News /December, 2011
Prayer bead workshop offers creative, spiritual outlets for consumers
Fifteen mental health consumers came together last week to participate in the inaugural prayer bead workshop hosted at PEERS. The workshop, created and led by Rev. Lujuan Thompson, aims to stimulate an interest in the use of prayer beads and one's own creativity as a spiritual practice for calming and centering the mind.
After starting with a brief history of prayer beads, participants introduced themselves and discussed how they saw spirituality and prayer beads playing a role in their wellness.
PEERS Spirituality Liaison Monique Tarver was heartened to see...
PEERS to bring WRAP to spiritual communities
As part of the Social Inclusion Campaign's goal to integrate spirituality with mental health, PEERS will be launching two new WRAP groups in spiritual communities starting in 2012.
Open to individuals of all faiths, the two ongoing WRAP sessions will be held at Church for Today in Berkeley and the Family Bible Fellowship in Newark. The two locations were chosen for the pilot program because of their strong leadership and previous work around mental health, according to Spirituality Liaison Monique Tarver.
"We are lucky to have two senior pastors in spiritual...
