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Leadership and Spiritual Life Newsletter / 5.18.16
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Redefining Aging, a conversation series
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Thank you to everyone who came to help us launch this series through our wine and cheese gathering in April.
We are hosting three more conversations and you are welcome to join us.
Not a class, not a support group, this conversation series will
explore ways to reframe common misconceptions about a universal experience: growing older.
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. Like good cheese and fine wine, we age better together.
The following schedule of conversation topics is based on the interest that bubbled up in the first session in April:
- May 26, 2016: Living with Meaning and Purpose: Practices for Maintaining Vitality
- June 30, 2016: Death, Dying and Loss: How to Live through to the End
- July 28, 2016: Community: Relating to People on Macro and Micro Levels
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Mindful Leadership
a workshop for lay and congregational leaders
May 26, 2016
12:30 - 3:30 p.m.
$60
Description: Edwin Friedman challenges us to be a "non-anxious presence" in our systems. That's great . . . but just how does one go about becoming authentically "non-anxious"? Mindfulness is about developing a practice to strengthen our capacity to be aware-to pay better attention to our external world (through the five senses) and to our internal world (of thoughts, emotions, and physiological sensations). If we deepen our ability to be centered with such awareness, then we can be liberated to live more consistently and faithfully by making choices moment-by-moment according to our values. We can move our lives in the direction of being genuinely clear, self-defined, serene and non-anxious. We will become better positioned to give or to express in the moment what is needed as leaders, whether that is gentleness or strength, humility or confidence, silence or words. The focus of this session will be to help participants forge or enhance their own personal practice of being mindful leaders.
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Mark Minear, Ph.D.
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Presenter:
Mark Minear (who just finished walking across the state of Iowa, see below)
is a licensed psychologist with the Des Moines Pastoral Counseling Center. He is also a recorded minister with the Religious Society of Friends (Quaker). He received his B.A. in Religion and English from William Penn College, an M.A. in Church History from the Earlham School of Religion, and an M.A. and Ph.D. in Counseling Psychology from Ball State University. He has background in working with a variety of churches, denominations, and faith traditions, as well as with individual clergy in need of support. He has significant experience in working with veterans' issues, chronic health problems, couples counseling, and geriatric concerns. Mark works with adults on a wide variety of issues: depression, anxiety including trauma, loss and grief, transitions and adjustments, and spiritual concerns. He is also available for neuropsychological assessment to determine cognitive strengths and weaknesses, including possible memory problems.
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This professional development opportunity is part of the Congregational Leadership Series for both lay and ordained congregational leaders. The goal of this series is to enhance leadership capacity through four leadership topics and presenters.
1. Organizational Dynamics - February 25, 2016 (done)
2. Leadership in the Midst of Conflict - March 31, 2016 (done)
3. Leading Through Change - April 28, 2016 (done)
4. Mindful Leadership - May 26, 2016
Location: Des Moines Pastoral Counseling Center, 8553 Urbandale Avenue, Urbandale, Iowa 50322
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Walk with Mark for counseling assistance
Bravo Mark! And thank you to all who supported his walk.
Mark Minear, Ph.D., a licensed psychologist at the Des Moines Pastoral Counseling Center, walked across Iowa Hwy 30, from river to river, in April and May 2016 to raise awareness and funds for mental health counseling assistance for men and boys. Why? Because men and boys are less likely to seek counseling, and more likely to complete suicide. Mark wants to change that. Read his incredible blog - his posts are part philosophical, part personal, part historical, part travel log. Read more here: www.dmpcc.org/WalkwithMark.
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Thank you!
On May 13 we set the table (48 tables to be exact) to lift up mental health for girls and women at the 18th Annual Women Helping Women Luncheon. We honored Marsha Ternus for her life's work to assist vulnerable women and children. Speaker Marti Sivi made us laugh and broke our hearts with stories of "Theater Behind Bars: Empowering Women to Hope and Heal." Thank you to everyone who participated. Watch for photos to be posted soon. For more information: www.dmpcc.org/WHW
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What is pastoral counseling?
This is the first in a series of articles on pastoral counseling and spiritual direction. While this introductory article will explore the idea of "pastoral counseling," the rest of the series will profile individual counselors and spiritual directors at the Des Moines Pastoral Counseling Center.
Pastoral counseling is not that different from other counseling or therapy. Counseling, including pastoral counseling, is a way of dealing with personal or relationship concerns, issues, or problems that a person encounters in their life. Adding the word pastoral to counseling adds a sense of openness to airing spiritual questions, and pastoral counselors may have a greater comfort level with dealing with those questions though all clinicians can be attuned to the spiritual. An important note to go with pastoral counseling is
that there is openness to the spiritual questions being asked but the client has to ask the questions because the counselor will not automatically assume the client wants to talk about matters of faith.
Sara Miller served as an intern with the Des Moines Pastoral Counseling Center January - March 2016, during her senior year at Simpson College.
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Diane McClanahan,
Director of Leadership and Spiritual Life |
Leadership and Spiritual Life
at the Des Moines Pastoral Counseling Center
In addition to the programs listed above, we offer the following ongoing services:
- psychological assessments for clergy candidates
- clergy coaching
- boundary training for clergy
- conflict transformation services for congregations, nonprofits and businesses
- strategic planning services for congregations, nonprofits and businesses
For more information on any of these services and programs, contact Diane McClananahan, M.Div., Director of Leadership and Spiritual Life (formerly known as the Institute for the Practice of Ministry) at Des Moines Pastoral Counseling Center
, 515-251-6667,
[email protected].
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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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Who we are:
Des Moines Pastoral Counseling Center is a nonprofit, nonsectarian organization offering a broad range of mental health services
, serving 2,450 individuals annually including 700 children.
Although best known for its 43 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
- Career Coaching
- Conflict transformation and strategic planning services for congregations, nonprofits and businesses
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