GW 3: Mental Health Challenges & Response: Therapeutic and Jesus-inspired Healing
Guerrilla Webinar 3:
Mental Health: Therapeutic and Jesus-informed Accompaniment
Our world is witnessing a spiritual and psychological emergency of mental health issues, dual diagnoses, self medication and self harm. This course aims to equip us to see mental health sufferers as an under-reached people group waiting to hear Jesus' message of healing and liberation.
We will combine therapeutic and theological ideas to address the individual, social, biological, and spiritual roots of mental illness. We aim to provide participants with a general understanding of mental health labels so we can accompany people as they get to know Jesus who gives us our authentic adopted title. We will teach how to accompany people prophetically, pastorally, and therapeutically in their journey to freedom.
Each class session will consist of Heidi Basely's teaching on mental health disorders, followed by a Biblical reflection led by Gracie or Bob Ekblad on Jesus' encounters and teachings.
11 Sessions: Mondays, 11:30 AM - 1:00 PM, September 14 - November 23, 2020.
Due to the global pandemic we are offering this module as a weekly training via Zoom. If you are unable to attend the live sessions, we are offering a special course which will be uploaded for you to go through at your own pace and on your own schedule at a discounted price of $125
September 14: Introductions to Mental Health Models for Holistic Healing and Liberation
September 21: Anxiety, Depression, and Bipolar Disorder
September 28: Personality Disorders
October 5: Eating Disorders—Bulimia, Anorexia, Binge-Eating
October 12: Psychosis and Schizophrenia
October 19: Obsessive Compulsive Disorders and Phobias
October 26: PTSD and Trauma
November 2: Dissociative Disorders
November 9: Narcissistic/Family Systems: How Our Roots Influence Our Lives
November 16: Suicide Awareness and Prevention
November 23: Therapeutic, Pastoral, Prophetic Accompaniment
Course completion includes
Teaching from trained therapist and ministry practitioners on mental health disorders and best practices in therapy and pastoral work.
Biblical reflections on Jesus' teaching regarding each session’s focus.
Lifetime access to audio/video recordings and notes of all course sessions.
Credit towards The People's Seminary's new Certificate in Pastoral Ministry at the Margins.
Entry Fee:
$150 USD -LIVE TEACHING WEBINAR ($40.00 of which funds trainings in Africa and the Global South)
$125 USD -SELF PACE WEBINAR
Partial and full scholarships are available upon request. Contact Bob@tierra-nueva.org for details.
Instructors:
Heidi Basely is a survivor and activist in the field of trauma with twenty years of experience in clinical and missional contexts, working with psychological trauma among Roma populations, complex trauma in institutional care, domestic violence, ministry among sufferers of mental illness, and displaced peoples. Heidi trained in psychotherapy and counselling (Bsc hons) with two further training years in Integrative Therapy (BACP).
Bob and Gracie Ekblad are founders and pastors at Tierra Nueva, offering trainings locally and internationally through The People's Seminary. Bob has written books on reading Scripture with the excluded: such as Reading the Bible with the Damned, The Beatuiful Gate: Enter Jesus' Global Liberation Movement, Guerrilla Gospel: Reading the Bible for Liberation in the Power of the Spirit, and Guerrilla Bible Studies, Volumes 1-2.