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Christian Clergy Group (private)

A group for Christian clergy and Christian chaplains, certified by their professional association, who are interested in near-death and other mystical experiences. This meeting will not be recorded. It will be 90-minutes of pastoral conversation.  

IANDS Christian Clergy Sharing Group
1st Monday of each month
at 1 pm ET, 12 pm CT, 11 am MT, and 10 am PT

This is a group for Christian clergy and Christian chaplains, certified by their professional association, who have had or are interested in, near-death and other mystical experiences. We will explore the message and works of Jesus in light of these experiences. How do we integrate them into our spiritual journeys? How do we help our congregations integrate them? How do they enhance our call as Christians and as clergy? How do they help our congregations? Was Jesus perhaps trying to help us see a greater reality to which these experiences point?

These experiences are very common… you likely have many sitting in your pews who’ve had them, yet are hesitant to share. It’s important that clergy be experts in pastorally assisting the integration of the ultimate.

This meeting will not be recorded. It will be 90 minutes of pastoral conversation.  
To receive an invitation to join this group please contact us here:
Facilitator:  Rev. David Maginley 

For 25 years, Rev. David Maginley, MDiv, CSPC, provided spiritual counselling in the cancer, palliative and intensive care units of the QEII Health Sciences Center in Halifax, Nova Scotia. Now in private practice, he is the author of Beyond Surviving: Cancer and Your Spiritual Journey.

Website:  https://www.davidmaginley.com/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/dmaginley/

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/dmaginley/

Twitter:  https://twitter.com/RevMaginley
Canadian Association for Spiritual Care: https://www.davidmaginley.com/beyond-surviving-cancer-and-your-spiritual-journey/
Evangelical Lutheran Church in Canada: https://elcic.ca/
Canadian Association of Psychosocial Oncology: https://www.capo.ca/
Canadian Hospice Palliative Care Association: https://www.chpca.ca/
Atlantic Therapeutic Touch Network:  https://www.atlanticttn.com/
Internation Association for Near-Death Studies:  https://iands.org/home.html
Feel free to share and invite any interested open-minded Christian clergy.

 

It is important to know:

    • No one will know you attended, except those in your group. Your privacy is protected.
    • These meetings are never recorded.
    • Trained IANDS volunteers facilitate the group to ensure a safe and welcoming environment.

These sharing groups are free to everyone!

IANDS groups rely on charitable contributions to maintain staffing and administrative support. To continue to bring you a wonderful group experience, we thank you in advance for your kind donations.

Donation

 

Jewish Experience Group

Are you Jewish and wonder how or if your NDE or other Spiritually Transformative Experience aligns with your faith? Are you struggling to integrate your experience? Come explore these questions with others having similar concerns. While this Sharing Session contains Jewish content, it is open to all who have a desire to join us.

The 1st Sunday of every month at 4 pm ET.

The “Jewish Experience Sharing Group” is a sharing group for those in, or from, a Jewish community who have had, or are interested in near-death or similar experiences. Non-Jewish people are also welcome to join us as well to learn about Jewish perspectives.

For some experiencers, it’s helpful to consider issues of having a Jewish background when discussing their NDE/STE. This group allows a safe place for those types of discussions. There will be time to share your experiences, challenges, joys, and dreams.

We understand attendees of this group may come from many different Jewish traditions, other faith traditions, or none at all. We commit to respecting all who attend this group, knowing each person holds their own personal perspectives and beliefs.

This is a safe place of non-judgment. There is also no proselytizing. The group will explore the meaning and purpose of NDEs and how to integrate them by understanding the Jewish values implicit in the experience. Each person’s NDE or spiritually transformative experience is unique, and Rabbi Steve will help you find the hidden core of your soul’s purpose contained in the experience of the NDE.

Kabbalah, contemporary psychology, and brain science will provide a deeper understanding of the role of your physical being in this world and how leaving this world is not death, but transformation into another stage of living. Together we will support each other as we move to greater insights and application of the wisdom which will be revealed to all of us in these sessions

It is important to know:

    • No one will know you attended, except those in your group. Your privacy is protected.
    • These meetings are never recorded.
    • Trained IANDS volunteers facilitate the group to ensure a safe and welcoming environment.
    • You do not have to share. You can listen with your video off for as long as you wish to do so. You are welcome to share when you are ready, even if that takes months or years to achieve.

These sharing groups are free to everyone!

We are a non-profit. Donations provide the funding to support the technology that runs these groups. If you are able to make a donation, it would be greatly appreciated. We thank you in advance for your kind and generous donations.

Donation

 

About the facilitator 

Rabbi Stephen Robbins, Psy.D., D.D., co-founder, and co-Rabbi with his wife, Rabbi/Cantor Eva Robbins of N’vay Shalom, co-founder for the AJRCA (Academy for Jewish Religion, California), first Transdenominational seminary on the West Coast, also a Kabbalist and practitioner of Kabbalistic healing. He is a Clinical Psychologist with a specialty in the Psychoneuroimmunology of trauma and brain development. He integrates science and mysticism into a unified system of human development. This system is particularly applied to those with NDEs. Rabbi Robbins has had 8 NDEs as well as 13 surgeries and multiple STEs. His work focuses on the positive messages he has received from his spiritual guides through his 8 NDEs. Many Jews who have had transformative experiences do not know how to deal with them. He works to provide, through his insights, support, and guidance for others to find the deeper meanings through the uniquely Jewish concepts of eternal living, both in this world and the worlds to come.

 

Sharing Your Sacred Experiences: Writing and Sharing Your Story Can Change The World

It is possible to write and share your story with great impact. Storytelling has the power to educate, inspire and motivate. It also has the power to transform, and those are the skillsets Bridget will be sharing with you. Utilizing chronology, conflict character arc, the three-act play, and the hero’s journey to rise from victim to victor, you can create a ripple effect with readers and audiences from one to a thousand!

It is possible to write and share your story with transformational impact. This session includes powerful, professional tips to write what you learned from your sacred experience, first for yourself, then, if you choose, to take it a step further and share it. It might be religion-oriented or you might have learned something broader that could help all of humankind.

Bridget invites you to believe in the power of your story to change the world. Learning objectives include:
– Discover and organize what you have learned from your near-death, shared-death and spiritual experiences in a way that is effective to a reader.
– Explore how to communicate your learned wisdom from these extraordinary experiences.
– Recognize important turning points on your heroes and sheroes journey that empower your future, and gain courage to be able to share them–perhaps for the first time in your life.
– Gain tips and tools for creating a written work, whether to keep for yourself and your family, or to share in a powerful book format with the world.

As a storyteller and book mentor, Bridget’s greatest passion is helping you discover the importance of your story, and to become leaders in your community, and worldwide. Bridget’s own intense NDE set her on the path to discover how storytelling can release anxiety, and provide a venue to find your power and joy. She encourages you to share your incredible near-death, shared-death and spiritual experiences, and will coach you towards an inspirational story from your first word, and maybe even to a future published work of art.

About Bridget:

Clients call Bridget Cook-Burch “The Book Whisperer”. A New York Times & Wall Street Journal bestselling author, mentor, and speaker known for riveting stories of transformation, her work has been showcased on Oprah, Dateline, Netflix, GMA, NPR, among others. Bridget’s own intense, NDE transformed her life – and the story she was telling herself. This set her on the path to discover other extraordinary stories. As the CEO and Founder of Your Inspired Story, Bridget hosts Inspired Writers Retreats, book mentoring and coaching as a safe space, with deep, experiential learning to honor your story and legacy. Bridget is co-founder and former executive director of SHEROES United, a non-profit that helps women and families rise from trauma.

A transformative NDE in my 20s changed the story I was telling myself and how I viewed humanity. After being rushed into emergency surgery, they started me on several intravenous antibiotics. That’s when I experienced the presence of unconditional love. Upon awakening, I had an absolute knowing to stop one antibiotic–and was overwhelmed with the profound knowledge I was being given a second chance at life.

Connect with Bridget:

http://www.YourInspiredStory.com

https://inspiredwritersretreat.com/

https://www.instagram.com/bridgetcookburch/

https://www.facebook.com/bridgetcookburch

https://www.linkedin.com/in/mbridgetcookburch/

Check out these videos to learn more about Bridget:

The Wholeness Network – Finding Wholeness After Abuse

Introduction to Bridget and Your Inspired Story

This event will be recorded and available to view on our Videos page 3-5 business days after the live event!

Please note that this event is an interactive workshop in meeting format, participants have the option to suspend their video feed during recording if preferred. Your privacy is our priority. Thank you.