Friday, March 10
6pm
Registration
7pm
Main Session 1 - A Wider Vision of God’s Healing
Speaker: Pastor Nic Gibson
Saturday, March 11
8am
Registration opens
9am
Main Session 2 - Healing and Resurrection in the Midst of Suffering
Speaker: Pastor Adam Mabry
10:30am
Breakout 1 (Descriptions Below)
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Spiritual and Social Context of Shame
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Overcoming Anxiety and Fear
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Sexuality, Unwanted Behaviors, and Healing
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Understanding and Healing Trauma: Body, Mind, and Soul
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Processing Grief and Loss
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Dealing with the Demonic
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Healing and Discipleship: Ways of Believing that Help, Hurt, or Keep You Stuck
11:45am
Lunch Offsite (Suggestions Below)​
1pm
Breakout 2 (Descriptions Below)
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Integration of Psychology, Theology, and Christian Tradition
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Mind, Body, and Spirit: A Holistic Approach to Addiction
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How to be Trauma-Informed in a Racialized World
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The Will to Live: Battling Depression
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Get Rid of the Old Yeast: Responding to Clergy Sexual Misconduct
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Healing in Relationships: Confession, Forgiveness, and Reconciliation
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Practices of Security: Cultivating Trust After You've Been Shattered
2:30pm
Main Session 3 - Church and Community: Ecosystems of Healing
Panel: Tom Flaherty, Adam Mabry, and Myra McNair
Speaker: Jill Reasa
4pm
Main Session 4 - Joyful Worship to the God Who Sees
Breakouts
Spiritual and Social Context of Shame
Speaker: Nic Gibson
Location: Micah A
Breakout 1
Shame is an experience of the heart that appears in scripture and widely in current psychological writing. Many contemporary writers have simplified shame to a universally negative category: shame is bad, and bad for you. The Bible, however, sees shame as a more complex emotion. This session will distinguish between simplistic and more complete understandings of shame, different kinds of shame, and how to interact with the feeling productively for freedom, healing, and belonging.
Overcoming Anxiety
and Fear
Speaker: Alexi Gibson
Location: Micah B
Breakout 1
In this talk, we will reconceptualize our understanding of anxiety as Christians to develop a fuller understanding psychologically and spiritually. By identifying how anxiety manifests in us and its root causes, we can better respond to it in ourselves for our own sanctification and in others for the glory of God.
Speakers: Tom & Carol Nuelle
Location: Micah C
Breakout 1
In this class, we will discuss God’s original glorious intent for sexuality, as well as the current atmosphere of sexual corruption that exists in our world today. We will also look at God’s amazing provision of power to both free us and heal us from the hold of our culture and past traumas so that we can rejoice in living God’s way.
Speaker: Sue Gruen
Location: Micah D
Breakout 1
Do you know that your unresolved trauma can result in depression, anxiety, suicidality, addictions, broken relationships, even, serious physical illnesses?. Tragically, the most severe trauma (Complex PTSD) develops mainly through age 7 when a child's emotional needs for affection, safety and guidance were not adequately met. This knowledge is key to safeguarding your family's health and relationships. We will end with proven medical and spiritual healing methods, including a powerful prayer.
Speaker: Joyce Carlin
Location: Micah E
Breakout 1
How can we cope with and heal from our losses? How can we help people we love grieve their losses? How does grief impact us physically, spiritually, emotionally, and relationally, as whole human beings? This talk will help identify loss and provide coping strategies to aid in healing and communication skills to use when approaching someone you know who may be grieving. Grief can make us uncomfortable. It can be difficult to know what to say or do.
Speaker: Tom Flaherty
Location: Mezzanine
Breakout 1
The Bible says that we have an enemy and that we need to be sober and alert. Our enemy, the
Devil, is a roaring lion seeking to devour us. He preys on any weakness: physical, mental, or
spiritual. We need to know where we are weak so that we can stand firm in the faith against all
of his strategies.
Speaker: Jill Reasa
Location: Sanctuary
Breakout 1
Critically analyze fallacies that reduce foundational truths of the Christian faith to platitudes, consider how it harms our faith and discipleship, and discover deeper understandings of applying the Gospel and the Scriptures to our healing.
Integration of Psychology, Theology, and Christian Tradition
Speaker: Nic Gibson
Location: Micah A
Breakout 2
Psychology, the scientific study of conscious experience, has existed as a healing enterprise since the late 19th century and has grown in its influence in our culture’s pursuit of healing. However, Judeo-Christian faith has a long tradition of spirituality, spiritual direction, and psychological wisdom that is thousands of years old. How do we proceed in faithfully integrating the good of psychology and the great wisdom and truth of Christ and his church?
Speaker: Dani Ebben
Location: Micah B
Breakout 2
Taking a deeper look at how addictions develop, thrive, and are overcome from a biblical, social, and clinical perspective.
Speaker: Myra McNair
Location: Micah C
Breakout 2
Being trauma-informed is the new buzz word but how can one be trauma-informed in a racialized world? And how can we talk about being trauma-informed without understanding racial trauma? At this presentation, you will understand and learn more about trauma, historical trauma, and that history is not only in the past. We will lean into what God says about justice and how we can be trauma-informed in our churches as well as culturally sensitive.
The Will to Live: Battling Depression
Speaker: Lloyd Biddle
Location: Micah D
Breakout 2
In this talk, Lloyd will discuss the clinical definition of depression, offer some steps toward healing,
and discuss how the local church helps those who suffer with it.
Speaker: Gregory Jensen
Location: Micah E
Breakout 2
Given the complexity of the matter and the harm done, we will examine the best route to dealing with clergy sexual misconduct according to the passages in Paul's letter to the church in Corinth in 1 Corinthians 5:7-8 and 11.
Healing in Relationships: Confession, Forgiveness, and Reconciliation
Speaker: Adam Mabry
Location: Mezzanine
Breakout 2
Sharing his experience of relational pain and trauma, Adam Mabry will bring gospel-saturated wisdom into the process of healing relational rifts, broken trust, and past pains, and walk in gospel-fueled reconciliation.
Speaker: Jill Reasa
Location: Sanctuary
Breakout 2
Identify internalized shame that can stem from and perpetuate insecurity and broken relationships, and explore practices for restoring security and trust in relationships and your own self-perception.
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