Join Dr John Andersen for this event.

This will be facilitated online – 2 hours category A – (Plus ½ hour for attending the AGM CCAA Members only.) 

What to do when your client is going through deep pain and suffering and therapy can’t fix it?

This workshop takes you beyond helplessness. Drawing on the wisdom of St. John of the Cross, this workshop explains the essential contribution of suffering to spiritual maturation, indeed human maturity and strength. It provides an alternative to our cultural pathologising and suppression of emotional pain.

It explores ways of soul-journeying with clients through times of suffering, to post-traumatic growth that leads to maturity and wisdom.

You will learn:

• The essential place of suffering in human life and experience;
• “The Dark Night of the Soul” as a framework for understanding suffering
• How suffering contributes to spiritual maturity;
• The challenges suffering presents to people;
• Practical ways of enabling people to go through suffering that leads to maturation and growth.

Researching this topic over this year has changed my approach to counselling and view of suffering.

The CCAA Annual General Meeting will be held after this workshop – CCAA members only.  An additional ½ hour PD will be given for attending the AGM.

*This event will be recorded.

* $10 Early bird discount finishes 14th October, 2023.

Note: The event will commence at 11.00am AEDT – To convert to your time zone, click here.