People everywhere, from every tradition, are seeking peace and forgiveness – and some of us find it in places around the globe
“Global Forgiveness” is the fruit of my personal journey, struggling to forgive and heal from childhood and self-induced trauma. It is both a sort of specific memoir, because this was my path, but it is also a window onto twelve different paths that arose before me, which together – separately and sometimes in combination – resulted in great freedom.
The more deep personal stories we hear, the more our own personal story becomes available to us.
We’re all in this together.
Dr. David Thornton
DMin, MA in Clinical Psychology
1 CEU Credit will be available.
Learning Objectives:
- Learn to recognize the dynamics that can make forgiveness difficult to express.
- Gain insight into how disappointments, difficulties, and disasters can and often do open a person to being available for a new understanding of self, God, and others.
- Learn how much the broader world has to offer to help all of us move toward inner and inter-relational healing and wholeness. Develop strategic awareness of the sensitivity required when you or your client are and are not ready for change.
Lunch will be provided.
Dr. David Thornton (DMin, MA, MA) is a licensed clinical pastoral therapist (TN LCPT #65) and serves as vice-president of the Tennessee Association of Pastoral Therapists. His academic training took place in Texas, Austria, California, the United Kingdom, and Nashville. A world citizen, polyglot, musician, integrative psychotherapist and eclectically broad spiritual traveler, David listens for the quiet within the storm, the deep heartbeat of the hurting soul, and coaxes the psyche into finding and trusting again its own ancient wisdom. He is dumbstruck by the grace of being married to Dr. Laura Kreiselmaier, herself also an LCPT and former president of TNAPT. He works under her leadership for CATHARSIS, a new mental healthcare 501(c)3 non-profit whose vision is “changing the way mental healthcare happens”. To find out more, visit catharsisnashville.org. For more on David, visit davidthorntontherapy.com.
