trauma healing awareness session [place, presenter name] [date/host]
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Trauma Healing Awareness Session
[place, presenter name]
[date/host]
“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