App Tutorial - Overview for Coaches

Overview

  1. Thank You! Thank you for beta testing the Whole Life app!

    1. As a beta tester, you’ll probably run into some bumps, but thank you for helping us move into the future of spiritual formation / disciplemaking, which is relational, Biblical, emotionally intelligent, spirit-led, and action-oriented!

  2. Coach. For the purposes of beta testing, you’re considered a “coach”, and people you’re meeting with a called “members”. You’re testing the Coach version of the app.

  3. Downloads. Download the TestFlight app. In TestFlight, dowload the app.

  4. Feedback Needed. My hope is that you as a beta tester can offer feedback about what’s working and not working, both in the spiritual formation experience and in the app experience.

  5. How to Send Feedback

    1. Screenshot. Take a screenshot in the app and use markup if you wish to show me the issue. Save the screenshot in your photos.

    2. Icon. Go back to TestFlight and tap the icon for the app.

    3. Submit Feedback. “Send Beta Feedback”, choose your screenshot if you wish, and write comments in “Tell us about your experience”, and tap Submit.

Tabs

Notice there are 4 main tabs the bottom.

  1. Your app automatically opens to the People tab, where you can see your people, your pods, and your own profile.

  2. We’ll spend most of our time tonight in the Convos Tab, which has the conversation guides for your pods.

  3. The Actions tab shows all your upcoming action steps.

  4. The photojournal captures your personal stories and insights for your spiritual journey.

Convos Tab

  1. Convos By Pod. The Convos tab is where you can see the upcoming conversations for each pod.

  2. Starter & Celebration Convos. Every journey of conversations with your pod starts with a starter convo and ends with a celebration convo. Between these two you’ll have topic conversations.

  3. Topic Convo Details

    1. I’ve added two foundational topics for the beta journey, God and Jesus. Tap on a convo talk bubble.

    2. About. Tap About for Summary of the topic

    3. Question Icon. The green question icons throughout the app give you information.

    4. Two meetings per convo guide. Notice a gray dividing line before Followup. In the first (main) meeting for this topic you’ll do what’s above the line. Between this meeting and the next, everyone will do an action step they chose. Then the next time you meet you have a Followup conversation to debrief about your action step experience.

    5. Spiritual Formation Rhythm

      1. Main Convo. The main convo includes Backstory, God Moment, Relational Bible Reading, Action Step, Prayer. We’ll go through each of these in detail, but first let me give you an overview of the basic rhythm of it.

      2. Backstories. In the Backstories section is to capture and share something of where you’re coming from on this topic.

      3. God Moment. The God Moment section guides you through a meditation to acknowledge God’s presence in real time.

      4. Enter God’s Story. The Enter God’s Story section leads you through a relational Bible reading.

      5. Choose an Action. The Chose an Action lets you choose an action step to put your faith into practice.

        1. You can do something you feel God is prompting you to do, and save it here,

        2. or you can choose from the Browse Ideas.

        3. In Browse Ideas there’s a list of action ideas related to the topic. Use the style filter to narrow your choices down by style.

        4. Select an action to see a description. To select it, tap Add to My Actions

        5. When you return to the converdsation, you’ll see the action you saved as a post-it. It also shows up in your Actions tab.

      6. Pray & Close. The last things you’ll do in this meeting is pray for each other and close up. You’re then done for that meeting. As you go through the convo, you’ll see the tiles at the bottom fill up. Then they’re right there for when you’re ready for the followup conversation. When you’re done this meeting, tap Done Convo Part 1 of 2.

Doing Your Action

  1. Find Your Action. Between meetings, each person will do the action they saved. You can get to it from the convo here, or you can see all your actions in the actions tab. Tap on the actions tab. These are all your upcoming actions.

  2. Action Details. Tap on the action post-it. Here you can see that each action has a Try Action, Add God Story, and Share in Followup. Tap Instructions for a step by step guide and tips.

  3. Add God Story. After you’ve tried the action, check off Try Action. Then you can add a God Story about your experience doing the action. Tap on Add Entry to add your God story.

  4. Share in Followup. After you’ve added your God story, you’re now ready for the followup convo. Later you can come back and check off that you shared it in your Followup convo.

Followup

  1. Followup Secton

    1. Find Followup. Go back to your convo and tap followup at the bottom. The followup gives you a chance to share your God stories, troubleshoot, reflect on how you’re growing spiritually, and share with one another how you see God at work in one anothers’ lives.

    2. Done Convo. When you’re done Followup, tap the Done Convo. You’re done with this convo! You can always do another convo of this same topic using a different Scripture and the same or different action steps.

    3. Backstory for Next Convo. Before the next meeting, everyone will add their next backstory. If you’re done all your topics, you won’t do a new backstory because the next time you meet will be the Celebration convo.

People Tab

  1. Change Profile. Tap profile icon in top right. Tap Edit, make changes, and tap Done.

  2. Add a new, empty pod. Tap plus-square icon and add info tap Done.

  3. Add a new person. Tap plus-person icon and add info and tap Done.

  4. Add a person to a Pod. Tap on a pod. Find Members and tap Edit next to it. Choose people and tap Done.