Trauma Healing Initiative
The goal of the Trauma Healing Initiative is to advance McCormick Theological Seminary’s institutional mission and educational strategies through a trauma informed and healing centered approach to facilitate clergy formation, disposition and skill development in order to equip clergy and faculty with the capacity to respond to the communal and systemic nature of trauma.
A Trauma Healing Initiative website will launch soon. In the meantime, please check out our resources below or previous programming on McCormick’s On Demand page. If you are interested in receiving news and updates from THI, subscribe to our email list below. Thank you.
Trauma Symposium
This is the first of a planned series in which we are partnering with the Presbytery of Chicago to offer continuing education to local pastors, lay persons and community leaders who desire support in their work to respond to trauma in the Chicagoland area.
Videos of presentations and any supplemental materials will be added as they are completed.
April 9: Connecting COVID, Trauma and Mental Health
Additional resources: How Tos of Trauma Informed Practice; Why COVID Triggers Mental Health, Trauma Powerpoint.
April 16: Vulnerable Children in Times of Heightened Stress
Additional Resource: Child Abuse Prevention and Resilience
April 23: COVID Grief Is Different
Additional Resources: Digital Pastoral Care for Grief: Individual & Collective
Covid Grief is Different
Healing Grief Circle
Toure - Communla Grief and Lament
April 30: Health & Immunity
May 7: Financial Trauma
Additional Resources: Values and Vision Handout
Fiscal Trauma
Financial Resources - Chicagoland Area
May 21: Food Insecurity
Additional Resource: Food Repository Resources
June 4: Part One - Now What? Disaster Recovery in Times Like These
Part Two - Phases of Disaster
June 18: 2nd Waves: Disaster Preparedness for the Long Haul
July 16: When Trauma Changes You
Teresa Mateus - www.tracc4movements.com
Leah Amaral - @leahamaral (instagram)
Leah Amaral Presentation: Art Therapy
August 6 and 20: Resilient Children & Parents
September 3 and 17: Care in Movement Building
October 1 and 15: Mass Incarceration
Co-sponsored by McCormick Theological Seminary, AAAS/DoSER, and The Presbytery of Chicago.
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