An invitation to the community for a special training session at St. Dunstan's

Companionship Training

September 13, 2025 from 10am – 1pm

St. Dunstan’s Episcopal Church

722 N 145th St, Shoreline WA 98133

How do you support individuals in your community who live with mental illness, insecure housing, chemical dependency, and/or trauma?

How do you move from a transactional exchange to a relational engagement?

Companionship Training supports volunteers in developing skills to listen consciously with openness, along with an awareness of limits and boundaries while sharing the journey side-by-side as a neighbor.

Companionship can look at times like accompanying, at other times simply listening.

The original training, developed by the Rev. Craig Rennebohm (author of Souls in the Hands of a Tender God ), offers an introduction and discussion of the five practices