Trauma Healing Awareness Session

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“Our people are acting strangely since the attacks: we don’t know what to do!”2001, Pastors in war zones

Objectives:To train church leaders to help their people:

Heal from emotional wounds,present and future

Re-engagewith Scripture & God.

Levels of Care

Psychologists & Psychiatrists

Counselors

Facilitators & Caregivers

Trauma Healing: Global

Each Trauma Healing facilitator is represented by a dot.Trauma Healing is active in some form in 56 countries.

Foundational Principles

• Grounded in Bible& mental health

• Contextualized: Translatable

• Pilot-tested

• Develop local facilitators

• Group-based & participatory

• Sustainable

Lesson Composition

Current life stories

Small & large group discussions

Skits, role plays, exercises

Reflection on culture

Learning to listen

Experiential: telling their story,laments, art exercise

Bringing pain to Christ for healing

Lesson topics

1. If God loves us, why do we suffer?

2. Heart wounds

3. Grieving

4. Children

5. Rape

6. HIV & AIDS*

7. Care for the caregiver

8. Taking your pain to the cross

9. Forgiveness

10.Reconciliation

11.Preparing for

trouble

*Supplemental topics:

6A Domestic violence

6B Suicide

6C Addictions

Product Line

Adults Children 9–13

Oral communicators

Four-step Program Model

CONVENING/ AWARENESS EQUIPPING

HEALINGCOMMUNITY OF PRACTICE

Equipping Facilitators

Community of Practice

Advanced equipping session

Practicum

Initial equipping session

Facilitator Competencies

1. Able to manage personal well-being

2. Able to work as a team

3. Understand content

4. Able to help traumatized people

5. Lead groups in a participatory way

3 types of facilitators

Master facilitators

Trainers

Caregivers

1. Program model

2. Content (contextualized)

3. Training

4. Advocacy materials

5. Database for tracking

6. Network

Churches & Organizations

Identify people to be equipped as facilitators

Integrate Trauma Healing into their ministries

Report on activities