Training focuses on a joy filled process of recovery which will allow students to develop practical ministry strategies that are both clinically and Biblically sound. Students of Equipping Hearts and Restarting training often find that they not only learn how to better serve the needs of their client's, but they also receive an abundance of joy in their own lives as well. Joy-filled recovery always spills over to others - allowing joy to overflow from one person to the next!
Thriving: Recover Your Life Facilitator Training.
If you’re looking for Restarting Facilitator training, Equipping Hearts is the place to get it! Restarting Facilitator training will equip you, your church, recovery group or program to successfully begin and lead the Restarting module and the Thriving: Recover Your Life program. This training will help you learn an overview of Restarting and the Thriving program, and will prepare you to practice and lead all 36 inner healing, joy and relationship building exercises that are at the heart of Restarting. Ed is the author of The Restarting Workbook and Facilitator Guide and is featured in the Restarting Facilitator Training video. He welcomes the opportunity to bring Thriving training to your church, group, program or ministry. To find out how to bring Ed to your location in the US or overseas, please click here.
Equipping Hearts also offers a wide range of training designed specifically for the needs and interests of its students based on individual ministry and work settings. Our workshops have included formal classroom settings where we’ve taught clinical subjects such as “Treatment Planning” and “Group Therapy.” We frequently teach “Trauma, Abuse and Addiction Recovery” for Youth With A Mission’s Addictive Behavioral Counseling Schools at many locations around the world. At other times, we help participants grow in their relationship with Jesus, as we lead retreats with topics such as “Learning to Listen to God” and “Healing.” Whether you need training to help prepare students to work recovery settings – or want to help others grow spiritually, Equipping Hearts is ready to work with you to help design training that best serve you.
Some of the most often requested seminars include:
- Restarting Facilitator Training
- The Brain, Bonding and Addiction
- Healing and Recovery
- Addiction, Trauma, Sexual Abuse and Recovery
- Experiencing God’s Presence
- The Power of Joy in Recovery
- Joy, Relationship and Healing
- The Future of Recovery
- Sexual Addiction
- The 12 Core Functions of Addiction Counselors
- The 12 Steps
- Introduction to Group Therapy
- Trauma, The Brain and Addiction
- Relapse Prevention
- Co-Dependency in the Helping Professions
- Understanding Addictions and Addictive Behaviors
- Learning to Listen to God
- Healing
Equipping Hearts training can be brought to your church or organization, or you can make arrangements to join up with previously scheduled training seminars worldwide. Check the calendar for more information. We frequently travel across the US and around the world. We have served students from over 40 nations in the past few years and anticipate adding to that number as the Lord leads. Please contact us for more information on obtaining training from Equipping Hearts.
Maritza Khouri, of Equipping Hearts, takes on the roll of mentor as she works one on one with students over the phone as a Life and Restorative coach.
Ed Khouri mentors leaders and Restarting and Thriving: Recover Your Life groups. Please email him to arrange an initial consultation.
Equipping Hearts has taught or worked with many different churches, ministries, recovery associations and programs including:
The International Substance Abuse and Addiction Coalition (ISAAC), England
International Substance Abuse Center of Studies, (ISAACS) Egypt
Youth With a Mission (YWAM) Addictive Behavioral Counseling Schools: Worldwide
The NET Institute: Orlando, FL
Netto Finland: Finland
Dunklin Memorial Camp: Okeechobee, FL
The Tabernacle Church Restarting Group: FL
Thrive: Peopria, IL
Village of Hope: Estonia
Servant Leadership School: Washington, DC
Samaritan Inns: Washington, DC
New Life Christian Fellowship: NC
Net Casting Ministries: NC
Shepherds Heart Ministries: MO
New Hope Life Center for Women: Omaha, NE
Stony Point Christian Publications: NC
Shepherd’s House: CA
First Baptist Church of Modesto: CA
(see links page for links to some of the above groups)
As mentioned earlier, the healing part of the Equipping Hearts ministry goes hand in hand with training. We believe that ministering to a student’s needs, hearts and wounds is an essential part of training them to do the same for others. When the hearts of pastors, workers and leaders are being healed, they are empowered to minister to others whose hearts are broken through trauma, addiction and life controlling problems. Equipping Hearts teaches group processes that build joy and relationship with Jesus and with others. We’ve found that these joy empowered relationships help create fertile grounds for deep personal healing. When we learn to hear and experience the presence of Jesus with us in both good and bad times, profound and lasting healing from emotional wounds and trauma can be achieved.
