Strategies for Trauma Awareness and Resiliency (STAR 1) Offered in Three Modules
The STAR model is a training for pastors, therapists, teachers and family members in order to understand trauma, its impact on the body, mind, and spirit; and a model for healing from trauma. STAR will be offered in three modules. Module One is an introduction to STAR. Module Two is the application of the STAR model to mililtary families, and Module Three is a one-day intensive course in the use of EFT (Emotional Freedom Technique.) The introduction to STAR is a pre-requisite for Module Two or Three. However, Module Two and Three are not prerequites for the other. A participant may take Module One and Module Three or Module One and Module Two. All three modules will be offered for $500, a $50 discount. To register for the course, email us at brookfieldinstitute@gmail.com or call 413-563-7282. For more information, click here
INTRODUCTION TO STAR is offered on Saturday, January 14, 9 a.m.-5 p.m. and Sunday, January 15, 3 p.m.-8 p.m. at the Brookfield Inn 8 West Main St, Brookfield, MA. The cost is $250 and includes the STAR manual and lunch. Register by October 1st. The introduction to the STAR model includes instruction in the types of trauma, signs of its effect on body, mind and spirit, common responses to unhealed trauma, new skills, and strategies to address its impact and build resilience. For more information, click here.
STAR FOR OUTREACH TO MILITARY FAMILIES is offered on Saturday, January 28 from 9 a.m.-5 p.m. and Sunday, January 29 from 3 p.m. to 8 p.m. at the Brookfield Inn. The cost is $200. Register by November 1st. The introduction to STAR is a prerequisite for this course. For more information, click here.
EMOTIONAL FREEDOM TECHNIQUE: Tools for healing trauma is offered on Thursday, November 10th, 10:00 a.m.-3:30 p.m. Greg Carpenter, a marriage and family therapist and experienced EFT practicioner, will lead the workshop. The cost is $100. Introduction to STAR is a prerequisite for this course. For more information, click here.
Brookfield Institute Receives Grant to Help Returning Veterans
and Their Familiese
The Brookfield Institute, in collaboration with five Massachusetts United Church of Christ congregations, has received a grant from the Barnes Fund for Mission and Justice Ministries of the Massachusetts Conference of the United Church of Christ (MACUCC). The grant funding will support “Finding the Calm in the Storm,” the Institute’s program for Iraq and Afghanistan veterans and military families as they face the many hurdles of re-integrating into civilian life. To read more, click here and scroll down to article.
Daughters of Abraham: Women’s Interfaith Book Group
Through the discussions, insights and relationships that grow out of regular book group meetings, members of the Daughters of Abraham (www.DaughtersofAbraham.com) seek to overcome stereotypes and foster mutual respect and understanding among Jewish, Christian and Muslim women. Brookfield Institute hosts this group on the second Thursday of
each month from 3 – 5 p.m. at the Brookfield Inn. For more information, contact us at
508-331-3081.
The Spiritual Journey Home From War:
Ministering to Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans and their Families
For more information, call 413-563-7282 or email Brookfield.institute@gmail.com
Discover ways you can help support veterans and their families as they traverse the hostile landscape of healing the spiritual wounds of war.
For clergy, caregivers for veterans, congregation members and families
What do veterans need from clergy and churches? Hear directly from the veterans and families themselves. This workshop will provide resources and insight invaluable to congregations ministering to veterans and their families.
Strategies for Trauma Awareness and Resiliency (STAR 1) Offered in Three Modules
STAR combines theory with experiential learning in support of personal and community healing. It teaches strategies for resolving conflict nonviolently. Trainings for leaders and caregivers, dealing with the trauma of natural and human-caused catastrophes, are facilitated by the faculty and staff of Eastern Mennonite University’s internationally renowned Center for Justice and Peacebuilding. The complete five-day interactive training provides tools for resiliency and renewal.
Objectives for the Introduction to STAR
~Define types of trauma and recognize the impact on body, mind and spirit
~Understand the cycles of victimhood and violence for individuals, communities and societies and the relationship to unhealed trauma
~Apply the STAR model, The Trauma Healing Journey: Breaking the Cycles of Victimhood 
Violence to individual and group situations
~Use new skills to address trauma and build resilience
Objectives for Outreach to Military Families STAR training
~Understand the unique circumstances of trauma experienced by veterans, particularly those who served in Iraq and Afghanistan.
~Apply the STAR model to the needs of military families
~Learn to use specific tools to relieve anxiety and to help processs trauma
~Identify justice needs of survivors and offenders and practical restorative, creative and
transformative responses to these needs
~Relate trauma work to the field of peacebuilding
Objectives for Emotional Freedom Technique Training
~Understand the use of EFT within the STAR trauma healing model.
~Develop a deeper comprehension of the application of EFT.
~Working with Difficult Cases of Psychological Reversals
~Shifting Aspects - when the next "thing" is bleeding through
~Advanced Techniques - Movie, Tell the Story, Personal Peace, Chasing the Pain
~Tapping on Aches and Pains
~EFT & The Brain - Learning to Change Your "Mind"
~Tapping on Painful Events & Memories
~"Tearless Trauma" - learning to tap on the outer edges!
~Uncovering Blocking Beliefs
~Using intuition and flow
~Testing, testing, testing results!
~Hands on Practice
~Practice using EFT and develop great competence in its use and application with military
families or other survivors of trauma.
•All participants are expected to be open to exploring issues within a multi-cultural, multi-faith group.
•EASTERN MENNONITE UNIVERSITY CEU credits available by special arrangement.
STAR is a joint effort of Church World Service and Eastern Mennonite University’s Center for Justice and Peacebuilding
