TRAINING
BARNABAS TRAINING BASIC
This one-day seminar equips you to better encourage friends facing difficult times in life and faith by gaining a biblical understanding of your own heart. It includes lectures and an interactive small group experience, plus reflective time to practically apply principles to one real-life friendship. The seminar will help you better understand yourself as well as invite others into a deeper relationship in Christ. Barnabas Training Basic forms the foundation for those who want further training in caring for others (Barnabas Training Level 1, 2, & beyond).
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LEVEL 1
This 10-week training extends the fundamentals of Barnabas Training Basic. It's a program that includes teaching and practice in a small group context. Participants will improve their care giving skills through practice time and an ongoing relationship with a partner in the group. Class size limited to 8.
LEVEL 2
A 10-week training program in a small group setting that expands upon Level One material. You will learn how to listen, ask better questions and to care for others with a more discerning mind and heart. Level 2 focuses on the application of the model requiring a greater level of personal engagement. Participants will learn through in-group care giving, share real life scenarios, and receive feedback.
GROUP PROCESS AND PEER SUPERVISION
Group Process is an 8-week group for those who, having completed Level 2, have a desire to further explore their own story in light of the Barnabas Model. This group will provide participants with an opportunity to both receive help caring for people in their lives and to be personally cared for in a group context facilitated by Barnabas Staff.
Peer Supervision is an 8-week group that is available to those who are currently in a role of intentionally caring for others and who have completed Barnabas Training through Level 2. This role may be in a ministry or any other caregiving job. Less formally, participants could be a regular and intentional care giver to friends. Peer Supervision provides participants with an opportunity to develop their skills in offering care in specific situations, in light of the Barnabas Model, facilitated by Barnabas Staff.
Story Groups
When we share our stories with people who truly listen and seek to understand, our sense of connection and compassion for ourselves and one another increases. Though we cannot change the events of our stories, we can change the way we continue to experience them. Designed for individuals who have completed at least Barnabas Training Level 2, Story Groups offer participants a safe space for further exploration of their own story, as well as teaching on engagement and conversation skills that are useful for exploring the stories of others.
Participants will share and engage a single story from their families of origin while learning and applying story work principles and themes such as embodied listening, attunement and containment, contempt and shame, and rupture/repair. Each Story Group is made up of 6-8 participants and lasts 8-10 weeks, depending on the number of participants.
Teaching
Partnering with local churches and ministries.
Counselors and staff facilitate classes, seminars, conferences and retreats that guide participants toward an authentic relationship with God and more meaningful relationships with people.
Past offerings have included Redemptive Conversations℠, Parenting Teens and Small Group Leader Training.