Name what's underneath. At layer 3 the group can name the fear in the person's own words, and that name carries into layer 4 and the commitment. The turn order means what it says: the top name goes next, with dates beside each name and a quick swap for a sick night. Mid-week check-ins ask how the fear is showing up, not just whether you did the practice. Disciplers get a ready-made text to send. Climbing practices can be written in your own words and changed as you go. If a workshop ends before the commitment is saved, whoever held the controls gets a reminder to finish it.

Get ready for your turn. In the week before your turn, log moments as they happen, then answer the first questions of the workshop on your own, any time before you sit down. Start by choosing whether it's something you want to stop or something you want to start, and every question is worded for that. Nothing goes to your group until you send it, and you choose which moments to share. When your turn starts, you read what you wrote, then the group walks with you into the moment that hit hardest. Also: fewer, clearer questions in every layer; the person whose turn it is is now called the apprentice; if a workshop runs out of time, the commitment builder picks up where you left off; and a mistyped invite code says so plainly.

Practices now run daily for all eight weeks. Every pattern has a small daily practice that breaks the old habit and one that builds a new one. New practices include Let It Be Done Their Way, Small, Safe Misses, the Reassurance Fast, the Worry Window, the Slow Lane and the Rehearsed Response. Practices that start small and grow, like submission practice, now name each week's step in the mid-week reminders, for both the apprentice and the discipler.

A new pattern, Self-Reliance, for the lie that competence makes God optional: prayerlessness that doesn't feel like a problem. Fixes switching to another of your groups, which could fail with an error. Entering the invite code of a group you're already in now takes you straight there.

Workshops can now be 30 minutes. Leaders set the length in Group Settings. The layer timer now fits the length you choose: Gospel Truth gets about 6 minutes and Commitment about 3, and the first three layers share the rest.

The app now runs only the workshop. Your group does follow-up and prayer whenever it suits you, before the workshop or after it. Tap Start workshop and you're straight in. Review your group's commitments any time from the Gathering tab. Leaders can set the workshop length in Group Settings, and every phone's timer matches it. Start a new group from More, under Switch or Start a Group.

Your commitment now comes to your own phone. When your group builds a commitment with you, it arrives on your phone with your reminders, instead of staying on the phone that ran the workshop. Everyone in the group can see the group's commitments. A week before your turn in the hotseat, the app asks what you want to work on. Your answer opens your workshop. Leaders can set the hotseat order, and everyone can see who is up next. At six weeks, disciplers get suggestions for what to say next, and apprentices are asked how this attempt compares with earlier ones. One less step when building a commitment: your discipler is also your check-in partner.