningful engagement with people in recovery who are potentially a hard to reach group. We believe this course supports the mission of ‘the church’ and helps facilitate a common language / space between the church and those they seek to help.

We provide a ready-made tried and tested unique life-skills curriculum with training to support lay or staff workers to be able to confidently deliver the materials in your own context.

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The Journey of Becoming a Franchise Partner

The franchise journey is simple.

Start by exploring whether the Life Course is right for your organisation and the people you are seeking to support by attending one of our unpacked sessions.

Then if you want to explore further have a conversation with us to see if you are a suitable match to run a franchise sustainably, safely and successfully?

After agreeing that is the way to progress there is a short enrolment process (the admin element including agreements, policies and payments) before moving on the equip stage when we prepare your team to run the course in your context.

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The Life Course Unpacked Session

This free session is for agencies, organisations, charities or churches looking to explore in more detail the Life Course materials and is the first step for anyone interested in becoming a franchise partner.

The Life Course Unpacked session will cover:

The Life Course Story
What’s the need?
Unpacking the Life Course content
What difference does it make? – Stories of Hope from the front line
Understand the Franchise process, benefits and costs
Training and Support
What Next?

Dates for the next online and in-person unpack sessions can be found here.

Book your place here

Franchise Partner Training

This 2-day Life Course training is for approved agencies and churches who have signed up to run the Life Course as a franchise partner, and have previously attended the free Life Course Franchise Unpacked session.

The training aims to understand the what, why and how of Life Course facilitation, so that franchise partners will be able to confidently deliver the course in their contexts, resulting in sustained impact with clients.

Training Content:

Creating the safe appropriate group environment
Understanding the client’s needs
Develop Facilitation Skills – Group Dynamics
Develop Facilitation Skills – Supporting change
Seeing it done – Sample session walk
Doing it yourself – Group exercise
Planning for Sustainable Impact

“100% of those completing the Life Course said they had increased HOPE for a better future.”

inHope, the charity of which Life Recovery is a part, is a Christian charity. Our faith informs who we are and what we do. The development of the course over many years has reflected a continued journey of doing what we believe God is calling us do.

The Life Course isn’t an avenue we use to proselytize. However, within the Life Course, we encourage talk of spirituality, prayer and meditation, and within this share how our Christian faith has changed us.

We believe God is the one who can help us to be free. He loves us, shows us the way to live and calls us to take responsibility for our daily choices. There is no obligation or expectation that those attending the Life Course to be of the Christian faith or be exploring it.

We appreciate this may be too Christian for some who do not share our faith and not Christian enough for those who are looking for a more scriptural based programme.