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Update- this conference is being adapted to an online course!
Stay Tuned for details of where to access Mental Health and Your Church- to be made available online for a small fee to use in churches, small groups, schools or other ministries.
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We live in a world where the church is increasingly seen as irrelevant to the struggles of everyday life. Yet our world is also becoming more and more weighed down by the problems of mental illness growing in number and impact on people's lives.
Steve Midgley, from Biblical Counselling UK is particularly experienced and equipped to speak to how we as the church are uniquely called by God to engage with mental health in our world and the role of caring for one another through struggles of mental illness.
Co-author of the recently published book "Mental Health and Your Church" Steve will be expanding on topics covered in this must read book. Steve's teaching draws on his years of work in both psychiatry and pastoral ministry, speaking with a clarity that helpfully connects Scripture to the stuff of everyday life.
Fully catered event including morning tea, lunch and afternoon tea.
Topics For the Mental Health and Your Church One Day Conference
Outline of mental health for churches – Midgley
Help for the anxious - Midgley
Help for the depressed – Midgley
How to for churches – Midgley
Q&A session
Residential conference only sessions:
Encouragement for weary ministry workers - Lowe
Help when depression doesn’t lift - Midgley
Understanding religious scrupulosity (includes counselling videos) - Midgley
Supporting people with psychotic illness - Midgley
Biblical pastoral care for people with dementia - Lowe
Christian meditation and imagery for anxiety - Hood
Facing fear and trauma with the Psalms - Hood
Personal singing – an underused counselling intervention – Hood
Morning and afternoon tea, lunch, dinner and supper breaks
Q&A sessions throughout.