The Wounded Heart Conference: How to Recover from Sexual Abuse
Saturday, October 4, 2025
8-3 PT | 9-4 MT | 10-5 CT | 11-6 ET
Join Dr. Dan Allender and Adam Young
for a live, virtual conference on Saturday, October 4, 2025!
What You'll Learn
- How you are setup for sexual abuse in your family of origin
- The damage of sexual abuse: betrayal, powerlessness, and ambivalence
- Why the feeling of complicity haunts survivors of sexual abuse
- What triangulation is and the power of subtle sexual abuse
- How the body responds to sexual abuse
- What the path to healing looks like: grief, rage, and blessing arousal
- What is involved in forgiveness and reconciliation.
What You'll Get
- Video replay for one year
- Outline for notetaking
- Written, self-directed exercise to help you apply the material to your particular situation.
Continuing Education Units (CEU’s) available for therapists.
Your Teachers
Adam Young
Adam Young is a therapist who focuses on trauma and abuse, and the host of The Place We Find Ourselves podcast. Adam is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) with a Master degree in Social Work (Virginia Commonwealth University) and Divinity (Emory University).
Adam is the author of Make Sense of Your Story: Why Engaging Your Story with Kindness Changes Everything. He currently serves as a Fellow and Instructor at The Allender Center. Adam lives in Fort Collins, CO, with his wife and two children.
Dr. Dan Allender
Dr. Dan Allender is the pioneer of a unique and innovative approach to trauma and abuse therapy. For over 30 years, the Allender Theory has brought healing and transformation to hundreds of thousands of lives by bridging the story of the gospel and the stories of trauma and abuse that mark so many.
In 1997, Dan and a cadre of others founded The Seattle School of Theology & Psychology, in order to train therapists, pastors, artists, and leaders to more effectively serve in the context of the 21st century. In 2011, The Allender Center was founded by Dr. Dan Allender and Rebecca Allender, MA, alongside Cathy Loerzel, MA, to cultivate healing and train leaders and mental health professionals to courageously engage others’ stories of harm.
Cost: $129
Schedule (all times PT)
8 – 8:30
The Setup for Sexual Abuse: Family of Origin Developmental Trauma
8:30 – 9:30
The Damage of Sexual Abuse: Betrayal, Powerlessness, Ambivalence
9:30 – 10:00
Triangulation and Covert Sexual Abuse
10 – 10:30
Complicity
10:30 – 11:00
Morning Q and A
11-11:30
Self Directed Exercise
11:30 – 12:30
Lunch
12:30 – 1
The Body’s Response to Abuse and Cursing the Body
1 – 1:30
What Does the Healing Process Involve?
1:30 – 2
Forgiveness and Reconciliation
2 – 3
Afternoon Q and A