Forgiveness is a topic loaded with psychological and spiritual implications. 30 years of research clearly demonstrates that it can be good for both mental and physical health. Appropriately implemented, forgiveness has an amazing power to heal the hurts we don’t deserve and can’t forget! Our October 31 Bright Tomorrows Breakfast Seminar presenter, Tim Peterson, will be discussing some of the relevant recent research findings and a model for teaching a forgiveness process. He will also share some of the common misunderstandings that discourage wounded people from applying forgiveness and receiving the freedom God offers them.
Learning Objectives:
- Introduce a model for teaching a forgiveness process
- Define forgiveness from a Biblical and Clinical perspective
- Provide four sound reasons to forgive from Science and Scripture
- Discuss common misunderstandings that discourage wounded people from implementing forgiveness
Tim Peterson is the co-founder of Bright Tomorrows and a Board Trustee. He has a Master’s degree in Counseling Psychology and is licensed as a Professional Counselor and Marital and Family Therapist. Tim has provided counseling services in Tulsa since 1985; in private practice and as a program director for psychiatric and chemical dependency treatment programs at three local hospitals. Tim has been at Laureate since 1994—the first seven years as the program director for an inpatient unit that integrated Biblical principles into treatment; and since 2001 has been in the outpatient clinic where he has specialized in the treatment of mood and anxiety disorders as well as marital therapy. He currently serves as Clinical Supervisor for the Outpatient Clinic at Laureate. Tim is a founding board member of Bright Tomorrows and has served on the Executive Board of the Mental Health Association in Tulsa and on the local and international board of the Christian Association for Psychological Studies.
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If you would like a copy of the handout outline provided to our seminar guests, please get in touch with Tim Reside by way of the Contact Page on this website and let him know.