Professional Training
The Unwanted Guide Training is designed for leaders who want to better equipped to serve clients and parishioners facing sexual difficulties.
Are you a therapist, coach, or ministry leader who didn’t receive the training you needed about unwanted sexual behaviors during graduate school or seminary?
The Unwanted Guide Training
Will help you better understand your sexual story so you can better serve others. We believe that the leader can take anyone further than they have been themselves.
Why Choose the Unwanted Guide Training?
Throughout the training, you will receive thirteen weeks of intensive group consulting led by Jay or a licensed supervisor from Jay’s experienced team. Benefit from their wealth of knowledge and practical insights as they guide you through the process of becoming a skilled leader in addressing unwanted behaviors.
Additionally, you will receive:
- Personalized Support: As part of the program, you will have the opportunity to engage in two 50-minute consultations with your dedicated trainer. This one-on-one time allows for tailored guidance and feedback, ensuring that you receive the individualized support necessary to excel in your leadership role.
- Comprehensive Resources: Gain access to a range of valuable resources that will enhance your learning experience. The Sexual Behavior Self-Assessment provides a valuable tool to assess and understand various aspects of sexual behavior, while The Unwanted Digital Workbook offers practical exercises and strategies to implement with those you guide. Additionally, The Journey Course, valued at $275, provides in-depth content and insights that can be seamlessly integrated into your practices.
- Continued Growth: As a participant in the Unwanted Guide Training, you will also receive VIP access to future coaching consultations with Jay. This ongoing support ensures that you can continue to refine your skills and stay updated on the latest techniques and methodologies in guiding others through their unwanted behaviors.
Take your leadership skills to the next level. Become an empowered and highly compassionate leader in guiding others through their unwanted behaviors.
What Others Say About the Unwanted Guide Training
“The Unwanted Guide training was distinctively different from every program I have ever done because it was so personal. We did not just receive information. We underwent excavation. We did not just learn facts. We learned how to love ourselves and one another. Unlike other programs, this one actually requires you to enter death and resurrection. It actually transforms you.”
– Drew
“This training was much more personal, in-depth, practical, and hands-on than any other training I have been through in the past.”
– Chrystie
“Experientially the best group experience ever for me. It’s changed my perspective on group dynamics and counseling.”
– Justin
In this one-day training, Jay equips pastors and leaders to address sexual brokenness in the church and foster a culture of healing and wholeness.
57% of pastors have faced unwanted sexual behaviors.
1 in 3 marriages will be scarred by infidelity.
2/3 of church-going men struggle with pornography.
Full-Day, Interactive Church Training
Spend a full day learning how to lead your church to freedom from sexual brokenness with biblically sound and trauma-informed strategies. Jay’s in-person training addresses:
- Most pastors only receive one class in seminary on human sexuality. Pastors deserve to be confident and equipped to help others.
- By not addressing human sexuality, churches are allowing secular culture to be the primary sex educator and missing opportunities for discipleship.
- Jay’s training not only addresses unwanted behaviors, but goes further upstream to foster a healthier church culture.
Jay Stringer is a licensed therapist, ordained minister, and author of the award-winning book Unwanted: How Sexual Brokenness Reveals Our Way to Healing. His practical, redemptive message has helped churches across the country lead healthier, more honest conversations around sexuality. Churches are seeing real transformation, with individuals and entire congregations experiencing lasting freedom and hope.
Jay Stringer has trained leaders at:
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Sexually Healthy Theology:
- The Image of God
- How Church history has had a troubling and nervous relationship with desire and sexuality
- The role of evil
What Leaders Need to Know:
- How our story shapes the roles we now play
- Transference and Countertransference within pastoral leadership
- Abuse of power vs. emotional affairs
- Trauma-informed pastoring, teaching, and leading
- Trauma
- Sexual Abuse
- Reenactment
- How to preach and teach about abuse, unwanted behaviors, and sexual health
- Policies for Reporting
- Safeguarding your church
- When to refer to licensed therapists
To Equip Adults In Your Congregation:
- The theology and neurobiology of desire
- High and low desire partners
- Key drivers of unwanted behaviors and low desire
- Prioritizing mutual pleasure, No obligation sex, Sexual health educators
To Equip Parents and Educators In Your Congregation:
- Equip Parents to Understand Their Story
- The greatest burden a child must bear is the unlived life of their parent
- What is Attachment Parenting?
- 4 S’s
- Neurobiology of desire
- Proactive Conversations
- Body image, porn, puberty, and sex
- Responsive Conversations
- Responding to cultural and societal dynamics
Q&A with Jay Stringer
*Training can be adapted to the needs of the church or denomination.
Testimonials:
“Through groundbreaking research and a heart for the Gospel, Stringer invites us to the critical task of finding hope and meaning within our sexual lives.”
Christopher West
Author, Theology of the Body for Beginners
“Jay Stringer provides not just a set of tools, but offers a story and vision for those who find themselves in dark places.”
William Struthers Ph.D.
Author, Wired for Intimacy: How Pornography Hijacks the Male Brain
“Jay Stringer offers empathetic and informed teaching on a subject which has confounded the church. Gracefully, he is showing us a path forward and bringing clarity in an otherwise confusing time.”
Kevin A Thompson
Author of Friends, Partners & Lovers
Pastor of Married Life at Bayside Church
“This book is a weapon for freedom and flourishing in a world bombarded with sexual pain and brokenness.”
Danielle Strickland
Author, The Ultimate Exodus: Finding Freedom from What Enslaves You
“Unwanted is, without rival, the best book on broken sexuality I have ever read.”
Dan B. Allender Ph.D.
Author, The Wounded Heart: Hope for Adult Victims of Childhood Sexual Abuse
In addition to the leaders & staff training, Jay Stringer can lead an all-church conference, workshop, or class the following day with topics like:
Body Talks Conference:
Empowering parents to navigate conversations about bodies, sex, and pornography.
Unwanted Workshop:
Gain a deeper understanding of unwanted behaviors, break free from sexual shame, and discover how to outgrow struggles.
The Sexual Story Workshop:
Helping adults understand desire, explore their story, and reclaim a healthy view of sexuality.
Additional Resources
Begin Your
Transformation
Join others on a journey to healing in a 3+ hour virtual workshop. Get hands-on time with Jay himself as you apply what you read
in Unwanted.
Dive Deeper Into
Your Story
Take a life-changing deeper dive into how your story is shaping your unwanted sexual behavior or betrayal trauma with 12 hours of individual coaching over 3 days.
