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Get the All Access PassChuck DeGroat: When Narcissism Comes to Church
In this session, Brian and Suzanne discuss how the Enneagram can be a helpful tool in understanding ourselves and each other in the context of our own trauma stories.
If Centers of Intelligence are where we perceive and take in our trauma, then our Stances are where we must do the work.
Bio
As an internationally recognized Enneagram Master, Suzanne has conducted over 500 Enneagram workshops over the past 30 years.
She has spoken to College audiences that include Baylor and Drury Universities, Hendrix College, Perkins School of Theology (SMU) and Brite Divinity School (TCU), Formation Gathering 2017 (Harvard Divinity School), Pepperdine Bible Lectures 2017, Seminary of the Southwest, hundreds of churches across America including First Baptist Austin, Highland Park United Methodist, Dallas, First Congregational Church, L.A., Otter Creek Church, Nashville, First Baptist Church, Portland, and teaches in the Baylor Health Care System, in Dallas, in both the Cancer and Transplant Hospitals.
Additionally, she has taught at Richard Rohr’s Center for Action and Contemplation and has been a speaker for Conferences offered by the CAC. She taught with Father Rohr to an international audience in Assisi, Italy, on The Enneagram and Paradox. Other events Suzanne has spoken at include The North Texas Conference of the United Methodist Church, Christianity 21, The Festival of Courage and Faith in Greenwich CT, the Emerging Christianity and Telemachus Conferences, the Southwest Regional Gathering of the Disciples of Christ, Laity Lodge and The Apprentice Gathering.
Suzanne received her B.S. in Social Sciences from Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas where she also completed additional graduate work in the Schools of Sociology and Theology. She has served as a high school professor, the first women’s basketball coach at SMU after Title IX, and as the founding Director of Shared Housing, a social service agency in Dallas. When she is not on the road teaching and lecturing,
Suzanne is at home in Dallas, Texas with her husband Rev. Joseph Stabile, a United Methodist pastor with whom she co-founded Life in the Trinity Ministry and the Micah Center. She is the mother of four children and grandmother of nine: Will, Noah, Sam, Gracie, Elle, Joley, Jase, Piper, and Josie.
Links & Resources
Website | Instagram | The Enneagram Journey podcast
Books
The Road Back to You | The Path Between Us | The Journey Toward Wholeness
Casey Bain & Kendra Hill: What Is Religious Trauma and How Can You Heal?
In this session, Casey and Kendra cover:
- what Religious Trauma is
- how it is actually Trauma
- examples of how it can show up
- what to do to start working with and healing from religious trauma using somatic experiencing and internal family systems modalities
Bio
Casey & Kendra are the co-creators of Unraveling Free, a therapy and coaching practice based in Denver, CO. They both specialize in deconstruction, religious and spiritual trauma, church hurt, and healing from purity culture. They are passionate about helping clients who have been part of high-control environments begin to heal from past hurt and become their most authentic and whole selves. They have also found joy in creating and writing for their blog and Instagram page @unravelingfree, where they put words to the harm that fundamentalist and evangelical spaces can inflict, while also sharing what healing can look like.
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Mike Brown: The Space Between
In this session, Brian and Mike talk about liminal space, how to identify it, and what to do there. When a season feels like "always winter and never Christmas," how do we learn to recognize what God is doing under the surface?
Bio
Mike Brown lives and works in Los Angeles with Amy, his wife of 21 years, and their four children: Michael, Luke, Hudson and Grace. A pastor, pioneer, and missiologist, Mike transitioned out of a lead pastor role to start The Family Table, a non-profit working with vulnerable children and families in the foster care system. If he isn’t with his family exploring National Parks, you can find him swimming or paddle boarding in the Pacific Ocean.
While living in Mexico he engaged in the work of community development, equipping short term American teams and empowering the local Mexican church. As a pastor, coach and consultant in an urban city center, he mobilized gospel communities on mission to the marginalized and under-served.. As a foster parent and child welfare advocate, he knows the pain, uncertainty and loss of loving people in less than ideal circumstances. From more than two decades of ministry, Mike has learned how to follow Jesus by learning from the past, living in the present, and embracing an uncertain future held by a steadfast savior.
Resources
Book
Kate Boyd: An Untidy Faith
In this session, Brian and Kate discuss her new book, An Untidy Faith, which offers a different way to view, read, and interpret the Bible.
Join us to hear her approach, and to learn how deconstruction can include the step of disentangling as discipleship.
Bio
Kate Boyd is the author of An Untidy Faith, Bible teacher, and host of the Happy & Holy podcast.
She has traveled the world to interview and tell the stories of believers on mission, and inspired by those encounters, she creates spaces to facilitate wholehearted discipleship in the church at home. By connecting global Christianity, current culture, and biblical context, she helps weary Christians rebuild their relationship with Scripture and the Church. She is studying theology with an emphasis in biblical studies at Perkins School of Theology.
Resources
Website | Instagram |Twitter | "Untidy Faith" newsletter | Messy Middle podcast
Book
Deanna Harrison: Forced Termination: The Silent Epidemic
In this session, Brian and Deanna discuss the immediate and long-term effects of forced termination on ministers and their families. They also talk about the Pastor's Hope Network and how it provides practical resources like resume preparation, financial advisors, mediation, and counseling.
Bio
Deanna Harrison is the Founder and Executive Director of Pastors’ Hope Network. She and her husband, Scott, have been in ministry for 45 years and are survivors of forced termination. Six years following their painful exit from church ministry, she wrote an account of what it took to move forward titled Moving On: Surviving the Grief of Forced Termination.
She holds an MA in English and for many years wrote Bible study curriculum and numerous articles for clergy couples seeking to grow in ministry. She and her husband have two grown children and three delightful grandsons. She would like to be remembered as someone who loves Jesus and gave a voice to the silent epidemic of forced termination.
Resources
Book
Ryan Ramsey: Recovering A Healthy Faith Community
In this session, Brian and Ryan discuss his journey in and out of vocational ministry, his work with chaplaincy, soul care, and what healthy faith community looks like for him today.
Bio
Ryan Ramsey (M. Div.) is a writer, chaplain, and shepherd who focuses in the areas of recovery and grief after religious abuse. In addition to his current work in healthcare where he provides spiritual support to staff in the outpatient setting, Ryan also serves as a soul care provider and advocate. Prior to this work, Ryan was a pastor for more than 10 years, primarily leading and directing pastoral care ministries.
Ryan & his wife KJ have their own story of enduring spiritual abuse, which has propelled him into the world of advocacy on behalf of those harmed and betrayed by faith organizations. Ryan and KJ (who is a therapist) recently completed a certification in Integrative Somatic Trauma Therapy.
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Jessica Fadel: The Need for Deeper Tending
In this session, Brian and Jess talk about the struggle with wanting to hurry toward healing and finding healing in unlikely people and places, as well as her work with fellow speakers Erin Hung and Jenai Auman on the #A-ZofTraumaRecovery project. Be sure to check out those sessions!
Bio
Jess is a graphic artist and writer who seeks to create safe spaces for those who have experienced religious trauma, are doubting, or are wondering about Jesus again. She lives in St. Louis with her husband and enjoys neighborhood walks, drinking coffee, making and trying new food, and photographing everything she sees.
Resources
Jenai Auman: Wholeness Through Art & Story
In this session, Brian and Jenai talk about how to engage writing or art in general as an effort toward wholeness. Jenai also speaks to the autonomy, authority, power of story, specifically in engaging her story of harm (not avoiding it but also not wearing it) as a way to reengage with the historic narrative of Scripture.
Bio
Jenai Auman is a Filipina American writer and artist who works to provide language and extend hope to those who feel like outcasts and misfits in faith. Her desire is to practice resurrection and culture care in the midst of competing culture wars. She lives in Houston, TX with her husband and two sons.
Resources
David Gate: Caring for Individuals and Nurturing Community
In this session, Brian and David discuss his poetry, its source, and how caring for individuals also nurtures community.
Bio
David Gate is a poet, writer and visual artist that hails from London, UK and now resides in the mist of the ancient Blue Ridge Mountains in Asheville, North Carolina.
His work centers around care for the individual (heart, mind, body & soul) and the nurture of community (culture, the earth & environment, the dignity of others and spiritual communities).
Resources
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