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Mental & Emotional Health Conference:
A Wholistic & Practical Approach

Mental and Emotional Health are hot topics these days. Everyone is talking about it. There’s a good chance you or someone you know has struggled in this area, including Christians who
wonder why they are unable to experience the abundant life Jesus promises.

It’s easy to gather a crowd to talk about mental and emotional health. It’s easy to offer
culturally acceptable answers – reduce the stigma and refer to the experts.
But Jesus didn’t call the church to be a referral agency. He commissioned us to make disciples of ALL peoples, including those experiencing mental / emotional health challenges.
This conference aims to be different! Predictable pep talks will be replaced with practical
answers and reproducible solutions that you can immediately apply to your lives (and in your
churches).

West Highland Church is partnering with Pastor Ken Dyck of Freedom Session International
Ministries and Agora Network Ministries to address Mental and Emotional Health from a Christian worldview. The conference will be intense and include biblical foundations to understand the demonic, psychological truth, proven strategies and examples of healing in this area.

We encourage those who register to attend all training modules and register with 2-3
friends/colleagues in order to process what you are learning. The conference will conclude with two identical worship services on Sunday morning.

 

November 1 from 7:00-9:30 PM (registration opens at 6:00 PM)
November 2 from 8:30 AM-5:30 PM

 

Register Here

 

About the keynote speaker:

Ken Dyck (1)Ken Dyck is a seasoned pastor, author, speaker. leadership coach and the Founder / Executive Director of Freedom Session International. Twenty years ago, facing a 40-person waiting list for pastoral counseling in a growing church, Ken wrote Freedom Session, an intensive healingdiscipleship journey now used in Churches throughout North / Central America and expanding in other parts of the world.
In 2021, Ken left his Executive Pastor role in a multi-site church to focus full-time attention towards helping churches and individuals effectively address mental, emotional and relational health from a biblical perspective. Ken believes in a wholistic approach to mental/emotional health, an approach that includes theology, psychology, deliverance and community.
Ken is authentic, practical and passionate about the church, believing God has a purpose of
each of us. He and his wife, Bonnie, have been married over 40 years and split their time living
in Vancouver, Canada and Murfreesboro, TN. They love spending time with their adult children
and five grandchildren. Ken’s personal hobbies include fixing/riding motorcycles, boating and
hunting. His favorite hobby is ministry.

 

Schedule

Friday:

  • Registration begins: 5:30 PM
  • Worship 
  • Welcome & Announcements
  • Testimony 
  • Training Module #1:
    • “Addressing Mental & Emotional Health from a Spiritually Wholistic Perspective”
  • Worship & prayer time

Saturday:

  • Doors open at 8:00 AM
  • Welcome & Announcements
  • Worship 
  • Training Module #2:
    • “The Demonic Interface in Mental & Emotional Health and How to Rise Above”
  • Coffee Break
  • Workshops 
    • Healing from Trauma
    • Rising Above Stress and Stressors
    • Avoiding Burnout and Enacting Self Care
    • Making Your Church more Mental Health Aware
  • Making your Church Mental Health Aware
  • Lunch (in house)
  • Training Module #3:
    • “Confronting Anxiety, Worry, Depression and Temptation”
  • Coffee Break
  • Training Module #4:
    • “The Tri-fold Necessity and Process of Forgiveness”
  • Q&A
  • Worship & Prayer Time

 

Breakout Session Options:

  • Healing from Trauma
    • Catherine Gillard, Agora Board member, Life Coach & Agora Trauma Healing Lead 
    • This workshop will inform you and start to equip you to begin the process of healing wounds of the heart, emotions, and spirit from trauma, grief and loss. Trauma knows no boundaries. The brokenness of our world has an impact on our hearts and minds.
  • Rising Above Stress and Stressors
    • Laura Bruno, Agora Board member, Psychotherapist
    • In this workshop you will examine the difference between stress and stressors, learn about the stress cycle, explore ways to complete the stress cycle, practice skills to help manage stress, and reflect on how God uses stress for our good.
  • Avoiding Burnout and Enacting Self Care
    • Shannon Pharoah, former mental Health Nurse, R.N., B.R.E.
    • In this workshop you will learn that caring for ourselves isn't just a behaviour or a strategy we should incorporate into our routine, it's a heart issue that causes us to deny our attempt at thinking we can do things on our own and acknowledging our need for God's strength.
  • Making Your Church More Mental Health Aware
    • Allan Gallant, Co-founder and Executive Director of Agora Network Ministries
    • In this workshop you will learn how you help those who are struggling with mental health illness. How would your church score if tested against these items? How do we make church a place where all feel secure and ministered to?