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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