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An event exploring Christian healing is to take place in St Asaph Cathedral next month. The day is open to everyone and will include experts on Christian healing, deliverance ministry and Jungian ideas. It is being organised by the Diocese of St Asaph’s Spirituality Group and aims to encourage people to both benefit from healing and to practise it. The Director of Spirituality for the diocese is Revd Dr Sally Harper. She said: “The event, Exploring Wholeness and Healing, takes place in the Cathedral on Saturday 9 September from 10am–4.30pm. It will focus on both wholeness and healing as Christian healing ministry has a much wider concern than individual recovery from physical illness. It includes mental health, spiritual health and the healing of communities. The event is free and open to anyone. We hope it will be an inspiring and informative day.”Among the speakers is a priest from a well-known healing church in London, Revd Katy Hacker Hughes. She is based at St Marylebone Healing and Counselling Centre which has a well-established tradition of wholeness, healing and deliverance. Also speaking is Revd Linda Mary Edwards, a retired priest in the Diocese of St Asaph who is also a Jungian analyst. She will be speaking on how Jungian ideas of individuation or wholeness correspond to a Christian approach to healing. Sally added: “Christianity has a long tradition of offering healing ministry, anointing and the laying on of hands. In Christian ministry, healing refers to our belief that God’s purpose for us all is a life of wholeness, as expressed in the life and teaching of Jesus Christ. We believe that prayers for healing are complementary to the work of medicine and other forms of healing, such as psychotherapy.“There will be plenty of time during the day to ask questions, talk in confidence with someone and receive prayer for healing. There will be resources which people can takeaway with them too.”Free tickets for the Day Exploring Healing and Wholeness at St Asaph Cathedral on Saturday 9 September can be reserved via Eventbrite at https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/a-day-exploring-wholeness-and-healing-tickets-640405850137 The St Asaph Spirituality Group consists of eight people from different spiritual traditions and different denominations. They organise and help support a range of prayer and spirituality events across the diocese and produce prayer resources.