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Experiencing God Through Christian Coaching
[Date: 21 July 2008]
Dr Gary Collins
In Singapore and around the world, coaching has become a major force for helping people get from where they are in life to where they want to be. This session will describe coaching and show how it differs from counselling and consulting, We will consider recent developments in coaching, discuss what makes Christian coaching unique and outline practical coaching principles that can be used in ministry, in counselling, and in our own personal lives. |
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Mending the Heart, Healing the Soul: A Path to Love and Reconnection
[Date: 22 July 2008]
Dr Wei-Jen Huang
Our God is a relational God, and the center of biblical teaching is about loving God and loving people. Love may be the most important but most difficult lesson in life. It can give us life’s greatest joy, but it can also bring us the deepest pain. C.S. Lewis once said: “Love anything and your heart will certainly be wronged and possibly be broken”. When we allow our hearts to really get close to people, we will surly experience disappointments, loss and hurt. However, it is also through this courageous journey of vulnerability and pain, we get to experience God’s wisdom, grace and healing, through which we develop spiritual depth, compassion for other’s pain, getting a deeper understanding of ourselves and people, and eventually we can build solid, authentic relationships. In this session, through lecture, case example and experiential learning, I would like to explore with all of us themes related to empathy rupture and repair, emotional safety, forgiveness and development a healthier, compassionate self. |
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Experiencing God through Christian Counselling: Implicit and Explicit Integration
[Date: 23 July 2008]
Rev Dr Siang-Yang Tan
Experiencing God through Christian counselling can occur along a continuum of prayerful, intentional integration of Christian faith and counselling, empowered and led by the Holy Spirit. The two ends of this continuum are implicit integration that is more covert and quiet, and explicit integration that is more overt and direct, including the use of prayer and inner healing prayer, the Scriptures, and other spiritual disciplines in counselling. Ethical guidelines for the sensitive and appropriate use of spiritual resources and explicit integration in counselling will be provided. The latest research findings and developments in spiritually integrated counselling or psychotherapy will also be briefly covered. |
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