On the following page are details of our ‘Very Good Friends’!
We welcome links from all like minded organisations.
Do ask Site Manager to update of your data if required.
Please understand that The Guild of Health Ltd can accept no responsibility for any consequence of any contact made with these organisations.
OUR BEST OF FRIENDS..!
St Marylebone Healing & Counselling Centre
Contact: Veronica Byrom
17 Marylebone Road, London NW1 5LT
Tel: 020 7953 5066 healing@stmarylebone.org www.stmarylebone.org.
The Centre offers a number of approaches to healing:
Professional Counselling and Psychotherapy
Mental Health Support Group
Spiritual Direction
Healing Prayer.
Also available are:
Conferences about psychotherapy and religion
Arts and Spirituality workshops
A consultation service for health professionals
Supervision Groups
Counselling and Psychotherapy can help us
come to terms with the past
understand our feelings and reactions better
overcome relationship problems
find our own way into the future
At St Marylebone we offer one session each week for up to two years. Each session lasts 50 minutes. For further information, and to arrange an initial consultation, do please e-mail the Centre Manager.
The Mental Health Support Group offers:
friendship and understanding,
an opportunity to talk about what matters, including faith issues;
a chance to help others.
The Group meets on the first and third Fridays of each month from 11.45 – 12.15 pm.
Spiritual Direction offers:
a 1-2-1 relationship where you can:
explore your life in relation to your faith;
discover new ways of praying and meditating;
develop your personal spirituality
Healing Prayer
Healing is about making a connection between our needs and God’s love.
There is a service of Prayer for Healing on the first Sunday evening of each month.
Healing Prayer is offered at the 1.10pm Eucharist on the third Wednesday of each month.
An informal healing prayer group meets at 2.30pm on the first Friday afternoon each month.
Current Conferences
To obtain details of our current programme, please go to:
Health Professionals often work under intense pressure and may be repeatedly exposed to disturbing and traumatic situations.
Our consultation service provides a confidential opportunity for personal stock taking, and also a chance to explore the spiritual resources needed for survival.
Professional Development Groups
We run Supervision Groups for counsellors and psychotherapists, and also for clergy who want a confidential space in which to reflect on the personal and professional issues raised by their work.
(The Guild of Health is a co-sponsor, with St Marylebone Parish Church, of the St Marylebone Healing & Counselling Centre)
Being Alongside
Formerly: Association for Pastoral Care
in Mental Health
Contact: Mark Dadds (Secretary),
St Paul’s Church Centre, 3 Rossmore Road,
London NW1 6NJ
Tel: 0207 724 8517
Being Alongside (aka The Association for Pastoral Care in Mental Health ) is a Christian based, voluntary association of individual members and affiliated groups who recognise the importance of spiritual values and support in mental health. It has a network of supporters throughout the United Kingdom and it welcomes and encourages people whatever their own faith or belief system.
Governed by its National Committee, BA is primarily concerned to promote and encourage "being alongside" people experiencing mental or emotional distress. We hope to encourage local initiatives in faith communities in order to support and empower mental health service users.
Our Vision is that faith communities should be:
* places where people belong and in that belonging mental health needs are recognised and met.
* places where mental health needs encourage people to come together and also challenge, enlighten and enrich the community.
* places where we recognise that action needs to be taken to achieve this vision, so that people with mental health problems take their rightful place in inclusive communities where we all learn from each other.
Mental health difficulties cross all boundaries of race, creed, sexuality, status or disability.
Project for spirituality, theology and health at Durham university
http://www.dur.ac.uk/spirituality.health/
Within Christian churches, and in many other faith communities, there is much interest in spiritual healing. This has taken the form, variously, of prayer and services for healing from diseases and conditions of all kinds, as well as an interest in "talking cures" such as counselling, and interest in meditation and other spiritual practices. There are currently a variety of publications available on these topics, and a major report from the Church of England, A Time to Heal, was published only 10 years ago. Despite this, there is still a need for a much better theology of healing, one which is more fully integrated with an understanding of the medical and scientific issues at stake.
The Project for Spirituality, Theology & Health (PSTH) at Durham University was established in 2005, by agreement between the Department of Theology & Religion and the School for Health, to further inter-disciplinary research in spirituality, theology and health, and especially to engage theological research findings with clinical practice.
Aims of the Project
1. To promote interdisciplinary research and teaching within Durham University and further afield in the subject areas of spirituality, theology and health.
2. To contribute to discussion and policy process in the churches and other religious communities as well as within the health and social care services.
In 2009 the Project for Spirituality, Theology & Health received a grant to be awarded over three years from the Guild of Health. The Guild has been working in the field of Christian healing and wholeness for over a century and has a concern, shared with the Durham Project for Spirituality, Theology & Health, to bring together medical professionals and clergy in exploring practices of spiritual healing and the understanding of well-being. The Project and the Guild look forward to working together closely over the coming years.
Burrswood Christian Hospital
Groombridge,
Tunbridge Wells,
Kent.
TN3 9PY
01892 863637
From Burrswood’s web site:
For many who come here, Burrswood is a place of breakthrough where lives are transformed through a fresh encounter with the love of God. Typical of this encounter is: an experience of healing, a renewal of faith and a gift of hope.
Our vision, drawn from the commission of our founder Dorothy Kerin, is “To see the sick healed, the sorrowing comforted, wholeness restored and faith inspired, all in the name of Jesus Christ.”
This is worked out through
* Our 40-bed non-surgical independent Hospital
* Our Burrswood Therapy Suite & Outpatient department for physiotherapy, hydrotherapy, counselling, massage and medical outpatients
* Our Church of Christ the Healer where regular healing services are held.
Left: Mention needs making of the beautiful grounds. More pictures in the Gallery.
Rev’d Chris MacKenna,
Centre Director & Chaplain to The Guild of Health
Professor Chris Cook,
Project Director
