TRAUMA HEALING
SIL International and other members of the Trauma Healing Alliance have partnered together to provide trauma healing resources specific to the COVID-19 crisis. The hope for these resources is that they will help many navigate through this unprecedented time. The COVID-19 Trauma Healing lessons can be used in a group (online), with your family, or by an individual - even if you have never used trauma healing materials before.
Healing from the Distress of the COVID-19 Crisis
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This is a lesson for small groups or individuals to help you begin to heal from the spiritual and emotional effects of the COVID-19 pandemic.
If you do this lesson as a standalone lesson, you can continue on with the booklet Beyond Disaster: A Survivor’s Guide for Spiritual First Aid to go further in the healing process.
Peace, Be Still: A Family Guide to Living in Crazy Day
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This lesson offers parents a resource to use with children ages 8–12 during the COVID-19 pandemic. This six-part resource will help you help your children to feel safe during this time of uncertainty and change. It offers biblical and practical resources and age-appropriate activities for addressing our feelings and finding ways to express them appropriately. Developed by the children’s team at the Trauma Healing Institute.
Beyond Disaster
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This is a guide for spiritual first aid for people who have survived natural or human- caused disasters.
It can be distributed any time following a disaster but is most beneficial once the initial shock has passed.
The booklet offers
(1) strategies to help people cope in the short term,
(2) guidance on what to expect during the process of recovery, and
(3) resources to begin a journey toward emotional and spiritual healing.
Based on the globally proven model of the Trauma Healing Institute, this booklet integrates best practices in mental health into a biblical framework