Diocesan Training Programs

Diocesan training programs are specifically designed to meet the needs of a particular Diocese or Religious Organization.. The needs of diocesan, group or individual mental health counselors who seek to learn the precepts of faith-based Transformative Mediation differ from those of priests and pastoral counselors.

However, all training programs whether for religious or lay people combine the theological foundations for personal transformation with practical and scientific methods known and utilized within the fields of mental health and mediation.

Diocesan training programs, as well as individual Diocesan Recovery Programs, deal squarely and honestly with the recent sex abuse problems that have captivated newscasters, destroyed lives, and appalled parishioners. Objective truth, principles of free will, and consequences for choices, are essentials for such programs. This type of faith-based Transformative Mediation confirms that the human person can transcend human suffering and begin anew.

Training in the "Diocesan Recovery Programs" is available to priests, religious, clergy, as well as to mental health and pastoral counselors, and any other employees or volunteers within the church family. These programs have multiple dimensions ranging from the personal recovery of individuals caught up in alcoholism or illicit sexual relations, to group education of religious or staffers who need to utilize faith-based mediation skills in counseling or guidance settings.

Individual recovery programs require a minimum of six to twelve months with a minimum of weekly sessions. The transformative mediation process includes learning how to deal with both inner conflict resolution, conflict with unseen fears and past demons, and conflict resolution within the pastoral community.

Group training programs are vastly different from programs of individual recovery. Group training is designed to meet the needs of the group members who seek to help others. At a minimum this group training requires two full eight-hour days of seminar and active participation so that the tenets and principles of faith-based transformative mediation can be transferred to pastoral advice and counseling. More intensive training can be conducted in five days of eight hour sessions.

All sessions are specifically designed to meet the continuing education unit requirements of the particular Diocese and convey the relationship of mediation principles and natural law precepts with Church teaching.

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