Slow down before you step into a new year. Pause, look back, and reflect so you can move forward with clarity, peace, and purpose.
This course will guide you through a simple, intentional process to reflect on the year you’ve lived and prepare your heart, habits, and focus for the one ahead.

Before diving in, this short video will show you how to set yourself up for success: block off your reflection time, eliminate distractions, and create space for God to speak. These simple steps will help you slow down, stay present, and make the most of every session.

Before you move into a new year, you’ll pause to understand why reflection matters and why it’s one of the most transformative rhythms you can create. This session helps you slow down long enough to notice God’s presence, patterns in your life, and the moments worth remembering. Start here to ground your heart in purpose before you begin looking back.

This session walks you through how to set yourself up for meaningful reflection — from scheduling your time to preparing a distraction-free environment. You’ll gather what you need, get your heart settled, and create space to meet with God. Think of this as setting the table before the feast.

You’ll begin your “Look Back” journey by remembering the good — the milestones, the surprises, and the small everyday moments you don’t want to forget. This session helps you celebrate what God has done and awaken gratitude as the foundation for reflection. You’ll be surprised by how much joy rises to the surface.

God uses people to shape our lives, and this session helps you name the relationships that made the biggest impact this year. Whether they encouraged you, challenged you, or simply walked with you, you’ll reflect on the role they played in your story. It’s a powerful reminder that spiritual growth happens in community.

Here you’ll face the hard moments with honesty and grace — the struggles, disappointments, or unexpected turns that marked your year. This session helps you process what hurt, what didn’t go as planned, and what God may have been teaching you through it all. Naming the hard things is the first step toward releasing them.

Every year leaves behind wisdom, and this session helps you name the lessons you want to carry forward. You’ll capture insights from the highs, the lows, and everything in between — turning your experience into practical and spiritual guidance. These lessons become the foundation for intentional living in the year ahead.

Gratitude changes how you see your life, and this session invites you to name 50–100 things you’re thankful for. As you move from obvious blessings to the small, sacred details, your perspective expands and your heart softens. This simple practice unlocks joy, peace, and renewed awareness of God’s goodness.

Before you can move forward, you need to know where you stand. This session walks you through an honest evaluation of the most important areas of your life — spiritually, emotionally, relationally, physically, and more. It gives you clarity on where you’re thriving and where God may be inviting you to grow.

Here you’ll imagine the person you could become one year from now. Writing in “future present tense,” you’ll create a hopeful, realistic vision of your best next season — grounded in the rhythms and growth God is leading you toward. This becomes the compass for everything that follows.

This session turns your reflection into action by helping you set meaningful goals and choose sustainable rhythms for the year ahead. You’ll identify what matters most, name the habits that support those values, and determine the routes — the people, practices, and structures — that will help get you there. This is where vision becomes a plan.

God often highlights a theme or word that shapes a season. This session helps you listen for that word and understand how it can guide your decisions, focus, and spiritual formation. It’s a simple yet powerful way to stay anchored throughout the year.

This is your moment to breathe, pray, and write a personal prayer for the year ahead. You’ll thank God for what He has done, surrender what you’re releasing, and invite Him into your next steps. This session closes your reflection journey with peace and presence.

In this final session, you’ll identify how to carry your reflection forward — through monthly check-ins, visible reminders, shared conversations, and sustainable rhythms. You’ll be encouraged to revisit your values, goals, and Word of the Year throughout the year. This is your launch point into a more intentional, focused, grounded season.

In this bonus session, you’ll revisit the books that shaped your year and reflect on the ideas, themes, and insights that stayed with you. It’s less about how many you read and more about what mattered. This simple practice helps turn your reading into reflection — and your reflection into meaningful growth for the year ahead.