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I do want to provide a general CW/TW for all sessions. Since this is a summit focused on recovery from abuse and trauma, assume that we will talk about trauma and abuse regularly. Some speakers may go into detail about their spiritual, emotional, or sexual abuse. Others may talk about suicidal ideation or attempts. If you need to take space for yourself, please do so.
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Get the All Access PassLaura Barringer: A Church Called TOV
In this session, Brian and Laura discuss her experience writing A Church Called TOV with her father in response to the Willow Creek tragedy and the importance of flipping the toxicity into goodness (tov).
Bio
Laura Barringer is a passionate advocate for the wounded resisters of institutional abuse. Laura is coauthor of A Church Called Tov: Forming a Goodness Culture That Resists Abuses of Power and Promotes Healing as well as the forthcoming book Pivot: The Priorities, Practices and Powers That Can Transform Your Church Into a Tov Culture. Laura is a curriculum writer for Grow Kids, a ministry of Stuff You Can Use. She previously coauthored the children's version of The Jesus Creed and wrote a teacher's guide to accompany the book. She published articles for The Jesus Creed and The Englewood Review of Books, and her writing has featured in Church Leaders, The Roys Report, and Converge Summit.
Laura has lectured for numerous organizations and churches including Christian Schools Australia, Converge Summit, Full Collective, The Redemption Church, The Pepperdine Bible Lectures, and Belfast Bible College, Northern Ireland. Laura is a graduate of Wheaton College.
Links & Resources
Books
A Church Called TOV | Pivot (available for preorder)
Amy Wicks: Creating Your Wholehearted Story
In this session, Amy discusses her very personal experience with spiritual abuse and trauma. She walks through "The U Diagram" as adapted from the Allender Center, as it compares to the journey of Christ from Good Friday to the resurrection.
Bio
Amy Wicks is a faith-based Enneagram Coach, speaker, and writer who lives in Kansas City with her tree-climbing arborist-husband and three vivacious teenagers. She is the voice of the weekly Simply Wholehearted Podcast and is the author of Should Christians Use the Enneagram (2021). She has also co-authored a book study with her dear friend, Sara Hagerty, for the bestseller Unseen; the Gift of Being Hidden in a World That Loves to be Noticed (Zondervan 2017).
Amy loves giving her time to help female entrepreneurs create life rhythms and a business they love with the help of the Enneagram!
Resources
Website | Instagram | Allender Center | Simply Wholehearted podcast | U Diagram
Books
Laura Howe: Mental Health and the Church
In this session, Brian and Laura discuss the importance of mental health in the church. They also talk about burnout, compassion fatigue, the complexities of dual relationships, and resources for pastors to check on their own mental health.
Bio
Laura is the Founder of Hope Made Strong and the Church Mental Health Summit with over 15 years of experience as a mental health and addictions clinician. Laura combines her skills with a passion for equipping and strengthening churches and ministry leaders. Through consulting, coaching, and training, she assists to build Care Ministries that are effective in supporting their community while tending to leaders’ well-being.
Her workshops will give you actionable strategies that strengthen your skills and develop your team’s ability to serve others with excellence and hope. Her online courses and in-person presentations create conversations that lead to hope, strength, and resilience in leadership.
Laura equips staff and volunteer leaders as you support and care for others in your community.
Resources
Website | Instagram | The Care Ministry podcast | Church Mental Health Summit 2022
Janyne McConnaughey: The Impact of Trauma on Faith and Spiritual Practices
In this session, Brian and Dr. McConnaughey talk about the impact of trauma on childhood development, spiritual practices, spiritual growth, what healing from trauma can look like, and how communities of faith can support those impacted by trauma.
Bio
Janyne McConnaughey, PhD is a nationally known trauma-informed author and speaker. Her fourth book, Trauma in the Pews: The Impact on Faith and Spiritual Practices, draws from her thirty-three-year career training teachers and ministry leaders at colleges and universities as well as her life-long involvement in church ministry.
She holds a PhD in Educational Leadership and Innovation from Colorado State University–Denver, and currently serves as President of the Board of Directors for the Attachment & Trauma Network (ATN). Janyne is also a Distinguished Visiting Professor at Tabor College (Master of Education: Neuroscience and Trauma).
She and her husband live south of Seattle with their rescue dog Weber where they enjoy exploring the Pacific Northwest and spending time with their children and grandchildren.
Resources
Books & References
Trauma in the Pews: The Impact on Faith and Spiritual Practices | Brave: A Personal Story of Healing Childhood Trauma | Jeannie's Brave Childhood: Behavior and Healing through the Lens of Attachment & Trauma | A Brave Life: Survival, Resilience, Faith and Hope after Childhood Trauma | Attached to God by Krispin Mayfield
Kayla Felten: Spiritual Abuse Recognition & Recovery
In this session, Brian and Kayla discuss her work with Reclamation Collective, her experience coming out of a fundamentalist evangelical context into her current work in religious trauma advocacy, psychedelic advocacy and medicine protection work. They also talk about what accountability can look like for survivors vs re-traumatization, and the importance of community.
Bio
Kayla Felten, MSW, LICSW (she/her) has been an advocate for religious trauma and spiritual abuse survivors throughout her career, as the co-founder of the Reclamation Collective, as well as a Psychedelic Therapist in her clinical work. In both of these realms of practice, Kayla has been able to support those in the process of reclaiming their inner peace, relational harmony, autonomy, pleasure, and identity.
Kayla was initially invited to facilitate support groups for survivors of spiritual abuse due to abuses of power taking place in plant medicine and yogi contexts within Minnesota. This experience helped expand her understanding of spiritual abuse both within and outside of religious contexts, and has allowed her to be a voice of advocacy within the psychedelic and therapeutic communities she shows up in to inspire heightened awareness of the power dynamics present in these containers for potential healing, while acknowledging the coexisting potential for abuse.
With over four years experience facilitating support groups, integration circles, retreats, and teaching workshops for folks navigating themes of religious trauma, spiritual abuse, deconstruction, and reclamation through the Reclamation Collective, Kayla aspires to curate expanded offerings for survivors on their healing trajectories that prioritize personal autonomy and pursue radical authenticity.
Resources
Michael Lecy: Trauma-Informed Theology
In this session, Brian and Michael talk about his own experience with spiritual abuse and how it led to his writing and Instagram account. Michael shares about his hopes as he writes for those deconstructing and reconstructing, what it looks like to get over resentment, and his current work in becoming a Marriage & Family therapist.
Bio
Michael is a counselor, storyteller, and companion to anyone on a spiritual journey.
Resources
Instagram | A Certain Wandering podcast | Buckets and Torches Substack
Kristen Humiston: Ministry Trauma: A Family Perspective
In this session, Brian and Kristen discuss her experience growing up in a pastor's home, her husband's experience with forced termination from a church, and the impact those traumas have on ministry families. They talk about the implications of leaving ministry for pastors and their families, and practical resources for ministers and their spouses to help process their experiences.
Bio
Kristen passionately serves the hurting Christian woman by coming alongside her in difficult seasons. After having been deeply wounded by the Church as a pastor’s kid and pastor’s wife, She found herself placed on her own healing journey. On the way, she shed her performance-based Christianity and discovered God was better than she had imagined. Far beyond the check-lists of a "Godly Christian woman" she'd always been pressured to live up to, Kristen found herself invited deeper into a relationship with God that brought freedom and joy. Ironically, this led her to finding healing and restoration that only Christ can offer in the most unlikely of places—outside of the Church. Kristen holds hope for the day the Bride of Christ will rise to her beauty and become a place of healing. While she works and waits, it is her joy and honor to hold space for others to heal.
Kristen lives in central WI with her family of 8 and enjoys finding quiet with God while living life in full; attending many sporting events and pursuing a graduate degree moving towards becoming a trauma therapist.
Resources
Website | Instagram | Facebook | "God Delights In You" devotional
Ben Sternke & Matt Tebbe: Faith After Deconstruction
In this session, Brian talks with Ben & Matt from Gravity Leadership about reframing spiritual authority, the implications of replacing love with wisdom and power, and how God meets us in our messy reality.
Bio
Ben Sternke has over two decades of Christian ministry experience as a pastor and church planter, and has been coaching and training leaders since 2010. He is the co-author of Having the Mind of Christ: Eight Axioms to Cultivate a Robust Faith (IVP 2022). Ben co-founded Gravity Leadership, where he coaches leaders from all around the world in transformation leadership and discipleship, and co-pastors The Table, a church he planted in Indianapolis. Ben and his wife Deb have four children and a little dog named Edith.
Matt Tebbe has in local church ministry for over twenty years, and has been a coach, communicator and consultant for churches and pastors since 2011. He co-founded Gravity Leadership, where he coaches leaders from all around the world in transformation leadership and discipleship, and co-pastors The Table, a church he planted in Indianapolis, where he lives with his wife Sharon and their children Deacon and Celeste. Matt is the co-author of Having the Mind of Christ: Eight Axioms to Cultivate a Robust Faith (IVP 2022).
Resources
Website | Twitter | Gravity Instagram | Ben's Instagram | Matt's Instagram
Justin McRoberts: A Natural Posture of Belovedness
In this session, Brian and Justin talk about his work, writing, and his new book, Sacred Strides: The Journey to Belovedness in Work and Rest.
They discuss belovedness, and how our rest and work are meant to come out of it, and not for it. Justin talks about growth and maturity in Christ being rooted in our sense of belovedness, and how we can move from our false self to our true self.
Bio
Justin McRoberts is an author, coach, speaker, and songwriter. He is the author of six books, including the upcoming, Sacred Strides (May 2023).
For over 20 years, Justin has helped artists, ministers, and entrepreneurs find their way. From the stage, through his stories in books or during coaching sessions, he leans on his years of work and expertise as a minister and artist to help individuals and teams solve problems in their creative processes.
When he’s not writing, speaking, or coaching, you can find him as the host of the At Sea Podcast.
He lives in the East San Francisco Bay Area.
Resources
Website | Instagram | "At Sea" Podcast | Music
Books
Sacred Strides (preorder) | The Voice of the Heart by Chip Dodd
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