PROFESSIONAL WORKSHOP ON:
Working with Emotional Blocks
Venue: Pusat Aktiviti Calvary, 20-2 Jalan PJU8/5G, Damansara Perdana, 47820 Petaling Jaya
Date: 29th – 30th April, 2008
Time: 9.00am – 5.00pm (registration begins at 8:15am)

The workshop will focus on teaching counselors how to intervene helpfully when clients encounter difficulties working with their emotional experience: particularly when they cover or displace primary adaptive emotion with secondary reactive emotion; block awareness of bodily-felt distressing emotion; or interrupt the full experience of unacceptable or frightening emotions after they emerge into awareness. Videotaped demonstrations will be presented, and there will be opportunities to develop and practice the skills involved in using two chair dialogue and imaginal empty chair work to facilitate the process of accessing and expressing emotion.

Workshop Speaker
Dr Wanda Malcolmis a clinical psychologist who graduated from Lakehead & York Universities, did M.A. at University of Toronto and obtained PhD in clinical psychology from York. She did her clinical studies with the founder of Emotion Focused Therapy (EFT), Dr Leslie Greenberg, and continues to work with him as an EFT Trainer. She is also a coinvestigator in Dr Greenberg’s ongoing program of psychotherapy research which investigates the process forgiveness and reconciliation in response to interpersonal hurtfulness in close relationships.

They have co-authored chapters in two of the seminal edited books on the psychology of forgiveness, and Dr Malcolm is the senior editor of “Women’s Reflections on the Complexities of Forgiveness” (2007) a collection of essays authored by women involved in key research and clinical work that focuses on forgiveness and reconciliation. Dr Malcolm regularly speaks at conferences and is sought out for media interviews.

Workshop Objectives
Participants will learn how to:

• recognise and work differentially with primary adaptive and secondary reactive emotion
• work effectively with clients who get stuck in unproductive secondary emotion
• intervene effectively when clients are blocking awareness or interrupting the expression of primary adaptive emotion
• facilitate clients efforts to improve awareness of their inner emotional experience and learn how to express their feelings in ways that improve psychological well-being and interpersonal relatedness

Who Should Attend?
People in the mental health professions – psychiatrists, psychologists, counsellors, and psychology academicians, preferably those who have undergone EFT training.

Workshop Fee

• Early Bird Rate - RM830.00 per person (before 5th April 2008)
• Normal Rate - RM880 per person (between 5th - 15th April 2008)
  (Fee includes seminar materials, refreshments & lunch)

Closing Date: 15th April 2008

Download the REGISTRATION FORM here.

WORKSHOP ON
Forgiveness & Reconciliation
Venue: Pusat Aktiviti Calvary, 20-2 Jalan PJU8/5G, Damansara Perdana, 47820 Petaling Jaya
Date: 1st May, 2008
Time: 9.00am – 3.30pm

The workshop will focus on gaining a biblically based understanding of what healthy forgiveness and reconciliation are, how to embody forgiveness and work toward reconciliation after we’ve been hurt by someone we thought we could trust, and how to help others in their efforts to forgive and reconcile.

Workshop Speaker
Dr Wanda Malcolm, PhD is a clinical psychologist and Adjunct Professor of Pastoral Psychology at Wycliffe College, a theological college in University of Toronto. She teaches courses in self and pastoral care, as well as a course called “Forgiveness and Reconciliation in the Church and in the World.” This course seeks to facilitate students’ efforts to embody the Christian virtue of forgiveness in their own relationships and spheres of influence, and to assist them in their efforts to think “Christianly” about scholarly and secular understandings of forgiveness and reconciliation. Dr Malcolm has also taught a course on “the psychology and theology of forgiveness” for counselling students at Tyndale Seminary.

Dr Malcolm did her clinical training with the founder of Emotion Focused Therapy (EFT), Dr Leslie Greenberg, and continues to work with him on an ongoing psychotherapy research project that investigates the process of facilitating forgiveness and reconciliation. They have co-authored chapters in two of the seminal edited books on the psychology of forgiveness. Dr Malcolm is the senior editor of “Women’s Reflections on the Complexities of Forgiveness” (2007), a collection of essays authored by women involved in key research and clinical work that focuses on forgiveness and reconciliation. She is sought out for media interviews and often speaks to church and community groups about forgiveness and reconciliation.

Workshop Objectives
Participants will learn how to:

• Appreciate the differences between healthy and unhealthy forms of forgiveness and reconciliation
• Know when and how to offer forgiveness and work toward reconciliation in specific situations
• Help others engage in healthy practices of forgiveness and reconciliation

Who Should Attend?
Counsellors, social workers, pastors, elders/deacons, church lay leaders, or anyone who is involved in faith-based people-helping ministries.

Workshop Fee

• Members of Calvary Church - RM90.00 per person
  
• Non-members of Calvary Church - RM120.00 per person
  (Fee includes workshop materials, refreshments & lunch)

Closing Date: 15th April 2008

Download the REGISTRATION FORM here.

PRE-MARRIAGE COURSE
TOWARDS BUILDING A FULFILLING MARRIAGE AND FAMILY

Venue: CALVARY LIFE MINISTRIES, No 20-2, Jalan PJU 8/5G, Damansara Perdana, Petaling Jaya
Date: 21st & 28th June 2008
Time: 9:00AM – 4:00PM

Click on the above image to download the SMARTSTART e-flyer cum registration form

A fulfilling relationship between the husband and wife provides a solid foundation to build loving and happy family. It is necessary then, for couples contemplating marriage to be equipped with the knowledge, skills and guidance before embarking on the marriage journey.

To this end, the Pre-Marriage SMARTSTART course has been developed to provide the basic knowledge, guidance and skills for a fulfilling and happy marriage and family.

COURSE OBJECTIVES
In attending the SMARTSTART course, the newly weds (married for less than 3 years) and those planning to get married will be provided:

• With information about challenges in their marital life
• With the necessary knowledge, guidance, skills and tips
• A neutral platform to better understand each other’s needs, wants, expectations etc.

COURSE CONTENT
Session 1: Getting To Know You
Session 2: Discovering Our Expectations
Session 3: Facing Conflicts and Challenges
Session 4: Remember It’s Good To Talk
Session 5: Building Sexual Intimacy
Session 6: Finance And The Family

COURSE FACILITATORS
Licensed counsellors and certified facilitators for the government’s SMARTSTART Pre-Marriage Education.

Download the REGISTRATION FORM here.