Campaigns such as Black Lives Matter; Stop Asian Hate; Me too – all arose amidst the Pandemic. People all around us seek to feel loved and accepted. But how do we create an environment that is welcoming and safe for trauma survivors in our churches, schools, and organizations? When we discuss such difficult topics as abortion, purity, divorce, and more, how do we help trauma survivors to feel loved and accepted rather than further isolating, shaming, and silencing them?

How do we respond when someone shares their trauma with us? Join us as we learn to effectively and sensitively communicate with trauma survivors that we are their ally and advocate. Together we will explore six phrases every trauma survivor wants to hear when they confide in us.

This workshop offers several paradigm shifts for the Christian discipleship process with trauma informed care lens. Introducing biblical perspectives on trauma informed care, the presenter asserts the profound relationship between a trauma informed lens and the Gospel. Many discipleship curricula consist of cognitive learning courses focusing on behavioral changes for a Godly life. In this workshop, trauma transformed discipleship is illustrated with its emphasis on grace-oriented relationship, listening-prioritized companionship, safety-first principles, and bearing Christlikeness of the disciple-maker with their persevering servant leadership.

This workshop introduces a grant award project, “Creating Communities of Belonging” with its training curriculum and the belonging community process to support faith communities in building safe spaces and relationships where people experience being connected before corrected, sharing struggles in compassion, raising hope and resilience for the future journey together. With the trauma informed care lens, the three steps of the belonging community will be described: 1) Acceptance and Response to the Challenges, 2) Awareness and Caring for Concerns, 3) Affirmation and Empowerment with Celebrations on the Strength. 

In this workshop, we will be differentiating the unique qualities of traumatic grief, complicated grief, and normal grief, and exploring ways to help.

The Envoy Group is a national organization assisting families in crisis who have reached the end of the ability to care for their child at home. The Envoy team provides information, resources, and assistance finding qualified services to professionals, case managers, foster-care families, parents, guardians, or custodial grandparents. We specialize in faith-based collaborations and other unique or specialized requests. Helping families navigate their decision and understand the different types of care available, whether at home or in a residential treatment setting is our specialty. We also discuss ways to fund treatment that you may not know about.

This breakout we will discuss how trauma may beat us, bruise us, and bend us, but it will not break us. In this class we will learn how to be not just trauma-informed but also trauma-resilient.

In this breakout we will discuss 8 effective ways to pour back into your cup. This class is for teachers, counselors, social workers, caregivers, ministry leaders, and 1st responders. We will also discuss how to foster self-care mentally, emotionally, spiritually, financially, socially. Dr. Holt believes you can’t pour from an empty cup.

What does Trauma look like? What are the physical ailments of trauma? How can you “see” trauma? What can you do to offer support if your family member or friend suffers from trauma? Join us as we look at the effects of trauma and why understanding these affects matter to those we serve and support.

Join us in an overview of Dr. Bessel van der Kolk’s book, “The Body Keeps the Score” as we cover topics such as: how trauma reshapes the body; how trauma scars the brain and the body and how it disconnects the body from the brain. When we understand how the brain and body respond and react to trauma, we can better show up in the lives of those we love and support (and have more grace for ourselves)!

What does Trauma look like? What are the physical ailments of trauma? How can you “see” trauma? What can you do to offer support if your family member or friend suffers from trauma? Join us as we look at the effects of trauma and why understanding these affects matter to those we serve and support.

Join us in an overview of Dr. Bessel van der Kolk’s book, “The Body Keeps the Score” as we cover topics such as: how trauma reshapes the body; how trauma scars the brain and the body and how it disconnects the body from the brain. When we understand how the brain and body respond and react to trauma, we can better show up in the lives of those we love and support (and have more grace for ourselves)!

In the work that we do, we are often exposed to the trauma and stress of others. This exposure can take a toll on our mental and physical health and well-being. In this workshop, we will focus on understanding how toxic stress and trauma affect us, and how we can care for ourselves so that we can continue to serve others.

Psychological First Aid (PFA) is a skills-based intervention designed for non-clinicians who work directly with individuals and/or families. Grounded in internationally-recognized principles for serving vulnerable people, PFA teaches you how to help people in distress by assessing needs, active listening, and linking to resources. This introductory course will give you tools you can directly implement as you engage with others.

The 5 Protective Factors for Strengthening Families are key elements that help families to build stronger bonds, grow in family resilience, and avoid child maltreatment. This introductory training teaches includes the strengths-based approach, information on ACES and the effects of trauma, and presents the five protective factors with ideas on how to implement them with families.

What is the most vital quality to impact healing? It is to care. How do we care through active listening? It is more than using our ears. It’s using our eyes, our body language, and our heart! In a world where we are bombarded with so much noise, so much easily gets lost. We don’t mean to be jerks, it just happens sometimes. We let the most crucial parts of connection slip through our fingers. When we learn to actively listen, the person we are listening to experiences the power of sitting with someone during perhaps their darkest moment, and that is where healing begins- in the silence of listening. Join Kelley and listen in on ways to enrich your relationships – wherever you lead, serve, and live.

Work, home, life stress. We are all trying to rebound from something. Did you know your stress response is wired into your nervous system, making it nearly impossible to create a state of balance within your world until you know how to take back the stress and create true wellness in your own body and the world around you? Our physiological and psychological selves are intertwined and wreak havoc on each other until we know how to control both into balance. Join Kelley’s workshop to learn how to embrace the stressors around us, and overcome and thrive in the process!

God designed our mind, body and soul to heal. Join us as we share life alternating skills that you can walk away using today. Come prepared to laugh and get a little creative as we practice renewing your mind where peace transcends all understanding (Phil 4:4) in difficult seasons. Our model distills the complexity of neuroscience into simple sills and understandable concepts. This approach helps individuals understand their emotional, spiritual, cognitive, behavioral, relational and physical reaction through the lens of biology.

God designed our mind, body and soul to heal. Join us as we share life alternating skills that you can walk away using today. Come prepared to laugh and get a little creative as we practice renewing your mind where peace transcends all understanding (Phil 4:4) in difficult seasons. Our model distills the complexity of neuroscience into simple sills and understandable concepts. This approach helps individuals understand their emotional, spiritual, cognitive, behavioral, relational and physical reaction through the lens of biology.

Join us as we discuss how to end the abuse epidemic, sexualization of our children, crisis of human and sex trafficking, gender dysphoria, youth suicide rates and more. Prevention is powerful and essential to stopping something before it starts. Learn how to employ the Power Over Predators program: courses that teach children they are priceless, how to determine the lies that misdirect them and discover where their true identity comes from.

People rising out of traumatic situations need immediate care provided, but many well-intended ministries don’t make the transition to long term empowerment. Through my 8 years with Trades of Hope, a missional business that creates jobs for women rising out of poverty and human trafficking around the globe, we have seen how people desire to take back their dignity, participate in their own solutions, and partner with others to create and invest in their futures! Come hear stories of long term success, receive a variety of resources for sustainable solutions, and workshop how to improve the impact of your ministry or volunteer work. There is so much potential to reclaim hope in the way we partner with survivors to become the heroes of their own stories!

The expectation that we can be immersed in suffering and loss daily and not be touched by it is as unrealistic as expecting to be able to walk through water without getting wet.” This workshop explores how caring, supportive, long-term relationships are the antidote to the compassion fatigue and secondary trauma we experience in our everyday lives and especially in helping professions. Dive-in and explore how human connection is a primary protective factor necessary to support ourselves, each other and the workforce.

Before we can help others effectively deal with their trauma, we need to understand how our own story affects us. We’ve all experienced some level of trauma, and the more we understand it’s impact, the more effective we’ll be.

In this training we will cover an overview of trauma and how trauma affects learning and brain development as well as cover 5 effective strategies that you can’t live without from the Creators of Love and Logic® for working with children & teens through a trauma-responsive lens. These strategies can be used to de-escalate behavior and help us create environments where learning happens and kids flourish.