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How Can I Forgive You
A Radical Approach to Healing Intimate Wounds
 The subject of forgiveness is both universal and
critically important. In the past few years, mental health professionals have plucked it out of the religious domain and embraced it as the only
healthy, spiritually sound response to interpersonal
violation. Unfortunately, what has emerged is saintly, rigid concept that leaves many people refusing to forgive, unable to forgive, or feeling compromised or disingenuous if they do-particularly
when the offender is unrepentant.
In this workshop, you will learn to re-conceptualize Genuine Forgiveness for your patients, in a way that challenges the conventional assumption that it is the obligation or job of the hurt party alone to gift
forgiveness. Genuine forgiveness will be framed as an intimate dance, an interpersonal exchange, that asks as much of the offender as it does of the hurt party. Dr. Spring will describe specific, concrete
steps that the offender must take to earn forgiveness and steps that the hurt party must take to foster forgiveness.
You will also learn a radically new alternative to forgiveness-a profound, life affirming, healing process called Acceptance. This can be accomplished by the hurt partly alone,
when the offender can’t or won’t make meaningful repairs for the damaged causes. Ten concrete steps for achieving Acceptance will be detailed.
Everyone is struggling to forgive someone. This workshop invites you to participate, personally, or vicariously for a patient, in an experience designed to help you rise above
a violation, repair the rupture within yourself, and consider forgiving the partner, parent, in law, sibling, child, or friend who has hurt you. For those of you who have wronged
someone else, it will offer concrete steps for earning that person’s forgiveness -- and your own.
Workshop Objectives
Attend this powerful workshop, How Can I Forgive You and enhance your ability to:
- Debunk popular myths about forgiveness.
- Provide hurt parties with a radically new alternative that allows them to become physically and spirituality healthy without forgiving an unapologetic offender.
- Compare four different approaches to forgiveness and identify what makes two of them dysfunctional and two of them healthy.
- Follow specific concrete guidelines for helping offenders earn forgiveness and helping hurt parties foster forgiveness.
- Employ a five-stage model of self-forgiveness.
Workshop Information
Check-in begins at 7:45 am and the workshop hours are 8:30 am - 4:00 PM with an hour lunch on your own from 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM and two fifteen minute breaks.
Earn 6 CE/CME Hours
Current Dates and Locations
Please see Calendar Page
Registration Information
$140 Early registration (sent 14 days prior to workshop)
$160 Regular registration (on-site reg. is $185, space available)
These prices include a $5.00 discount for registering online.
Aide positions must be filled by phone, fax or mail. Please call for availability.
To register by phone call 800-258-8411. Or register online on the Calendar Page
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