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05/01/2019

Healthy Congregations May Event - Dancing with Family Ghosts: The Power of Emotional Cutoff

Family Ghosts

This year’s May Leadership Series Special Event will feature Richard Blackburn of the Lombard Mennonite Peace Center in Lombard, Illinois. Richard Blackburn is Executive Director of the Lombard Mennonite Peace Center.  He has broad experience as a trainer, mediator, and consultant with conflicted churches and their leaders.  The congregational mediation model he developed represents a transformational approach, placed within the context of Bowen family systems theory. For several years, he attended Edwin Friedman’s Post Graduate Clergy Seminar in Family Emotional Process in Bethesda, MD.  Richard also participated in the Postgraduate Program in Bowen Family Systems Theory and Its Applications at the Bowen Center for the Study of the Family in Washington, D.C.

Hear from The Rev. Blackburn on the impact of emotional cutoff on ourselves, churches, families, and communities in three insightful sessions:

Separating Self from the Past: The Impact of Emotional Cutoff
Reconnecting with the Past: Bridging Emotional Cutoff
Focusing on Self: How Have You Experienced Cutoff in Family, Church and Society?

Register to attend the event in person or online via livestream. 

Lunch is included in the price of all in-person registrations.

Date: May 31

Time: 8:30 am-3:30 pm

LOCATION
Covenant Presbyterian Church, 2070 Ridgecliff, Columbus, Ohio

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