Online Courses
My work has always been about what is deepest within us – the liberation of it, the revelation of God through it. The profound tragedy is that many are somehow cut off from the deep wellspring of the heart, the ever-present intimacy of Love.
My life’s commitment is to this reconnection, and it’s grounded in the Augustinian truth that God never, ever leaves us – it’s we that leave. God’s always up for your return, ready to welcome, eager to engage the hard work of dying and rising into freedom.
I hope, through my courses, I can be a helpful guide on your journey.
Narcissism In The Chair
3 hours of teaching in 6 lessons with resources and practices.
Narcissism in the Chair includes 3 hours of teaching by Chuck DeGroat, author of When Narcissism Comes to Church. It’s designed for practitioners (therapists, psychiatrists, psychologists, social workers, pastoral counselors, etc.) but accessible to anyone. This is a kind of behind-the-scenes look at how Chuck envisions and engages the work of understanding, assessing, and counseling diagnosably narcissistic clients and survivors of narcissistic abuse. It is trauma-informed and engages the helpful work of internal family systems (IFS) therapy. While Chuck’s book is a springboard for this, most of the content is brand new material developed for this six-part series.
Introduction to
Contemplative Prayer
3 hours of teaching in 5 videos with resources and practices.
This course invites you into contemplative spirituality and practice in the Christian tradition. In the five videos, we explore the basics of contemplative prayer, the core theological value of “letting go,” the neuroscientific basis for it, the invitation to wholeheartedness, and the resource of contemplative prayer for our action in the world. Each video offers 30-40 minutes of teaching, along with practices to engage in-between sessions. The resources I offer come with dynamic links to books, videos, websites, and other important pathways for your further journey.
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Seen, Known & Loved
Exploring Shame, Story, and Renewed Desire
A FREE course designed for pastors and ministry leaders, but hospitable to everyone, SEEN, KNOWN & LOVED is a four-video series that invites you to experience God's curious and generous invitation in the three questions of Genesis 3.
Where are you?
Who told you?
What are you hungry for?
Made in and for relationship, we somehow lost the plot-line, settling for a story of hiddenness and shame. God doesn't add to our shame, but invites us to go beneath the surface of our lives, exploring the burdens we carry, identifying the voices that define us, opening to deeper desire.
In each session, we'll explore how God kindly and curiously invites us back into the dance of intimacy. We'll identify our place in the story, we'll learn how to explore particular narratives of our life, and we'll end with an examination of our hearts as they too-often settle for smaller satisfactions but long for Love.