seminars

One-day Seminars that offer pastoral training and tools for pastors, ministry leaders, caregivers, and friends.

  • Made in God’s Image

One-day seminar exploring what it means to be made in the image of God and what it means to be human. It includes presentation on the Biblical framework for God's intention for human identity, relationships, and sexuality, with personal stories of journeying through struggle with identity, relationships, or sexuality.

Topics include:

  • Cultural shifts that have influenced our view on sexuality and identity

  • God's intention for relationship

  • What it means to be a sexual being

  • Who God says I am.

  • Pastoral Approaches: The Church and Gender Crisis

    One-day seminar exploring the cultural, political, and theological landscape around gender and sexuality. This seminar examines the orthodox, theological, and psychological perspective; while equipping church communities to respond in a healthy way.

Topics include:

  • Exploring God’s design for gender identity, sexuality & relationships.

  • Understanding the changing cultural, political, and theological landscape around gender and sexuality

  • Discussing the formation of identity and sexual crises

  • Considering God’s plan of hope and restoration in Christ from gender & sexual crises

  • The Church’s call to be a healing community.

  • Pastoral Approaches: The Church and Sexually Addictive Behaviour

One-day seminar aimed at broadening understanding of sexually addictive behaviour, understanding how change can occur, and offering tangible solutions.  It is critical for pastors, ministry leaders, friends, and caregivers to understand these issues and be equipped to address them well.

Topics include:

  • Factors which lead to sexually addictive struggles

  • Seeing and understanding the nature of addiction

  • Support and accountability – how and why?

  • Supporting the spouse of a struggler

  • Growing trends with women and sexual addiction.

  • Pastoral Approaches: The Church and Same-Sex Attraction

One-day seminar aimed at equipping pastors, ministry leaders, friends, and caregivers to walk with those who are experiencing unwanted same-sex attraction and desire to follow Christ in wholeness and integrity.

Topics include:

  • Exploring God’s design for sexuality

  • Investigating biblical perspectives

  • Shifts in the cultural landscape

  • Understanding sexual identity and scripts

  • The Church’s call to be a healing community.

  • Pastoral Approaches: The Church and Youth Sexuality

One-day seminar aimed at broadening understanding of the development of gender identity and sexuality in youth. It also examines the impact gender and sexual development has on the issues they face and on the role the church is called to play with them in this stage of their lives.

Topics include:

  • Exploring God’s design for gender identity and sexuality

  • Factors that influence the development of identity and sexual struggles

  • Paradigms through which people interpret sexual identity

  • Ministering to and supporting youth in a sexually infused culture

  • The particular need for a culture of spiritual friendship within church community

  • Supporting parents of youth in a sexually infused culture.

Pastoral Approaches: Parenting and Sexuality

2h30min seminar for parents offering tools around engaging with their children and teens around issues of gender and sexuality. 

Topics include:

  • A biblical view on sexuality and gender

  • How it is that these issues are such “hot topics” in society today 

  • Practical points regarding effectively engaging with children and teens around these issues 

  • The experience and need for support for Christian parents whose children are struggling with these issues.