Deepening skills for trauma-oriented ministry practice
COVID-19 is a global traumatic event.
This in-depth course will help reorient you for the drastically changed context for ministry and deepen your capacity for pastoral caregiving amidst the trauma of COVID-19. Dr Julie Clayton and Michael Collins will equip you to face the disorientation of this time within your own skin as well as to more fully understand the disorientation of trauma and how it may impact those within your pastoral care, your family, and community at large.
The most common description of this time is ‘unprecedented’. Our ministry practice can not simply carry on with skills from a pre-trauma-oriented time and be resilient enough to cope with the shifts, limits, losses and restrictions the pandemic has brought in its wake.
Over 8 weeks, your small learning cohort will develop a framework for trauma-oriented pastoral ministry from locating yourself in the context, to capacity building in the face of traumatic responses of many kinds, to dialogue more broadly about the theological narrative through it all.
This course is limited to active ministry personnel.
Dates & Times
Pacific Time Zone: please adjust for your area, accordingly
Monday Cohort: 1:30-3pm (Mondays May 4, 11, 18, 25, June 1, 8, 15, 22 2020)
Wednesday Cohort: 10-11:30am (Wednesdays May 6, 13, 20, 27, June 3, 10, 17, 24 2020)
Location
Online gatherings
Cost
$175
Additional Details
Space is Limited in each Cohort. This course is for active ministry personnel. You will need a computer or device with audio, video, and a stable internet connection.
Facilitators
Course facilitators are Dr Julie Clayton and Michael Collins who have been delivering the Mental Health First Aid courses for LeaderShift around the Region this year.
Dr. Julie Clayton has been an adult educator and mental health practitioner for over 25 years. Drawing from her academic training and teaching experience, along with her experience in pastoring numerous congregations in The Salvation Army, Julie brings a keen desire to help people realize their best versions of themselves. She operates a private counselling practice in New Westminster BC (Tipping Point Consulting & Counselling Services), and has been rated the top trauma therapist in the area by Psychology Today. Julie helps people to address complex mental health problems, which are often the result of unresolved past trauma. She loves this front-line work and teaches mental health first aid on behalf of the Mental Health Commission of Canada. She believes maximum mental health is possible for everyone, but it takes capacity to understand brain and body connections, courage to speak our personal story and conviction to master negative mental health cycles. Julie has three adult children and four grandchildren. She enjoys swimming, playing piano, reading & researching, serving in the Downtown Eastside and supporting the ministry of a new church plant called Cross Culture Ministries BC in Burnaby, where she serves as a co-pastor in her free time. has been an adult educator and mental health practitioner for over 25 years. Drawing from her academic training and teaching experience, along with her experience in pastoring numerous congregations in The Salvation Army, Julie brings a keen desire to help people realize their best versions of themselves. She operates a private counselling practice in New Westminster BC (Tipping Point Consulting & Counselling Services), and has been rated the top trauma therapist in the area by Psychology Today. Julie helps people to address complex mental health problems, which are often the result of unresolved past trauma. She loves this front-line work and teaches mental health first aid on behalf of the Mental Health Commission of Canada. She believes maximum mental health is possible for everyone, but it takes capacity to understand brain and body connections, courage to speak our personal story and conviction to master negative mental health cycles. Julie has three adult children and four grandchildren. She enjoys swimming, playing piano, reading & researching, serving in the Downtown Eastside and supporting the ministry of a new church plant called Cross Culture Ministries BC in Burnaby, where she serves as a co-pastor in her free time.
Michael Collins is co-owner of Tipping Point Consulting & Counselling Services (New Westminster, BC) and brings 25 years of experience as a family and behaviour consultant. Twenty of those years he spent pastoring in The Salvation Army, where he used his professional training to support families in managing and changing cycles of challenging behaviour. Michael is a certified trauma professional and works daily with children and families who are navigating the effects of complex developmental/ generational trauma. He is a Mental Health First Aid Facilitator and is passionate about helping individuals discover how they can have a better quality of mental, physical and emotional health. Michael is a champion for Little Warriors, which is a national charitable organization committed to the awareness, prevention and treatment of childhood sexual abuse. A graduate of the BC Justice Institute in Childhood Abuse and Sexual Abuse Interventions, Michael volunteers weekly in the Downtown Eastside of Vancouver and is known for his compassionate heart toward those who are marginalized because of their socio-economic circumstances. He is the lead pastor of the new church plant Cross Culture Ministries BC in Burnaby, BC. Michael has travelled extensively throughout the world and is a sought-after motivational speaker. He is married to Niveria Collins and has four children and two grandchildren. In his spare time, he can be found on a rugby field calling out plays and encouragement to the men of the United Rugby Team.
