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MOST POPULAR RELATIONSHIPS ARTICLES & PODCASTS

These links re RELATIONSHIPS have been the most read/ listened to/ shared for years.
ANGER ARTICLE - Many have read, hated, loved, and forwarded this surprise perspective on a much-cherished emotion.  Here's another chap.  Violence/ Sexual Assault here.  Here's Neurobiology of anger as addiction.
HOW TO PREDICT YOUR RELATIONSHIP FUTURE - This entertaining seminar has tons of terrifying research that has been proven to directly predict divorce/ relationship breakdown and directly save marriages. Diagnostic radiotherapy. (Yes, Dx Rx!).  If u liked, try PART 2
PORN, PROSTITUTION, LUST & ADULTERY are NOT SEX ISSUES AT CORE! - Stay enslaved by using normal language.  Get free by using far more interesting and accurate descriptions.  Porn Effects Research.  19 drivers.  Porn meanings, with links to chase.
VERBAL ABUSE is fine art because it appears to be talk of love, care and concern...
TRAUMA & MEMORY.  Dad v Jesus.  Paedophile v Jesus.
2 HEALTH-CHECK SCORESHEETS: a BEAUTIFUL vs. UGLY Marriage.  Rate yours and also rate your parents.  The #1 predictor of how we treat our spouse is what we witnessed before teens!
MARRIAGE, SIN, GOSPEL - a wedding sermon.
FORGIVENESS requires accusation & repentance says Jesus!  & 1, 2, 3.
DIVORCE THEOLOGIES EXPOSED - Get shocked about what the bible actually teaches against common Christian doctrines of divorce!  Short sharp version here, deeper foundation here.  Hebrew & Greek basis here.  New Greek Discovery.  See also great web articles re marital abuse-divorce: A, B & C.  Domestic Violence here.  Why do Men DV? free book here.

AO's Latest Talks (Podcasts & Videos)

Jesus & Woman at Well. Joseph in Gen44. Believing Thomas. Mk 10 Jesus4Wives&Kids. No, Mr. Eggerichs, Men don't need Respect, B, C. John20 Passover~Betrothal~Communion Romance, needs these slides.  Jesus as Hercules. Wild Apologetics vid/ podcast. 'Missions' hid in OT1&2. Father loves Son. Crazy Paul & Luther Romans 1. Jesus the Hypocrite. Human Nature Counselling Course Oct18 4x50mins: Romance & Dragons;  Symptoms & Psychobabble;  Betrayers & Pretenders;  Atonement & Wedding.  Same 4 talks but 40% longer @ Bullcreek Apr19: doc 1 2 3 4.  Gospel of John ch18-20 Passion '19: Arrest, Trial, (+note), Crucifixion, Resurrection.

My Four Monster Project/ Books

THE SEVEN STREAMS OF GRACE
Imagine if Shakespeare wrote every single play to create one single super-story that he revealed in his final play... 
God did exactly that with the bible.  These 100 artworks and teaching sheets show how everything in the bible goes directly with every other thing and makes total sense.  The 'Seven Streams of Grace' is a poster curriculum seminar video book audio and a few other things here.  It is a whole Biblical Theology education in art, whereas its sister project... is below:

THE DAILY GRACE CATECHISM
'The Daily Grace Catechism', is a music album delivering whole Systematic Theology education in song... here.

WHOLE BIBLE PRAYER COMMENTARY
This blog has my scribbly letters to God about every verse in the bible.  Read some for proof that there is not a single boring page in the bible ;-)  When I take photos of every page and upload it it will be at OlsenPrayerCommentary

THE BIBLE GENOME PROJECT
This blog stores many of the chiasms I & others have found in the bible, and links to the chiastic videos I have posted on YouTube (search 'BGP Chiastic Chiasm").   BibleGenomeProject

Human Nature and Relationships Training Course

Human Nature & Relationships

These workshops will help you to more fully understand yourself, figure out what people are really up to, help you with difficulties you might have, and equip you to better understand and help others.
The course will explain the conflicting forces that drive people (you) to create or destroy mental, emotional, and relational health, in ourselves and others.
 

"If way to the better there be, it exacts a full look at the worst." - Thomas Hardy

Competing explanations and solutions from Psychology, Psychiatry, and the Bible will be exposed.
 

The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately sick;
who can understand it? - Jeremiah 17:9
 

Participants often find this tour fascinating, shocking, embarrassing, and thrilling.

"All perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this little hand." - Lady Macbeth
 

You will gain deeper understandings of God, Scripture, yourself and others, cultural and personal lies, and especially of Jesus and the Gospel.

'The world is made up of stories, not atoms." - Muriel Rukeyser.
 

If you are a Counsellor/ Pastor/ Chaplain, you will find this the most challenging, provocative, counter-cultural, sophisticated, and theologically robust training material you can find in Perth.

Venue:          Online Video Conference
Times:           7:30pm - 9pm
Dates:           5th May – 23rd June 2020
Cost:             $180 -
                     with $40 discount if you bring someone new to these workshops.
                     Group Discount for 5 people is $30 off.
                     Covid poverty calculation for individuals in financial hardship: 
                     change the costs above while praying, 
                     then pay that amount and don't tell me.

Registration:  Send a copy/ screenshot of your payment to
                     AndrewOlsenMail@gmail.com
Payment:       Andrew Olsen. BSB 736302 Account 597801

This course is a companion course to ‘Redemptive Conversations Learning Groups’ in which we practice the things learned in the Human Nature course.  One of these groups meets on Monday evenings, another on Wednesday mornings.  They run for the same 8 weeks in each term.  Click here for more information.

Redemptive Conversations Learning Groups

Redemptive Conversations Groups

Group 1 is on Mondays 7pm, Group 2 is on Wednesdays 9:30am

We talk about family, God, school, history, struggles, counselling theory, childhood, culture, abuse, relationships, theology, memory, scripture, you name it.  Every week you will be part of the deepest and best conversations of someone's life.  Folks say they feel found, heard, seen, understood, and profoundly changed, and most sign right up to do it again the next term.  Just imagine being truly heard, and listening with deeper engagement than ever.  Wholesome intimacy is transformative. 
 
These groups are run by Andrew Olsen who counsels (here) and teaches (here).  They run from weeks 2-9 of School Terms.  This one starts 3rd & 5th May 2020.  

These groups are highly unique in at least two ways:

1. We learn how to have deep and redemptive conversations by having them.  Everyone contributes to and experiences the group equally by taking turns at being the speaker and the listener/ the client and the counsellor/ the story teller and the journalist.
2. The teaching/ learning curriculum content is delivered entirely ‘live’ - learning by seeing and experiencing it.  However, there are no role-plays, we just talk about real things that are on our hearts.  

If you come, you will develops maps of:

• how soul health and disorders are created, maintained, and repaired.
• how to get from A to B to C to Z in a conversation/ counselling session/ relationship.
• how our ways of living and relating with God and with others are deeply connected. 
• how the gospel relates deeply to the realms of mental health and trauma, suffering and sin, repentance, healing and hope.

You will leave with:

• a more effective map of your soul and all souls
• direct experiences of profound and effective conversations and counselling
• increased personal capacity for wholesome intimate relationships

Venue:          Online Video Conference
Times:           Monday Nights 7pm - 9:30pm.  Wednesday Mornings 9 - 11:30.
Dates:           3rd/5th May – 22nd/24th June 2020 - 8 Weeks.
Cost:             $400 -
                     with $100 discount if you bring someone new to these workshops.    

                     Financial Hardship: change the costs above while praying,  

                     then pay that amount and don't tell me.

To register, please send your phone # and proof of payment to AndrewOlsenMail(at)gmail.com 

Payment goes to Andrew Olsen, Westpac Bullcreek, BSB 736302, Account 597801. 

We agree to meet for 2+ hours each week.  We usually go for 3, and sometimes nobody will leave when we finish ;-)  We do still meet on Public Holidays.

This course is a companion course to ‘Human Nature & Relationships’ training course in which the counselling model, theory, and theology behind these groups is explained.  One of these courses is being taught on Tuesday evenings.  They also run for 8 weeks in each term.  Click here for more information.  Email for particular questions here.