Current Seminars
Seminars and Training at Agape and at your Church or Organization
Agape Counseling Associates is eager to provide both the highest quality of professional counseling for individuals and families seeking health and wholeness, and support and education
for churches and organizations throughout the region. Agape is able to provide seminars and training in a variety of areas, to enrich lives and ministries.
For churches or Christian organizations desiring information about a seminar or a full day of seminars tailored to your needs, please contact the Agape Office at 585-385-6030 for a full listing of seminars, services, and prices. These seminars are professional, affordable, and designed for you.
Current Offerings:
Classes meet at the Agape Eastside Office, 1598 Penfield Road, unless otherwise indicated.
Class fees are payable by check, VISA, or MasterCard.
For additional information about any class or seminar, and to register, call Agape Counseling Associates at 585-385-6030
Anger Management
(Be Angry and Sin Not)
This 4-session class invites you to examine specific details of your anger to gain understanding, and then focus on how to make the anger emotion effective in the relationships and healthy for you.
Tuesday evenings, 6:45-8:15 p.m.
Begins May 6th and runs for 4 weeks
Cost: $80
Facilitator: Joan Woody, LCSW
Minimum number of registrants: 6
Changes That Heal
Personal Growth Class
Based on the book by Dr. Henry Cloud, designed to teach principles that allow participants to better understand their past and work toward healthier relationships.
Monday evenings, 6:00-8:00 p.m.
Begins April 21 and runs for 6 weeks
Cost: $180 plus book*
Facilitator: Debbie Williams, MS, LMHC
Minimum number of registrants: 8
*Changes That Heal book is available for purchase at class.
Register before April 7, 2008 and receive the book free.
- Develop strategies to grow both spiritually and emotionally in the image of God
- Learn about the four areas of development that must be completed in order for individuals to deal successfully with life and relationships
- Begin working on the true issues in your life rather than their symptoms
- Encounter ways to overcome symptoms of depression and perfectionism
Agape’s “TLC”
Training Lay Counselor Class, Beginning Level
Are you searching for training to help you learn how to truly connect to and help hurting people? “TLC” practical lay counseling training is designed to equip you with specific skills and tools to respond to people in need.
This Basic Level Intensive is completed in four weeks, including four Tuesday evenings and two extended classes on Sunday afternoons.
Tuesdays, 6-8:30 p.m. and Sundays 2-6 p.m.
Begins April 22 and runs 4 weeks with 6 classes in that time
Cost: $280 plus book*
Facilitator: Kathy Elliott, MS, LMHC
Minimum number of registrants: 8
Effective Biblical Counseling book is available for purchase at class.
*Register by April 8 and receive the book free.
This course will include:
- Self awareness and assessment of personal strengths and areas of growth.
- Examination of conflict styles and their impact on the counseling process
- Discussion /practice of questions and responses that facilitate the helping process
- Actual counseling demonstrations and discussion of areas within the session which exemplify particular skills
- Triad practicing skills
- Practice and development of skills in attending, concreteness, compassion, genuineness, and respect
This two-part, 3 hour interactive presentation provides time to identify the struggles that hinder adolescent girls from embracing their identity in Christ and focus on the cures.
Presenter: Robyn Elliott, LMSW
Session one is Identity Fraud and identifies the different traps and struggles that entangle adolescent girls and lead to attempts to please others through performance and approval.
Session two is Identity Remedy following up traps and approval seeking behaviors with exploration of ways to replace these thoughts and behaviors. Each girl is challenged to identify the struggles she experiences and celebrate who she is, as she works on implementing a new focus on cherishing her God given characteristics. Scripture is woven through the sessions to remind each girl that she is fearfully and wonderfully made, and that God loves her just as she is.
Contact Agape at 385-6030 for more information about scheduling this seminar in your church or community.
Pastors' Forum: Counseling Unmarried Couples in the Church
April 24, 7:30 AM at the Agape Office, 1598 Penfield Road
Pastors and Pastoral Staff — Be our guests at this opportunity to discuss issues of concern to pastors. The April focus is Counseling Unmarried Couples in the Church. A continental breakfast will be served at 7:25 AM.
Please call 385-6030 to confirm your attendance, or email us at agape@agaperoc.org.
The final forum date for 2008 is June 12.