OVERVIEW

Forgiveness Matters: Empowering Professionals to Facilitate Healing and Self-Forgiveness is organized by CEU Creations and will be held on Dec 12, 2025

Overview:
Forgiveness Matters: Empowering Professionals to Facilitate Healing and Self-Forgiveness is a transformative training designed to provide helping professionals with practical tools and insights to assist their clients in achieving self-forgiveness. This session will guide you through a clear definition of self-forgiveness and introduce the Four Rs – Responsibility, Remorse, Restoration, and Renewal – while offering specific interventions for each. Enhance your theoretical understanding with a presentation on the Stress-and-Coping Theory of Forgiveness and be inspired by Sarah Montana’s powerful personal story. Gain valuable skills to help your clients break free from guilt and shame, fostering improved mental health, stronger relationships, and greater self-acceptance. Sign up now to support your clients on their journey to self-forgiveness and healing.

Objectives:
By attending this training, you will be able to:

Define forgiveness and distinguish between “decisional forgiveness,” which involves letting go of resentment and anger, and “emotional forgiveness,” which replaces negative emotions with positive ones and provides significant health benefits.
Examine the health and relational benefits of emotional forgiveness, including reduced stress and its associated health risks, and the role of decisional forgiveness in repairing relationships.
Define self-forgiveness in a way that helps in direct work with people who are seeking to forgive themselves for hurting others.
Describe each of the Four Rs of Self-Forgiveness: Responsibility, Remorse, Restoration, and Renewal.
Identify at least one intervention to help promote each of the Four Rs.