The Allender Center Certification
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As I write this I recognize there is a battle going on within my heart and mind and there is much fear with asking for what I need. Will my needs be heard, will they be met with kindness or anger, or will they be ignored and mocked?
10 years ago I stepped into the painful and laborious work on examining my heart. I was not content with excepting the saying of "well this is just who I am". I knew there was more to me. I knew I had more goodness and kindness to offer myself and others. Off and on over the last ten years I have sat with woman and men who have walked with me into my story with gentleness and have shined a light and exposed brokenness, hurts, and wounds inflicted by others and by myself. It has been a hard process and painful but the fruit and and freedom I experience now has been well worth it and the work continues onward until the day of completion.
The organization that has help me through my journey is The Allender Center (https://theallendercenter.org). I have always been able to see and feel pain of others around me and the lie I believed for too long was I was too sensitive and too much. However, through my work I realize now that it is my gifting to be able to sit with others in their pain and not shy or run away from it. A core principle of the Allender Center is you can only take someone as far as you have already gone into your own story.
I have longed to learn and gain more tools and knowledge to help others walk well through their own stories. We all have a stories of goodness and brokenness and we are by nature story beings. Stories are how we connect to one another, the world, and if we use courage connect to our own hearts and soul.
I am starting a 10 month program this September where I will fly out to Seattle, WA 4 times a year for classes Thursday-Sunday to sit under gifted teachers and learn The Allender Theory. It is a lay counseling program.
"The Allender Theory is the belief that the journey of healing invites us to move from a place of cursing (contempt, shame, ambivalence) to one of blessing (compassion, goodness, delight). This occurs through telling our stories with truth and integrity as we grieve our wounds and offer blessing to the parts of us still bound to the cursed story. As we share our story with trusted others who are able to name both our deep woundedness and our deep goodness, we grow a deeper capacity to know and live into our calling and engage in life-giving relationships with God and others."
Here is where my needs come into play. The course itself is $5,000 in addition to travel expenses. I applied for a scholarship through the program and receive $250 and I am working three days a week as Preschool teacher to help pay for those expenses. We have been setting money aside to help with the tuition. However, I heard a calling to step out in faith and ask for help filling in the gaps. This is where my work as helped me grown because my false self would say you are asking for too much, people have their own financial struggles, don't be a burden on others but my Heavenly Father says ask and you shall receive. This is not just my own work but a work of a collected community of people . Thank you in any way you can help support me on this mission and desire I have. Please feel free to reach out with any questions you may have. My hope is after this program I can listen to another's story and speak into it as it says in Proverbs 18:20 "Words satisfy the mind as much as fruit does the stomach; good talk is as gratifying as a good harvest."
10 years ago I stepped into the painful and laborious work on examining my heart. I was not content with excepting the saying of "well this is just who I am". I knew there was more to me. I knew I had more goodness and kindness to offer myself and others. Off and on over the last ten years I have sat with woman and men who have walked with me into my story with gentleness and have shined a light and exposed brokenness, hurts, and wounds inflicted by others and by myself. It has been a hard process and painful but the fruit and and freedom I experience now has been well worth it and the work continues onward until the day of completion.
The organization that has help me through my journey is The Allender Center (https://theallendercenter.org). I have always been able to see and feel pain of others around me and the lie I believed for too long was I was too sensitive and too much. However, through my work I realize now that it is my gifting to be able to sit with others in their pain and not shy or run away from it. A core principle of the Allender Center is you can only take someone as far as you have already gone into your own story.
I have longed to learn and gain more tools and knowledge to help others walk well through their own stories. We all have a stories of goodness and brokenness and we are by nature story beings. Stories are how we connect to one another, the world, and if we use courage connect to our own hearts and soul.
I am starting a 10 month program this September where I will fly out to Seattle, WA 4 times a year for classes Thursday-Sunday to sit under gifted teachers and learn The Allender Theory. It is a lay counseling program.
"The Allender Theory is the belief that the journey of healing invites us to move from a place of cursing (contempt, shame, ambivalence) to one of blessing (compassion, goodness, delight). This occurs through telling our stories with truth and integrity as we grieve our wounds and offer blessing to the parts of us still bound to the cursed story. As we share our story with trusted others who are able to name both our deep woundedness and our deep goodness, we grow a deeper capacity to know and live into our calling and engage in life-giving relationships with God and others."
Here is where my needs come into play. The course itself is $5,000 in addition to travel expenses. I applied for a scholarship through the program and receive $250 and I am working three days a week as Preschool teacher to help pay for those expenses. We have been setting money aside to help with the tuition. However, I heard a calling to step out in faith and ask for help filling in the gaps. This is where my work as helped me grown because my false self would say you are asking for too much, people have their own financial struggles, don't be a burden on others but my Heavenly Father says ask and you shall receive. This is not just my own work but a work of a collected community of people . Thank you in any way you can help support me on this mission and desire I have. Please feel free to reach out with any questions you may have. My hope is after this program I can listen to another's story and speak into it as it says in Proverbs 18:20 "Words satisfy the mind as much as fruit does the stomach; good talk is as gratifying as a good harvest."
Organizer
Brooke Leahy Wilson
Organizer
Nashville, TN