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- Healing and Spirituality 1 (Two day seminar)
- Healing and Spirituality 2 (One day workshop)
- The Christian Healing Ministry in the Church
- Explorations in the Healing of Addictions
- Biblical, Theological and Spiritual Issues of Disability
- Pastoral Care and Counseling for People with Disabilities
- Developing a Ministry with People with Disabilities and Their Families
- Retreat or Workshop for People with Disabilities or Chronic Illnesses
Developing a Ministry with People with Disabilities and Their Families
This material can be arranged to suit the needs and time availability of the host group. It can be a retreat, designed with periods of rest, worship, and reflection or it can be a workshop. All events must be planned with attention to accessibility, careful use of language in all media materials announcing the event (no euphemisms), and careful selection of other participants (e.g. many non-disabled people involved in disability work are not sensitive to the politics of oppression involved with language, theology, and spirituality).- Psycho-spiritual aspects of living with disability or chronic illness.
- Depression, the grief cycle, anger, rage, and acceptance - yours and theirs.
- Strategies for understanding each, moving through and beyond them.
- Finding healthy ways of dealing with stress, addiction, isolation.
- Identifying the spiritual and theological issues of disability.
- How do we define ourselves; what is our body image?
- Who are we?
- Language and oppression: the politics of disability.
- Sexuality and spirituality
- Embodiment vs dis-embodiment
- Anger at God
- Creative anger that seeks justice.
- Destructive anger.
- Forgiving God, self, and others.
- Finding meaning in suffering; suffering is not the will of God; God suffers with us.
- Healing
- What is healing?
- What does it mean for us when we live with disability or illness?
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- Where is God in my experience?
- Integrating the wounds of life.
- Learning who we are; learning to tell out stories.
- Transformation
Handouts include:
- Learning My Story
- A Few Definitions of Healing
- Definition of Spirituality
- Bibliography for Spirituality and Sexuality
- Bibliography for Disability and Spirituality
- Listening, Hearing, and Responding to God's Word
- Healing and Spirituality Questions for Reflection
- Some Rules for Living
- Living Into A Spirituality
- Relieving Stress, Restoring Balance
- Finding Acceptance of Ourselves and Our Disabilities
- Self-Discipline for Healing and Wholeness
- Responsibility to God and to Self
- The Grief Cycle
- Forgiveness and Forgiveness Revisited
- Strategies for Healing Inner Pain