Conference Schedule

9:30 -3:30 Pre-conference:
Embodied & Embedded in a Technological World 

• 9:30 Intro & Welcome, Angela Shelton

• 10:00 – 10:50 Virtual Church? How Embodied Worship Accomplishes God’s Design and Blesses His People, Peter Martin 

• 11:00 – 11:50 Life in a Digital Age: Impact of Social Media on Relationships, Dr. Brad Hambrick 

• 12:00 – 12:45 Lunch break 

• 1:00 – 1:50 AI: Impact on Perception and Ethics of Engagement, Angela Shelton 

• 2:00 – 2:50 Growing Bodies: Raising Children in an Age of Technology, Julie Lowe 

• 3:00 – 3:30 Panel Discussion 

4:30-5:30 Check In

5:30-7:00 Worship/Plenary 1 

• The Trinity and Embodiment: Your Body Matters, Dr.Lainey Greer

7:15-8:15 Breakout 1 

• Overcoming Self-harm: The Mind at War with the Body, Julie Lowe 

• Biblical Counseling in the Church/The Pastor's Role in Counseling, Kevin Sanders 

• Counsel the Word from the Text to the Counselee, Dr. Kevin Carson 

• Engaging our Senses and Experience in Biblical Counseling, Bryan Launer

• Biblical Theological Perspectives For Counselors, John Kim 

8:00-9:00 Doors Open, Visit Exhibit Hall, Partner Booths, and Book Store

9:00-10:00 Breakout 2 

• Sufficiency and Counseling: A Theologian’s Perspective, Dr. Kyle Claunch 

• Personhood and Embodiment, Dr. David Closson

• What is Biblical Counseling? Shauna Van Dyke

• Embodied Emotions: Window of Tolerance, Ginny Jacobson 

• Anxiety and the Embodied Being, Dr. Lucy Ann Moll 

10:15-11:45 Plenary 2 Christ’s Embodiment: The Incarnate Savior, Dr. Kyle Claunch

11:45-1:15 Lunch & Visit Sponsors/Partners

1:15-2:15 Breakout 3 

• More Than Producers: Recovering Play as Children of God, Bryan Launer

• The Church as a Trinitarian Agent of Care for Human Weakness, Peter Martin

• Body Image: Honoring God in Your Body, Dr. Lainey Greer 

• Dissociation: Addressing the Dis-Integration of the Body, Angela Shelton 

• Singing the songs of Zion: The Embodied Experience of Music in Worship, Trisha Adams 

2:15-3:00 Break/Networking 

3:00-4:00 Breakout 4 

• Physical Touch and Embodied Worship: Taking Our Bodies Seriously, Dr. Kelly Kapic 

• Equipping the Body of Christ to Care for Embodied Souls, Dr. Brad Hambrick

• Embodied Culture and Biblical Counseling, John Kim

• Sex Trafficking: Counseling Embodied Victims, Ginny Jacobson 

• The Body, Identity, and Gender Dysphoria, Dr. Pamela Cubas 

4:15-5:45 Plenary 3, You’re Only Human: The Goodness of Our Embodied Limits, Dr. Kelly Kapic

8:00-9:00 Doors Open, Visit Exhibit Hall, Partner Booths, and Book Store

9:00-10:00 Breakout 5 

• Your Body Matters: Burnout vs Longevity in Ministry, Dr. Lainey Greer 

• Human Embodiment of Oppression and Freedom: Stories of Oppression and Escape from North Korean Refugees, Dan Chung 

• Understanding Attachment From a Biblical Perspective, Dr. Pamela Cubas

• The Importance of Sleep: For You and Your Counselee, Kathryn Weber 

• OCD: An Embodied-Spiritual Struggle, Dr. Jordan Williams 

10:30-12:00 Worship/Plenary 4: Embodiment and Counseling: Hope for Embodied Sufferers , Julie Lowe