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E-Connect Newsletter / 3.23.16
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The Center offers biofeedback therapy services
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This demonstration of a typical biofeedback session includes Caitlin Anderson (L), graduate practicum student and biofeedback intern and Kathe Irvine (R) L.M.S.W., one of the Center's biofeedback clinicians. For more information click image.
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The Center is pleased to offer biofeedback therapy services, a mind-body treatment technique that provides the opportunity for clients to observe their physical responses and use that information to restore their health and well being.
By measuring often unconscious physiological activities of your body, such as heart rate and muscle tension, biofeedback allows you to "see" and "hear" your body's responses to stress, anxiety, trauma, etc. Once your awareness increases, you can learn to change those patterns to reduce physical and psychological symptoms, and to improve your overall health.
Through the use of awareness exercises, guided relaxations, audio recordings, video games, and home practice, individuals learn strategies to improve healthy coping responses.
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Redefining Aging, a conversation series
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What would you do if you had more time? Click image for more information and to RSVP.
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Join us for a wine and cheese gathering on April 14, 2016, to explore ways to reframe common misconceptions about a universal experience: growing older. Not a class, not a support group, this gathering will launch a conversation series. While pop culture tends to focus only on the losses that come in this time of life, we will consider the significant opportunities.
Participants will discover new ways to express their values, creativity and spirituality - in a joyful and supportive community. The conversations will be expertly facilitated, yet evolve dynamically according to participant interest.
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Walk with Mark for counseling assistance
Mark Minear, Ph.D., is a licensed psychologist at the Des Moines Pastoral Counseling Center. In April and May he will be walking across Iowa Hwy 30, from river to river, to raise awareness and funds for mental health counseling assistance. His goal is to raise $10,000 to support vulnerable men and boys who are underinsured, complementing the Center's Women Helping Women fund.
Sign up to receive more information, including Mark's daily blog posts.
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Apply now for PrairieFire, a two year spiritual formation program
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PrairieFire is an invitation to a deeper spiritual life, an invitation to set time aside for renewing of self and awakening of soul. It is an opportunity for education and mutual guidance and support in developing spiritual awareness and life-sustaining spiritual practices.
Program components for PrairieFire include:
- Monthly gatherings for two years from September 2016 through June 2018
- A two-day retreat each September (2016 and 2017)
- Day-long gatherings each month from October through June
- Gatherings include a variety of experiences, such as
- Opening and closing circles of meditation, centering and personal sharing
- Topical presentation with monthly readings assigned
- Small group spiritual direction
- Experiential exercises with time for quiet personal reflection.
- Community-building with an emphasis on compassionate hospitality
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Employment Opportunity:
- Adult, Couple and Family Therapist
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Save the Date:
18th Annual Women Helping Women Luncheon
Friday, May 13, 2016
11:30 a.m. - 1 p.m.
Embassy Suites Downtown
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More opportunities to enhance Leadership and Spiritual Life:
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Diane McClanahan, M.Div., Director of Leadership and Spiritual Life at the Center |
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Thank you to everyone who participated in our recent ASIST and Soul Shop suicide prevention trainings. Please watch for more training opportunities later this year.
For more information contact Diane McClanahan, Director of Leadership and Spiritual Life, [email protected], 515-251-6667.
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Save the date:
Clergy Open House
April 26, 2016
at the Des Moines Pastoral Counseling Center
Watch for more information.
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Hello spring!
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Hello spring! The gardens at our front entrance are pruned and ready to welcome guests into a new season.
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Your gift makes a difference for others.
We serve more than 2,450 individuals annually, including 700 children and adolescents. Thanks to generous community support, every individual who walks through our doors may access a full range of high quality counseling regardless of their household income. Thirty five percent of our clients utilize a sliding scale to help cover costs of services. Please consider a donation to the counseling assistance fund. Thank you.
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Our mission is to bring understanding, hope and healing to people of all ages through counseling and education.
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Our key services:
Des Moines Pastoral Counseling Center is a nonprofit, nonsectarian organization
serving 2,450 individuals annually including 700 children and adolescents.
Although best known for its 44 years of quality, professional mental health therapy, the Center is a multi-faceted organization providing a range of services:
- Counseling, including specialized services for children and adolescents
- Psychological testing and assessment
- Psychiatric consultation and care
- Training for clinical professionals
- Leadership and spiritual life programming
- Conflict transformation and strategic planning services for congregations, nonprofits and businesses
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3.23.16
Dear Reader,
It feels like spring, so it seemed appropriate to change our newsletter banner to the fresh graphics of our signature event, the annual Women Helping Women Luncheon. And how wonderful it is to share the news of our friend and colleague, Mark Minear, a psychologist at the Center who will walk across the state of Iowa to raise awareness and funds. If you check out his itinerary above, you'll see that he's committing to walk more than a marathon each day! We are excited to share more information on both events soon -- please stay tuned.
I can almost breathe in the sweet summer air that Mark will experience as he walks the Lincoln Highway. I already feel the surge of compassion that comes from people joining together to promote renewal and support one another. It is my honor to be in a role to share all this good news with you. Thank you for your interest.
All best,
Terri Speirs
Director of Marketing and Communications
Des Moines Pastoral Counseling Center
515-251-6670
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