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2020 Enlighten Webinar

Triggers and Trauma in 2020

1. Dr. Jim Grimes - Help Me! I've Been Traumatized - Presentation

2. Miriam Kang - Moving Through Crisis Together - Presentation

3. Dr. Jim Grimes - Now What? How Holistic Formation Heals and Remodels Our Mental Floor Plan - Presentation

Dr. Grimes' Exercise Sheets

TRIGGERS and TRAUMA in 2020: A Conversation to Encourage, Educate, and Empower

KEYNOTE SPEAKER AND PLENARY SESSIONS
DR. JIM GRIMES

Dr. Grimes is a therapist in private practice since 2002, with a Psy.D. from the Rosemead School of Psychology, Biola University in La Mirada, CA. His experience in providing individual, couple, marital, family, and child therapy makes Jim a specialist in emotional and relational formation at many life stages. He is an adjunct professor at Hope International University.

Dr. Grimes is committed to ministry, and is ordained through the Evangelical Christian Alliance. He has been a member of his church for over 15 years where he has participated in small groups, led a Sunday morning servant team, volunteered in the children’s ministry, and has been involved in and led several summer mission trips to the Philippines, Hungary, and Xoacaca, Mexico.

He is on the Souleader Resources training team, a non-profit ministry that focuses on wholeness for pastors, leaders, and churches. Along with his wife Anjee, Dr. Grimes also has a passion for equipping themselves to be the primary influence upon their three children, helping them grow as whole persons in Christ. His hobbies include reading, woodworking, soccer, going to the movies, and spending time with friends. Fun fact: He used to work at Disneyland as a Jungle Cruise tour guide.

Plenary Address #1
Help Me! I've Been Traumatized!
The Walls We Build To Protect Our Selves

In light of our current situation with the pandemic and other issues, we have all been traumatized or know of others who have been traumatized.  Dr. Grimes will discuss the formation and purpose of trauma with an understanding on how these experiences affect our thought processes and perceptions of ourselves:

1. What trauma is and the purpose for it.
2. How trauma forms.
3. Traumas effect upon time.
4. How trauma builds walls in our thoughts and perceptions about ourselves.
5. Develop and create their internal trauma mental floor plan.

Plenary Address #2
...Now What?
How Holistic Formation Heals and Remodels our Mental Floor Plan

In the second session, Dr. Grimes will reveal how holistic formation heals the damage caused by trauma by promoting integration and a remodeling of the mental floor plan:

1. What are the six areas of holistic formation (spiritual, emotional, relational, mental, physical, and missional).
2. The concept of holistic formation into their mental floor plan.
3. Script journaling in order to bridge the gap between the trauma and holistic formation.

WORKSHOP SPEAKER
MIRIAM KANG

Miriam Kang is a Clinical Psychology Ph.D. student at Fuller School of Psychology and Marriage & Family Therapy. Her research interests include the emic experience of trauma, moral injury, and posttraumatic growth. Her current project focuses on the use of qualitative inquiry in the field of psychology of religion, and she hopes to contribute to furthering its use in revealing complexities found in the intersectionality of human experience, culture, and spirituality.

Miriam is also committed to ministry. Prior to this, she completed her Master of Arts in Bible Exposition at Talbot School of Theology and currently serves alongside her husband who pastors at Sa-Rang Community Church in Anaheim, CA. She hopes to integrate her training in psychology and in ministry to support the local church and serve on the mission field.

Workshop Presentation
Moving Through Crisis Together: Finding Meaning and Resilience in Anxiety and Grief
After many changes and disappointments that the pandemic has brought and with the increasing COVID-19 cases around the nation, it is normal to feel weary, worn out, disillusioned, overwhelmed, and disoriented. Yet, these feelings could indicate that many of us may be feeling anxious and grieved without even realizing it. What can we do now as the end does not seem clear? And, especially as the body of Christ, how can we walk together through these difficult emotions that arise?

In this workshop we will discuss and offer practical steps to address the following questions as we navigate through this current crisis:

  • Can I be anxious without knowing it? What can I do if I feel anxious?
  • Am I feeling disappointment or grief? How do I attend to loss?
  • How can I find meaning from this and step forward with resilience?
  • What steps can I take to support and be supported by the body of Christ through these times?

The views expressed in the presentations made at the Enlighten Mental Health Webinar are those of the speaker and not, necessarily, of the Enlighten Mental Health Ministry or Chinese Christian Church of Thousand Oaks. All the materials listed are copyrighted. Please do not modify, copy or duplicate without permission.