The Barnabas Center Events

Join us as The Barnabas Center kicks off its Book Club! Together we will explore books selected by The Barnabas Center for you to follow along at your own pace.

You will be given a guideline with suggested read-by dates to encourage you and help facilitate discussion points. How and when you read is completely up to you! You will also receive, through email and Instagram, questions and considerations about the book to consider as you read. A response is encouraged (but not required).

We will begin on February 21st and conclude on March 28th with a coffee and group discussion facilitated by Haley Webster, MA, LPC Associate (Time and Date TBD). This Coffee and Chat is a great chance to ask questions and hear about others' opinions and experiences.

This month, we'll read Setting Parents Free by Dr. John Cox. In Setting Parents Free, Dr. Cox offers wonderful wisdom around parenting through his years of work counseling parents and being a parent himself as he guides us through the basic things that kids need to do life well, understand love, and follow God. He also gives parents the freedom to be imperfect and shows us how mistakes might actually improve our relationship with our children.

We are excited to explore this book with you! The link to purchase the book can be found at: Setting Parents Free
 Email Haley Webster at haley.webster@barnabascenterhou.com to sign up for Book Club!

As a flower, lilies symbolize many things including love, thankfulness, joyfulness,energy,  and friendship. We want to help cultivate these qualities and more in your daughter! Join us for a fun and engaging camp for girls to experience, learn, and understand more about their emotions, relationships, and individuality and explore their true identity in Christ.

This camp experience is for girls 8-10 years old (rising 3rd and 4th graders) from June 23-26 from 9:30am-1:30pm at The Barnabas Center at Christ the King Presbyterian Church.
Girls will engage in creative activities, games, and practical lessons to help them develop emotional awareness, cognitive-behavioral strategies, and coping skills to manage their emotional lives as well as mindfulness and relaxation techniques to connect with their bodies. Girls will also learn to integrate biblical wisdom and emotional regulation to strengthen their sense of self and relationships.  
 
Camp Lily goals include:
-Manage emotions with kindness and understanding.
-Engage in creative, interactive exercises that make learning emotional regulation fun and memorable.
-Gain effective strategies for managing emotions and build a toolkit for emotional resilience in a setting that emphasizes emotional support.

-Understand the science of stress response to effectively handle distress more logically and practically and learn through creative problem-solving scenarios that make distress tolerance skills tangible and applicable.
-Enhance relationships with skills focused on empathy, connection and cooperation and improve communication with engaging role plays that prepare young girls to thrive in social situations.
- Learn about the scientific benefits of mindfulness and its impact on brain function and emotional health and implement mindfulness techniques that can be quickly utilized to improve focus and efficiency daily tasks in an affirming environment that
 
Camp Lily will be led by Lauren Walls, MABC, LPC-A who is passionate about equipping young girls with tools and skills to help them grow more into who God created them uniquely to be. Lauren’s experience teaching in the classroom and professional counseling provides a nurturing and insightful approach to her counseling relationships and she is excited to offer this unique camp experience this summer. Lauren is supervised by Kirsti Reese, LPC-S.
 
Reach out to Lauren Walls, at lauren.walls@barnabascenterhou.com for more information.