Training Wounded Healers, Part Three

The Allender Center Podcast

The Allender Center

Psychology, Religion & Spirituality, Mental Health, Christianity, Trauma, Health & Fitness, Theology

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🗓️ 19 March 2016

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

This week on The Allender Center Podcast, Dan continues the “Training Wounded Healers” series all about our signature Training Certificate, a year-long program that guides individuals through engagement with their own stories of harm and trauma for the sake of learning to offer healing and restoration in the stories of others. Here, Dan is joined by Cathy Loerzel, MA, co-founder and Executive Director of The Allender Center, and Rachael Clinton, MDiv, a pastor, certificate facilitator, and member of our Teaching Staff. Cathy and Rachael are also graduates of The Seattle School of Theology & Psychology.

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0:00.0	You're listening to the Allender Center podcast with Dr. Dan Allender.
0:08.8	This week, Dan continues a series exploring the work and impact of our training programs
0:13.8	that guides individuals through deeper engagement with stories of harm and trauma in their own lives and the lives of others. Dan is joined by Executive Director Kathy Loursel and Rachel Clinton, a member of the teaching staff,
0:26.6	to talk about the particular ways they engage this work and how they hope it will continue to grow in the future.
0:33.6	Well, it's my privilege to be with two dear friends that I am involved with in the Allender Center.
0:41.4	What we're going to talk about today is their labor, but also what their labor brings for those who are involved in our certificate programs, our lay program and our professional programs. So I have Kathy and Rachel.
1:00.1	Kathy is the founder, beginner of the Allender Center, created it. Right, Kathy?
1:08.9	Yes. And Rachel. And Rachel has been involved with us from the very
1:16.7	beginning and is a graduate of our program, as Kathy is as well, but the MDiv program. She's a pastor.
1:24.3	Also works in the Seattle School. but in this regard is primarily working, running a small
1:33.4	group and teaching in the Allender Center.
1:36.9	So to have both of you with me, thank you for joining.
1:40.8	Thanks for having us.
1:42.1	So tell me a little bit about what you do and how you both got into this rather odd and lovely work.
1:53.0	Well, this is Kathy.
1:55.9	I, gosh, I got into the work because I was, I mean, originally I was working in D.C. at a corporate
2:06.6	job and spent all of my free time working with youth groups and different people doing
2:13.9	discipleship ministries and found that I was just lacking, that I could get people
2:20.3	to a certain place in their healing, in understanding their harm and what had happened to them,
2:26.2	but just couldn't bring people past a certain point without feeling triggered, without feeling
2:30.5	confused or not knowing where to go next. And so that brought me to the Seattle School to get my master's in counseling.
2:38.4	And then pretty soon after that, as is true for most organizations I get involved with,
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