Discipling Four Complicated Emotions

When we engage in conversations about race, class, and culture, we encounter the strong emotions of fear, anger, shame, and grief in ourselves and others, which can often derail conversations or deepen division. Discipling Four Complicated Emotions is a highly interactive training that equips participants with the pastoral skills needed to work through their own emotions and disciple others for more constructive engagement around complex emotions to cultivate a reconciling community.

Learn how to identify and address the four most common emotions that surface in the work of reconciliation. This highly interactive training equips individual leaders or leadership teams with the pastoral skills needed to disciple others for more constructive engagement around complex topics. Sessions include large and small group discussions, journaling exercises, facilitated case study discussions, scenario practice in breakout groups, and case-in-point learning drawn directly from participants’ experience.

Themes:

• Emotional health
• Handling conflict
• Discipleship

Outcomes:

• Strengthen your personal emotional health and wisdom for dealing with complicated emotions
• Learn pastoral strategies for guiding difficult conversations toward healing, understanding, and growth