The impacts of trauma – generated from historical, individual, and structural harms – reverberate through families and communities. To offer trauma-informed spiritual care we need to understand the effects traumatic experiences have on our bodies, our souls, and our communities. Faith systems can offer life-giving resources or life-limiting roadblocks. Trauma-informed spiritual care works to help seekers feel safe, mourn their loss, and rebuild their communal support as they work toward a resilient and hope-filled future.

Part I: Trauma’s Effects on the Body, the Soul, and the Community

Part II: Faith after Trauma: Resources and Roadblocks

Part III: Spiritual Care Responses for Healing and Resilience

 

Facilitated by Rev. Betsy Happel 

Rev. Happel graduated with an MDiv from Eden Seminary in 2004, then served as a congregational pastor for 20 years in the United Church of Christ and Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) traditions. She currently enjoys serving as a certified spiritual director, with special focus on mentoring and companioning those in life transition.

Digital content by Rev. Kristen J. Leslie, Ph.D. 

Dr. Leslie is a feminist pastoral theologian whose research focuses on spiritual care with survivors of sexualized violence in the United States military, on college campuses, and in post-genocide Rwanda. An ordained United Methodist minister, she has served as a parish pastor, college chaplain, pastoral counselor, rape counselor, and seminary professor. She has taught pastoral care and counseling for 27 years, recently retiring from her post as the Harold Peters Schultz Professor of Pastoral Theology and Care at Eden Theological Seminary.

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