Our cohort-based training schedule is set up so you can complete your full training and certification in just 6 months. Mentoring Mastery only students are encouraged to follow along with the cohort for the first 3 months to complete their certificate training.

For your own safety and well-being as well as that of your family and future clients, you need to make sure you’re healthy and have enough sobriety or healing to not pose a threat to your own recovery or that of your mentees.

We generally recommend you have at least a year of “good recovery”, meaning solid sobriety, recovery, healing, and growth before you get certified. That being said, if you’re on a solid track to achieving that by the time you expect to be done going through the coursework, we’ve seen some students enroll with less than a year of good recovery and do quite well as a mentor.

Even if you have any setbacks or mild relapses along the way that cause you to hit “pause” on your training, know that you’ve got lifetime access to the course material. We’ve seen some students do just that so they could concentrate fully on their recovery, only to come back later and complete the training from a much healthier place.

No, we won’t be torturing you with countless quizzes and tests while you learn. But your monthly cohort intensives will be very hands-on and will include individual and group-level exercises to help prepare you for the real thing.

In the coursework, there are on occasion worksheets and surveys for you to fill out to help deepen the learning. For those of you going on to get fully certified, these completed worksheets and surveys will actually make up the better part of your overall Mentoring Ministry Plan that you’ll be going over with Michael, your mentor, during the Mentor Certification process. So you’ll want to complete and keep up with those as you progress through the training.

Otherwise, these exercises are just there for you as a learning aid.

Yes, absolutely! We LOVE seeing both spouses getting trained to help others, even if they don’t start the training at the same time (yes, that’s ok with us, too).

When you first sign up for the training, you’ll be asked to complete an online Student Profile Form. That’s where you’ll let us know that your spouse would also like to take the training, when you anticipate they’d like to begin, and what their name and email address are (so we can set them up with their own account).

Even if they’re not ready yet from a recovery standpoint, they can come back to us months or even years later when they are ready to start the training. Just as long as one of you paid for your training.

From then on, it’s proceeding at your own pace. And with each of you having your own separate user account, you’ll each be able to mark your progress as you go.

Yes, it’s included in the LYMM + Certification and LYMM Apprenticeship options. It is not included in the Mentoring Mastery course.

Not if you both go through it together at the same time. But if they complete the training at a later date and want to get certified after you’ve already completed your own Mentor Certification without them, then they will have to pay their own separate Mentor Certification fee. That amount varies depending on the training option they selected.

Yes. We stand behind the quality of our program with a straightforward guarantee: if within the first 7 days you decide that either LYMM option isn’t the right fit for you, just let us know and we’ll issue you a full refund, no questions asked.* Otherwise, there are no refunds beyond the first 7 days.

* Applies to direct purchases from BraveHearts only. Refunds of payment plan purchases are governed by the terms & conditions of those 3rd parties (Affirm, Afterpay, or Klarna).