About this webinar
Bend without Breaking: Spiritual Practices for Building Resilience to Foster Mental Wellness
10 AM – 12 PM PT, Wednesday, February 25
Everyone is knocked off center during stormy times, and sometimes we feel so broken that anger, fear and depression overwhelm us. Cultivating resilience helps us to stay
grounded enough to stand firm and yet be flexible enough to bend stretch and grow.
“Bend without Breaking” is a 2-hour seminar offering tools to help participants respond to pressures and tragedies quickly, adaptively and effectively. This seminar will review
some of the neuroscience of resilience and provide evidence-based practices to enhance mental stability and to promote self-directed neuroplasticity.
Your seminar leaders, Rev. Dale Suggs (MDiv) and Shelly Suggs (MA-Spiritual Development), will draw content and facilitate practices from “Bouncing Back: Rewiring Your Brain for Maximum Resilience and Wellbeing” by Linda Graham, MFT, and from“Practicing Compassion” by Frank Rogers, Jr. PhD.
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Features and Benefits
Offering tools to help participants respond to pressures and tragedies quickly, adaptively and effectively and provides 2 hours of CEUs.
Bend Without Breaking
Taught by Dale & Shelly Suggs
Everyone is knocked off center during stormy times, and sometimes we feel so broken that anger, fear and depression overwhelm us. Cultivating resilience helps us to stay grounded enough to stand firm and yet be flexible enough to bend stretch and grow. “Bend without Breaking” is a 2-hour seminar offering tools to help participants respond to pressures and tragedies quickly, adaptively and effectively. This seminar will review some of the neuroscience of resilience and provide evidence-based practices to enhance mental stability and to promote self-directed neuroplasticity. Your seminar leaders, Rev. Dale Suggs (MDiv) and Shelly Suggs (MA-Spiritual Development), will draw content and facilitate practices from “Bouncing Back: Rewiring Your Brain for Maximum Resilience and Wellbeing” by Linda Graham, MFT, and from “Practicing Compassion” by Frank Rogers, Jr. PhD.
Meet Your Instructor,
Dale & Shelly Suggs
The Rev. Dale Suggs earned a BA in Religion Studies and Computer Science from Texas Christian University in 1983 and a Master of Divinity from Brite Divinity School in 1987. He also holds Graduate Certificates in Ecumenical Studies from the University of Geneva and Spiritual Direction from the University of San Diego. He became a Certified Facilitator of the Compassion Practice through the Center for Engaged Compassion at Claremont School of Theology in 2016. Dale has been an ordained minister in the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) for 38 years. In that time, Dale served as Senior Minister in 3 congregation in Indiana and SouthernCalifornia, as Intentional Interim Minister in 4 congregations in Southern California and Arizona, and as a Hospice Chaplain in San Diego.
Shelly is a DSF alum graduating with a Master ofReligion from CST in 2017. Her thesis in Spiritual Formation focused on using the Jesus Prayer to Cultivate Healing and Resilience in Clergy Burnout. Shelly is a full-time speech-language pathologist for the San Diego Unified School District.
In 2018, Dale and Shelly co-founded an alternative-model congregation based in San Diego called BELOVED Way BELOVED Way’s ethos is grounded in the values of grace, inclusion and compassion. Seeking to be an example of what a sustainable congregation might look like in the second half of the 21st century, BELOVED Way has a process-ish, narrative theology expressed in embodied spiritual practice and compassion-based outreach.
In 2020, Dale and Shelly also co-founded the nonprofit, BELOVEDCompassion Network. With its ethos grounded in the Compassion Practice,BELOVED Compassion Network offers educational and spiritual practice programming that provides the “how to” of “making compassion a way of life” to individuals, teams, congregations, universities and seminaries.
Dale and Shelly will celebrate 43 years of marriage in August. Together, they have 4 beautiful daughters and 4 wondrous granddaughters.