Mental Health and Your Church- Melbourne Residential intensive

About This Event

Dive deep with our two-day 9am-9pm residential intensive which continues on from the Melbourne one day workshop. This is particularly suited to counsellors, church leaders, and ministry workers desiring to grow in their care of those with mental illness in their churches.

Full cost- $290 (includes all meals, morning/afternoon teas). Please note this does not include accommodation.

Bookings for accommodation have now closed.

Free attendance at your home state one day workshop is included in registration to the residential intensive conference.

Topics For the Residential Conference

ALL Melbourne ‘Mental Health and Your Church’ workshop sessions:

Outline of mental health for churches – Midgley

Help for the anxious - Midgley

Help for the depressed – Midgley

How to for churches – Midgley

Q&A session

PLUS residential conference only sessions:

Encouragement for weary ministry workers - Lowe

Help when depression doesn’t lift - Midgley

Understanding religious scrupulosity (includes counselling videos) - Midgley

Supporting people with psychotic illness - Midgley

Biblical pastoral care for people with dementia - Lowe

Christian meditation and imagery for anxiety - Hood

Facing fear and trauma with the Psalms - Hood

Personal singing – an underused counselling intervention – Hood

Morning and afternoon tea, lunch, dinner and supper breaks

Final Q&A session

Steve Midgley is executive director of Biblical Counselling UK and a senior minister at Christ Church, Cambridge. Steve is a conference speaker, a board member for the Christian Counseling & Educational Foundation, and a council member of the Biblical Counseling Coalition. He and his wife, Beth, have three adult children.