What we offer

Three hours that could change everything.

Face-to-face seminars for church communities across Ireland. Practical, biblical, and worth every minute.

Practical. Biblical. Honest.

Soul Story seminars are 3-hour, face-to-face sessions designed for church communities across Ireland. Not lectures. Working sessions built to give you something you can actually use by the time you leave.

Led by Pastor Colin Creighton: theologian, trained psychotherapist, and someone who has spent his career in classrooms, churches, and counselling rooms.

3 hours
per session
Face-to-face
at your church
All Ireland
we travel to you
BACP registered
qualified leader
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Marriage Matters

Marriage enrichment for couples who want to go deeper

Most couples don't fall out of love. They just stop understanding each other. Life gets busy. Communication breaks down. The gap widens slowly, quietly, until one day it feels insurmountable.

Marriage Matters is a 3-hour working session that gives couples the tools to understand one another more deeply, not just in theory, but in the real, messy texture of everyday life.

Grounded in biblical teaching and informed by the best of modern relational psychology, this seminar gives you practical language, honest frameworks, and time together to reset.

3-hour Saturday morning session
Led by Colin Creighton

Open to all couples: engaged, newly married, or long-established

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Parenting that Connects

Raising children through relationship, not just rules

Rules without relationship breed rebellion. Scripture is clear that children are a gift, but nobody said it would be easy to raise them well.

This seminar explores what it means to parent from a posture of connection rather than control. How do you build the kind of relationship where your child wants to come to you? How do you discipline without damaging the bond?

Rooted in the wisdom of Proverbs, the parenting model of Jesus, and current attachment research, Parenting that Connects gives you a framework you can actually use next week.

3-hour session
Led by Colin Creighton

Parents of children at any age

Family at home together

Technology & Wisdom

Helping families navigate the digital world with clarity and confidence

Your kids are being shaped by their screens, and most parents know it, but don't quite know what to do about it.

This seminar isn't about banning phones. It's about wisdom. What does the Bible say about attention, formation, and the things we allow to shape us? And how do those principles translate into real, workable boundaries for your family?

We'll look at the science of screen addiction, the theology of attention, and practical approaches to setting boundaries that stick, without turning every dinner into a negotiation.

3-hour session
Led by Colin Creighton

Parents concerned about screen time, social media, and digital culture

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Contemplation Seminar

Rediscovering prayer as embodied, everyday worship

Prayer shouldn't feel like another item on the to-do list. But for many of us, it does. Rushed, hollow, disconnected from the rest of life — something we squeeze in rather than something we enter.

The Christian tradition has always understood that we are embodied creatures. We don't escape the physical world to worship — we worship through it. This seminar is grounded in that idea: that scripture, the senses, and the rhythms of everyday life are all doorways into the presence of God.

Drawing on the rich Christian contemplative tradition, this session will equip you with practical forms of prayer that engage body and spirit alike — and show how that same tradition speaks directly to the anxieties and stresses of modern life.

3-hour session
Led by Colin Creighton

For anyone whose prayer life feels dry, hurried, or disconnected.

Colin Creighton, Soul Story founder

Emotional Wellbeing

Applying biblical truth to the real weight of emotional life

You're not supposed to just be fine. Anxiety, worry, overwhelm — these aren't signs of weak faith. They're signs of being human.

Our emotional alarm systems are wired for survival — but they don't always distinguish between the toast burning and the house on fire. This seminar draws on applied biblical truth to help you understand what your emotions are actually telling you, why they misfire, and how the wisdom of scripture speaks directly into the chaos of everyday emotional life.

Practical, honest, and grounded in real life — this session gives you language and tools to move forward, whatever you're carrying.

3-hour session
Led by Colin Creighton

For anyone who has ever felt overwhelmed and wondered if something was wrong with them.

Bring Soul Story to your church

Interested in hosting a seminar?

Soul Story travels to churches across Ireland. If you'd like to host a seminar for your congregation, we'd love to talk. Every session is tailored to your community.