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Wednesday, October 15, at 11am Hawaii | 12noon Alaska | 1pm Pacific | 2pm Mountain | 3pm Central | 4pm Eastern | 5pm Atlantic

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From our friends at the United Church of Christ:

Mental Health, Spiritual Care, and Community Healing: An Introduction to an Internal Family Systems Approach 2-Part Training Series

Through the collaboration with Mental Wellness leaders, our online training is designed to introduce the Internal Family Systems (IFS) paradigm to clergy and lay leaders, with a special focus on BIPOC Communities. This training will empower clergy and lay leaders to integrate the Internal Family Systems approach with embodied liberative pastoral care practices that honor cultural wisdom, promote mental wellness, and nurture community transformation.

The purpose of this training is to equip BIPOC leaders with the tools and knowledge to create a supportive environment within their congregations that foster mental health, spiritual care, and community healing. Participants will have an opportunity to understand and apply the principles of Internal Family Systems and combine them with spiritual practices to dismantle supremacist theologies and monocultural paradigms of care in favor of spiritual approaches that center cultural humility, embodiment, and liberative social change. Using IFS as a tool for intrapersonal and collective healing, participants will explore how their inner worlds mirror systems of oppression and how healing within contributes to justice beyond. Participants will:

  • Understand and apply the foundational principles of Internal Family Systems
  • Develop Self-leadership as a spiritual and emotional practice
  • Cultivate culturally responsive care rooted in the lived realities of BIPOC communities
  • Model embodied pastoral care practices to incorporate with their communities
  • Integrate liberative theologies into congregational life
  • Reframe mental health through a prophetic, justice-centered lens

Registration is limited. Advance registration required.

Mental Health, Spiritual Care, and Community Healing, Part One, is scheduled for Wednesday, October 8.

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