Catholic · Emmaus course
You Are Mine: Accompanying Same-Sex Attraction with Truth and Mercy
A short formation course on accompanying people who experience same-sex attraction with compassion, truth, and respect. Grounded in Catholic teaching, Sacred Stories, and the Catholic Christian Meta-Model of the Person, it equips helping professionals to uphold both Church teaching and human dignity
NBCC CE · 1 clock hour · Helping Relationships (HR)
- Length
- 1 hr
- Lessons
- 1
- Level
- Intermediate
- Version
- Catholic
- Price
- Free
They are hiring this course to do a job they feel unequipped for: to sit with a person on this topic without either wounding them or abandoning the truth.
About this course
Most people who carry same-sex attraction into a counseling room or a parish office have already rehearsed the decision not to speak. This short course begins with one woman's testimony about what finally made speaking possible, and turns it into a practical skill for helping professionals: how to accompany a person who experiences same-sex attraction without ever reducing that person to it.
Built around Shannon's Sacred Stories testimony, the course teaches the both/and at the heart of Catholic accompaniment, holding the fullness of the Church's teaching and the full dignity of the person at the same time, and refusing to trade either one away. Learners watch a brief, powerful testimony, then work through a formation lesson grounded in the Catholic Christian Meta-Model of the Person and in the spiritual tradition, closing with a reflection activity and an assessment.
Who this course is for
Licensed mental health counselors seeking NBCC CE hours
Licensed mental health counselors seeking NBCC CE hours who work with, or want to be ready for, faith-and-sexuality questions.
Also for Diocesan and parish pastoral staff; Spiritual directors; Campus ministers; Seminary formators; Catholic school counselors.
From the course syllabus
Most people who carry same-sex attraction into a counseling room or a parish office have already rehearsed the decision not to speak. This short course begins with one woman's testimony about what finally made speaking possible, and turns it into a practical skill for helping professionals: how to accompany a person who experiences same-sex attraction without ever reducing that person to it.
Built around Shannon's Sacred Stories testimony, the course teaches the both/and at the heart of Catholic accompaniment, holding the fullness of the Church's teaching and the full dignity of the person at the same time, and refusing to trade either one away. Learners watch a brief, powerful testimony, then work through a formation lesson grounded in the Catholic Christian Meta-Model of the Person and in the spiritual tradition, closing with a reflection activity and an assessment.
Curriculum
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Module 1
You Are Mine: Accompanying Same-Sex Attraction with Truth and Mercy
- 1.You Are Mine: Identity, Shame, and the Long Road Home
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