Vaisnava Minister Counseling Course

Dear Raktambara Prabhu,

PAMHO. AGTSP.

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Your servant,
Manu dasa
ISKCON Youth Ministry

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Vaisnava Minister Counseling Course
taught by Dhira Govinda Dasa

When: December 8-10th, 2000

Where: New Raman Reti Dhama, Alachua, Florida.
(at the KCF Community and Youth Center)

Registration Fee: $65 for pre-registration
$85 for last minute, on site
registration.

To register, contact: Manu dasa (904) 462-5248 or
email: manu.das (AT) pamho (DOT) net

Pre-registration requested. Course filled on first
come, first served basis.
Breakfast and Lunch Prasadam provided. Visiting
devotees, please make arrangements for your
accomodation with local devotees in the area. (If you
do not know anyone whom you could stay with, please
let us know ahead of time and we will try to help you
find a local congregation member who may be able to
host you.)


Description of Course:

A three-day intensive course in the development of
basic helping skills. Areas covered include reflective
listening, attending and non-verbal behavior,
questioning, concreteness, immediacy, suicide
prevention, perspectives on finding solutions,
accountability, assertiveness, and conflict
resolution. The structure of the course emphasizes
participatory exercises for practical skill
acquirement. The course will be conducted by Dhira
Govinda dasa (David B. Wolf, Ph.D.). Dhira Govinda
holds a Ph.D. in social work and has taught counseling
skills since the early 80s. He has more than a dozen
years of experience in various mental health and
social service fields, and currently serves as
Director of the ISKCON Central Office of Child
Protection.


Reviews of the course by past participants:

"This is the best thing to happen to my devotional
life since I took
initiation. If everyone in the movement took this
course, it would be a different movement." --Gopala
dasa, Mayapur.

"I wish to again THANK YOU for your Mayapur seminar
entitled Vaishnava Minister Counseling Course.
Attending it was a highlight of my India pilgrimage;
Vishakha and I found ourselves repeatedly discussing
its merits." --Yamuna dasi

More than a dozen sannyasis and GBCs participated in
this course when it was taught in Mayapur earlier this
year. The course was also taught to the staff of the
Vaisnava Training and Education Institute in England
and they found great value in it.

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