Workshops

Workshops are a multi week program developed by Bridge of Hope ministries to meet specific needs within your church or community. The workshops are 8 week programs for adults and 6 week programs for children. Sessions are once per week. We will provide a brief overview for the workshops below.

Adult Workshops:

• Understanding your Emotions
• Understanding the nine basic feelings
• Thought process, Understanding boundaries, Creating peace, Stress relief
• Exercise and Nutrition
• Anger is a secondary emotion
• React vs. Response, Understanding triggers, Resulting consequences, Cause and effect
• Automatic thinking – Checking signals
• Multiple ways and techniques to deal with emotions
• Evaluation of where I am now and my long term plan
• Divorce Recovery
• Divorce recovery
• Growing through divorce
• Processing
• Anger inventory and checklists
• The former spouse
• Single parenting, Blended family, Personal growth

Spiritual Gifts

• Ministry
• Going the distance with your spiritual gifts
• Temperament Profile, Now I understand me
• More processing, Now I understand me and you
• Binding the strongman for life and ministry
• Leadership, Mentoring, Unique ministry issues
• Spiritual warfare and mapping
• Pastoral leadership, Accountability questions, Organizational charts, Casting a vision

Developing your Emotional Intelligence

• What is emotional intelligence
• How do I improve myself through developing my emotional intelligence
• Self Perception
• Self Expression
• Interpersonal
• Decision Making
• Stress Management

Children’s Workshops:
Understanding your Emotions

• There are many different feelings and emotions
• Emotions can prepare us for action
• What I say to myself can change the way I feel
• Anger is a secondary emotion
• Emotions, thoughts, and behaviors
• Thoughts can change feelings
• People have automatic thoughts they are not aware of
• When emotion takes over it is good to be patient
• Body sensations help me understand my emotions
• How to accept emotions and then decide what to do with them
• Negative self talk, Positive self talk

Sensory, Executive Functioning, and

• Autism Spectrum
• Canvas Selfies – Paint how you see yourself
• Walk a mile in my shoes – Life experiences and situations painted onto a pair of shoes
• Draw with sand – Listen to music and ambient noises while drawing how they make you feel
• Modeling clay – Mold and shape your goals or dreams while listening to a short story
• T-Shirts – Decorate the back side of a shirt with fears and the front with who or what you want people to see about you
• Collage – Make a vision board of your dreams or goals using magazine and newspaper cutouts
• Caregiver Trauma
• Your soul is traumatized as a caregiver
• Jesus do you still want me in this mess?
• Songs for the caregiver