Training and Equipping You to minister Healing and Restoration

This is an intermediate course, focusing on a deeper understanding of relationships and looking at how to strengthen our true self and eliminating what blocks us from developing a healthy Christian identity. It introduces different counseling models and tools to fight dysfunctional lifestyles and false beliefs.

Would you like to disciple and strengthen others and be better equipped to come alongside those who are broken in some areas of their life? This school will challenge you in how you see God, yourself and others and equip you with tools and insights of how to develop the full potential of what God has put in each one of us. You will be challenged to develop and practice your personal integrated counseling approach.

Dates: 22. Sept - 14. December 2024 lecture phase

Course Number: CNH 315 / 316

Language: English

UofN credits: 12 + 12 (outreach)

Lecture Phase Fee: 2'990 Swiss Francs (incl. tuition, room and board)
+ approx 50.- for materials, books, etc. during the school
(2nd world: 2'290.-)
(3rd world: 1'990.-)
Nation categories are set according to the UofN Nation category list

1/3 of the schoolfees are due upon acceptance to the school. The rest upon arrival/ at the beginning of the school.

Outreach Phase Fee: max. 2500 Swiss Francs plus airfare (all depending on location)

School Leader: Angelica Hernandez is from Bogota, Colombia. She has been in a YWAM counseling ministry for over 20 years. She has been leading, staffing FCM, ATCM and holds a masters degree with the college of Counselling and Health Care. She has also been instrumental in pioneering the ATCM across South America for the past 10 years.

For whom is this school?

This intensive course is designed for those who are or plan to be involved in some kind of counseling ministry and have demonstrated a basic ability and understanding in the area of counseling.

The course has a threefold purpose:

1. To build upon and increase one's understanding of counseling and its Biblical foundation.

2. To teach and enhance counseling skills.

3. To foster personal development of character qualities necessary for a Christian counselor.

The program also includes the following components :

1. Understanding and applying the work of the Cross and the work of the Holy Spirit in counseling.

2. Models for the integration of Biblical truth with psychological truth.

3. Diagnosis of barriers to spiritual and emotional growth and maturity, as well as models for ministry into these barriers.

4. Developing your own Biblical worldview for counseling.

5. Qualifications of Biblical counselor.

6. Models of different counseling models and methods.

7. General mental health issues (anxiety, depression, etc.).

8. Practice in using and teaching counseling skills.

9. Instruction and practice in group skills.

10. Helping abuse survivors and trauma work.

11. Creative ways of counseling.

12. Grief counseling.