Katie Mansfield, Trainer for the STAR program and Marisabel Kubiak Sanchez, Chief Executive Officer of a consulting firm focusing on international development, health, and disaster… Read more about Care Together: starting with health and wellness to help others
Katie Mansfield, Trainer for the STAR program and Meenakshi Chhabra, professor at Lesley University, talk about the ways family and historical trauma affect us and… Read more about Care Together: opening our bodies to healing historical trauma
Katie Mansfield, Trainer for the STAR program and Dr. Joy Krieder, independent trauma consultant, talk about how hurt people hurt people but we can express… Read more about Care Together: creating and breathing resilience
What does it mean to be trauma-informed and resilience-oriented? In the years since STAR began our learning and teaching journey (in response to a call… Read more about What does it mean to be trauma-informed and resilience-oriented?
Many traumagenic systems, situations and events are routinely minimized, though they generate frustration, pain and profound bodily impacts in everyday life – and affect different bodies in different ways. Below we name a few of these traumagenic – or potentially traumatic – systems, situations or events. Read more about Why are we talking about trauma?
Eastern Mennonite University professor Carolyn Stauffer is leading the development of a new Strategies for Trauma and Resilience (STAR) curriculum focused on sexual harms. The… Read more about ‘Changing the Narrative on Sexual Harms’
Bringing a new sense of justice to multiple city venues – neighborhoods, courts and prisons, schools and more – is a challenge that requires focus,… Read more about Peacebuilder of the Year: Annette Lantz-Simmons MA ’09
FOR 15 STUDENTS participating in a resilience training at Eastern Mennonite University, one role-play activity hit close to home. The small-group skits invited them to… Read more about High School Refugees Learn From STAR Training
More than two decades after the war that tore apart the former Yugoslavia, the scars remain. Memorials and ruins stand as physical reminders of the conflict… Read more about STAR staff, CJP alumni and faculty aid in Sarajevo conference
Trainings: STAR has facilitated three Level I trainings so far in 2016, and we are gearing up for more STAR at the Summer Peacebuilding Institute.… Read more about What is happening at STAR?