A women’s conference designed for moms who
have experienced the loss of a child.
November 11-12, 2017
Canterbury Retreat and Conference Center
1601 Alafaya Trail, Oviedo, Florida
A weekend filled with encouragement, hope, peace, comfort, and love. A special time of caring, sharing, bonding, and meeting new friends walking on the same road and journey towards healing. Special designed workshops for mothers on healing guilt and regret, sibling grief, love and healing in your marriage, honoring our children by reaching out to others, and messages that will fill you with encouragement and hope. Plus, inspirational speakers who share insights on grief and the tools with which to cope.
Special Guest Artist & Speakers:
Alan Pedersen and Lynda Shelhamer
Alan is an award winning songwriter, successful recording artist and nationally recognized speaker on grief and loss. On August 15, 2001 Alan's 18 year old daughter, Ashley died in an automobile accident. He will be sharing and leading a beautiful candle lighting program helping moms get through the coming holidays. He will also be doing the workshop “Healing Guilt and Regret”
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Lynda is the founder of "Heavenly Hope and Healing" reaching out to mothers who have lost a child with support, encouragement and love. She lost her 15 year old son Josiah to suicide and has written the book “A Sparrow Falls” to give grieving mothers hope to get through each day. Lynda is an inspirational speaker touching the hearts of mothers and will be doing the workshop sharing ways to honor our children by reaching out to others.
The conference will be a special time of remembering and
celebrating our children through a beautiful candle
lighting program, creating a treasured memory,
and heaven bound balloon release.
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“Journey of the Heart” Conference Schedule
November 11-12, 2017
Saturday Morning
8:30 am – 10:00 am
-
Registration
Looking forward to welcoming you with open arms and open hearts.
Button Making/ Memory Board
Creating buttons with our child’s picture and
posting our child’s picture on the memory board.
Book and Resource Table
Books and resource materials to help mothers through their grief.
10:00 am. – Welcome – Connie Sparks
Video “Journey of the Heart”
Music from the Heart
Message from the Heart – Lynda Shelhamer
11:00 am - Circles of Love
12:30 pm - Lunch
1:15 pm –Workshop Introductions
Workshops - 1:30 pm and repeated at 2:30 pm
Healing Guilt and Regret – Alan Pedersen
"Grief and loss leave us with many unfinished emotional issues including guilt and regret. This interactive workshop will teach us a process to help feel and heal these painful emotions."
Love and Healing in your Marriage – Kathy and Rick Brundage
Learn
communication
and coping tools through grieving together.
Reaching the Heart of Your Child – Ann Bennett
Tools to help heal your child’s broken heart during their own young journey through grief. Practical ideas to encourage you as you deal with your own bereavement as well as theirs.
Honoring my Child by Reaching Out to others – Lynda Shelhamer
Our grief always brings a gift.
It's the gift of greater sensitivity and compassion for others. We learn to rise above our own grief by reaching out
and lessening the grief of others.
4:00 pm – Free Time or Tear Soup – Michele Paul
Tear Soup, a recipe for healing written by a wise woman named Grandy. Grandy has just suffered a big loss in her life and so she is headed to the kitchen to make a special batch of Tear Soup. To season her soup Grandy adds memories like the good times and the bad times, the silly and the sad times. She does not want to forget even one precious memory of her loss. We will watch Tear Soup and prepare a batch of our own tear soup that will help us towards healing.
Create a special memory plate with words describing your child,
or the ingredients to your Tear Soup recipe, or a quote, or verse.
6:30 pm – Chocolate and Candlelight Dinner
Beautiful Candle Lighting Program – Alan Pedersen
S’mores and Songs around the campfire.
Sweet Dreams
SUNDAY
7:00 a.m. –
Morning Walk
– For the early birds!
Jeannette Taylor
8:00 a.m. – Breakfast
8:45 am - Music from the Heart
9:00 am – Tender Times – Peggy Graeser
9:45 am – Circles of Love
10:45 am Music from the Heart
Message from the Heart – Connie Sparks
11:30 am – Celebrate the Children – Alan Pedersen
Heaven-Sent Messages Balloon Release
Hugs and Homeward Bound