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