Summary
When clients or patients are pursuing identity and purpose, adversity often feels like a painful, game-stopping roadblock. But what if it were actually the fastest path? Psychologists, licensed mental health professionals, medical personnel and ministry leaders will learn how to integrate a faith-based decision-making model for willing Chrisitan clients and patients that is backed by neuroscience and decades of clinical application as catalyst for transformation and flourishing. Using the SPEARS model (Stimuli, Perception, Emotion, Assessment, Response, Summary Thought), participants learn a clear roadmap to both understand the disruptive impact painful experiences have on healthy decision-making and then transform reactive patterns into healthy decisions. This workshop equips participants with practical tools to help clients and patients master hardship by identifying triggers, reframing perception, regulating emotions, making wise assessments, executing faith-aligned responses, and resiliently innovating toward Christ-likeness. Through hands-on exercises and faith-integrated strategies, participants will discover how adversity, when processed wisely, becomes a doorway to purpose, innovation, and flourishing.
Learning Objectives
Describe the six components of the SPEARS model (Stimuli, Perception, Emotion, Assessment, Response, Summary Thought) and their roles in decision-making for willing Christian clients and patients under stress or adversity.
List four critical elements of resilience and how to apply SPEARS to harness these elements for innovative growth toward client or patient’s full potential.
Analyze how distorted perception and unprocessed emotions can derail healthy responses, and how SPEARS helps correct these distortions.
Demonstrate a structured SPEARS-guided mini-intervention, which can be tailored to the setting of the participant