Sozo for Couples uses the Sozo tools developed by Dawna De Silva and Teresa Liebscher to help couples connect with God and find healing. It has since been developed to help any relationship that needs healing. You’ll need to be fully trained and released in Bethel Sozo before being able to do Couples’ Sozo for married people or other relationships
Throughout the manual we tend to refer to marriage as being the relationship between the couples you’ll be seeing. It’s going to be up to you, your pastor, or whomever else you’re accountable to, to decide how far you want to stretch this. We would certainly encourage considering a Couples’ Sozo as part of marriage preparation.
If you are a couple wanting a Sozo for Couples session you can be married or preparing for marriage and have a session.
We have found that the Sozo for Couples tools are helpful for any relationship where people are needing healing and want God to help them with that process. The tools bring understanding, healing and hope to relationships.
To minister Sozo for Couples you should be a member of an existing church based Bethel Sozo team and have had your own Sozo. Sozo for Couples holds to the Bethel values of honour and grace so we would want all Sozo for Couples ministers to have had their own Sozo for Couples and to be in a healthy strong marriage, as well as having attended a Sozo for Couples training. This is not to exclude those who are widowed, so long as theirs was a happy and fulfilling marriage, or divorced (see below).
If you want to do Sozo for Couples for non marriage relationships only then you do not have to been married.
Finally, your pastor or leadership team should support your bringing this additional ministry into your church
No, but it would help if you are wanting to minister Sozo for Couples sessions.
If you want to receive a Sozo for Couples session you do not need to have had any previous counselling or coaching experience.
You will already have been released as a First by your Sozo team leader or Sozo Facilitator. Our recommendation is that your team leader / Facilitator also takes responsibility for your release as a Sozo for Couples minister. For details of Accreditation to and listing on the Sozo for Couples’ website, contact us at answers@sozoforcouples.org.
This is something you need to work out with your Sozo team leader and pastor. We would encourage you to have worked through your own healing in this area before being involved.
In this case we would hope that as one element of being ‘happily’ married a Sozo practitioner’s spouse would be prepared to receive and participate in a Couple’s Sozo if, by so doing, it releases that Sozoer into Sozo for Couple’s ministry. In essence, it seems to us honouring that a couple should be ministered to by someone who themselves has received ministry, whenever this is possible.
Preferably, yes. But accepting that it can sometimes be difficult to organise this then two people from your Sozo team who have been trained and released in doing Sozo for Couples will be acceptable.
No. Since Sozo is about connecting with God and not with the people in the room a session does not have to be ministered by a man and a woman. Two men ministering would not be acceptable.
Whether you charge for a Sozo for Couples or even ask for a voluntary contribution is up to you and your church practice. In the UK we would recommend a contribution of between £40 and £60 per session for couples from outside your own church.
We would require that the couple concerned have individual Sozos with their intended Sozo for Couples minister before having their Sozo for Couples session. This should help to sort out at least some of the wounds and lies that will be extraneous to those at the heart of their Sozo for Couples. It will also help build a level of rapport and trust between you and the couple.
You should aim to allow 90 minutes for each session and aim at addressing one issue per session rather than trying to achieve perfection in one fell swoop.
It’s important that you recognise and acknowledge your own ability as a Sozoer. Because you have two guests in front of you and you’re dealing with them both individually and then at the same time, Sozo for Couples calls for an extra degree of both social and Sozo ability.
For those experiencing a session it is not complicated!
If you have any other questions concerning Sozo for Couples email them to us and we’ll get back to you.
As long as your patner is willing to have an individual Sozo followed by a Sozo for Couple session then you can still have a session together.
Sozo for Couples tools are useful in relationships to bring healing, understanding and hope. We call this relational Sozo.
Yes, tried and tested Sozo for Couples tools can help any relationship that needs healing. The tools have been found to bring healing, understanding and hope to relationships.
a) Get approval from your church leader and Sozo team leader to bring the Sozo for Couples’ ministry into your church.
b) Be released as a Sozo First by your Sozo team leader / Facilitator
c) Attend Sozo for Couples training, either live or on-line, watch Modules 1 and 2 of the Sozo for Couples Foundation Video teaching.
d) Be released (Activated) to offer Sozo for Couples’ sessions by your Sozo team leader.
e) Ensure that all Sozo for Couples applicants receive individual Sozos from their intended Sozo for Couples minister.
f) There is a further Accreditation process for those who want to be listed on this Sozo for couples website.