In March 2012, after celebrating 10 years, the formal programme came to the end. The rest of the website now exists as a retrospective of the intent of the programme, the people involved, the trainings engaged, resources from the international conference (March 2011), and useful links. Many thanks to all who made the work of Journey Towards Healing happen.
The Journey Towards Healing International Conference...
...took place 9-13th March 2011 at The Europa Hotel, Belfast. More information about the conference is available by clicking here to be taken to the conference website.
Irish Dominican Sister
Director of Social Witness, Presbyterian Church in Ireland
Anglican priest, Church of Ireland
Training and Development
Officer, Egdgehill Theological College, Methodist Church in Ireland
Psychotherapist
International psychiatrist
Personal Assistant to Peter McBride
Journey Towards Healing Programme Coordinator
Since 2004, Phase 1 Journey Towards Healing Training has been offered to faith leaders and other pastoral workers who are encountering people with experience of trauma.
This training draws upon the information in the Journey Towards Healing booklet - presented via powerpoint and explored through dialogue with participants. The training experience, available as full or half-day, moves through the following 8 stages:
The training hopes to be a means of support for anyone involved in pastoral care, and for those they encounter who are suffering as a consequence of traumatic experience. At the end of the training day, the experience will have expanded participants' awareness about trauma and its impact, and increased their resilience.
This module will introduce the holistic framework that Journey Towards Healing has developed for understanding the impact of trauma on the whole person: mind, body, spirit, relationships, community, and social fabric. This framework sets the foundation for the entire course.
This module will focus on latest research findings for the impact of trauma on the mind (neurology) & the body (biology), and on the relationship between mind & body (neurobiology).
This module will particularly explore the impact of trauma on mind, body & spirit, as a whole, with a focus on the impact of trauma on faith and spirituality.
This module will explore the impact of trauma upon relationships and communities.
This module will bring into conversation different experiences of the relationship between 'trauma and faith' in various parts of the world, including: Northern Ireland, South Africa, the Balkans, Israel/Palestine, and the Americas.
Building on an experience of examining the universal (global) and particular (local) dimensions of the relationship between 'trauma and faith', this module will provide a time to go deeper into understanding the particular context of sectarian conflict in Northern Ireland, and explore the particular impact of sectarian conflict trauma on the whole: mind, body, spirit, relationships, communities, and the social fabric.
This module will provide a time to integrate learnings and key questions since May.
This module will begin a process of applying useful learning into one's own ministerial context, with the goal of supporting the development of a strategic pastoral plan for one's own community (i.e. designing a workshop, a speaker series, a retreat, developing an infrastructure for a pastoral team, etc).
This evening is for each course participant to present their own strategic pastoral plan to the group.
This evening will be a time to celebrate and bring Phase 2 2011-2012 to a close.
Four Main Christian Churches in Northern Ireland:
Interfaith links:
