PROGRAMS
2025 Program Dates
Debrief Intensive Program
April 14 - 24
June 16 - 26
September 1 - 10
Member Care Training
March 3 - 22
October 13 - 31
Testimonials
COMING APRIL 14 - 24, 2025!
HEARTSTREAM IS LAUNCHING AN INTENSIVE PROGRAM IN BEND OREGON!
Heartstream is still calling North Carolina home, but we are launching a Debrief Intensive Program in Bend, Oregon in April 2025.
We are partnering with Sunny Acres B&B to provide a beautiful west coast location. Owner and chef Pegi Malnik has been serving with Heartstream since 2022. Her delicious recipes as well as her loving interactions with guests and staff make her a blessing and an asset. We are very excited for this new opportunity and partnership!
Click the link below to visit her website. Please note that the prices reflected on her website are not the prices for our program as Pegi is giving Heartstream guests a discounted price.
Debrief Intensive Program
10 Day Program
Living together in community provides intensive support and care for restoration of cross-cultural workers who are suffering exhaustion, depletion, depression, burnout, other crisis as a result of ministry, and a place to debrief field terms and other experiences. The needs of the whole person are attended to as we help guests assess personal issues, field conflicts, systems issues, and other factors related to ministry service and then we provide strategies for recovery and growth, as well as spiritual guidance and resources. Spiritual care, worship, devotions, and discussions round out the time together. Small groups provide an ideal setting for maximizing healing. Guests and our professional staff with decades of overseas/cross-cultural/mission experience live together with a high degree of interaction.
This program offers the following:
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Counseling–individual, couples, families, small group
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Debriefing of field or mission or other service experience
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Pastoral, spiritual care with Christian worldview and resources
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Conflict resolution—individuals, couples, teams
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Classes designed for change and growth
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Strategies for change
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Small group setting, rooms, meals, activities
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Residential setting with emphasis on holistic care
2024 PROGRAM DATES
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October 7 - 17
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November 4 - 14
2025 PROGRAM DATES
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April 14 - 24 (Bend, OR)
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June 16 - 26
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September 1 - 10
Member Care Training
Member Care Courses: 3 weeks (arrive Monday of first week)
With over 30 years dedicated to the care and training of missionaries, Lois Dodds, Ph.D. has taught graduate courses in over 40 countries, as well as in many other overseas contexts, such as U.S. embassies.
Participants will learn how to use current resources in the care of missionaries, including conference and training information, books, and unpublished papers.Training Outcome: Participants will draft a work-paper of ways to improve the care given to members for his or her organization or field entity, based on the course content, class discussions and selected readings. These will be presented to the class.
Emphasis is given to the practical application of theories to the life of the individual and the effectiveness of the organization relating to and caring for persons. Major emphasis is given to the relationship of personality type to team work, leadership styles, communication styles, stressors and stress symptoms. Factors of influence in the individual’s development are examined in the light of stresses occurring in field settings.
2024 PROGRAM DATES
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September 10 - 27
2025 PROGRAM DATES
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March 3 - 22
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October 13 - 31
Missionary Evacuation
In need of help in processing your traumatic or difficult field experiences?
Returning from a dangerous location?
We provide you with Critical Incident Stress Debriefing (CISD) to help you recover, promote your wellbeing, and prevent Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) or other serious outcomes to trauma. Evacuation from dangerous situations and setting requires proper intervention for the best recovery. We can help you or your group by providing debriefing, related activities, and residential care. Our counselors and de-briefers are trained and have decades of experience with workers from over a hundred countries.
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Individual evacuation debriefing
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CISD helps you process trauma and stress
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Group evacuation debriefings
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Individual evacuation debriefing
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Make sense of your reactions in trauma
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Strategies for recovery
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Restoration you to service guidelines
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Perspective: identify the positive and productive in the crisis or trauma to offset the negative and debilitating outcomes
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Discover you are normal and not alone
Public Speaking & Seminars
Heartstream Resources staff teach a variety of courses and topics related to missions,
cross-cultural life, spiritual life, human development and leadership.
We teach the following courses at graduate level. Any topics or content from these courses can be used in smaller segments, in modular form, to build a workshop or course suitable to the needs of a group.
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Servant Leadership
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The Whole Person—Body, Mind and Spirit
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Foundations of Leadership (Personal and professional)
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Counseling: The Helping Relationship
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Human Development in The Organizational Setting
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Process of Adult Development
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Dynamics of Spiritual Formation
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Group and Conflict Dynamics
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The Leader As An Agent of Change
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Creative Leadership Personality
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Ethics for The Professions (Managerial Ethics)
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Directed Studies in Leadership
In addition to content from any of the above courses, staff teach on the following topics. We want to work with you to create classes or programs tailored to your group’s needs.
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Cross-cultural adjustment process and challenges
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Stress–foundations, prevention, burnout, interventions
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Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)
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Critical incident debriefing (CID)
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Human development–stages of mission life, stages of life, cycles of life
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Physical health, nutrition, fitness, psychosomatic connections
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Emotional and relational health through the use of God’s resources
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Personal growth–processing emotion, communication, gaining self-insight, Biblical
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Communication skills–assertiveness, owning emotion, effective dialogue
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Conflict skills, resolution, third party interventions
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Personality studies–character transformation, personal change process, teaching and learning styles, type in children, type and stress, communication styles of types
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Team building–using personality type and other tools
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Spiritual warfare, use of spiritual resources
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Bible study, devotional and other approaches in spiritual growth, methods
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Spiritual gifts
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Counseling skills—attitudes, basic qualities and skills for helping, selecting approaches
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Servant leadership (Biblical model)
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Community as a healing resource; making the most of the Body of Christ
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Family life, marriage enrichment
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Worship—importance, role, practice
Testimonials
Testimonials
Vivian shares her story of healing.
Heartstream is a safe place to land.
