Go Discover is a group mentoring program developed and offered to those who want to look deeper into how they can become tentmakers.
Does your work actually matter to God? That's the question GO Discover was built around.
GO Discover is an accessible first step for anyone who senses their work, studies or everyday life should mean more, but hasn't yet found the language or space to explore what that means. It isn't a long mentoring commitment, and it isn't reserved for people who already know they want to become tentmakers. It's a guided experience of discovery, open to wherever you currently are.
The course itself stays the same in all countries. What changes is how it fits into your life. Because needs differ from country to country, GO Discover is offered in four formats:
A six months program, with monthly meetings from 1.5 to 2 hours and complimentary weekly activities that allow participants to look deeper into the following aspects:
A one-day intensive — the full experience, covered in a single day
A two-evening intensive — the same journey, spread across two evenings for those who need more flexibility
A six week small group the same GO Discover program, simply given more room to breathe.
Any of these events answers the same questions, the same slow shift in how you see your work and your week. What changes isn't the content. It's the pace, and the people you sit with while you explore it.
Whichever format you choose, the questions you'll sit with are the same
Self-knowledge and identity in God
You will get to know more about yourself and how God created you to be used in His mission. The program will make use of different assessment tools and it will address issues such as temperaments, strengths, the ideal tentmaker profile, and spiritual disciplines.Self-responsibility
It is rightly said that everything is dependent on God. At the same time God has given us a personal responsibility for doing what is right and fulfilling his mission. Understanding our personal responsibility is key to developing our character and to the success and fulfilment of any project.Self-confidence and confidence in God
In this section, we will talk about two points that have strong connections to each other: Trust in the Lord and trust in yourself. God often takes us on journeys and through situations where he is shaping us. Often he uses our personalities and experiences we have already gained to teach us things. Both self-confidence and God-confidence is needed to understand who you are, how God has made you and what he is doing through you.Planning
By using different tools you will get help to plan how to accomplish the visions that God has given to you or how you can get to where you believe God is leading. you.
How we will work
We will apply techniques and tools used in mentoring, counselling, and coaching in addition to management and behavioral analysis tools. The program will still be fully based on Biblical principles and a spiritual approach will be included in each of the subjects that will be covered in the program.
All participants will receive proposed action plans and complementary materials related to the things they work on. The monthly meetings are compulsory. Participants who do not show up at these meetings, may not be allowed to continue the program.
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GO Discover in your country
GO Discover belongs to the whole Tent movement, and each national team shapes it for the people it serves. The programme described on this page is Tent International's six-month group mentoring journey, for people who are ready to look deeply at what becoming a tentmaker means for their own life.
Some national teams run a shorter entry-level version first, for people who are still asking the earlier question: could God actually use my ordinary work?
🇿🇦 GO Discover in South Africa
Tent South Africa runs GO Discover as a short discovery journey rather than a long mentoring programme. You can do it as a six-week small group or as a one-day intensive (or two evenings), and it ends with one clear next step instead of a full plan.
It's built as the first door: no prior knowledge of tentmaking needed, no long commitment, and no need to know your calling before you start. People who want to go deeper afterwards move on to GO Equipped, or into the international GO Discover mentoring journey.
Sessions run in Afrikaans and English, and you can choose which language workbook you want.
Which one is for you?
Start with a national programme if you are exploring the idea for the first time, want something short, or would rather meet people near you.
Start with the international programme if you already know you want to live as a tentmaker and you want six months of mentoring to work out how.
They answer the same question at different depths. Neither replaces the other.
Could you run GO Discover where you are?
Most GO Discover groups don't start with an organisation. They start with one person who sees the people around them asking, is my ordinary work part of God's mission?, and decides to walk with them through the question.
You don't need a ministry title, formal theological training, or a big group. Facilitators aren't there to have the answers. They create space for honest reflection, give language to a calling people can't yet name, and help others take a next step.
We train facilitators and give you a clear, repeatable framework, the workbook and materials, and support to launch a first group inside your own church, workplace or community. Tent South Africa runs this model already, and we'd rather hand it to you than have you build it from scratch.
Good fits are usually people with humility, emotional maturity, teachability, spiritual depth, and the patience to listen well.
Discover. Get equipped. Go together.
Tent's GO Programs help ordinary people live their faith where God has already placed them: their work, business, studies and everyday relationships.
Not sure which programme fits you? That's fine, tell us what you're curious about and one of our team will personally get back to you with the next step.