In this one-day Tending the Call workshop for Spiritual Directors, we seek to enhance your Spiritual Direction offering with a basic understanding of the nature of trauma, its lingering impact, and how symptoms might show up in a spiritual direction session. Through a variety of practices, you can develop a greater sensitivity to a directee’s traumatic experiences and create a stable calming presence and safe container. Understanding and developing a greater sensitivity to trauma will enable you to companion your directees to:
experience the reformation of their images of God;
rebuild their secure attachments with God;
re-anchor their identity in being the Beloved of God, and
find their belonging in a non-judgmental community.
This workshop is designed by a spiritual director for spiritual directors. It is crafted to be experiential in a contemplative setting. Along with teaching, there will be practices of silence, movement meditation, breathwork, journaling, discussion, a live demonstration of a facilitation technique and an opportunity to practice with a partner.
EVENT DETAILS:
Saturday, May 3, 2025 - 8:30 am - 4:30 pm
In person at First Church of Lombard, United Church of Christ
220 S. Main Street, Lombard IL 60148
Please bring your own lunch.
COST:
Pay What It Costs - $60 - Ensures that the costs of hosting this event are fully met and lets us wisely prepare budgets for future workshops.
Pay It Forward - $75 - Empowers us to expand accessibility options to those experiencing limited financial circumstances.
Pay As You Can - $25 - Your payment of this amount allows Christos to honor your desire to deepen your connection with God within your current circumstances. If those circumstances prohibit this amount, please email traci@christoscenter.org
REGISTER by Noon on Thursday, May 1, 2025
ABOUT THE PRESENTER:
Wai-Chin Matsuoka, is a 2003 Christos’ Tending the Holy (TTH) graduate and current adjunct faculty. Since 2003, she has served in a variety of leadership roles. During the 13 years she was on staff with Christos, she has served as a facilitator and the Coordinator of TTH in the Chicago satellite program and the Facilitator for Alumni Development. She is also a trained supervisor for spiritual directors and led Soul-Tending Retreats for almost 20 years. As a spiritual director, she loves to midwife what’s ready to be birthed. She journeys with and helps others find resurrection life from the ashes of change and transition.
Wai-Chin has almost two decades of experience in facilitating a model of healing prayer (the Immanuel Approach) based on brain-science research and designed by Dr. Jim Wilder (www.lifemodelworks.org) and Dr. Karl Lehman (www.immanuelapproach.com). She is a senior trainer and supervisor of Immanuel Prayer facilitators. She also has a working knowledge of the Internal Family System (IFS) and integrates that with the Immanuel Approach in healing prayer.
Wai-Chin is a Life-Model practitioner assisting others to develop secure attachment with God and grow in their maturity and relational skills. She is mentored and credentialed as an Ensoulment Coach to guide others to live from the fullness of their souls, and a certified InterPlay leader. As a Focused Energy Balance Index (FEBI) coach, Wai-Chin teaches clients how to access their own agency to shift mind states through movement and energy patterns. Wai-Chin finds it delightful and satisfying to weave spirituality, somatic practices, soul-tending and InterPlay tools and forms into a tapestry of Love and Play. She especially enjoys shaping these tapestries into retreats, ongoing Body Wisdom Playgroup, and soul care workshops specifically for social reform activists.
