I will be teaching the EHW course on Friday evenings for 8 weeks starting January 19, 2024 from 7-9 pm Philippine time via Zoom for CGST/BTC. You will need the book & workbook for the course. Cost P500 for the set and registration of P1800. For those who are struggling with relationships at home or at work, this will give you clarity on how to set healthy and godly boundaries and put you in a support group that will journey with you as you implement these principles of becoming an emotionally healthy woman. It is worth your time to check out this class and invest in your own personal growth. You may not be able to change others, but I can guarantee you that by changing yourself, you will eventually change the dynamics of your relationships with others to a more healthy and productive place. For questions about the class email: btccgst_register@gmail.com or call landline: 032 345 0148 or cell # (0947) 480 2403
Monday, December 25, 2023
Online Emotionally Healthy Woman Seminar
Friday, October 14, 2022
Breaking the Power of Anxiety - 4 Session Group Therapy (CBT/Biblically based)
Breaking the Power of Anxiety is a 4-week group workshop on Zoom with group process meant to help people struggling with anxiety. Each session will consist of approximately 45 minutes of lecture and education about anxiety: its symptoms, its causes and how to overcome it. The lectures are Biblically based and bring in current psychological information and research based on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy. After the lecture, there will be about 1 hour for participants to process the information in a small group setting. Questions will be presented to engage participants with information and techniques of the lecture. The purpose here is for participants to gain self-awareness of how anxiety strikes them and its roots, along with skills for self-regulating and self-soothing when they are beginning to feel anxious.
Dates: Tuesdays: November 29, December 6, 13, 20
Time 7-9 pm (Philippines time)
Cost: P1000 covers all 4 sessions
Wednesday, March 10, 2021
Understanding Procrastination - Inside the Mind of the Master Procrastinator
2.
What 2 things does the instant gratification
monkey care about?
3.
What are some things that humans can do that no
other animal can do?
4.
What makes for success for a dog?
5.
What are the criteria for decisions for the
rational decision maker?
6.
Why are the seemingly fun activities in “the
dark playground” not really fun?
7.
Who helps rescue the procrastinator from the
gratification monkey? How does he do it?
8.
What are the 2 kinds of procrastination?
9.
What impact does long term procrastination have
on a person?
10.
Why does the panic monster help with long term
procrastination?
11.
What was Tim Urban’s epiphany?
12.
How does he suggest that we begin to get a
handle on our procrastinating?
13.
When should you do something about your
procrastinating habit?
14.
What is your most important realization from
listening to this talk?
15.
What is 1 step you need to take to get better in
this area?
Friday, March 5, 2021
Understanding and Dealing with Automatic Thoughts
Questions:
1. What happens to people who get caught in cycles of automatic
negative thinking?
2. Give an example of an automatic thought for each of the
following categories of cognitive distortion:
- Assuming or Mind-Reading
- Shoulds, musts & oughts
- The Fairy Tale Fantasy
- Overgeneralizing
- Catastrophizing
3. How do you stop Automatic Thoughts?
4. What are the 3 Rs you can use to control automatic thoughts
6. Why do you think people can think of a good response to the
overgeneralizing thought of a friend, but not to your own overgeneralizing
thought?
Application:
7. What automatic thoughts do you experience?
8. What emotion are they related to (fear, anger, sadness)?
9. In what circumstances do you find yourself experiencing a lot of automatic thoughts?
10. What cognitive distortion do you see yourself using?
11. What can your replace this cognitive distortion with?
Wednesday, February 10, 2021
Are You an Ideal Team Player?
1.
Name & describe the 3 important virtues of a
team player.
2.
What are some false ideas of humility? What is the real meaning?
3.
What virtue is the accidental messmaker missing
and what problem does this create for the team?
4.
What virtue is the lovable slacker missing and
what problem does this create for the team?
5.
What virtue is the skillful politician missing
and what problem does this create for the team?
Application Questions:
6.
Evaluate yourself and rank your humility, hunger
& smarts. What is your lowest and
why do you think it is your lowest?
7. What can you do to improve?
8. Who are the best people that you can you ask for
advice about how to improve?
9. Perhaps your rank would be different in different groups in which you are involved. Try to think of 3 different groups to which you belong (work, family, volunteer group) Rank the 3 virtues as you perceive yourself in each of the 3 groups
Tuesday, January 26, 2021
Defensiveness Causes Big Problems in Relationships
Here are some questions to help you garner main points from the material and make a few personal applications:
- How do red zone chickens become stars?
- Describe a Red Zone environment
- What is the difference between internally competitive and externally competitive?
- What happens when we become defensive?
- In which of your relationships do you find yourself being very defensive?
- What increases when you decrease your defensiveness?
- How did you feel after the speaker’s actions at 8:08 in the video?
- What are we defending ourselves from when we get defensive?
- What are the areas of our 3 big fears? **Which of those 3 is causes the biggest defensive reaction in you?
- What are the 5 steps the speaker gives to become less defensive?
- Why is it important to acknowledge your defensiveness?
- What is a good way for you to slow down your physiology?
- What negative self-talk do you use?
- What action step can you make that is directly related to your own signs of defensiveness?
- Below are listed common signs of defensiveness from the video: Which of these do you use?
- Withdrawal into deadly silence
- Playing poor me
- All or nothing thinking
- Wanting to be right
- Blaming or shaming others
- Sudden drop in IQ/confusion
- High charge of energy in the body
- Catastrophizing everything
- Wanting the last word
- Obsessive thinking
- Flooding with information to prove a point
Sunday, November 8, 2020
Taking a Look in the Mirror of Self-Confrontation - The Honest Liars by Cortney Warren
1.
When is a time in your life that you fooled
yourself into believing something that was false?
2.
What is a time in your life that you refused to
believe something that was true?
3.
How do we gain the opportunity to change?
4.
What painful experience from your childhood has
had a great influence on who you are today?
5.
When is a situation where you have been in
denial?
6.
In what situations do you use rationalization?
7.
In which of your relationships do you find
yourself projecting?
8.
From your own life, give an example of when you
have used the following cognitive distortions:
i.
Polarized thinking
ii.
Emotional reasoning
iii.
Overgeneralization
9.
How does the speaker interpret meaninglessness?
10.
In what ways have you compromised yourself to
meet cultural norms?
11.
What is the biggest problem with self-deception?
12.
Why was there was nothing her boyfriend could do
that would make her feel safe?
13.
What is the first step to becoming more honest
to ourselves and stopping the self-deception
14.
When are some important times to stop and
observe yourself?
15.
In your most recent conflict, how did you
react? What does that reaction tell you
about yourself?
16.
According to the speaker: Although we cannot control many of the
situations we experience in life, we are responsible for our reactions to all
of them. What are your thoughts on this
statement? When has this been a hard
truth for you to accept?
17.
When you hear the speaker say, “What if my whole
life changes? . . . What if it doesn’t
change?” What about your life comes to
your mind?