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Self-Injury Awareness Workshop
Sample PDF flyer available. Scroll down for link.
Do you have questions about self-injury and wonder what’s behind someone’s choice to hurt themselves?
Are you a teen with a friend who is self-harming and want to know more ways to help?
Do you have a family member or a teen in your youth group whom you suspect may be cutting?
As a friend and mentor to teens and young adults herself, Jan presents this workshop to those of you who:
- care deeply about teens and young adults and desire to know more about this topic so you can be prepared to identify and help those who may be self-injuring.
- are friends, mentors, youth pastors, or family members of someone who is already engaged in self-harming behavior
- want to know more about self-injury and want to be better equipped to come alongside and help in a way that keeps God in the picture
This workshop will help you:
- better understand not only some of the facts about self-injury, but also the misconceptions
- define your role in helping and determine when it’s important to not go it alone
- choose resources and ideas to more effectively encourage and support
You’ll also hear the story behind the writing of Scars That Wound, Scars That Heal–A Journey Out of Self-Injury, as well as thoughts, quotes, and poetry from those who have struggled with self-injury.
Jan has been serving for more than twenty years alongside her husband at a residential ministry for at-risk youth (Christian Encounter Ministries in Grass Valley). During that time, she has watched the lives of hundreds of young people be changed through a relationship with Christ. She fully believes someone who self-injures can experience that same hope and move toward healing. She conveys that hope in her workshops.
Please contact Jan if you’d like more information or if you’d like her to present this workshop to your group or your church.
Sample flyer (pdf format):
Self-Injury Awareness Workshop
