Regular 1:1 Coaching Calls
Personal monthly coaching calls with Nate to work through your specific context, challenges, and the discussions you're facilitating.
Mentoring
Monthly coaching for pastors, hosts, and leaders building real conversational community over time.
Mentoring is for the leader who wants more than a training session. It's a long-term relationship — built around your specific calling, your specific community, and your specific obstacles. Whether you're a pastor rethinking outreach, a host building a Table Talk in your city, an organizational leader trying to shift team culture, or a missional Christian working this out in your neighborhood, Nate walks with you over months, not minutes.
Healthy communities don't happen overnight. Whenever people are building something centered around meaningful conversation, spiritual engagement, and long-term relational trust, mentoring matters. People need encouragement, wisdom, prayer, accountability, and help navigating real-life situations as they arise.
The reality
The Reality at the Table
Around a Table Talk, you may have Democrats and Republicans, veterans and civilians, believers and skeptics, religious and non-religious people, different generations, different cultures, different sexual orientations, and people carrying very different life stories and perspectives. Creating a space where diverse people feel welcomed, heard, and respected requires intentional leadership and thoughtful facilitation.
For many hosts, it's helpful to have an experienced mentor walking alongside them as they continue building healthy conversational culture over time.
The relationship
What Monthly Mentoring Includes
Facilitation Coaching
Help thinking through difficult conversations, processing group dynamics, encouraging quieter participants, handling disagreement respectfully, and making gospel connections that fit the topic.
Pastoral Support
Nate is a chaplain. He understands ministry weariness, leadership loneliness, and the cost of obedience. Mentoring includes care for the leader, not just the strategy.
Community Building Strategy
Practical guidance on community building, leadership development, promotion, social media communication, cultivating relationships with local businesses, event planning, and creating sustainable rhythms.
Custom Context Strategy
A discussion group in Norway looks different than one in Peru, a rural town, a major city, a coffee shop, or a cigar lounge. Mentoring helps you develop a Table Talk culture that fits your specific context.
Full Framework Access
Access to the complete Table Talk framework, plus ongoing iteration as your context shifts.
"At its core, mentoring is about helping people do Table Talk well, not simply doing it quickly."
The aim
Building Healthy, Not Just Quickly
Table Talk is never meant to be copied mechanically or forced into a rigid formula. Instead, mentoring helps hosts develop a culture that fits their specific context and audience while remaining grounded in the core values — authentic conversation, intentionality, hospitality, and meaningful gospel engagement.
Through ongoing coaching, encouragement, and support, hosts and teams are better equipped to create welcoming conversational spaces where people can explore life, worldview, spirituality, and ultimately encounter the relevance of Jesus within authentic human connection.
Built for
Who Mentoring Is For
Pastors. Church planters. Outreach directors. Table Talk hosts and co-hosts. Parachurch leaders. Lay missionaries. Organizational leaders adapting Table Talk for their teams. Anyone carrying responsibility for spiritual leadership or community-building who wants a trusted voice in their corner.
Next step
Apply for Mentoring
Tell us about your context — your community, your church, or your organization — and we'll set up an intro call to see if mentoring is a fit.