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Theological Foundations of Emotional Health
~15 Hours
If you have wondered how best to lead and pastor yourself and others in an emotionally and theologically integrated way, this Theological Foundations of Emotional Health course will help you grapple with and explore these critical concepts.
David C. Wang
About This Course
As a Christian leader, the importance of building resilience, thinking deeply about your emotional life, and considering its impact on your leadership and vocation cannot be overstated. If you have wondered how best to lead and pastor yourself and others in an emotionally and theologically integrated way, this Theological Foundations of Emotional Health course will help you grapple with and explore these critical concepts.
Learning Outcomes:
- Articulate the significance of having a framework for emotionally healthy spiritual leadership
- Identify warning signs of emotional unhealth
- Explore your emotional patterns in order to discover areas of potential unhealth
- Describe the pastoral value of Bowen’s Family Systems theory and its impact on ministry and Christian leadership
- Evaluate yourself and your current ministry context through a systems framework in order to develop awareness of emotional patterns
This course is the recommended first course in the Certificate of Emotional Health in Ministry.
A FULLER Equip course
- Mental & Emotional Health
- Lead Pastor
- Administration
- Professional Training
Introduction
1. Getting Started
Why is the emotional life important to pastoral leadership?
2. Introduction
3. Emotional Challenges in Ministry
4. A Framework For The Emotional Life of The Pastor
Warning Signs in the Emotional Life
5. Creating a Space for Negative Emotions in the Christian Life
6. Indicators that the Emotional Life Needs to be Attended To
Family of Origin
7. Differentiation of Self
8. Congregational Differentiation
9. Triangulation
10. Multigenerational Transmission
Conclusion
11. Next Steps
Your Instructor
David C. Wang
Cliff and Joyce Penner Chair for the Formation of Emotionally Healthy Leaders
David Wang is a licensed psychologist, pastor, editor of the Journal of Psychology and Theology, and serves on the editorial board for the APA journal Spirituality in Clinical Practice. In 2022, he joined Fuller’s faculty as the Cliff and Joyce Penner Chair for the Formation of Emotionally Healthy Leaders. His research interests include trauma and traumatic stress, spiritual formation and spiritual theology (with special interest in the experience of the spiritual desert), and various topics related to multicultural psychology, peace, and justice.
