McCormick’s Trauma Healing Initiative is focused on developing a model for creating a trauma-informed, healing -centered culture within theological education institutions. It also aims to deepen relationships with faith communities and community partners to provide them with resources that can help them respond to institutional, historical, collective, and personal trauma among their constituents.

Micro-Credential in Community Healing Practices (MCHP)

The Trauma Healing Initiative at McCormick Theological Seminary’s MCHP program aims to equip faith leaders and community practitioners
with trauma-informed and healing-centered practice. Teaching and learning are anchored in the following:

  • Restorative Justice (RJ) philosophy and methods that can create, hold, and sustain communities

  • Knowledge sharing and skill development in practices that nurture resilience and post-traumatic growth in community

  • Theological reflection on the challenges of trauma, healing, and restoration

  • Executive coaching to support learners as they introduce and explore trauma-informed and healing-centered practice in their contexts


    REGISTRATION IS NOW CLOSED FOR THE 2024/25 MCHP COHORT

A Unique Learning Community


The MCHP brings learners together with faculty from the fields of pastoral care, practical theology, Bible, restorative justice practitioners, trauma specialists, and executive coaches to create the MCHP’s unique programming. We seek to gather a cohort with diverse experiences and a wide representation of communal experiences of trauma and commitments to healing.

The design of the MCHP programming is built on a strength-based approach — without assumptions of prior theological/trauma training or familiarity with Restorative Justice practices. The MCHP programming is designed to build baseline knowledge within the context of relationship building that is central to forming a learning community in trauma-informed and healing-centered ways.

We invite community practitioners, activists, organizers, clergy, lay leaders, and current seminary learners to form the first cohort of 20 participants for the Micro-Credential in Community Healing Practices for the 2024-2025 academic year.

MCHP PROGRAMMING

The MCHP programming is designed to run across a single academic year (Fall-Summer).

Participants who complete the 4 MCHP programming units will be granted a Micro-Credential in Community Healing Practices through the Trauma Healing Initiative (THI) at McCormick Theological Seminary.

💡A Special Note About Unit 4 — I 408: Introduction to Trauma, RJ, and the Bible: As a course approved for the Master’s degree programs at McCormick Theological Seminary, participants who successfully complete this course will attain Masters-level credit for this course.

For the pilot launch of the MCHP in the 2024-2025 academic year, we will be offering all of the programming units in-person at McCormick Theological Seminary with coaching sessions delivered via Zoom.

TUITION & FEES

If you have any questions about the admissions process or to learn more about McCormick Theological Seminary,
please contact Rev. Dr. Leslie Díaz-Pérez, Sr. Director of Enrollment.