SEE: A Workshop on Trauma, Identity, and Spiritual Development
Most of us would like to hold a better and more accurate view of ourselves. To feel better about how we SEE ourselves. This is your opportunity to invest a morning in SEEing yourself differently.
How we see ourselves is one of the greatest influences on our happiness, emotional maturity, relational health, and spiritual development. This perspective we hold is our self-image.
We aren’t born with a self-image. It is formed during childhood and is influenced by our environment and those around us. Childhood hurts, and trauma create a challenge in learning to love ourselves and feel secure in who we are. This limits our ability to relate to others in healthy ways. Because of this distorted self-understanding, we are often insecure, ashamed, fearful, and afraid to show our true selves. Further, this flawed self-image can impair our ability to embrace the truth of God’s love for us.
The SEE workshop will explain why this happens, what gets in the way, and how we learn to love ourselves more fully to develop a healthier and more accurate self-image. You will understand how childhood experiences influence how we see ourselves and God so you can start the journey to a healthier and more God-centered sense of value.
In this 2.5 hour workshop, you will learn:
- How childhood hurts disrupt and distort healthy identity formation.
- How we construct our self-image and the experiences that impact it.
- What the world teaches about your value and the insecurities that it creates.
- Practical steps on how to challenge past unhealthy messages about your worth.
- How to see yourself more accurately and live more fully into your true worth and value.
Your Instructor
Byron Kehler, M.S. is a Trauma Therapist in private practice in Milwaukie, Oregon. He has worked with survivors of physical, sexual, emotional, mental, and spiritual abuse for over 40 years. Byron has been certified by the American Academy of Experts in Traumatic Stress and is certified in EMDR with a specialization in Dissociative Disorders.
He has presented on various childhood trauma recovery themes around the country at churches, social services agencies, public and private schools, colleges, universities, and professional conferences. He has provided humanitarian relief services for natural disasters in Asia after the tsunami and the gulf coast post hurricane Katrina, training therapists in trauma recovery.
He is the author and developer of Story-Informed Trauma Therapy (SITT), for recovery from early childhood trauma. This research-based model has been taught to mental health therapists in agencies in New Orleans and the gulf coast following Hurricane Katrina, and has been proven effective in reducing PTSD symptoms for trauma survivors.
Byron brings extensive knowledge, understanding, sensitivity, compassion, practicality, and even humor to his presentations.
Course Curriculum
Frequently Asked Questions
Each training is rated for a number of possible NBCC Credits based on the length of the teaching hours in that training. At the close of the training, you will have the opportunity to opt in to get credits. If you do, you will get a link that will guide you through filling out an evaluation, taking a content quiz, and then paying a $40 service fee. Upon completing these steps, you will receive a certificate indicating your course completion and the number of NBCC credits you've received.