Level II Certification

Focus: Story Work, Union with Christ and his story, Redemptive Transformation of negative emotions

Building on the core CCT skills and practices presented in Level 1 training, this intensive focuses on story-work, based on a Christian’s union with Christ and his story. Therapist-participants will explore their own story, while practicing Redemptive Transformation, the 2nd Pillar of CCT, a stepwise process of working through negative emotions within the Relational Pyramid, for problems stemming from insecure attachment, chronic trauma, personal sin, spiritual struggles, and related transdiagnostic processes (e.g., rumination, emotion avoidance, & dispositional conflict) in the context of the Christian story. 

Attendees will:

• Personally experience the therapeutic value of the narrative and symbolic resources of the Christian faith and the catalytic role of the imagination in Christian therapy
• Learn how to address many transdiagnostic processes of counselees with the help of Jesus and the resources of the Christian story
• Work in dyads to promote emotional healing and reflective function, within the framework of the Redemptive Transformation stages of negative-emotion processing
• Be able to explain the therapeutic benefits of many of the remarkable narrative resources of Christianity
• Increase their competence in the therapy practices at the heart of CCT (therapeutic prayer and Bible reading; Christian meditation; and story-work, imagery-work, and chair-work with Jesus)
• Progress in the development of their own model of CCT

Weekly Schedule

Day 1 – Our Story within the Christian Story

Day 2 – Our Backstory’s Impact on Our Body, Emotions, and Relationships

Day 3 – Christian Story-Work with Trauma

Day 4 – Advanced Imagery-Work and Chair-Work with Jesus

Day 5 – Special Topics in Christian Story-Work