Acceptance versus Forgiveness: A Radical Approach for Healing Interpersonal Wounds

Forgiveness is often recommended as the path to recovery from interpersonal injuries. We are taught that forgiveness is good for us, and that good people forgive. In actual practice, injured parties sometimes find themselves unable or unwilling to forgive, particularly when the offender is unrepentant. 

In this presentation, Dr. Spring will discuss Genuine Forgiveness as a process that asks as much of those who have given offense as it does of the injured party. Attendees will learn how to help injured parties release their preoccupation with their hurt, accept responsibility for any part they may have played, and allow the offender to make amends. Attendees will also learn how to help offenders perform heartfelt acts of repair, such as bearing witness to pain they have caused, delivering a meaningful apology, and taking responsibility for their offense. 

This presentation offers methods for clinicians to help those they work with in therapy rise above the experience of injury, repair the rupture within, and explore the possibilities of experiencing Genuine Forgiveness. Dr. Spring will also present concrete steps for offenders to earn forgiveness from the ones they hurt and from themselves.

This introductory instructional level web conference is designed to help clinicians:

1. Challenge popular assumptions about what it means to forgive;
2. Provide hurt parties with an alternative to the traditional understanding of forgiveness, which may help them become physically and spiritually healthy;
3. Compare four different responses to interpersonal injury and identify what makes two of them dysfunctional and two of them healthy;
4. Implement specific, concrete guidelines for helping offenders earn forgiveness and hurt parties foster forgiveness.

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Continuing Education (CE) Information

Two CE credits will be provided by GoodTherapy.org for attending this web conference in its entirety. GoodTherapy.org is also an Approved Education Provider by NAADAC, The Association for Addiction Professionals (provider #135463). Of the eight counselor skill groups ascribed to by NAADAC, this course is classified within counseling services.

GoodTherapy.org is an NBCC-Approved Continuing Education Provider (ACEPTM) and may offer NBCC-approved clock hours for events that meet NBCC requirements.

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To receive CE credit hours for an archived event, you will need to complete a survey as well as a 12 or 15-question exam, verifying that you listened to or watched the event in its entirety. Archived CE events generally are considered "homestudy" by licensing boards.

Registration Information

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Mental health professionals who are not members can attend this live web conference for $30.95 or access the homestudy recording for $15.50. Sign up here to purchase this CE course and earn a CE certificate.

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