ACORN Courses
February - April 2010
ACORN CHRISTIAN HEALING FOUNDATION
WHITEHILL CHASE, BORDON, HANTS
~ A safe place for healing ~
Friday 5th - Sunday 7th February 2010
‘Learning to Listen’ Effective listening for everyday life
Led by members of the Christian Listener Team
£150.00 Fully residential
Starting late Friday afternoon and finishing after lunch on Sunday.
During this course we will explore three aspects of listening:
Listening to Others, Listening to Ourselves and Listening to God
Each session will include teaching, discussion times and opportunities to practise listening.
You will be invited to share from your own personal experience as you choose.
The course aims to develop:
~ An awareness of good listening ~ the skills of active listening
~ an understanding of how such skills can be effective in everyday life at home,
at work & at church
Thursday 11th February
‘Quiet Day’ 10.00 am - 4.00 pm
£30.00
Led by Revd Elizabeth Knifton, Chaplain
Each Quiet Day has a theme and includes three Devotional Talks and a midday service with the opportunity for personal prayer and reflection.
In February the theme is ‘Praying the Names of Jesus.’
Ministry will be available during the day from a Team Member.
To include morning coffee, lunch & afternoon tea.
Friday 12th - Sunday 14th February
‘Ignatian Retreat’ - A Silent Retreat
Led by members of the Ignatian Team
£160.00 Fully residential
Starting late Friday afternoon and finishing mid-afternoon on Sunday.
How can I listen to and hear God speak in my everyday life?
This weekend offers a time to step aside from our everyday routines to be still in God’s presence.
The weekend is underpinned with Ignatian insights into prayer and our relationship with God.
Each person meets twice or three times with a retreat Guide. The rest of the weekend is spent reflecting on one’s own life circumstances in the light of Bible reading.
We keep silence from late Friday evening until the Communion service on Sunday, apart from your own times with your retreat guide. We do this to enable everyone to have space to relax and reflect -to meet God in their own way, and at their own pace.
Come expecting that God will speak!
Thursday 18th February
‘A Time to Dream’
~ A workshop exploring how dreams work
10.00 am - 4.00 pm £30.00
10.00 am - 4.00 pm
Led by Revd Dr Russ Parker
Dreams have fascinated us for over four thousand years according to the existing records.
At heart, we believe that they contain some insight or illumination about our lives.
We believe that they may have some message that is important for us to hear if we are going to move on with a more wholesome life.
This is a Christian Day Conference which will explore what the scriptures teach us about dreams, how they are a mixture of our own questing and God’s intervention into our circumstances with visions.
Imagine the Christmas story if all the dreamers had ignored their dream message! Joseph would not have married Mary nor called her son Jesus and the wise men would have given Herod the postal address of the Messiah.
This Day will teach you how to understand the way in which dreams work and how to arrive at the right interpretation and then choose the proper actions in order to follow your dream message.
To include morning coffee, lunch and afternoon tea.
Thursday 11th March
‘Deeper Healing Day’ 10.00 am - 4.00 pm
£30.00
Led by members of the Acorn Team
How are you today?
Every once in a while we all need a time and a place to stop, to turn aside and find the loving touch of God which we all need.
If this is you then a ‘Deeper Healing Day’ is just what you need.
We will do our best to create a safe place, a quiet place, a place to assist you on your own healing journey.
Our team have received prayer ministry training in many areas, including: anxiety, depression, bereavement and stress.
The day will comprise of an introductory talk on inner healing followed by a combination of receiving individual prayers from members of the Acorn Team, a time for quiet reflection and a concluding communion service with the laying on of hands for healing.
To include morning coffee, lunch and afternoon tea.
Friday 12th - Sunday 14th March
‘Journey into Healing’
£180.00 Fully residential
Starting late Friday afternoon and finishing late afternoon on Sunday.
Are you feeling stuck in your personal or spiritual life?
Do you want to look at how you relate to others?
Are you out of touch with a part of yourself?
Then this could be for you!
The weekend is designed to help us to be open to ourselves, to each other and to the healing work of the Holy Spirit for growth and healing.
Led by The Journey into Healing Team
All leaders have training in psychotherapy.
More information is available on the website: www.journeyintohealing.co.uk
Please contact the office at Whitehill Chase for an application and booking form
Wednesday 17th March
‘Importance of Listening and Prayer Ministry’
Led by members of the Christian Listener Team
10.00 am - 4.00 pm
£30.00
Bringing together the listening and healing aspects of Acorn's ministry.
For anyone involved in Prayer Ministry
To include morning coffee, lunch and afternoon tea.
Friday 26th - Sunday 28th March
‘Time to Listen’
~ Listening to the Sick; Listening to the Elderly;
Listening to the Depressed
Led by John and Gill Jacobs
£150.00 Fully residential
Starting late Friday afternoon and finishing after lunch on Sunday.
All participants must have completed at least the ‘Learning to Listen’ Course.
During this course we will be:
Familiarising ourselves with the Christian Listening approach covered during
‘Learning to Listen’.
We will focus particularly on increasing understanding of the process of aging, the effects of sickness and the experience of depression.
We will also be considering how Christian Listening can bring help and hope to those who are struggling with sickness, depression or aging.
This course will provide opportunity to practise listening skills acquired on either the ‘Learning to Listen’ or ‘Called to Listen’ courses.
Friday 2nd April
‘Good Friday Quiet Day’
10.00 am - 4.00 pm
£30.00
Led by Revd Elizabeth Knifton, Chaplain
Each Quiet Day has a theme and includes three Devotional Talks
and a midday service with the opportunity
for personal prayer and reflection.
In April the theme is ‘Journey to the Cross’
Ministry will be available during the day from a Team Member.
To include morning coffee, lunch & afternoon tea.
‘Called to Listen’
Part 1 ~ Friday 23rd- Sunday 25th April
Part 2 ~ Friday 21st-Sunday 23rd May
Led by members of the Christian Listener Team (To include Course Notes)
This intensive course has been added to the Acorn Programme for those who find it difficult to attend the week long course being held at Whitehill Chase in October 2010.
The inclusive fully residential price for both weekends is £345.00
The course will be based over 2 weekends in April and May.
(Attendance of both weekends is mandatory)
Called to Listen is Acorn’s advanced course for those who feel called to develop their listening skills. All candidates must have completed ‘Learning to Listen’. This 12 session course builds on the experience of the previous course and teaches further listening skills using the mirroring method as a foundation. It also invites participants to listen carefully to themselves as part of their growth in wholeness, and to listen to God in a variety of ways.
Areas covered in this course include:
| The journey of life |
The work of listening & our own resources |
| Listening to the whole person |
Listening to feelings |
| Listening to myself |
Listening to God |
| Qualities in the Listener |
Living with & listening to stress |
| Listening to loss & change |
Good practice in listening |
| Becoming a Christian Listener |
Listening & other resources |
Is this for me? Yes, if you
- have found your previous Acorn Listening training helpful and useful in your ministry
- respect others, are non-judgemental, and can keep confidences
- are open to learn from suffering and can enter the sufferings of others in a mature way
- know your own need for training and supervision and your own limits of competence and are willing to work in cooperation with others
- have some ideas as to how you will use it
Going Deeper……
With Dreams
Tuesday 27th - Thursday 29th April
Led by Revd Dr Russ Parker
£150.00 Fully residential
Starting late Tuesday afternoon and finishing after lunch on Thursday.
This will be a workshop style conference for those who have
already attended ‘A Time to Dream’
Led by Revd Dr Russ Parker.
This conference will explore ways of working
with dreams using role play and psycho drama.
We will also look at praying with our dreams in order to hear
the voice of God more clearly.
For further information please contact the office at Whitehill Chase:
Tel: 01420 478121
Website: www.acornchristian.org
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