Now Organizing Local Mormon Faith Crisis Mini-Workshops
Mormon Stories Podcast
Dr. John Dehlin
4.5 • 5.7K Ratings
🗓️ 29 December 2018
⏱️ 6 minutes
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Summary
Friends who are: 1) struggling with a Mormon faith crisis, 2) in a Mormon mixed-faith marriage, or 3) struggling with marriage/family issues relating to a Mormon faith crisis
As my time is super limited (working on a book!), and my individual faith crisis coaching practice is filled to the brim, AND as I realize that for some people hourly coaching can be pricey - I would like to experiment with a format of doing faith crisis mini-workshops in the Utah/Idaho/Arizona/Colorado areas (or others if interested). This would allow me to support more people, and would allow people within a specific area to make friends and build deeper connections who are close by (thus fostering community).
The format would be as follows:
- Size of group: 10-12 people, couples and/or individuals welcome.
- Date/Time: Any 6 hour block, weekday, weeknight, or weekend.
- Possible Topics: Navigating a Mormon faith transition, tips for positive Mental Health, healthy marriages/relationships, communicating with believing family and friends, finding community and/or spirituality during and after a faith crisis, etc. (Basically whatever the group wants to cover)
- Location: I could travel to where the group is, or we could find a central location.
- Cost: $250/person (6 hours of coaching for around the cost of 1 hour of coaching).
It would be particularly meaningful to target specific areas and bring people together who live close to each other (e.g., Alpine, S. Jordan, Provo, Orem, Logan, Ogden, Davis County, SLC, Boise, St. George, Cedar City, Spanish Fork, Park City, Heber/Midway, etc.)
If any of you are interested in hosting/organizing such an event, please message me. I would love to support you in this way, and help build local friendships/community at the same time.
Thanks in advance!
John Dehlin, Ph.D.
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hey everyone, this is John Delin and I have an idea that I wanted to share with anyone who might be interested. |
| 0:08.0 | As some of you know in the past, we have done workshops and retreats to support people in faith crisis. |
| 0:15.0 | And those have all been super successful. We've helped a ton of people. |
| 0:20.0 | Those events are always rated 4.9 out of 5. We've helped save marriages. |
| 0:25.0 | We've helped alleviate depression and anxiety. We have helped people forge healthy relationships with believing family and friends. |
| 0:34.0 | And we've helped people sort of pick up the pieces after our faith crisis and move forward and grow in healthy positive ways. |
| 0:42.0 | We plan on doing more of those workshops and retreats in the months ahead. |
| 0:48.0 | And if any of you are interested in bringing a workshop or retreat to your city, you just need to email me at moremanfaithcrisis at gmail.com or drjondolinagmail.com. |
| 1:00.0 | And we'd be happy to organize that. |
| 1:04.0 | But the idea that I had came from a loyal listener named Scott who lives in Ogden Davis County. |
| 1:11.0 | He basically said, you know, John, I don't have necessarily the time to give to a full weekend to a workshop or a treat. |
| 1:20.0 | But my wife and I are in need of support. And we have also local community members who would love to get some coaching. |
| 1:28.0 | Some of whom, you know, could afford a workshop or a treat or hourly coaching. |
| 1:33.0 | But others who maybe can't afford hourly coaching rates. |
| 1:37.0 | And we came up with this idea that I think is really good because it'll be more affordable. |
| 1:43.0 | And we'll be able to help more people. And it'll be less of a massive time commitment. |
| 1:48.0 | So the idea is many workshops or micro workshops in local areas. |
| 1:54.0 | So here's the idea. |
| 1:56.0 | If you, let's just say you live in Provo or Oram or South Jordan or Ogden or Highland or Logan or Boise or Park City or wherever it is you live. |
| 2:06.0 | Imagine if we allocated a six hour block of time that could be on a week day because I'm free a weeknight or a weekend. |
| 2:16.0 | And we we cap the event at about 10 to 12 people that keeps it intimate. |
| 2:23.0 | And it can be, you know, close family and friends make it private. |
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