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Hoe maak ek ‘n afspraak
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Portfolio: Chairman of the Board
A beautiful life in personal and corporate settings
HE Pienaar, Dr., (Managing Director): PhD Pastoral Family Therapy (UP), Research Fellow (current NWU, UFS, formerly UP)
Elmo Pienaar is the Managing Director of Coram Deo; The kind of organisation he thoroughly enjoys for allowing him the opportunity to live out both a passion for leadership, management and organisational development and also for helping individuals and families going through adversity.
When opportunity affords, through his consulting firm he engages in coaching, facilitation, and counselling in both family and organisational settings. With a story of divorce, parenting in the face of adversity has become the specialist area that chose him. He is resolute in helping families stay together or where unavoidable separating in a child-focused collaborative way.
He is a passionate father, nurturing two preteen boys which have near carte blanch in his life.
Portfolio: Chairman of the Board
AP Smith (Chairman of the Board) B.Com (cum laude), CAIB(SA), Certificate in Pastoral Narrative Therapy (Unisa) (cum laude)
E Bester, (Director portfolio: Operations Team)
Passing grade twelve with distinctions, Rentia boldly decides to enter the financial world immediately. At Sanlam she receives in-service guidance from actuaries. In this period she manages the accounting of the Actuary Society of South Africa. She serves as Executive Secretary simultaneously for five of the actuaries during the time of Jack van Wyk and Marinus Daling.
Hereafter she enters the banking industry with Absa (at the time Volkas) being head hunted by the employee manager. This affords her further experience in pension funds, the money market, property, and employee management.
She joins Oosterlig congregation in 1991, digitising and modernising financial systems, and where she currently is operations manager.
Her director’s portfolio encompasses the Coram Deo operations team.
CJ Janse van Rensburg, Emer. Prof., (Alumni), Advanced Certificate in Pastoral Narrative Therapy (Unisa)
Francois Wessels, Dr., (Supervision and Counsellors): PhD Pastoral Counselling; MSc Mathematical Statistics and Probability
C Beukman (Director Portfolio: Finances): BCom (Honours) Accounting | Chartered Accountant South Africa
N Müller, Ds. BA; BTh & Licentiate; MTh-Ministry practice (Director portfolio:’Hart-Aksie,’ Material Need and Social Services)
Working in front and behind the curtains to make it happen
Operations, project management, student connect
Administration, office, student/client hospitality
Theologian | New Testament Scholar
Pastoral Narrative Therapist | Lecturer
Leraar | Berader | Dosent
Pastoral Narrative Therapist | Lecturer
Narrative therapist, theologian, and lecturer
Theologian | New Testament Scholar
From sacred stories to practical living
Peter Nagel is a theologian and has held post-doctoral fellowship positions at a number of universities – currently at the University of the Freestate.
He has a wide interest in the power of stories and is a director at Scriptorium Research and Storytelling NPC  He has a passion to give account of ancient stories in a practical and existentially meaningful way.
He is a keen technology-/ and entrepreneur enthusiast and lives with his wife and children in the enigmatic Cradle of Humankind area, South Africa.
Some of his scholarly work can be seen here.
Pastoral Narrative Therapist | Lecturer
Nicole Dickson is passionate about narrative practices and the spiritual formation/pastoral care concerns of the local congregation.  She has a desire to broaden the ways in which these practices can be used to deepen personal growth, spiritual capacity and the reconciliation of cultures, relationships and conversations in our country.
At the end of 2013 Nicole was asked by Northfield Methodist Church to oversee the development of a new training Institute – the Institute for Creative Conversation.  For more than 17 years the work of Northfield’s Pastoral Care Centre has been informed by Narrative ideas and practices.  The Institute for Creative Conversation explores ways to weave narrative practices and pastoral theology into a meaningful ‘Narrative of Care’, offering narrative training encounters, workshops of learning, reading groups and conversations in order to co-construct meaningful ways of being with others in our local context, cultures and communities.
The qualification that support her work are:
MTh (Pastoral Therapy) Unisa, for which she used a pastoral narrative model for her thesis (Cum Laude)
BA Hons (Psych) Unisa
University of Pretoria & Coram Deo’s two-year Pastoral Narrative Training (Cum Laude)
She has attended many workshops and conferences on narrative ideas over the past 12 years which have included learning under Kaethe Weingarten and Stephen Madigan.
Through the Institute, she has hosted David Epston, Jeff Zimmerman & Thomas Stone Carlson in South Africa
She is a prayer guide trained through the Jesuit Institute of South Africa and facilitates days of reflection and retreats.
Nicole presented a paper ‘Creating a Narrative of Care for the work of pastoral communities’ at the SA Conference for Narrative Therapy in 2015.
Sweef altyd hoër | Soar for more
My lewensdoel is om soos ‘n lugballon te wees. En my leuse is “Soar for more”. ‘n Lugballon sweef altyd hoër. Hy wil mense help om te besef dat daar meer is as dit waarin hulle op die oomblik vaskyk. Daar is kleur- en verhale van vreugde wat geleef kan word.
Ons bly in Kaapstad. Ek was lank predikant in NG Vanderbijlpark-Suid en NG Melkbosstrand. Die Here het my geroep om nou breër as net binne gemeentegrense te werk. Ek is getroud met Amanda en ons het ‘n maatskappy met die naam “H and A Constructing Life”. Ons bied onder andere die lewensvaardigheid program BrightStar Lifeskills aan en ek spesialiseer in narratiewe berading. Dit is wonderlik om mense te bemagtig om hulle lewensdoele te mag leef.
Ek het, buiten my graad in teologie, ‘n honneurs graad in Psigologie, sowel as ‘n M.A graad in Sosiologie (narratiewe huweliksberading), asook my PhD graad in die narratiewe hantering van afwykende gedrag.
Leraar | Berader | Dosent
Na U waters van rus
Ek is ‘n kind van die Molopo uit Tosca se wêreld en getroud met Irma. Ons het drie seuns, naamlik Hardus, Krüger en Francois. Sterk familie bande en saam lag, eet, kuier en ‘n liefde vir die natuur en sport is genadiglik groot in ons familie.
Tosca Laerskool, Schweizer-Reneke Hoërskool, die PUK en toe Teologie by TUKS, en later ‘n doktorsgraad by Maties was my skoling- en akademiese paadjie. My predikant-werk het by die Dowes in Johannesburg begin, gevorder na diensplig kapelaan by Mariepskop en toe het ek die NG gemeentes Standerton-Wes (10 jr), Roodekrans (12 jr) en sedert 2006 Mosselbaai bedien.
Pastoraat en omgee vir mense was altyd my passie. Ek het dit vroeg reeds met FAMSA opleiding probeer versterk. My pad met Narratiewe terapie het in 2013-2014 begin met ‘n kursus by dr. Deon Bruwer by US se Teologie. Ek was bevoorreg om verskeie opleidingsessies van Elize Morkel by te woon. Die laaste twee jaar, sedert 2015, het die Coram Deo opleiding ‘n pastoraal narratiewe “taalhuis” van teorie en praktyk gebou waarin ek tuis kon word.
Ek werk steeds voltyds as predikant en lei veral ‘n Omgee-bediening waar begeleiding van mense in siekte en deur trauma ‘n groot deel daarvan uitmaak. My werk is egter tot ‘n groot mate iets van ‘n “GP” werk en dis vir my lekker so.
My lewensfilosofie word grootliks in Koos Dup se gebed saamgevat: “Wat is ek is, is net genade, wat ek het, is net geleen.” Die woorde daarna is ook iets van ‘n roeping vir myself en waarin ek ander sal wil begelei: “Eintlik smag ek na U waters van rus. Lei my Heer … daarheen.”
Pastoral Narrative Therapist | Lecturer
Ek het in 2004 by Coram Deo begin studeer en via rousmart en trauma berading uiteindelik ‘n tuiste gevind by mense wat vasgegvang is an afhanklikheid en ander self-destruktiewe gedrag. Ek doen graag individuele berading maar by hart lê meerendeels by groepwerk. Hou van die interaksie en verskillende perspektiewe wat in groepwerk gebeur. Die wedersydse ondersteuning en mekaar help wegbreek van die probleem is vir my wonderlik om te ervaar. Die hoop wat ou kliente skep wanneer hulle by Simcha kom kuier en hulle verhaal deel en die reaksie van die groep te ervaar is altyd heilige grond!
Ek doseer graag in Pretoria by Coram Deo en beraad ook by Coram Deo in Pretoria. Ek het in 2006 by Coram Deo berading begin doen. Bo en behalwe die probleem van verslawing lê rousmart en trauma my steeds na aan die hart. Die twee gaan ook dikwels hand aan hand.
Wat my opgewonde maak is om elke klient te sien soos geskep na die beeld van God. Presies net soos wat God beplan het en daardie klient met al die liefde in my hart te hanteer en sodoende van die stigma van verslawing ontslae te raak.
Ek glo in liefde, liefde en nog liefde! Liefde maak heel!
Narrative therapist, theologian, and lecturer
Theologian | Therapist | Lecturer
Jacob Meiring’s interest is in the development of body theology that he focused on and developed during a fellowship from various universities.
I feel about this work the way I feel about riding my motorcycle (in the words of my 5 year old grand daughter:
“Its like a smile, and a laugh, and the wind and thunder”
I came to Narrative Therapy from the nursing profession, where my area of passion was psychiatric nursing. I have been actively counselling people with a variety of problems for the better part of 35 years (since 1980). Narrative therapy made it possible for me to become more proficient in therapeutic conversations and I became so bewitched by the effects it had on people that I completed a Master and PHD in theology and religious studies with Narrative Practice as praxis.  This work also changed me as a person and continues to enrich me personally; every conversation is a rich, satisfying learning experience.
At Coram Deo I am partly responsible for the teaching of Narrative Theory and Practice, Addictions of all kinds, both substance and process addictions, as well as how to approach psychiatric disorders in socially constructed ways. Intertwined with the theory and practice of narrative therapy is the pastoral side of our work, powered by my theological and religious studies knowledges.
Due to my background and varied experience, I am particularly interested in trauma, loss, conflict in families and relationships, the effects of crime and poverty, the effects of abuse;; women’s issues, spiritual abuse and addiction, both substance and process addictions.  As a result I cant say I’m interested in a specific age group or gender or problem… I just work with people and journey along as a co-traveller, helping to untangle them from the problem power discourses in their lives
I love the challenge of every conversation; the not knowing and the co-discovery of people’s local knowledges, I love seeing the unique outcomes develop into preferred ways of being, into preferred ways of living and people becoming free from the hold The Problem has over them
Narrative therapy is a versatile approach and most counsellors would be able to deal with any number of concerns. Some topics are of special interest to them.
Eucharisteo: Leef in dankbaarheid / Live in gratitude
Ek is gebore in Zambië en het my skoolopleiding in Pretoria en  Umtata voltooi. Aan UP verwerf ek ‘n nagraadse kwalifikasie in Afrikaans-Nederlands. Werksomgewings het gewissel tussen  die uitgewerbedryf (voltyds en vryskut)  en die regsomgewing. Ek was tussendeur vir etlike jare ‘n tuisbly-mamma van drie seuns en so dankbaar vir dié voorreg wat my man, Dolf, vir my moontlik gemaak het.
In 2005-6 skryf ek in vir die Pastorale Narratiewe Terapiekursus wat deur Coram Deo aangebied word en  bly sedertdien aan as deeltydse berader. Metterjare kruis al hoe meer kliënte wat met trauma gekonfronteer is/word my pad. Ek verbreed my verstaan deur verskillende kursusse en werkswinkels (wisselend tussen 80 uur en ‘n dag) in hierdie verband by te woon. Verder probeer ek om meer te verstaan van trauma en die uitwerking van trauma op ons liggame deur baie oor trauma en trauma-verwante situasies en toepaslike navorsing te lees en te leer. Maar ek het die voorreg om geweldig baie te leer aan die voete van kliënte wat stoei met hierdie ondraaglike pyn. Ek betree heilige grond en staan verwonderd oor die stoffasie waarvan die mens gemaak is, oor die manier waarop ons Skepper ons “bedraad” het om uitdagings die hoof te bied. Ek kom ook onder die besef hoe mense se God-verhale in trauma mede-outeurs van hul verhale van veerkrag word.
‘n Paar jaar gelede is ek uitgedaag om ‘n module oor trauma te ontwikkel wat in die PNT 2-kursus aangebied word. Met baie gebed en die hulp van dr Franҁois Wessels word die kursus gebore en bied ek sedert 2013 die Trauma-module by Coram Deo aan. Dit bly ‘n taak wat mens nederig hou.
I was born in Zambia and completed schooling in Pretoria and Umtata. At the University of Pretoria I did a post-graduate in Afrikaans-Netherlands . Working experience included publishing (fulltime and freelance) and the law environment. For a number of years I was a stay-at-home mom raising three sons and I am so grateful for this privilege that my husband, Dolf, made possible for me.
In 2005-6 I enrolled for the PNT Course at Coram Deo and have been a part-time counsellor at this institution since then. As time proceeded more and more clients struggling with trauma and the effects thereof in their lives crossed my path. I decided to equip myself with more skills in this area, attending courses and workshops (varying from 80 hours to a day). In an effort to try and understand more about the workings of trauma in our lives and bodies, I expose myself to continually reading trauma-related publications and research. But one of the biggest privileges is to learn from clients struggling with the pain of trauma. I stand on holy ground and in awe at the  grit people develop, and about the way in which our Creator “hardwired” us to overcome. I also realise how people’s God-stories during and after trauma become co-authors of their stories of resilience.
A couple of years ago I was challenged to develop a module on Trauma as part of the PNT2 course. With much prayer and  inspiration from Dr Franҁois Wessels the course was birthed and since 2013 I have had the privilege to lecture the Trauma Module at Coram Deo.  It remains a humbling experience.
Open to other concerns
Cassie Carstens het ŉ Ph.D. in chemie en is ŉ senior navorsingsbestuurder in ŉ kernenergie organisasie.
Hy kwalifiseer as pastorale narratiewe terapeut in 2004 na studie by die Coram Deo Pastorale Sentrum, waar hy sedertdien as aktiewe terapeut inskakel en op weeksaande vanaf 19:00 beskikbaar is.
Voortgesette opleiding is vir Cassie van groot belang en daarom woon hy gereeld kursusse by wat deur Coram Deo aangebied word asook gevorderde kursusse wat deur David Epston en Stephen Madigan in Suid-Afrika aangebied word.
Sy hoofbelangstelling is huweliksterapie, waarbinne sy benadering sterk beïnvloed is deur sy pastorale narratiewe agtergrond en verder verryk word deur die benaderings van John Gottman, Michele Weiner-Davis en Sue Johnson (Hold me tight).
Cassie het ook ŉ besondere belangstelling in breinchemie, spesifiek chemiese wanbalanse wat aanleiding gee tot gemoedsversteurings soos depressie. Sy benadering is holisties en sluit na terapie ook oefening, oordenking en gesonde eetgewoontes en aanvullings in.
Hy is ŉ volgeling van Jesus en kies om positief te investeer in die lewens van mense.
Cassie Carstens has a Ph.D. in chemistry, and is a senior research manager in a nuclear energy organisation.
In 2004 he qualified as a pastoral narrative therapist at the Coram Deo Pastoral Centre, and has since been an active therapist at this centre. He is available during weekdays from 19:00 in the evening.
Continuous training is very important to Cassie, which is one of the reasons for his active participation in courses presented by Coram Deo as well as advanced courses by David Epston and Stephen Madigan presented in South Africa.
His primary interest is marriage counselling, where his approach has been strongly influenced by his pastoral narrative background and has been enriched by the approaches of John Gottman, Michele Weiner-Davis and Sue Johnson (Hold me tight).
In addition, Cassie has a special interest in brain chemistry, specifically chemical imbalances that cause mood disorders such as depression. He has a holistic approach and except counselling, includes exercise, reflection, diet and supplements.
He is follower of Jesus and chooses to invest positively in the lives of people.
Matters related to chemical imbalances
Verheerlik Jesus Christus, die Lig vir die wêreld
Met ‘n Christusgesindheid, familie en vriend vir almal
Hope | Grace | Sacred Stories
Verheerlik Jesus Christus, die Lig vir die wêreld
Bergsig dissipels stap al ’n amptelike pad van 1982 af met die stigting van Durbanville-Bergsig. Hiermee bring die Here nog ’n “stad op die berg” tot stand en nog “’n lamp op ’n staander” in die Koeberg-kontrei geplaas. Matt. 5 : 14-16
Lees meer oor NG gemeente Durbanville Bergsig hier
Met ‘n Christusgesindheid, familie en vriend vir almal
Ons gemeente is in die middel van die dinamiese en diverse kusdorp, Mosselbaai, geleë. Ons is oortuig van die volgende: God stuur ons om, met ‘n Christusgesindheid, familie en vriend vir almal te wees.
Ons skep daarom ruimte vir verskillende spiritualiteite, generasies en style – veral in ons drie eredienste waar almal welkom is en God die kern van ons aanbidding is.
Ons het ‘n hart vir families en wil graag alle mense en gesinne ondersteun. Ons is op ‘n kruispunt van ons dorp en daarom verbind om diens aan ons hele gemeenskap te lewer. Ons vat daarin graag hande met ander gemeentes en kerke.
Meer oor NG gemeente Mosselbaai hier.
Hope | Grace | Sacred Stories
An embracing fellowship of hope
Coram Deo in Waterkloof Glen, Tshwane/Pretoria (South Africa) is the primary location of Coram Deo Pastoral and Narrative Therapy Training Centre (‘Coram Deo Pastorale Sentrum’ NPC). From here everything is strategically coordinated with other learning campuses. Besides our learning programme in Pretoria and other places beyond the region in Pastoral Narrative Therapy and Formal Supervision (accredited with the University of Pretoria) we function as a counselling centre journeying with anyone on diverse matters ranging from trauma to relationships, to addiction, grief, loss, depression, children and adolescence, and more.
For more about us, please visit this page.
Geroep na verwondes/ Called to the wounded
Constantiakruin gemeente se gebed is dat jy geseën en versterk sal word deur die krag van Jesus Christus en dat jy ‘n lewe van oorvloed in die gemeenskap, vreugde en vryheid sal lewe. Constantiakruin Gemeente is hier vir jou.
Constantiakruin gemeente dien as leer-kampus van Coram Deo terwyl dit ook onafhanklik funksioneer as ‘n gemeente en sentrum wat uitreik na diegene van die samelewing wat verwond of verwese is. Besoek hulle hier.
Constantiakruin Dutch Reformed Church is a learning campus partner to Coram Deo in addition to functioning as an independent centre called to counsel to those who are wounded. Find them here.
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