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Foundations of Trauma-Supporting Spiritual Care Course

Currently over 22 hours of previous Live Sessions are posted.

The course will be revised in early 2025.

Foundations of Trauma-Supporting Spiritual Care is designed to facilitate the contemplative development of a skillful scope of practice for spiritual care providers. The course will:

Increase your knowledge about trauma and the impact it has on spiritual formation.
Support the development of your scope of practice as a spiritual care provider within a three-tiered model of trauma-supporting care.
Provide practical applications for both “being with” and “working with” the ruptures and residues of trauma.

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Spiritual Abuse: A Trauma-Supporting Perspective

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Modules 1, 2, and 3 have been recorded and posted - over 6 hours of content!

A perspective of spiritual abuse that weaves a trauma-supporting integration of neurobiology (Applied Polyvagal Theory), Applied Attachment Theory, Applied Internal Family Systems, and the Wisdom Traditions.

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Foundations of Trauma-Supporting Spiritual Care (Essays)

Basic Foundations

“Trauma-supporting” means a spiritual care practitioner takes seriously the prevalence of trauma, works on their own ruptures and residues of trauma, recognizes the contributions and limitations of their restorative practice, and supports their scope of practice with ongoing education and care.

Table of Contents for Essay 1:

1.1 Introduction to the Series

1.2 What is Spiritual Care?

1.3 What is Trauma-Supporting Spiritual Care?

1.4: First Excursus on Trauma

1.5: Scope of Practice Foundations for Spiritual Care

1.6: Conclusion and Next Up

Regulation as a Hermeneutic of Connection

Trauma-supporting spiritual care has a hermeneutic, a means of interpretation, of agency, authenticity, and attachment that helps to establish (where absent), cultivate (where present), and restore (where ruptured) the connection to Inner Wisdom.

Table of Contents for Essay 2:

2.1: The Imperative of Connection

2.2: Regulation as a Hermeneutic

2.3: Second Excursus on Trauma

2.4: Prescribed and Described Experiences

2.5: Three A’s of Regulation

2.6: Inside, Outside, and In Between

2.7: Conclusion and Up Next

Three Tiers of a Trauma-Supporting Spiritual Care Scope of Practice

A three-tier structure of Trauma-Support Spiritual Care that includes: trauma-sensitive, trauma-informed, and trauma-integrating.

Table of Contents for Essay 3:

3.1: Introduction

3.2: Being with Trauma and Working with Trauma

3.3: Distinguishing Between Stress and Trauma

3.4: Third Excursus on Trauma (General Labels)

3.5: Trauma from Spiritual Communities

3.6: Three-Tiered Trauma-Supporting Spiritual Care

3.7: Conclusion

Resources for Trauma-Supporting Spiritual Care Providers