Little Book of Trauma Healing
When Violence Striked And Community Security Is Threatened
Published on 27. January 2015
90 pages
978-1-68099-046-1 (ISBN)
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Following the staggering events of September 11, 2001, the Center for Justice and Peacebuilding at Eastern Mennonite University was asked to help, along with Church World Service, to equip religious and civil leaders for dealing with traumatized communities. The staff and faculty proposed Strategies for Trauma Awareness and Resilience (STAR) programs. Now, STAR director, Carolyn Yoder, has shaped the strategies and learnings from those experiences into a book for all who have known terrorism and threatened security. A startlingly helpful approach. A title in The Little Books of Justice and Peacebuilding Series.
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When Violence Strikes And Community Security Is Threatened
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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
- Intro
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Table of Contents
- Acknowledgments
- 1. Introduction
- Trauma as a call to change and transformation
- About this book
- 2. Defining Trauma: The Causes and Types
- Ongoing and structurally-induced trauma
- Societal or collective trauma
- Historical trauma transferred through generations
- Secondary trauma
- Participation-induced trauma
- In summary
- 3. Common Responses to Traumatic Events
- Trauma affects us physiologically
- Trauma shatters meaning
- Trauma creates needs
- Ongoing trauma
- Large-group trauma
- 4. Continuing the Cycles: Unhealed Trauma
- Limitations of defining unhealed trauma through a PTSD frame
- Reenactment and trigger events
- Impaired functioning
- Incomplete grieving
- The enemy/aggressor cycle
- Good-vs.-evil narratives
- Redemptive-violence narratives
- The role of leaders
- The cycles across generations
- 5. Breaking the Cycles: The Journey to Healing and Security
- Background to the model
- Safety:
- Breaking free
- The role of leaders
- Acknowledgment:
- Mourning, grieving our own story, and naming fears
- Recognizing that "the other" has a story
- Reconnection:
- Recognizing interdependence, taking risks
- Choosing the path to forgiving
- Seeking justice
- Possibility of reconciliation
- 6. What If? 9-11 and Breaking the Cycles
- 7. How Then Shall We Live?
- 1. Recognize ourselves as leaders.
- 2. Challenge our own faith communities to live up to the highest ideals.
- 3. Prevent trauma by learning to wage peace.
- 4. Work at both the personal and the communal/structural levels.
- 5. Be informed.
- 6. Remember that we are not alone.
- Appendix: Key Elements in Breaking the Cycle
- Endnotes
- Selected Readings
- About the Author
