A TWO-DAY CHRIST-CENTERED SEMINAR
You don't need one more person telling you not to worry.
You need a compassionate way to understand what anxiety is doing in your mind, body, and spirit—and practical ways to meet God there and begin turning toward peace.
Into the Calm weaves together biblical truth, Christian spiritual formation, formational care, and insights from behavioral science and neurobiology. You'll learn, experience, practice, and leave with tools you can keep using long after the weekend is over.
What if the goal isn't to fight anxiety harder?
Anxiety can feel as if it has taken over the whole person. Into the Calm creates space to understand the journey without shame, notice what can intensify it, practice what can help settle it, and encounter the presence of Jesus in the middle of it—not only after it goes away.
Experience
Make room for the presence of the Lord through worship, ministry, reflection, and experiential spiritual practices.
Understand
Learn more about anxiety, present-moment awareness, the nervous system, attachment, identity, and the patterns that can keep us stuck.
Practice
Try concrete skills for regulation, connection, embodied awareness, values-based living, and a daily movement toward peace.
More than information. A way to practice peace.
Every main session is built around three aims: encounter God, understand more of the anxiety journey, and practice a present-moment skill you can take home. The weekend moves from understanding what is happening to developing a practical strategy for what comes next.
Understand your nervous system
Explore a polyvagal lens for why the body can move into fight, flight, or shutdown—and how cues of safety, awareness, and connection can help you move toward regulation.
Notice without condemning
Learn present-moment awareness and curiosity practices that help you relate differently to anxious thoughts, emotions, and body sensations.
Reconnect identity and values
Explore attachment, identity, and a values-driven life so anxiety does not get the final word about what matters or how you live.
Engage the body
Practice embodied awareness and gentle ways of listening to what your body may be communicating rather than treating it as the enemy.
Experience co-regulation
Discover why safe, attuned connection matters—and how the presence of trusted others can soften the sense of facing anxiety alone.
Build a daily strategy
Leave with practical investments and spiritual exercises designed to support peace, well-being, connection, and ongoing growth.
They didn't just learn about anxiety. They left with hope and tools.
"This seminar was amazing…I feel better equipped to deal with my own anxiety."2025 PARTICIPANT
"The calming practices and present moment experientials were invaluable."2025 PARTICIPANT
"I'm so grateful for the depth, wisdom, and pointing to Jesus."2025 PARTICIPANT
"I am forever changed."2025 PARTICIPANT
You may be coming for yourself—or because someone you love is struggling.
If anxiety is personal
Whether it is an occasional distraction or a persistent weight, come for a compassionate, Christ-centered understanding and practical ways to turn toward peace.
If you love someone with anxiety
Gain language, insight, and relational tools that can help you stand with someone without trying to fix, shame, or rush their process.
If you care for others
Pastors, caregivers, counselors, and health practitioners can deepen their understanding and add Christ-centered, formational tools to the way they accompany others.
A thoughtfully paced journey from understanding to practice.
Day One
- It All Begins with Jesus
- Worship & Ministry
- Introduction to Present Moment Awareness
- Our Polyvagal World
- Terry's Baker's Dozen
- Two workshop sessions
Day Two
- Worship
- The Importance of Identity and Attachment
- A Values-Driven Life
- Turning Toward Peace — Parts 1 & 2
- Two workshop sessions
- Closing Ministry Time
Every participant will have the opportunity to attend all four workshop offerings. Lunch is on your own both days.
What are two days worth if they change the way you understand the journey?
The value of Into the Calm is not simply the number of sessions. It is the integration: theology and neuroscience, worship and practice, understanding and embodied experience, personal care and relational connection.
- Two full days of teaching, worship, ministry, and experiential learning
- Core teaching on anxiety, present-moment awareness, nervous-system regulation, identity, attachment, and values
- Access to all four practical workshops
- A comprehensive participant guide for reflection, notes, and continued practice
- Tools you can use personally and, where appropriate, in caring for others
- Space to encounter God in the middle of the journey—not after you have it all figured out
Before you register
Do I have to be a counselor or caregiver to attend?
No. The seminar was designed first for people who personally struggle with anxiety. It is also for family and friends who support someone with anxiety, and for pastors, caregivers, counselors, and health practitioners.
Is this a clinical treatment seminar?
No. Into the Calm is educational and formational. The seminar integrates theology, spiritual direction, pastoral care, behavioral science, and neurobiology, but does not cover diagnosis, medication management, or clinical protocols such as EMDR.
Will I have to choose between workshops?
No. The 2026 schedule is designed so every participant can attend all four workshop offerings.
What about lunch?
Lunch is on your own both days. The daily schedule runs until 5:00 PM.
What should I expect spiritually?
The seminar is intentionally Christ-centered and includes worship, ministry time, spiritual practices, and repeated invitations to experience the presence of the Lord while engaging the material.
You do not have to wait until anxiety disappears to begin living differently.
Come learn what may be happening beneath the anxiety, practice ways to meet your mind and body with greater awareness and compassion, and make room for the peace and presence of Christ in the journey.
Join Us in Ashland — $299
