What is the Beginning Experience?
The Beginning Experience is a weekend program designed
to help those people who have suffered trauma through
separation, divorce, relationship loss, death,
or other grief-filled experience.
B.E. is an aid in making a new beginning in life
through a powerful, intense experience of self-awareness.
This program helps people deal with the
psychological grief process, and offers an opportunity
for turning pain into grace. In addition to having
experienced the trauma of separation events,
often divorced and widowed persons see themselves as
standing on the periphery of the church,
like unwanted and unloved children.
The Beginning Experience is a unique Christian
experience open to people of all faiths.
Mission
The Beginning Experience is an international peer ministry
for divorced, separated, and widowed persons.
The B.E. weekend is the foundation of the ministry.
The weekend is an invitational process intended to help resolve
grief, promote healing, and
thereby free people to live and to love
themselves, others, and God.
The Beginning Experience is an international organization,
headquartered in South Bend, Indiana,
with more than 140 teams in the United States,
Canada, England, Ireland, Scotland, Australia,
and New Zealand. You can access
The Beginning Experience web site at:
www.beginningexperience.org
Please tell others about this ministry.
What happens on a B.E. weekend?
A trained team leader guides participants through
a program consisting
of:
Presentations by the team.
Personal, private, written reflection.
Confidential dialogue in small groups.
Note: The small groups, led by team members,
provide a warm and supportive community,
through a simple, non-threatening method of dialogue.
The weekend is a time for:
Reflecting
Sharing
Growing
Schedule
B.E. weekends are scheduled several times each year
in the spring, summer, and fall. Please revisit
this site periodically for upcoming schedules.
Each weekend program begins Friday evening
and ends Sunday afternoon.
The cost of the weekend is approximately
$140 per person. This includes room and board.
If you are unable to pay the full amount
before the weekend, time payments can be arranged.
In case of financial distress, partial scholarships
may be available, just let us know.
We want everyone who is ready, and would like
to join us on the weekend to be able to.
B.E. team leaders
Can you tell me something about
the B.E. team leaders?
The team leaders are men and women
who are divorced, separated, or widowed.
They have experienced the weekend and
have completed a special training program
to prepare them for this ministry.
We are NOT professional counselors.
 The cross symbolizes
our
- identification as Christians
- with Christ's death
- and resurrection.
- The anchor
- symbolizes hope.
- The rising sun symbolizes
- the beginning of a new day.
Are you ready?
When is the time to make a B.E. weekend?
Ask yourself these questions:
Q: Have I passed through the initial stages of anger and helplessness?
Q: Is there any unfinished business in my emotional life that I need
to deal with?
Q: Am I willing to confront my feelings and work toward a new beginning?
If your answers is yes to all the above questions
and after reading this brochure you feel ready to participate
in the next weekend then complete the BE application form by
clicking on the application bar below
then call 202-298-9717
and leave a message with your name and phone number and
let us know that you have sent a completed form via email.
To Find the BE Team in Other States
& to read more about the history
of Beginning Experience go to:
beginningexperience.org
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