This webinar was recorded on November 8, 2018. We are delighted to offer this recording as a free resource.
Mid-term Elections. Migrant Caravans. Domestic terror. International instability. Healthcare. Personal trauma. Past resentment. These are just a few of the topics we may expect to come up with our family and friends around holiday tables. Most of us either try to avoid these topics because of the tension they create or line up our talking points in an effort to “win” the inevitable debate. The question is, do either of those approaches do anything but create resentment and fracture relationships? Here’s the good news, those aren’t our only two options for entering hard conversations.
In this webinar, we learn from a professional counselor who is an expert in navigating these complex relational dynamics and our team will offer tangible coaching on how to be brave and approach our holiday tables as peacemakers. You will come out of this webinar understanding the science behind our “fight or flight” instinct, with goals for having hard conversations and tools to sit around your holiday table with genuine humility and deep conviction.
Download our free PDF guide based on the webinar.
Panelists
Joe Bishop – Co-Founder and Director of Respero
Joe has been a pastor for 35 years, serving in churches in Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, and California. He and his family have been in the Santa Cruz area since 1993. He has a deep-seated conviction that local churches are meant to be genuine healing communities and tangible expressions of the love and grace of Jesus.
Joe has been married to his wife Kathy for 38 years. They have 3 adult children; Ben, Jon, and Abigail. He received his graduate academic training at Grace Theological Seminary and Santa Clara University, and has done doctoral work in counseling psychology at Trinity Theological Seminary. He is a member of the American Association of Christian Counselors. He is also an avid reader, hiker, and life-long sports fan who is still celebrating the fact that his favorite team, the Chicago Cubs, actually won.
Jon Huckins – Co-Founding Director of The Global Immersion Project
is the Co-Founding Director of The Global Immersion Project; a peacemaking training organization helping individuals and communities move toward conflict equipped to heal rather than to win. He writes for numerous publications including USAToday, Red Letter Christians, Sojourners, and RELEVANT, and has written three books of his own; his latest being Mending the Divides: Creative love in a Conflicted World. Jon has a master’s degree from Fuller Theological Seminary in theology and ethics. He lives in San Diego with his wife, Jan, three daughters (Ruby, Rosie & Lou) and one son (Hank) where they co-lead an intentional Christian community seeking to live as a reconciling presence in their neighborhood of Golden Hill.
Connect with him on Twitter, Instagram or his personal blog jonhuckins.net
Facilitator
Hailey Mitsui– Director of Communication + Development @ Global Immersion
Hailey is the Director of Communications & Development at The Global Immersion Project, she is mixed race and has spent her life navigating and negotiating the realities of privilege and marginalization. She has a B.A. in Sociology with an emphasis in Race & Ethnic Relations and a degree in American Cultural Studies. Hailey is the board secretary for The Mystic Soul Project, whose mission is to engage the wisdom, teaching, resources, and voices of People of Color at the intersections of spirituality, activism and healing.
She is currently a student at the Living School and is focusing on how to ground her passion for racial justice and social equality in contemplative spiritual practices and self-care. You can find her on Twitter and Instagram at @mitsmitsmits.