• Learn how faith principles improve personal/professional growth

• Change unhealthy beliefs originating form faith misconceptions such as: perfectionism, fearing God; unloved by God, and more
• Learn the clinical effectiveness of forgiveness and steps to turn around an unforgiving heart
• Apply the clinical effectiveness of prayer to improve therapeutic outcomes
• When religion becomes hurtful – learn characteristics, origins, and interventions for religious shame and toxic faith 
• Integrate faith with clinical issues, Healing damaged emotions, Using healing prayers, Identifying spiritual battles, Improving self worth

Seminar description

This seminar will provide practical strategies using faith based Christian principles to help your client reach emotional wholeness beyond what traditional therapy can accomplish.   You will grow in your personal and professional faith as you learn to utilize the power, guidance, and encouragement that Christian principles can offer to bring inner healing with tough treatment issues. You will develop a stronger appreciation and understanding of how to integrate your faith with mental health healing strategies to enhance your practice and your treatment outcomes with lasting results.  Our hope is that, as your faith continues to grow, our area of activity among you will greatly expand…(2 Cor.10:15).

SEMINAR OUTLINE

Faith in clinical practice

How faith impacts clinical practice

Importance of faith and the healing process

Origins and impact of our belief system

Fulfillment of heart, mind, and soul

Interweaving faith principles

Faith as a foundation for personal growth

Strengthening professional life 

Improve clinical outcomes

Using faith principles respectfully

Learn about your client’s faith

Encourage faith to promote healing

When and how to use prayer and scripture

Clinical effectiveness of forgiveness

Research regarding forgiveness

How unforgiveness impedes healing

Finding forgiveness

Why we cannot forgive

Turn around an unforgiving heart

Clinical effectiveness of prayer                                                   

Research regarding prayer
Praying with your client

How prayers are answered with clients

Using prayer to improve outcomes

Changing belief that God is not listening

Reasons why prayers are not answered

Comfort and encouragement from prayer

When religion becomes hurtful

Characteristics of toxic faith

Characteristics of religious shame 

Origin of toxic faith and religious shame

Distorting God

Damage to you heart, mind, and faith

Interventions for healing

Beliefs from faith misconceptions

How faith misconceptions impede counseling

Earthly/Heavenly parent principle

Origin of misconceptions

Working with misconceptions:

        º I have to be perfect  

        º God is someone to fear

        º How can God love someone like me?

        º If I use my feelings I am not relying on my faith.

Integrate faith with treatment

Uncover past emotional issues

Steps to healing emotions

Identifying spiritual battles

Releasing unhealthy emotions

Develop Godly attitudes and self worth

Using healing prayers

Expressing God-given emotions

Marriage Seminar Outline

• Rules and Goals of seminar
• Progression of a marriage relationship – “Marriage 101 – courtship to marriage”
• What women expect – What men expect - Emotional differences -
•  How the past affects us – how our emotional baggage affects our relationship
• My parent’s and previous relationship inheritance
• How we are affected in areas of unforgiveness, curses, physical, emotional, and social
• How to get love bank filled
• Cutting off old generational patterns, unions, and curses
• Learning to communicate – how the past affects yourself and the relationship
• Find your emotional age - how emotional age affects the relationship - What to do about it.

              Express feelings and defensiveness – how to deal with it
              Four question Technique

              Improving communication with spouse and family as a whole
              Conflict management – (fighting fairly)

• Become empowered with prayer for your relationship
• Finding your love language
• What affects how we think, feel, and our relationship

  How we feel – Define depression and how it affects relationship

  How we sleep – Define sleep deprivation and how it affects relationship

  How we think – Define ADD and how it affects relationship

  How we eat – Define diet and how it affects relationship

• Men meet privately with Craig – (Women spend time alone)
• Women meet privately with Craig - (Men spend time alone)
• Couple spends private time together to share what they wrote in quiet time.  
• Discuss as large group (depending on the time)
• Putting it all together, What have I/we learned?
• Pray over couples for prayer needs and God’s Blessing

This conference is for anyone who wants to advance in their personal faith and professional skills to utilize the power and effectiveness of prayer to supernaturally heal mind/body conditions in both faith and non-faith based work settings.  You will develop a stronger appreciation and understanding of how to integrate personal faith into your professional life to pray and increase supernatural healing occurrences with the people you serve.  Case studies will be provided and a time for practical application of what you learn will be available during and after the conference.

Morning session topics may include:

Why you can and should use healing prayers    

                Biblical background and empirical research                                                               

              Reasons we struggle using faith practices with others

How personal faith impacts healing prayers

Case examples provided

Creating opportunities to use faith and healing prayers

You can talk about your faith more than you think

Professional practice standards for using faith & spirituality

Creating healing opportunities in faith and non-faith based settings

How to make amazing atmosphere changes with prayer

Case examples provided

Growing your faith to be free and bold for Christ

Healing of the heart to become free to activate faith

Afternoon session topics may include:

Strategies for healing prayers with mind and body conditions

Steps for using healing prayers with anyone

Discerning direction and effectiveness of healing prayers

Some reasons healings are hindered or blocked:                                                                  

Unforgiveness, doubt, unbelief, and unworthiness
Lack of faith, Complacency, Curses, striving, spiritual warfare

What to say and do when healing does not immediately happen

Case examples provided

Discover emotional origins to physical/spiritual conditions

Emotional connection to healing

How suppressed emotion affects healing prayers

How to identify suppressed or unresolved emotion

Releasing emotion to activate healing
Case examples provided

Impartation                                                                                                                                              

   In this seminar you will learn:

1. How does a man and woman communicate his and her feelings differently?
2. How to communicate feelings when you are hurt and angry.
3. How much do my feelings affect the ability to find and maintain healthy relationships.  (Why do I have a hard time getting close to people and to God?)
4. How to express your feelings in a relationship that discourages your feelings.
5. What is disrespect and how do you handle disrespect from others.
6. How to encourage your spouse to communicate their feelings.
7. Maintaining healthy relationships – spouse, friends, children, and God.
8. Other selected topics of your choice.

   Ideal for:  Church pulpit supply for AM or PM worship services          

This multimedia presentation gives a message of hope and spiritual healing through scripture, music, congregation participation, visual props, and helpful techniques.  Learn to overcome the fear to say what you want, let go of emotional hurts, find satisfaction in relationships (even with God), find the joy of Christ, and feel good about yourself!   

Hear valuable insights, powerful case testimonies, inspiring scriptures, and helpful techniques to overcome the fear to say what you want, let go of emotional hurts, find satisfaction in relationships, find the joy of Christ, and feel good about yourself!  This inspirational message based on God’s Word is for teens through older adults who desire to find victory from the daily struggles of life to experience the love, peace, and joy that God has to offer.

   In this seminar you will learn:

   Learning how to feel good about life and experience the inner joy that

   Jesus has to offer?

1. Why our God given emotions are so important. 
2. What would happen if I don’t express my feelings? 
3. Or can holding in feelings over time be harmful to my emotional/physical health?
4. If God gave us our emotions, what stops us from feeling them? 
5. How does our past influence us with our reactions?  (Reactions of anger, fear, anxiety, or depression)
6. As a Christian, are we suppose to have anger, fear, or anxiety? 
   (Some people believe you are not depending on God if you experience those feelings.) 
7. How can we change to find and maintain the inner joy that God really wants us to experience?