imago dei community
[Refuge group facilitator equipping]
Clark Blakeman
Sundays, 9 am | September 21 - November 9
Franklin Room 241
Course Overview
This class is designed to equip potential small group facilitators with knowledge and skills to guide people who are working to grow spiritually and gain freedom from their hurts, destructive and/or compulsive behaviors, and life struggles. These small groups provide a safe, supportive, educative place to process their transformation in community. Facilitating such a group requires a theological awareness, skills in facilitating a processing environment, and fostering vulnerable community. This class will provide teaching and practical expressions in a dialogical context, engaging the transformational group experience.
Course Objectives
1. Lay a theological foundation of spiritual life change (transformation).
2. Provide group facilitation skills.
3. Expose recovery principles & theory.
4. Experience a transformational group.
5. Identify and equip new Refuge group facilitators.
Course Requirements
Required reading:
- Connecting: Healing for Ourselves and Our Relationships, by Larry Crabb
- Class handouts will include excerpts from the Genesis Process for Change Groups; Facilitators Guide, by Michael Dye, CADC, NCAC.
Recommended reading:
- The Genesis Process for Change Groups by Michael Dye, CADC, NCAC
- Kitchen Table Counseling: A Practical And Biblical Guide for Women Helping Others by Muriel L. Cook and Shelly Cook Volkhardt
- When People Are Big and God Is Small: Overcoming Peer Pressure, Codependency, and the Fear of Man (Resources for Changing Lives) by Edward T. Welch
Books are available at the Imago Dei Bookstore Sunday mornings at Franklin.
Clark Blakeman is the Imago Dei Local Mission Pastor. Clark develops and leads the leaders of several missional endeavors, including Refuge, through Imago Dei. Clark, Cathy and their four children live missionally in SE Portland.
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