Are you tired of living in a world that:

• Is saturated by resentment?
• Places a huge value on revenge?
• Confuses revenge and punishment with justice?
• Doesn't know how to find the freedom of forgiveness?

Then come and learn how to teach people to forgive!

Become a healing presence in your community.

"Jesus told us we need to forgive but he never taught us how." - Steve Andreas

This is NOT a class that tells people they should forgive. This class WILL teach you how to lead a person to a sustainable state of forgiveness.

Forgiving others is actually quite easy when you know how.
Sadly many in our world and in our communities of faith do not know how.

One of the big contributors to this "not knowing how" is that words like resentment, forgiveness, and reconciliation are used in teaching programs and sermons without ever being defined in behavioral ways that help the hearers implement a forgiveness strategy.

In this one-day training program we will behaviorally define these terms and you will learn specific steps to lead a person from a state of resentment to a state of forgiveness.

Forty years I´ve been carrying this resentment, had therapy with two psychiatrists about it, and now in just a few minutes its gone. It´s like a miracle. Diane, a forgiveness retreat participant.

Course Description: Forgiveness Training Program:
Teach Them How to Forgive!

Resentment isn't something others do to us, it is what we do to ourselves in the darkness of what others have done to us. Therapeutic advice to "work through the anger" often reinforces the anger rather than resolving it.

Likewise exhortations by clergy or spiritual guides to forgive without actually teaching them how to forgive will often compound the resentment rather than set the person free.

In this 9.0 hour Webinar, using demonstrations and participant experiences, participants will discover what people actually do to create experiences of resentment and forgiveness, and how to transform these states of resentment into a sustainable state of forgiveness.

Self-resentment, self-criticism, guilt, and shame will also be explored and strategies to achieve self-forgiveness will be provided.

Recommended Text

Most of this program is based on Rob Voyle's book Restoring Hope: Appreciative Strategies to Resolve Resentment and Grief. You can purchase it from The Appreciative Way Bookstore.

Specific Learning Objectives

As a result of participanting in this program you will be able to:

1. Create basic internal resources such as the golden thread of life and unconditional love to create a stable foundation for forgiving others;
2. Use the three faces of compassion: tenderness, fierceness, and mischievousness as an agent of transformation in the world;
3. Discover how clients uniquely organize and structure their internal experience of memories of past injuries, resentments, and states of forgiveness;
4. Resolve internal objections and resistance to forgiving; - seeking and satisfying objections to forgiving to ensure sustainable outcomes;
5. Restructure internal experiences of resentment into internal experiences of forgiveness;
6. Create internal resources to enable clients to remain grounded and engaged, rather than resentful or avoidant, in the presence of people who violate the client's values;
7. Discover the differences between guilt and shame and use the forgiveness strategies to achieve self-forgiveness;

Who Should Attend This Program

Teach Them How to Forgive is open to:

• Clergy who want to teach their parishioners how to forgive.
• Psychologists, Consultants, Coaches, and Counselors.
• Spiritual Directors and Chaplains.

In addition to teaching clergy, coaches and mental health practitioners how to help clients forgive, Rob also leads one-day forgiveness retreats for people seeking to find forgiveness in their lives. Please Email Rob Voyle if you would like to host a forgiveness retreat in your congregation or organizational setting.

Webinar Schedule: Teach Them How To Forgive Webinar

Please see training schedule for a complete listing of all webinar programs

Typical Webinar Session Schedule

Three Weekly Three Hour Sessions

Day 1

Day 2

Day 3

Typical In-Person Workshop Schedule:

The following is a typical workshop schedule. The exact schedule may vary depending on location.

Six Hour Program

In addition to these practioner training programs we also provide retreats for people want to learn how to forgive and find freedomin their work and daily life.

Webinar Format

The webinar training sessions are live online via Zoom. You will need a reliable computer and internet service to participate in the webinar.

To allow for participant engagement, each webinar is limited to twenty participants to allow.

Each session will be recorded and made available for participants to review after the class.

Each webinar session will include:

• Didactic presentations
• Observation of actual forgiveness session
• Experiential learning of specific approaches and strategies
• Personal practice and experience of forgiveness process

Some "home-work" to practice specific strategies will be encouraged and subsequent sessions will allow for follow-up question and answers to debrief and learn from the exercises.

Each 3 hour session will include a 10 minute mid-session refreshment break.

In-Person Workshop Format

No In-Person Teach Forgiveness Workshops are currently scheduled.

Please Email Rob Voyle if you would like to host an in-person training in your congregation or organizational setting.

The inperson workshop will typically be conducted in a commuter setting with:

• Didactic presentations
• Observation of actual forgiveness session
• Experiential learning of specific approaches and strategies
• Personal practice and experience of forgiveness process

Costs for 2024

Teach Them How To Forgive Webinar

Tuesday, January 2025 — Tuesday, January 2025
9.0 of live online content plus online access to Teach Your Congregation To Forgive.

Early Registration Cost (Before Monday 13, January 2025): $295.00

Cancellation and Refund Policy

Tuition Refunds

Your registration is completely refundable, minus a 15% service fee, up to seven days before the start of the program. Thereafter the registration fee will be forfeited.

For more information please see our Cancellation Policies.

Presenter: Rob Voyle

Rob Voyle is a New Zealand born and trained Mechanical Engineer, Episcopal Priest, and Psychologist. He has a doctorate in clinical psychology from Fuller Theological Seminary in addition to degrees in Theology, Counseling and Mechanical Engineering.

Rob’s employment history includes extensive work as a teacher, an interim pastor, interposed with research and development engineering, behavioral medicine, clinical psychology, coaching and organizational consulting.

Rob is an internationally recognized leader in the use of appreciative inquiry in church settings. He is the Director of the Clergy Leadership Institute and the Founder of The Appreciative Way, a positive way to grow what is life-giving in people and organizations.

While he no longer works as an engineer, Rob sees much of his work as “engineering” solutions for people as they confront the challenges of their lives and work. Rob’s personal mission is to be “helpful, humorous, and healing,” which is manifested in his passion for conducting training. He is a gifted storyteller and has a penchant for mischievously confronting listeners with new insights that are both affirming and liberating.

Rob is the author of: Restoring Hope: Appreciative Strategies to Resolve Grief and Resentment and Teach Your congregation How To Forgive which form the basis of this training. In addition to teaching clergy and counselors to help people forgive

Here is what Episcopal priest Charles Fels said after he learned the forgiveness process:
"Rob Voyle is a great teacher and a gifted priest. His unique approach to forgiveness has been immediately beneficial to a number of people in my own parish. Rob's healing ministry really works!"

In addition to teaching clergy, coaches and mental health practitioners how to help clients forgive, Rob also leads one-day forgiveness retreats for people seeking to find forgiveness in their lives. Please Email Rob if you would like to host a forgiveness retreat in your congregation or organizational setting.