Seminars
Our seminars are empowering, packed with information, practical, and affordable for your community, congregation, or organization! Please investigate the five seminars we offer: Beyond Abuse Seminar, Responsible Care Seminar, Spirituality & Childhood Sexual Abuse Recovery Seminar, Manataka Holistic Empower Seminar, and Me Too! Workshop. Scroll down to read each seminar’s description and information. Contact us today and get a Committed to Freedom seminar on your calendar!
Unfortunately, abuse isn’t going away anytime soon. Will your organization, your congregation, or your group be prepared to facilitate healing for survivors and their families? These seminars will help you to do just that. Don’t put off scheduling one or more of these seminars. We have references available upon request. Please email us today with your questions and your calendar! We can’t wait to hear from you!
Seminars are sponsored events and contractual between the sponsoring organization and Committed to Freedom. Sponsors are responsible for all promotions, registration, and payment of fees. In addition to each seminar fee, the sponsor is responsible for the travel, lodging, and meals of the seminar presenter and a companion. References are available upon request. A $100 non-refundable deposit is required to secure a scheduled seminar. Should the seminar be cancelled by Committed to Freedom, the $100 deposit will be returned to the sponsor. Should the sponsor cancel a scheduled seminar, the $100 deposit will not be refunded and if travel tickets have been purchased (plane or train, for example), the sponsor will be responsible for those expenses as well.
Beyond Abuse Seminar
This seminar is for abuse survivors, their partners and friends, and people who want to understand. It is presented from a Christian perspective and introduces spiritual tools that are unique to Christian beliefs. Consider offering this as an outreach to your community. Seminar length is usually six hours and sponsors are encouraged to offer a box lunch to participants.
- Price: $750.00
- Plus Travel, Lodging, & Meals for Presenter and a companion
Topics:
- What Abuse Teaches
- Issues that abuse survivors struggle with
- How God factors into abuse recovery
- The sub-text of Christ’s experiences to abuse survivors
- Strategies to manage stress
This seminar is presented from a Christian perspective, but great care is given to respect each participant’s spiritual journey, traditions, and concerns.
Responsible Care Training Seminar
This seminar is for clergy and congregational leaders who want to learn how to better facilitate healing to abuse survivors and their families. It also addresses the spiritual needs of sex offenders and how to develop policies that are both compassionate and responsible. There is also a brief examination of ensuring that a culture of safety exists to protect vulnerable members of a congregation and community. Seminar length is usually six hours and sponsors are encouraged to offer a box lunch to participants.
- Price: $750.00
- Plus Travel, Lodging, and Meals for Presenter and a companion
Topics:
- Definitions and Damage of Abuse
- Common issues
- Forgiveness in the abuse recovery process
- Helping in ways that don’t hurt
- Creating a culture of safety
- Sex offenders – concerns, their needs, and how your congregation can develop responsible and compassionate policies to address them
Spirituality & Childhood Sexual Abuse Recovery Seminar
This is a secular seminar for therapists, clinicians, and other helping professions who want further training on inclusion of a client’s spirituality in their treatment plan for childhood sexual abuse. It qualifies for 3 CEU hours in most regions. Seminar length is usually three hours.
- Price: $750.00
- Plus Travel, Lodging, and Meals for Presenter and companion
Topics:
- PTSD symptoms and the role of attachment
- Spirituality’s potential as a positive therapeutic experience
- The positive and negative impact of religion on abuse survivors
- Attachment disorder with God
- The role of shame in triggering PTSD symptoms
- The language of faith in therapy
- Developing competencies to address spirituality in client treatment and care
Manataka Holistic Empowerment Seminar
(Manataka is a Native American term for Place of Peace)
This is a secular seminar for survivors of sexual, physical, and emotional trauma. It is structured with high flexibility to work within diverse cultures, ethnicity, faith traditions, and languages. It incorporates the power of story, art, music, icons of healing, and commonality, which enables participants to identify their own strengths and gifts and then celebrate that discovery. This seminar requires extensive preparation and coordination with a fixed number of pre-registered participants. Seminar length is usually six hours and sponsors are encouraged to provide a meal for participants. Child care services are also encouraged and the responsibility of the sponsoring organization. There is one seminar for women and another for men.
- Price: $750.00
- There is also a $30 per participant materials fee charged based on pre-registration
- Plus Travel, Lodging, and Meals for the Presenter Team (usually 2-3 people)
Topics:
- The Courage to Grow
- Building a Memorial to Strength and Wisdom
- Stress Reduction
- Managing Triggers
- The Freedom of Forgiveness
- The Heart of Love
- Writing Yourself Back Into Your Own Story
- Strength and Wisdom Affirmation
Me Too! Workshop
This workshop is for persons with intellectual disability who are survivors of sexual and physical trauma. It incorporates the power of story, images, music, and role playing in order to help participants find attainable life skills and personal empowerment. Workshop length is usually two hours. Sponsors are encouraged to have refreshments available.
- Discount Price: $500.00
- There is also a $10 per participant materials fee charged based on pre-registration.
- Plus Travel, Lodging, and Meals for the Presenter and companion
Topics:
- The Courage to Grow
- Learning to identify emotions
- Role playing personal boundaries
- Strategies for personal empowerment
A Few Places We’ve Given Seminars:
Redeemer Presbyterian Church – NYC
Tarrant County College – Ft. Worth, TX
First Presbyterian Church – Colorado Springs, CO
The Brooklyn Tabernacle – Brooklyn, NYC
Vienna Presbyterian Church – Vienna, VA
Cornerstone Assembly of God – Oxford, CN
Catholic Diocese of Davenport, IA
Mental Health/Mental Retardation Agency of Tarrant County – Ft. Worth, TX
Hawthorn Gospel Church – Hawthorn, NJ
African Services Committee – Harlem, NYC
Teen Challenge of Arkansas – Hot Springs, AR
Martin United Methodist Church – Bedford, TX
Congregations in:
Ecuador
Tajikistan
France
Honduras
Costa Rica
Czech Republic
… and many other locations in the USA. References available upon request.
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