BCC TRAINING solutions HELPING PEOPLE
Biblical Counseling Center For nearly 25 years, Biblical Counseling Center has counseled and taught individuals around the globe the art and skill of discerning people s problems, identifying Scripture s perspective, and helping them find peace through obedience to God. BCC is expert in helping people concerning the topics listed below. As capable counselors and trainers, we can also address your Church s unique questions as well. Each topic area can be delivered as a two hour workshop, serve as leadership training, shape a weekend Retreat, or be combined into a BCC Live Seminar. We will be happy to talk to you about your ministry goals and design the right solution for you and the people you care for. Success for BCC is Helping Churches care for People.
Overview of BCC Training BCC Training consists of biblically-based workshops, modules and seminars which can help your church better care for it's people. BCC offers a variety of customizable solutions to help your church. Workshops - BCC Counselors will present a "Real Life Solutions - God's Way" workshop to help your church through giving them biblical insight into common struggles. We teach on over 120 topics and workshops typically last 2 hours (shorter or longer upon request). Leadership Training s - BCC has developed over 120 hours of discipleship and leadership training in 24 distinct Biblical Counseling s contain 3-6 hours of teaching in one general topic area. s can be used effectively for Leadership training or weekend conferences. Seminars - BCC offers 5 Counseling Training Seminars that are useful for training leaders to better care for the people they influence. "Foundations of Biblical Counseling," our most popular course, is recognized as a pre-requisite course for those seeking certification from NANC or IABC. Seminars can be completed in two "12 hours weekends" or three "8 hours saturdays." Our 16 hour, "Portraits of Biblical Counseling" course fulfills the 10 counseling hours required for NANC or IABC certification. Lay Counseling Certificate - Completion of all five BCC Counseling Seminars (and follow-up assignments) leads to a BCC Lay Counseling Certificate. BCC Lay Counseling Certificates ensure proper training to handle common counseling struggles.
Biblical Counseling Workshops (1 or 2 hours) BCC is a trusted voice who will faithfully apply the scriptures to real life. "Real Life Solutions: God's Way" workshops combine video, teaching and discussion to help churches address the reallife issues that people are facing. BCC Counselors have developed over 120 areas of expertise where we can explain how God's word makes sense or ordinary problems and gives profound insights into God's solutions. Workshops are a great way to introduce BCC to your church and to help your people learn to seek God's solutions to their struggles. Below is a list of possible workshop titles. Don't see what you are looking for on our list? Just ask... the experienced counselors of BCC probably have helped others through your situation before.
25 most popular workshop topics Counseling: Understanding the 3 types of Counselees Counseling: Who Is Responsible to Counsel? Counseling: The Power and Sufficiency of Scripture Counseling: The power of saying I Care Crisis: Suicide Crisis: Terminal Illness Help for: Lust Help for: Major Life Change Help for: Making Decisions Help for: Anger Help for: Anxiety Help for: Balance Help for: Peer Pressure Help for: Building Hope over Addictions Marriage: The Christian Family Marriage: The Excellent Wife Marriage: The Godly Husband
Parenting: Teens Parenting: The godly Grandparent Parenting: Truths children need before 18 Sexuality: Biblical Principles of Sex Sexuality: Pornography Sexuality: Promiscuity Sexuality: Purity Sexuality: Same-Sex Attraction The Church: Appreciating the older crowd The Church: Handling conflict Biblically The Church: Counseling as a way of Christian Life Check out www.biblicalcounselingcenter.org/workshops to see the full list of 120 topics.
(24-28 hours) Biblical Counseling s (3-5 hours) BCC has 24 distinct training modules which are 3-5 hours long and effectively train leaders for real world ministry. With confidence and competence, your leaders can engage the hurting in your church and community. Each Training module has helpful tools, in-depth teaching and real world case studies to help leaders your leaders be ready to give an answer. They will also gain confidence to begin engaging the opportunties that God presents them with his help. Helpful for: Shepherding Skill for Small Groups Leaders Elder Counseling Skills Training Women's Ministry Discipleship Training Recovery Ministry Leaders Strengthening Men's Leadership Equipping Youth Leaders Ongoing Training for Lay Counselors
(1 or 2 hours) Biblical Counseling Seminars (24 hours) BCC offers four Biblical Counseling Training Seminars which effectively train churches to better care for their people. Foundations, Contemporary Issues, Marriage and Family and Advance Issues each contains 6 topical learning modules. Our goal is to help you develop your leadership team with competence. BCC also offers our 16 hour Portraits of Biblical Counseling course which allows counselors to see BCC professional counselors in action through split-screen video format. This course also fulfills the 10 Session counseling observation requirement for NANC, IABC and BCC Lay Counseling Certificate training. OUR 5 SEMINARS Foundations of Biblical Counseling Contemporary Issues in Biblical Counseling Marriage and Family Counseling Advance Issues in Biblical Counseling Portraits of Biblical Counseling Online
Seminar #1 Foundations of Biblical Counseling (24 hours) (3 hours) 1 Caring Like Christ Session # 1 - Biblical Shepherding Session # 2 - Reaching the Heart Session # 3 - Sanctification Understood (5 hours) 2Helping Others Change Session # 1 - Change Element #1 - Getting Involved Session # 2 - Change Element #2 - Gathering Data Session # 3 - Change Element #3 - Determining the Problem Session # 4 - Change Element #4 - Determining the Solution Session # 5 - Change Element #5 - Giving Next Steps (6 (5 hours) 3Handling Emotions Biblically (2 hours) Session # 1 - Biblical Understanding of Emotions Session # 2 - Fear Session # 3 - Anger Session # 4 - Despair and Spiritual Depression Session # 5 - Guilt and Shame
(3 hours) 4 Guiding Struggling Parents Session # 1 - Balanced Biblical Parenting Session # 2 - Ministry to Broken Families Session # 3 - Facilitating Family Forgiveness (4 hours) 5 Helping Hurting Marriages Session # 1 - Understanding God s Design for Marriage Session # 2 - Reversing Role Reversal Session # 3 - Resolving Conflict through Godly communication Session # 4 - Reestablishing Unity and Intimacy (4 hours) 6 Biblical Counseling vs. Secular Counseling Session # 1 - Distinctives of Biblical Counseling Session # 2 - The Body, The Bible and Medicine Session # 3 - Counseling those with Psychological Labels Session #4 - How to Grow as a Biblical Counselor (6 hours) 7 Putting it all into Practice: Case Study Lab (Optional) 7 can be done live with a BCC counselor over six hours or it can be completed online utilizing our self-paced E-training Case Studies Lab. For those seeking certification, completed case study forms must be submitted to verify completion of the case study Lab.
Seminar #2 Contemporary Issues in Biblical Counseling (24 hours) Contemporary Issues Certificate requires modules 8, 9, 10, 11, 12 (3 hours) Foundations - Review (5 hours) 8 Navigating Sexual Brokeness Session # 1 - Sexuality Idolatry Session # 2 - When Pornography is king Session # 3 - Promiscuity and Sex Addiction Session # 4 - Same-Sex Attraction Session # 5 - Sexual Deviance (3 hours) 9 Grief, Loss and Hope Session # 1 - Bringing Hope into Suffering Session # 2 - Walking with those who are terminally ill Session # 3 - Counseling those who have lost love ones
(5 hours)! 10 Compassionate Help for Serious Struggles Session # 1 - Understanding Idols of the heart Session # 2 - Co-Dependency and the Fear of Man Session # 3 - Counseling those who Abuse Session # 4 - Counseling those who have been Abused Session # 5 - Obesity and Weight Control (5 hours) 11 Compassionate Help for Destructive Habits Session # 1 - Cutting and Self-Injury Session # 2 - Suicide Session # 3 - Depression and Despair Session # 4 - Stressed Out and Nowhere to Go Session # 5 - Biblical Decision Making (3 hours) 12 Victory over Addictions Session # 1 - Building Hope over addictions Session # 2 - Victory over Substances Session # 3 - Victory over Gambling
Seminar #3 Marriage and Family Counseling (24 hours) Marriage and Family Counseling Certificate requires # 5, 13, 14,15,16, 17 (4 hours) 5 Review (4 hours) Session # 1 - Understanding God s Design for Marriage Session # 2 - Reversing Role Reversal Session # 3 - Resolving Conflict through Godly communication Session # 4 - Reestablishing Trust and Intimacy 13 Counseling Hurting Marriages Session # 1 - Fixing your marriage won t work: Going Vertical Session # 2 - Utilizing Communication Tools Session # 3 - Personal Finances and the Bible Session # 4 - When and How to Separate Biblically (4 hours) 14When Marriage Fails Session # 1 - Unequally Yoked Marriages Session # 2 - Divorce and Remarriage Session # 3 - Divorce Recovery Session # 4 - Helping Blended Families
(4 hours) 15 Helping Hurting Parents Session # 1 - Manipulative Children Session # 2 - Working through Anger Session # 3 - Motivations for Disobedience Session # 4 - Hope for Prodigal Teens (5 hours) 16 Helping Parents Succeed Session # 1 - Biblical Goals for Parenting Session # 2 - Helping Parents Teach their Children Session # 3 - Effective and Balanced Discipline Session # 4 - Principles of Purity Session # 5 - Single Parenting (3 hours) 17 Before Marriage Begins Session # 1 - Effective Pre-engagement counseling Session # 2 - Effective Pre-marital Counseling Session # 3 - Effective Post-Marital Follow-up
Seminar #4 Advance Issues in Biblical Counseling (24 hours) Advanced Certificate requires # 18, 19, 20,21,22, 23 In order to take advanced counseling, you must have taken our entire Foundations of Biblical Counseling course live or online at www.biblicalcounselingcenter.org (5 hours) 18 Theological Issues in Counseling Session # 1 - Counseling and Theology Session # 2 - Human Nature and Counseling Session # 3 - God and Counseling Session # 4 - Ecclesiology and Counseling Session # 5 - Soteriology and Counseling (3 hours) 19 Critiquing Prevalent Counseling Philosophies (4 hours) Session # 1 - Theophostic Counseling Session # 2 - Integrationist Counseling Session # 3 - Legalistic Counseling 20 Difficult Counseling Topics Session # 1 - Counseling Body Image Session # 2 - Eating Disorders Session # 3 - Unplanned Pregnancy Session # 4 - Bi-Polar and Schizophrenia
(4 hours) (4 hours) 21 Effective Lay Counseling Ministries Session # 1 - Developing a Counseling Ministry Session # 2 - Developing a Counseling Ministry Pt. 2 Session # 3 - Legal Issues and Counseling Session # 4 - Spiritual Gifts and Counseling 22 Effective Counseling within Church Ministries Session # 1 - From the Parking Lot to the Cafe Session # 2 - Equipping Strategy for Small Group Leaders Session # 3 - Equipping Strategy for Recovery Ministry Leaders Session # 4 - Equipping Strategy for Marriage and Divorce Ministry Leaders (4 hours) 23 Advanced Case Study Lab BCC Staff Counselors will present live case studies with facilitated interaction and discussion. Real life scenarios will be given that students will work through in their study groups. They will learn how to develop a plan to help someone change God s way. The group will interact with a counselor from BCC, work through homework tools and gain insight into for future ministry.
Portraits of Biblical Counseling Online (16 hours) (16 hours) 24 Portraits Counseling Observation DVD Series: Sessions and Topics Session #1: Getting Started (Getting Acquainted with Someone) Session #2: Promoting Harmony in Marriage (Attitudes and Rules to Prevent Conflict) Session #3: Basic Rules of Biblical Communication (Choosing the Right Words) Session #4: Fearing God More than People (Fear) Session #5: How God Defines Guilt (Guilt & Shame) Session #6: How God Views Us (Our Identity in Christ) Session #7: God in the Midst of Turmoil (Depression) Session #8: Worried About Weight (Anxiety & Anorexia) Session #9: Overcoming Anxious Thoughts (Anxiety) Session #10: What Worry Reveals About Us (Anxiety) Please note: For those pursuing IABC, NANC or BCC Certification, Portraits of Biblical Counseling complete the 10 hour observation requirement to pursue certification. The course may be purchased by online at www.biblicalcounselingcenter.org Inquire about Group packages for online subscriptions if you are training a whole team of counselors.
A Final Word to Pastors Thank you for taking the time to look through our Counseling Solutions catalog. Our passion is to help your church become more successful in reaching the lost and hurting in your church and community. For the past 23 years, Biblical Counseling Center has trained thousands of church leaders around the world to more effectively engage the hurting world around them. We will strive to be in strong partnership with your church in order to help you shape the vision of discipleship ministry that God has given to your church. We recognize that each church is unique so we have shaped our training to be flexible and scalable for every churches unique vision. If you are just in the beginning stages of developing a strategy for care, we would love to help your church leaders grow in their ability to provide Christ-centered care by training them effectively. We would be happy to consult with you about the best strategies and solutions we offer to help your church increase your care. If you already have established ministries and teams, we offer excellent continued training options. You can contact us at info@biblicalcounselingcenter.org or by calling 847-398-7193. Serving Him, Tim Allchin Associate Executive Director The Staff of Biblical Counseling Center looks forward to serving you and your church family.