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free workshops

Each final Saturday of the month during 2009 we will offer a FREE workshop.

Carl Jung

Analytical psychology (or Jungian psychology) is the school of psychology originating from the ideas of Swiss psychiatrist Carl Jung, and then advanced by his students and other thinkers who followed in his tradition. It is distinct from Freudian psychoanalysis but also has a number of similarities. Its aim is the apprehension and integration of the deep forces and motivations underlying human behavior by the practice of an accumulative phenomenology around the significance of dreams, folklore and mythology. Depth psychology and archetypal psychology are related in that they both employ the model of the unconscious mind as the source of healing and development in the individual

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Parent Support Group

Family Counseling Institute will conduct parent support groups for parents of adolescence on Saturdays at 2pm. The classes are free. Please call to register 708-225-1237

Family Counseling Institute's blog is currently under construction.

Professional Christian counseling, or therapy, includes all of these but also considers a detailed view of the counselee's past personal history and seeks to reveal the patterns of sin, which prevent the counselee from experiencing God's joy.

It is the goal of the Christian therapist to help the counselee to discover what is God's will for his or her life (1 Corinthians 4:5). These processes are done to help formulate the context in which the counselee views the world and would live his or her life.

The counselee will be able to utilize God's word to address components of the personality that may hinder progress towards achieving God's plan for his or her life. The Christian counselor realizes that it is not the counselor who is to direct the session but the Holy Spirit.

Therefore, to answer the fundamental question, "what is Christian counseling?" It is providing assistance to one who is experiencing emotional difficult caused by a life dominating pattern of sin, through the use of biblical principal under the direction and authority of the Holy Spirit. Remember it is God's word that contains the counsel to overcome

10 Videos to change your life

TED (Technology, Entertainment, Design) is a huge conference held each year. The best thinkers come together and share their ideas. Their website, www.ted.com, has hundreds of free speeches. Here’s ten that might just change how you view the world: