The Little Book of Trauma Healing: Revised & Updated
When Violence Strikes and Community Security Is Threatened
Published on 2. June 2020
120 pages
978-1-68099-636-4 (ISBN)
Description
How do we address trauma, interrupt cycles of violence, and build resilience in a turbulent world of endless wars, nationalism, othering, climate crisis, racism, pandemics, and terrorism? This fully updated edition offers a practical framework, processes, and useful insights.
The traumas of our world go beyond individual or one-time events. They are collective, ongoing, and the legacy of historical injustices. How do we stay awake rather than numbing or responding violently? How do we cultivate individual and collective courage and resilience?
This Little Book provides a justice-and-conflict-informed community approach to addressing trauma in nonviolent, neurobiologically sound ways that interrupt cycles of violence and meet basic human needs for justice and security. In these pages, you'll find the core framework and tools of the internationally acclaimed Strategies for Trauma Awareness and Resilience (STAR) program developed at Eastern Mennonite University's Center for Justice and Peacebuilding in response to 9/11. A startlingly helpful approach.
The traumas of our world go beyond individual or one-time events. They are collective, ongoing, and the legacy of historical injustices. How do we stay awake rather than numbing or responding violently? How do we cultivate individual and collective courage and resilience?
This Little Book provides a justice-and-conflict-informed community approach to addressing trauma in nonviolent, neurobiologically sound ways that interrupt cycles of violence and meet basic human needs for justice and security. In these pages, you'll find the core framework and tools of the internationally acclaimed Strategies for Trauma Awareness and Resilience (STAR) program developed at Eastern Mennonite University's Center for Justice and Peacebuilding in response to 9/11. A startlingly helpful approach.
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Person
Carolyn E. Yoder is the founding director of STAR (Strategies for Trauma Awareness and Resilience), a training program of the Center for Justice and Peacebuilding at Eastern Mennonite University in Virginia. She worked as an educator and psychotherapist in Asia, East and Southern Africa, the Middle East, and the Caucuses for more than eighteen years. She has a private psychotherapy practice specializing in transforming trauma and offers online resources at www.PeaceAfterTrauma.com. She holds an MA in Counseling Psychology from Alliant International University and an MA in Linguistics from the University of Pittsburgh. She and her husband, Rick, live in Harrisonburg, Virginia. They have three daughters and four grandchildren.
Content
- Front Cover
- Half-Title Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Table of Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Preface: STAR Beginnings
- Chapter 1: Introduction
- Chapter 2: Definition, Sources, and Types of Trauma 4
- Chapter 3: The Trauma Experience: STAR Model Part I
- Chapter 4: Cycles of Violence from Unaddressed Trauma: STAR Model Part II
- Chapter 5: Breaking Cycles of Violence and Building Resilience: STAR Model Part III
- Chapter 6: 9/11 and Breaking the Cycles, 2005 and 2019: Applying STAR
- Chapter 7: How Then Shall We Live?
- Endnotes
- Selected Resources
- About the Author
