Crisis & Trauma Response Training

This training is primarily geared for mission member care personnel or mission executives to understand the dynamics of helping their staff to process a crisis.  If you are not already trained and/or working in basic counselling techniques, then we require attendance at a Basic Debriefing Training prior to attending this training.

You will gain an awareness of:

  • The bigger picture of crisis intervention and contingency management, planning for crises, etc.
  • Individual responses to trauma and stress
  • Handouts and information available regarding wider planning and management for organizations facing potential critical events or emergencies

You will gain a basic understanding of:

  • What comprises stress
  • How stress operates
  • Cumulative stress
  • Traumatic stress
  • The process of grief
  • How the key scriptures relate to one’s experiences of loss and grief

You will gain a basic knowledge of:

  • The definition of stress, trauma, critical incidents, types of crisis, critical incident debriefing
  • Classical trauma and loss reactions
  • The stages of grief
  • Post-traumatic stress (disorder) – international diagnostic criteria from the American Psychiatric Association
  • Secondary characteristics of traumatic stress, acute stress syndrome
  • Where to find key scriptures with regard to loss, grief, the work of Christ on the cross, and theology of suffering
  • Special needs of children in trauma, related to their developmental stage
  • Sexual assault, rape, and associated trauma

You will be able to:

  • Recognize stress symptoms and traumatic stress symptoms in an individual
  • Distribute resource materials and handouts on trauma reactions to client groups appropriately
  • Identify a critical incident
  • Recognize or identify secondary symptoms, referral characteristics and DSM IV criteria (from the American Psychiatric Association) and know when to refer appropriately
  • Recognize and refer PTSD
  • Identify personal skills and limitations
  • Apply the scriptural understanding of loss and grief to the practical experience of loss and grief
  • Minister to people in loss and grief using the principles of the cross workshop

The next training will be run by Le Rucher trainers in

Cape Town, South Africa

22-27 February 2026

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Find us:

We are physically located in France, only 15 minutes from the Geneva, Switzerland airport: 

2067 Route de Tutegny

01170 Cessy, France

Tel:  +33(0)450.28.03.81

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