Join us for the annual WNCA Spring Educational Forum as we focus on “Emotional Sustainability” as part of our WISE initiative.

Keynote Speaker: Jan Remer-Osborn, PhD. MM, MDIV

Dr. Osborn is a Dr. Osborn is a neuropsychologist at Psychological Associates of Schuylkill County. She serves on the UCC National Mental Health Network Board. Dr. Osborn has specialized in the evaluation and treatment of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, traumatic brain injury, stroke, Alzheimer’s disease, ADHD and other neurological disorders. She recognizes the value of a holistic approach and embraces this model in her practice. Currently, she is the designated pastor for New Beginnings Charge, UCC, St. Peter’s and Trinity churches in the Penn Northeast Conference.

Keynote Topic: Building Blocks of Emotional Resilience: Surviving a Pandemic

• With God, all things are possible!
• Enhancing your core strengths to survive and adapt.
• Calling on your best mind to respond to challenges
• Limiting Catastrophic thinking
• Self-coaching: turning up the positive
• Accepting change, improving your flexibility
• Tenacity and Perseverance
• Using Mindfulness to Gain Perspective
• Social support: Can’t live well without it!
• Yes, You Deserve Compassion!
• Take-home exercises to practice.

Workshops:

• “It Matters and it Doesn’t: Emotional Sustainability During COVID and Beyond for Youth and Youth Ministers
• Walking in Hope - Supporting Those in Isolation, Trauma, and Loss during This Pandemic
• Loss and Grief During the Pandemic and Beyond
• Clergy and Emotional Sustainability