In this session we will consider some practical ways counsellors can ethically use sacred texts meaningful to the client without ‘Bible bashing’. We will introduce an ethical framework that can be used for any spiritual or religious intervention and briefly consider the research that especially supports the use of Scripture with Christian clients. To help […]

In this session we will consider some of the historical meditation and mindfulness practices of the early church. Drawing on Jewish traditions we will discover meditating on God’s word (Joshua 1:8, Psalm 1:2) and God’s work (Psalm 143:5) pre-dates Eastern meditation and is made complete in our meditation on Jesus as Word made flesh. We […]

Forgiveness is being increasingly an excitedly advocated by secular therapists as if they invented it only recently. Yet healing the complexity of ‘offense’ as both offender and offended has been a practice of religions throughout time – and something the Christian faith has something truly profound to offer. We will consider the resources of the […]