Soul Shop - Meeting those with suicidal depression in supportive and compassionate ways.
This workshop, led by This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. and This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it., focuses on ways to enter into compassionate conversations.
Soul Shop is a movement that begins to equip individuals with experience and knowledge that can help them to commit to have the hard conversation, ask good questions, listen with their heart, and lead a person to safety. You could consider it emotional CPR - giving emergent and lifesaving care while getting them the help they need.
Please register so we have enough copies of materials available.
OLIH will be hosting a Soul Shop Training on Thursday, September 10, 2025 from 6:30-9:00pm in the Green Room. This training is open to anyone 17 years of age and older.
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Prayer of Hope
Holy Creator who provides the living breath by which we exist and creates the trees that shade and protect, give comfort and warmth, and can be used to build or destroy depending on our choices.
We pray for the harvester, who collects and processes the wood through which the twine is derived, with a calloused hand.
We pray for the weaver, who braids the rope, strengthening it through creative thoughts.
We pray for the mariner who, with the rope, binds large ships to the dock, as well as the one contemplating suicide with the same loop.
We pray for the one who unbinds the bound, both physically and mentally, socially and personally.
We pray for those who will take possession of the rope in the hope that new life may spring anew through holding a potted plant or the beauty of rustic decor.
We pray for the lives born, lived, lost, and reborn.
May your love recreate the rope that binds our hearts together.
Amen.