| Do you work with people who have been traumatized? As a pastor, social worker, therapist, lawyer, nurse or other helping
professional, would you like to enhance your skills? Receive some specific tools for healing, resiliency and renewal:
- Understand what happens when individuals are traumatized.
- Learn about the unique dynamics of traumatized communities.
- Discover the path to healing for both individuals and communities.
In this STAR I training, theory is combined with experiential learning, so the
training is integrated into practice through engaging, transforming exercises.
Trainings deal with the trauma of both natural and human-caused
catastrophes. [STAR II training, offered through Eastern Mennonite University, enables participants to lead
training workshops.] This workshop is intensive and interactive.
Participants are required to stay for the entire four days.
Seminar registration is limited to 20 participants to enhance the interactive
nature of the learning experience. All participants are expected to be open to exploring issues within a multicultural,
multi-faith group. * STAR course material is a joint effort of Church World Service and Eastern Mennonite
University’s Center for Justice and Peace-building.
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Time:
Tuesday, November 3rd through
Friday, November 6th, 2009,
9:00 am. to 5:00 pm.
Location:
The Brookfield Inn
8 W. Main Street
Brookfield, MA 01506
Phone (508) 637-1215
Cost:
$400 per person and
includes the following:
- 4 days of interactive workshop
training;
- STAR manual and handouts;
- morning refreshments and
lunch everyday.
Overnight accommodations are
available at the Brookfield Inn or
at local hotels at an additional
cost.
Who should attend:
Over 3000 participants have
come from the U.S. and many
international settings. These attendees include: Clergy, civil
and religious leaders after 9/11;
Youth workers in the devastated
Gulf Region post-Katrina;
Disaster and relief workers
world-wide; Leaders in post-war
settings; Persons supporting
returning military veterans; as
well as Psychotherapists, social
workers, nurses, mediators,
teachers, lawyers, retirees, and students.
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Program objectives:
By the end of the training, you will
be able to:
- Define types of trauma and
recognize the impact on body,
mind and spirit
- Understand the cycles of
victimhood and violence for
individuals, communities and
societies and the relationship to
unhealed trauma
- Apply the STAR model,
The Trauma Healing Journey:
Breaking the Cycles of
Victimhood and Violence to
individual and group situations
- Use new skills to address
trauma and build resilience
- Recognize compassion fatigue/
satisfaction levels in caregivers
- Identify justice needs of
survivors and offenders and
practical restorative, creative and
transformative responses to these
needs
Relate trauma work to the field
of peace-building
This workshop is facilitated by the
Rev. Dr. Beverly Prestwood-Taylor,
(The Brookfield Institute) and
the Rev. Shantia Wright-Gray
(Worcester Area Mission Society),
STAR facilitators trained through
Eastern Mennonite University’s
Center for Justice and Peacebuilding.
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"I cannot tell you the scope of significance STAR has had for me in preparing for the tasks I face leading the CoB. Time and time again, I am drawn back into my experiences in Harrisonburg to rethink a process, a conversation, a hurt, and the manner meetings proceed and find refreshed segments of my soul breaking out to lead in a new way. What a blessing". Pastor, Church of the Brethren
The Rev. Shantia Wright-Gray
Mission Educator and WAYS Coordinator for
Tthe Worcester Area Mission Society, UCC shantiawg@gmail.com
978-422-6256 home/office
508-450-2001 Cell 48 Main St.
Sterling, MA 01564 |
