Ethos/ Mission
Ethos of Heart-Work
While the motivation for the work has been the love of Jesus in our lives and his healing of our pain, this course is not aimed only at Christian people and does not have evangelism as a central focus or goal. It is meant for anyone who is interested in personal growth and emotional healing. We do use the characteristics and values we believe Jesus personified and teaches and see these to be:
• love unconditionally without judgement, condemnation or rejection
• kindness
• serving others
• respect to others
• treating people with dignity
• appreciating individuality and value
We offer the Heart-Work course with enormous gentleness and the intimate realisation that each person we encounter has a history and a story that is unknown to us and that will contain many experiences of which some will have been very painful.
We take in quite a simple programme that offers opportunities for personal sharing and contemplation and we take it in with love and with commitment. God takes our limited offerings and uses them to change and transform people’s lives and sometimes the lives of their families. He does something quite different in each person and we are always encouraged and amazed to see what He does and what He accomplishes. We are enormously grateful for an opportunity to work with Him in this way and be a part of what He is doing.
Mission of Heart-Work
Heart-Work provides training for people in prisons and elsewhere so that they can become more productive in their present circumstances, and on release. This is achieved by providing resources and teaching aids and running workshops, seminars and courses, to provide life skills training and emotional support to those incarcerated and, where possible, those affected by the incarceration. The values of Restorative Justice are introduced and maintained through all the programmes.
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