Customized Trainings and Workshops

 

• Online: Short web-based trainings for Pennsylvania Housing Finance Agency’s Service Coordinators and Case Managers (June 2020), the National Association of Campus Minister (July 2020), the US National Park Service Stewardship Institute (July-August 2020), and Habitat for Humanity International (October 2020)
• Harrisonburg, VA: One day STAR-based training for International English Program instructors and staff (November 2019)
• Washington, DC: Three day STAR-based training for the US Department of the Interior's Office of Collaborative Action and Dispute Resolution (December 2019)
• Washington, DC: Partcipant in a  panel titled “Healing and Resilience: Taking a trauma-informed approach to delivering assistance” sponsored by the Peace and Security Workgroup of the Society for International Development-Washington Chapter (February 2019)
• Nairobi, Kenya: STAR I and STAR II with South Sudanese leaders, partnering with AECOM and Morningstar (September 2016)
• Arusha, Tanzania: Introduction to STAR at the Institute for Peacebuilding in Africa (IPA) with Catholic Relief Services: two days in English and two days in French (June 2017)
• Grand Canyon, AZ STAR I training with Grand Canyon National Park staff, focusing on workplace harassment (June 2017)
• Suva, Fiji: Trauma Awareness, Resilience and managing Stress with human rights, restorative justice and gender-based violence responders (September 2016)
• Summer Peacebuilding Institute:Body-Mind Practices for Building Resilience (June 2016, June 2017)
• Harrisonburg, VA: STAR Day with local refugee youth;(February 2017, December 2017, December 2019)

Research by Barry Hart, Mikhala Lantz-Simmons, and Daria Nashat steps toward defining a trauma-informed organization. According Hart and Lantz-Simmons, a trauma-informed organization:

• has staff that has received training in trauma and knows how to identify signs of trauma.
• Staff incorporates a trauma-informed framework into their interactions with clients, meaning that they understand people have stories and deserve to be treated with compassion and respect;
• creates structures so that staff can practice meaningful self-care;
• opens space for members of the organization, institution, or business to speak about stress;
• fosters a sincerely relational environment where everyone’s dignity is respected;
• provides resources for getting help for those that need it.

If your organization wants to take steps in this direction, STAR presentations (1-2 hours) and STARworkshops (1-2 days) are available upon request and are customized to meet the needs of the group. STAR frameworks and core concepts are introduced in interactive way with immediate practical applications.

Some examples of our presentations and workshops include:

• STAR for Attorneys (or development workers, religious leaders, human rights activists, teachers, etc.)
• The Impact of Trauma on the Body, Brain and Behavior
• Youth STAR
• Strategies for Trauma-Informed Organizations (Barry Hart, Mikhala Lantz-Simmons)
• Transforming Historical Harms
• Journey Home from War

To discuss possibilities and schedule, contact star@emu.edu