On October 23-26, thanks to the generosity of our partners Christ Church, Oak Brook, IL, USA, and Grove Group, Memphis, TN, USA, we organized a new intensive training on Trauma Healing at the Alpiniș Leadership Center.
This autumn’s session was attended by 26 students from all over the country, MLI partners and people working with refugees. Mrs. Stephanie Moore, Memphis, TN, USA, from the American Bible Society (ABS) and Mr. Ruben Dubei, Bucharest, Romania, from the Romanian Interconfessional Bible Society (SBIR), led the course as trainers.
Trauma Healing is a program of the Trauma Healing Institute established by ABS and implemented in Romania in 2016 by SBIR. The project combines Christian counseling and modern psychotherapy and consists of training seminars for people in the Church that will moderate support groups for trauma understanding and healing. Following these seminars, participants are certified by the Trauma Healing Institute as moderators of healing groups, and those interested can become trainers of trainers.
At the end of 2017, the Missio Link International Foundation included Trauma Healing in the curriculum for our church-based leadership development program, during which over 75 men and women were certified as moderators of healing groups. In the spring of 2024, we plan to organize a follow up training session for those who go through the necessary steps for certification as trainers for facilitators in trauma healing.
John and Stephanie Moore are part of the GROVE Group, TN which for over 20 years has been the leading partner of our Church-Based Leadership Development program. Over the years, John and Stephanie visited us in Romania often. This time they were accompanied by their son, John-David, who, together with John and Emil Toader, visited the leadership training groups in local churches in Cluj, Câmpina area, and Ciuta, Buzău County.
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