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COURSE OFFERINGS
Journal Writing for Health and Self-Discovery Awakening the Creative Spirit with Music Evoked Imagery (MEI)
FAITH & ANXIETYled by Cheryl Zandt Venzor, MDiv, MS The number of people experiencing a level of anxiety that interferes with their daily routine increases every year. What is anxiety? What role does faith play in dealing with and healing anxiety? While a faith tradition offers comfort to many who struggle with anxiety, a person’s faith can also exacerbate anxiety when the two seem to contradict each other. This 2-hour workshop is designed to educate ministers and lay caregivers about the nature of clinical anxiety and to promote spiritual and scriptural exploration. This workshop is also very appropriate for those who live with anxiety and are looking for ways to approach their faith meaningfully.
led by Kevin L. Ogle, DMin.
Are you an otherwise successful person who has had trouble finding or sustaining a healthy romantic relationship? Do you sometimes wonder what a date is really thinking or feeling? This workshop offers a safe place to ask your questions about the ins and outs of conscious dating. Using skills described in Harville Hendrix’s book, Keeping the Love You Find, you will increase your self-awareness and explore conscious dating as a path to establishing healthy committed relationships.
JOURNAL WRITING FOR HEALTH AND SELF-DISCOVERYled by Leia Francisco, MA, CSC
Writing in your journal can powerfully enhance your emotional and physical well-being. You will discover new dimensions of your personal and spiritual journey through writing, with tools proven to enlighten and heal. Understanding how to use different journaling techniques for different situations will increase your enjoyment of journal writing and provide new insight into the joys and challenges of your world. Journal writing is a way to “construct the self,” to perceive emotional truth as well as factual truth. We meet you where you are. You will experience a safe and trusting environment for this exploration. Being a good writer is not at all important, you do not have to share your writing, and we leave the rules of grammar and spelling at the door.
AWAKENING THE CREATIVE SPIRIT with Music-Evoked Imageryled by Celia Im, D.M.A. For anyone seeking a creative approach to professional and personal growth. This introductory group session features “Music-Evoked Imagery” (MEI), a powerful process that uses music to engage the active imagination, intuitive awareness, and unique creative expression. It offers a way to bypass analytical, linear thinking to access the active imagination.
Many of us have dreams, daydreams, meditations and musings that leave us wondering if there is more insight to glean from them. During this introductory session, we will use short music experiences to allow the non-verbal metaphors to unfold with more understanding. We will then explore some tools to glean insight and clarity into our everyday questions and situations.
Survivors of Abuse Support Group (Women Only) Dance of Communication: Ballroom Dancing for Couples Ending Marriage, Keeping Faith: For Anyone Touched by Divorce Parenting the Child who is More Mindful Skills for Mindful Living
DANCE OF COMMUNICATION: Ballroom Dancing for Couplesled by Dawn Gresham, MS
Similar to maintaining healthy relationships, learning to ballroom dance is easier and less stressful when communication is proactive and thoughtful. During this 6-week class, friends, partners, and spouses will work on enhancing their communication skills while learning basic Waltz, Rumba, and East Coast Swing figures. In a safe and enjoyable setting, we will practice relationship-building communication skills and experience the joy of movement through a shared skill and social activity.
PARENTING PRESCHOOLERSsponsored by EARLY YEARS PRESCHOOLled by Suzanne Doherty, PhD
For parents of preschoolers, this four-session class will seek to foster confidence in parents’ abilities to nurture the minds, bodies, and spirits of their very young children. Session 1: Parentbirth – clearing the mental closet of “wishballs and follies and things that go bump in the day.” Session 2: Developmental ages and stages…what to expect in the world of the unexpected. Session 3: Celebrate uniqueness. Session 4: Strategies for when preschoolers don’t follow the plan.
ENDING MARRIAGE, KEEPING FAITH: FOR ANYONE TOUCHED BY DIVORCEled by Doug Thorpe, PhD
When a marriage ends in divorce, a world is destroyed. More than just the marriage is ended. Networks of kinship, friendship, spiritual nurture and social support are torn apart. Nothing can ever be quite the same after divorce. If you have been hurt by divorce – your own, or that of someone close to you – join us for four weeks of learning and mutual support.
WEIGHT MANAGEMENTled by Celia Im, D.M.A. Emotional eating is often the most difficult component of healthy weight management. Using imagery, and music we will look at the 'behind' the behind to uncover the issues of emotional eating. Applying metaphors with music and imagery we can glean more understanding of these hidden dynamics. The group will explore tools to reveal insight and wisdom from our unconscious processes. This group is open to anyone wishing a new and deeper understanding and executing a different approach to weight management and emotional eating.
PARENTING WITH LOVE AND LOGICled by Suzanne Doherty, PhD For parents of school-aged children, this four-session class will utilize Foster Cline and Jim Fay’s book Parenting with Love and Logic as the basis for learning techniques to effectively guide children without resorting to anger, threats, and power struggles. Participants will learn about various parenting styles, the difference between punishment and consequences, how to offer opportunities for children to be responsible, how to empower children to make decisions, and how to lovingly support children when they make mistakes.
PARENTING THE CHILD WHO IS MORE…led by Suzanne Doherty, PhD
…intense, sensitive, perceptive, persistent, energetic…and in all ways, does not fit the mold. This three-session class will help parents of “spirited” children understand temperamental traits, cope with tantrums and blow-ups before they occur, develop strategies for handling situations likely to erupt in negative behavior, and discover the power of positive labels.
MINDFUL SKILLS FOR MINDFUL LIVINGled by Rev. Rusty Lynn, LCSW and Rev. Cheryl Zandt-Venzor, MDiv, MS
Mindfulness is living well by living each moment and finding peace within ourselves. It has been clinically shown to aid those living with depression, anxiety, and chronic pain and is also generally recognized as a valuable tool in seeking psychospiritual health and balance. This 8-week course will introduce mindfulness meditation and other techniques for calming and grounding for those who feel life moves too fast, who long for deeper inner peace, and who seek to slow down, calm down, and live more fully each day. The techniques covered will also help students seeking their spiritual centers to regain the sense of “at-one-ment” with God.
SO, WHAT IS REALLY GOING ON?led by Rev. Gary McMichael, LCSW
This workshop focuses on improving relationships. What creates a secure bond between partners? We will examine key interaction patterns where most couples can become stuck. For example, he clams up and withdraws. She becomes critical and angry. It is hard to understand what is happening, much less untangle from them. Participants will learn skills to identify and expand common patterns into healthy exchanges. This three-session workshop is for anyone wanting to learn more about improving the quality of their relationships.
Pastoral Presence at the End of Life
DEVELOPING LAY LEADERSHIP led by Kay Klein, MEd, MSW
This course is designed for any congregation and/or any specific group within a faith community which desires to strengthen the skills, competence, and effectiveness necessary for dynamic lay ministry. Vibrant faith communities rely not only on the availability of willing people to fill key positions, but need well-grounded and capable leaders. This course includes basic/advance training in leadership skills, understanding of appropriate leadership styles, discernment of spiritual gifts suited to specific positions of leadership, dealing with conflict, and knowledge of intra-personal and inter-personal dynamics related to faith communities. The course can be adapted and tailored to the requisites as needed.
Format: Weekend Retreat or 2 consecutive Saturdays Call for fee information and scheduling: 703-903-9696 x251 or x297
PASTORAL PRESENCE AT THE END OF LIFE led by Cheryl Zandt Venzor, MDiv., MS
This course is designed for those who are called to provide comfort to the dying and their loved ones. It is appropriate for clergy, seminarians, lay ministers, and Stephen ministers. Using resources such as the books, Final Gifts and How We Die, we will discuss practical issues such as physically being with the dying, spiritual issues and spiritual resources, as well as theological issues, including theologies of death and how they fit into ministry with the dying. This course also offers an opportunity to examine your feelings about death and your reactions to the process of dying. This course is best suited for small groups of 8-20 participants.
Format: 2-hours of class meeting time per week for 3 consecutive weeks Call for fee information and scheduling: 703-903-9696 x251 or x297
ALSO AVAILABLEALSO AVAILABLE Several of the seminars and workshops listed in the catalog are Available Upon Request and can be tailored to fit your group’s particular needs. CPC’s ministry happens in partnership with faith groups and the community at large, so please feel free to call and arrange a workshop or event for your congregation, group, or community. Call 703-903-9696, Mary Cahilly (x251) or Kay Klein (x297).
Luminea Institute will strengthen CPC’s partnership in ministry with
congregations by responding to on-going requests for psycho-spiritual
education. The Institute
welcomes referrals and thereby will create a closer working relationship
with Northern Virginia mental health providers and agencies. Following the
well-received Spring
2004 introduction, the Institute is expanding its offerings of
psycho-spiritual education experiences.
We are in the process of creating a trimester schedule that
includes a minimum of 10 courses each for Fall 2004 and Spring 2005, and
6 courses for Summer 2005. In addition to a full
trimester of courses, Luminea Institute will bring relevant discussion
of important contemporary issues into the greater community by
developing a formal Speaker’s Bureau, making use of public access
television, and creating CDs and tapes on special topics. Luminea Institute will
initially draw on the wisdom and experience of CPC clinical staff as
core faculty. The Institute envisions recruiting adjunct faculty from the
greater Washington, D.C. metro area as well as leading spiritual
teachers from across the United States. Please join us as the adventure continues!
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