Healing the Healers hopes to ensure that no faith leader faces the challenge of trauma alone and without preparation or resources. The project is comprised of a series of five episodes–intimate conversations, led by Newtown’s Rev. Matthew Crebbin, between faith leaders who’ve experienced mass traumatic events in their communities and congregations. This series of five powerful, filmed conversations is a resource to prepare and inspire a sacred community of support for faith leaders. They illustrate the key themes associated with faith leader trauma – acknowledging it, examining the unique symptoms, and exploring ways to recover and move towards healing. Key themes include self-care, self-awareness, pastoral v. prophetic roles, impact on families of faith leaders, living with the stress of continual community trauma, conflict with congregation while moving through stages of trauma, re-traumatization in the face of the rising number of mass shootings, struggling with your faith in light of evil, building trauma-informed ministries, and lessons learned, or what Rev. Crebbin has termed as living with this ‘new wisdom.’
A new media resource that will be made widely available to faith leaders, seminaries, libraries, conferences and congregations.
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When mass trauma strikes, faith leaders are called upon to guide and sustain communities through the aftermath. Their role is to help us heal. But who heals the healers? healingthehealers.org #HealingtheHealers @HTHSeries
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.@HTHSeries is a new media resource from @OdysseyImpactNY that supports clergy, laity, social workers, first responders and other spiritual care providers facing community-level trauma. Learn more at healingthehealers.org #HealingtheHealers
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.@HTHSeries is a new series that explores the effects of trauma on faith leaders who serve communities during times of grief and helps to prepare students + other spiritual care providers who may be faced with such events in the future. healingthehealers.org #HealingtheHealers
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They’re the people who help communities heal after horrific events — clergy, laity, first responders, and social workers who give hope. But who helps these brave men and women through their own emotional trauma? Discover @HTHSeries: healingthehealers.org #HealingtheHealers
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.@HTHSeries is an ongoing journey to help clergy, laity and emergency responders understand the long-term effects of the trauma they face when they support communities that encounter unimaginable grief. Learn more at healingthehealers.org #HealingtheHealers
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9/11. Sandy Hook Elementary. Ferguson, Mo. These tragedies have something in common: Brave community and faith leaders who helped the grieving find peace. But who heals the healers? healingthehealers.org #HealingtheHealers
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